Jim MacPherson

Bearded, cricket-loving historian, based in the Highlands @UHIHistory

[Edinburgh University Press @EdinburghUP]

Wonderful to see 'Macpherson the Historian' by @HillofFear and Mairi MacPherson receiving a glowing review from fellow James Macpherson expert Paul J. deGategno in @EighteenthCSSS's 'Eighteenth-Century Scotland'.

Discover the trailblazing book: https://t.co/0beErYDV54

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Another @UHIHistory event coming up.

[David Worthington @WorthingtonD]

Exciting, collaborative, inter-disciplinary @sgsah PhD studentship opportunity, led by my @UHIHistory colleague, Dr Iain Robertson, partnering with @UHIArchaeology and @ceolas_uibhist in South Uist.

[Corinne Fowler @corinne_fowler]

A reminder that I will be connecting British labour history with colonial history in the Victorian Studies Annual lecture tomorrow at 5:15pm. Free for all to attend. Details below.
https://t.co/IoONshe8bV

[Cooperation Jackson @CooperationJXN]

We are looking to create a new system of mutual exchange in Jackson & beyond. This is our first critical experimentation towards that end. Join us in the quest to meet our needs through barter, trade, & gifting rather than commodification. #BuildAndFight #MutualAid #NextSystems

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

A take on Walter Rodney and _Decolonial Marxism_

Contrary to those who cast Marxism as a Eurocentric “white ideology,” the Guyanese revolutionary saw it as an essential component of struggles against colonialism. https://t.co/wgzo7evnBH

[NACBS @TheNACBS]

Next up in our series on the state of British studies, @james11vernon argues the field is “at its best when it is in conversation with scholars working in other fields and disciplines.” Read more at Broadsides

https://t.co/RJhdQVS0G1

[David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social @DavidRArmitage]

My brief tribute to the late, great John Pocock (1924-2023) https://t.co/ot6PhsPGn9

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

My essay in the Journal of Social History's forum on the 20th anniv of Walter Johnson's classic essay "On Agency." I write about the original stakes of the turn to agency, its ties to postwar struggles to remake the academy, selfhood, & popular politics. https://t.co/YaZrNlMbQz

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

1/3 Empire apologists often argue that the British empire was no different from earlier empires. In @scroll_in , I explain what set modern European empire apart from the Mughals, Ottomans, Romans, etc, drawing on brilliant recent work by Nora Barakat, Gili https://t.co/RgK1lJLMGG

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Coming to know the past has been part of the critical pedagogy of decolonization. To hold alternative histories is to hold alternative knowledges.

—Linda Tuhiwai Smith

[Corinne Fowler @corinne_fowler]

What I learned about culture wars & how I responded. See link below: @MuseumsAssoc
https://t.co/IvHrZr0gB5

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Just rediscovered this great quote (paraphrased) from Nancy Stepan (Idea of Race in Science): 'The battle against slavery was won at the same time that the war against racism was lost'.
To explain:
As the British Parliament voted to abolish slavery in the Caribbean, Cape and Mauritius in 1833, indentured labour was being recruited from India to supply the deficit of hyper-exploitable labour.
Expansion onto the lands of Aboriginal people and Māori in Australasia was financed in part by the compensation that slave owners were receiving for the loss of their captives.
The captives whom the Royal Navy liberated from other nations' slave ships had been allocated to colonists as unpaid labour or impressed into military service since 1808.
By the 1870s, antislavery had become the pretext for further conquest of African polities.
And Stepan's main point, made back in 1982, well before culture warriors started denying this stuff: theories justifying empire-wide White racial superiority became a kind of 'common sense' within the imperial nations only after emancipation.
@Sathnam @Femi_Sorry @DavidOlusoga

[Mairi McFadyen @MJMcFadyen]

"But imagining wilderness as a remedy to ourselves falsely identifies human civilisation, rather than colonial-capitalism, as the root of ecological destruction." Rewild or Re-wilderness: The dangers of colonial masculinities – ⁦@bellacaledonia⁩ https://t.co/Aqo9JK9QTh

[Briana Pegado FRSA @briana_pegado]

Two and a half weeks ago, I put this call out on Instagram and I appreciate not everyone is on the gram, so putting this here to widen the call. #antiracism #antiracismtraining #SCOTLAND

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

1/3 Fascinating to learn that Cort not only relied on govt military contracts to develop the process that revolutionized British iron production (as I describe in Empire of Guns) but also, through military contacts, *copied* the process from black Jamaican
https://t.co/tgccsYoiED

[TobarDualchais @TobarDualchais]

Our latest @WHFP1 article written by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig senior lecturer, Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart is now online. He looks at the different versions of the popular children's story, 'Biorachan Beag agus Biorachan Mòr'.
https://t.co/jm5VtDiZsU

[UHI Centre for History @UHIHistory]

It's #Postgraduate #Research Day at @UHIHistory! We love to hear all about the latest research being done by our wonderful students and also caught up with 3 of our current PGRs to chat about their research journey thus far. Visit https://t.co/FjNldKSNmi for details
@UHI_Research

[Clan Macpherson Museum @CMacphersonM]

We had the pleasure of welcoming a fantastic group of students from the @Uni_MR to the #ClanMacpherson #Museum

🌲📚 They embarked on a two-day adventure, immersing themselves in our enchanting heritage through guided walks, tours & an #Ossian seminar!

#Macpherson #UniMarburg