HWS History

hwshistory.bsky.social

18 October 2026 14:20

We’ve been preoccupied at HWS with the 1066 anniversary. The department went to the reenactment last weekend. And during the week we screened the live show from the British Museum for Y7. It’s all fascinating but I’m not sure it deserves the prominence that it has in the school curriculum.

Margot Finn

eicathomefinn.bsky.social

17 October 2026 18:06

'The question from a global development perspective is: who developed whom? We can ask Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, George Padmore or generations of African, Caribbean and Indian scholars. But there is one inconvenient witness that stands as a testimony to the truth. Winston Churchill.'

Alan Lester

alanlester.bsky.social

11 October 2026 05:08

This powerful book by Amal Chatterjee identifies clearly and unequivocally the mechanisms enabling colonial economic extraction long after colonialism is supposed to have ended. Highly recommended: hurstpublishers.com/book/prisone...

Nick Dennis

nickdennis.bsky.social

06 October 2026 06:18

The feeling that motivated it has lost its articulating power. Winning the argument is not the same thing as keeping the settlement. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Pam Canning

pamc86.bsky.social

17 September 2026 06:58

We still need everyone to use a little less water to speed up the drought recovery." Does ‘everyone’ include data centres…?