Liam J. Liburd

Storm Austen is coming. If you are a woman of marriagable age do not attempt to travel to Netherfield without a carriage

🚨NEW JOB ALERT🚨 We are recruiting a fixed-term, full time Archive and Digitisation Assistant! Closing date: 5th Nov 2026 Job description and to apply: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Archive-... Guidance on the recruitment process and how to apply: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Archive-...

Excited to welcome these brilliant scholars to our DU History Research Seminar this year: Prof @catherinefletcher.info, Dr @willpooley.bsky.social, Prof @jwhittle.bsky.social, Prof @emma-edin.bsky.social, Dr @shamaraw.bsky.social, Dr Holly Stephens, Dr @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & Prof Mark Bailey 📚

Bodleian Library, Oxford, Visiting Fellowships are open for application. These include African Studies Visiting Fellowship, Visiting Fellowships in Music, in Women's History and in the History of Science, a Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History and more. Great schemes! #Skystorians

Mark your calendars NACBS is heading to London! The Call for Papers for #nacbs2027 is out now. We will be meeting at Senate House on July 13-16, hosted by @ihr.bsky.social The submission website will open on December 1 and close on January 8. Join us in London! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

More British fascists cosplaying as immigration officers: 'They ask one man living at the property whether the property is run by Serco, a Home Office contractor used for asylum seeker accommodation, which the man confirms, and whether he has “paperwork”, which he says he does not.'

It’s PhD application season and—believe it or not—we do actually have some funding: www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...

A longer version of my recent @bisa-bkk.bsky.social talk on changing memories of the Battle of Cable Street www.toratalbion.org.uk/a-funny-thin...

I warn you now, if I'm ever invited to Cambridge again, I'm going to trample all over their silly bloody gardens.

In between teaching & research, been making my way through Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies. When you hear people carping on like this, I can’t help thinking about Theweleit’s insistence that the violent fantasies of Freikorps members were not displacement activities but reflected genuine desires.

JOB: Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

In case you missed it, 'The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now’ is now available to watch online: youtu.be/lmY1djZ188U

Amazing #postdoc opportunity on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project "The Night Shift", run by @kristinhussey.bsky.social. #histmed #hospitals #sleep www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...

Had a wonderful evening, thanks to everyone who came. Began my PhD studies 10 years ago this month with an event marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, so there was an odd sort of poetry in taking part in this panel.

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

I’m appearing on a panel tomorrow evening reflecting on the Battle of Cable Street’s 90th anniversary and you can come listen for free!

For my London-based or adjacent followers, I'm speaking at an event marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street next Tuesday evening. I'll be reflecting on the history of antisemitism and state racism among other things. Tickets are free!

I never met him but John MacKenzie’s approach to the history of imperialism was a big initial influence on my work on the relationship between British fascism and British imperialism. Brilliant and highly readable work. Still back him over Porter.

Inconvenient historical truths worth remembering at present…

6-year fully funded research and teaching assistant job at University of Ghent in the fields of English literature/cultural theory, history/translation history, linguistics, language acquisition, communication. Own projects are welcome! Details: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-As...

The only meaningful difference between the everyday racists with their “legitimate concerns“ and the white supremacist balaclava blackshirts is that the latter is prepared to admit the logical end point of their position.

Oh shit, Piddington *has* gone full UDI.

Join us on 6 Oct for a panel discussion on ‘The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now’ with Nadia Valman, Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) and Joseph Finlay (@josephfinlay.bsky.social). Book here: bit.ly/4xoQuJC

#OtD 10 Sep 1933 an attempted rally by Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists was broken up by 2000 anti-fascist locals in Stockton, England. They chased off fascists with pickaxe handles, stones, half bricks, and potatoes with razor blades inside stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8256...

Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

Highly recommended for ECRs with an interest in parliamentary history, broadly defined.

Hi folks, Putting out a message here to ask if there are any UK orgs *you* represent, or may know of, that would be interested in hosting a talk about my new book in 2027. I am keen to share the incredible history of Black women radicals with basically anyone who will listen!

The British police have historically struggled to appreciate fascists as anything more than a colourful and fleeting public order disruption; despite what fascists themselves claim, they’ve generally been policed in a disproportionately accommodating manner.

Guess who's back? Goosey the Goose Fair goose has taken up its perch on the Mansfield Road roundabout once again, announcing the return of one of the largest travelling funfairs in Europe later this month. #GooseFair #nottingham #notts #nottslife #leftlion

The Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now. With Nadia Valman, Liam Liburd (@liamliburd.bsky.social) and Joseph Finlay (@josephfinlay.bsky.social). Join us at @bisa-bkk.bsky.social on 6/10. More info below: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/the-ba...

I know its naive to expect better of the Labour Party if you have even a passing familiarity with their long history, but there is still something outstandingly depressing to watch them repeatedly abandon the goal of 'bread and roses' for simply 'more work'.

The problem can be summed up with one question: how many people who can name Jason Arday can name the plagiarising professor at the same institution who is still in post? How many people can name the VC criticised by name in an employment tribunal this week?

Does anyone remember when, in 2023, Rachel Reeves, soon to become chancellor, was found to have plagiarised multiple parts of a book she published about economics from Wikipedia and it was barely a news story?

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

How can historians use institutional archives to recover the lived experiences of disabled people? @lucyanne.bsky.social explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.

Job alert - tenure track position in early/late mod British history & empire at Princeton: apply.interfolio.com/190698

This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

We are looking for a fantastic person to join us at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship looking at the history of unorthodox health activism in the UK after 1948! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #AcademicSky #HistMed

My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Sad to see the news of iconic Notts company Raleigh going into administration.  Originally founded in Nottingham in 1885, many generations of cyclists grew up riding Raleigh models including the Chopper, Grifter and Burner. #nottingham #notts #raleigh #bicycle #bikes

Despise the notion dominant among education policy-makers that post-16 academic education can't *and shouldn't* be for working class people. Educating children into their social destiny, rather than on the basis of their individual potential or inclinations, will never be progressive. Dream bigger.

"If, then, we “full-time” intellectuals restrict our knowledge to those who have been fortunate enough to get full-time education and to work in universities, we are simply reproducing ... the unequal distribution of knowledge and education in our societies." www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Really proud to be in this and glad it’s out in paperback!