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17 October 1961: on this anniversary of the hundreds of Algerians killed by French police, remember their deaths and the thousands more martyrs being killed by colonial power and state violence in Palestine 🇩🇿 🇵🇸

British academic scholarship would be so much better if we could afford 8 years to finish a thesis monograph like colleagues in the US 🙃🙃 publish or perish benefits no-one

The first Franco-Algerian war, starting in 1830, with its razzias and enfumades, and the resistance of the extraordinary Abd el Kader: #frenchpodcast with Alain Ruscio. radiofrance.fr/franceculture/…

RIP Foucault, you would have loved the invention of period tracking apps 🙁

Finally giving up this cursed platform and moving. I’ll be checking here periodically but mainly at katyphipps.bsky.social pastures green and all that 🌁🌁

Next Friday (5 March) I’ll be talking to Sathnam Sanghera at the National Portrait Gallery about memories of empire, abolition and exploitation. We’re going to pretend to be art historians. Might wear berets npg.org.uk/whatson/event-…

Some much needed moral and intellectual clarity from Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt this evening in Maynooth. The colonial historian in me appreciated her clear critique of th colonial logics of genocide across time and space. The human in me appreciated the call to back empathy with action.

Hello Paula Meehan, would you be able to follow me back so I can get in touch/ask some questions about the history of the Monto and central Dublin?

Reading about lukasa memory boards from central Africa, used to help remember histories to perform them orally. Someone touches the beads or shells to help remember certain parts of the story they’re telling aloud. Genius.

Starting a new project and need podcast experience! Do YOU have a podcast? Do you want ME to come and talk about the history of sex or empire?

“Has she got nice legs? Has she got big titties? Have you seen her in the bath?” Irish comedian Spike Milligan grew up in India where his father was a soldier in the 1920s. He made money from horny British soldiers by “describing my sister, my fabulous sister I didn’t have”