Excellent thread on UK uni sector risks, can vouch for the cardiff non-crisis

Enjoying the weather at Streatham Court before @exeter.ac.uk Prof. John Wedgwood Clarke’s inaugural lecture ‘Bright Containers: On bottles, Jars & Poetry’. Have brought Jago along for some creative inspiration in midst of half-term. Persuasion c/o promise of posh meal out afterwards #academicmum…

Day 2 of @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social ‘Science is Culture: Practicing Interdisciplinarity for Real-World Challenges’ starts with a gentle warm up & recap, incl. a reflection on positionality, imagination, & the potential constraints of background knowledge prompted by a 1967 photo of the Beatles 🥁🎸🎤

UKHE is collapsing - there is no serious intervention, no credible plan from the government. On the contrary: bold HE policies and real alternatives to the grim status quo are urgently needed if the UK wants to remain a knowledge economy and research power committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

In July IWM London opens Childhood in War. This free exhibition shares children's view of war from more than 100 years. 450 million children live in conflict zones worldwide; their stories have never been more important. Read more here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/child...

Diwrnod diddorol a chynhyrchiol iawn hyd yn hyn @aberuni.bsky.social gyda haneswyr o bob cwr o Gymru. Y sesiwn foreol @librarywales.bsky.social ystyriodd addysgu ac ymchwil hanes Cymru, ac mae ein paneli prynhawn yn mynd i'r afael â moeseg hanes llafar a dulliau o ymdrin ag AI #Skystorians 1/2

A very interesting and productive day so far @aberuni.bsky.social with historians from across Wales. The morning session @librarywales.bsky.social considered the teaching and research of Welsh history, and our afternoon panels address the ethics of oral history and approaches to AI #Skystorians 1/2

'In a counterproposal to the university’s cost-saving plans...the UCU branch at Nottingham said that job losses on the scale suggested...could set the research-intensive, Russell Group institution on an “irreversible transition” towards becoming a teaching-led university.' 1/3

We bring day 1/2 of @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social ‘Science is Culture’ event to an end with our Vice-Chancellor, Prof Lisa Roberts reminding us of how new knowledge will not emerge from a single discipline & that HASS is at the centre of the uni’s mission for a cleaner, fairer & healthier world.

And we’re off: our second - and biggest - interdisciplinary event, Science is Culture, has begun! Over two days @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social have brought colleagues together from across @exeter.ac.uk to explore cross-faculty responses to some of the biggest challenges we face in the world today.

Fantastic to see this article in The Guardian all about Belfastmen, @tomhulme.bsky.social's amazing new book on gay history in early 20th C. Northern Ireland, challenging assumptions & uncovering a range of complex experience 🌟 @qubhistory.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

America has a long and well-established history of covering up massacres. Just saying... edition.cnn.com/2026/05/02/p...

On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We are now closing our day visit to Warwick with a fascinating lecture by Professor Sasha Handley of the University of Manchester. Sasha’s lecture is a study of ghost stories and the meaning of a haunting at the Wesley family’s home in 1716-17.

A great day of meetings today @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social as part of @royalhistsoc.org Council concluding with a talk from @sashahandley.bsky.social on ghost stories and women’s lives in early modern England. And yes, followers, I got lunch with the legendary @purseigle.bsky.social

Off to @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for my first in-person @royalhistsoc.org meeting since being elected to Council. Along with the usual agenda, we’re hosting a meeting of Independent Historians to understand how to better represent their interests. Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and new!

“As a history student, my world view was shaped by photo[s]: I saw the violence humans were capable of, & it horrified me…Being against war is like being against clouds – it’s so much part of human existence, & it always will be until it destroys the last of us & leaves only the cockroaches behind.”

Another week, another R&I interdisciplinary networking event! This time bringing together our expertise across @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social in AI & Data Science. Working with industry experts from IBM, Hertzian AI, & South West AI to consider @ukri.org priorities in AI & contribution of HASS.

@cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Bombs are terrifying no matter where they fall. While many UK newspapers focus on British residents in Dubai, this footage is from my friend in Saida, southern Lebanon this morning.

'Her eight-year-old daughter Heather had just died in hospital, two weeks after playing in the sea on the beach at Dawlish Warren in Devon, where she contracted E coli O157, a bug which comes from raw sewage.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Feels like the article by @teachlearnwar.bsky.social and myself on how the press covered the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War is relevant again today… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperialism in all its forms and by all imperial powers has contempt for national sovereignty and international law. Despicable- and some would have us join a military alliance with the US.

Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Check out a new collaboration between HaSS Cornwall and the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall. On 25 April 2026, a new University of Exeter/NMMC Masterclass will run on the topic of ‘World War 2, the Fall of France, and Cornwall’s Covert Special Operations’. nmmc.co.uk/university-o...

#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published! Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL #WWIStudies

Publication alert! A collaborative reflection on the UK’s biggest public history event - the centenary of the First World War. Thanks to @ukri.org for funding & my fellow co-authors @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @lornahughes.bsky.social James Wallis and Emma Hanna.

The inherent tension between war and remembrance.

New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...

📣 Just landed today: my interview on ‘Media, Memory and the War in Iraq’ as part of 🇨🇦 The Culture and Conflict Podcast. Discussing work by myself & @chriskempshall.bsky.social as part of @ukri.org ‘Ephemera and writing about war in Britain, 1914 to the present’. Enjoy! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

📣 Delighted to announce that @hass-cornwall.bsky.social, with Trebah Garden, have launched the Tony Hibbert Prize: aimed at secondary school students in Cornwall with an interest in the legacies of 20th conflict and the challenges the world faces today. hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/tony-hibbert...

Yesterday members of @hass-cornwall.bsky.social represented our faculty to visiting members of @exeter.ac.uk Council. They showcased world-leading research that engages with the Critical Minerals agenda from the perspectives of History, Archaeology, Law & Political Science. They did us proud.

Entering Gaza earlier today. Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.

It’s official…

Where I try to explain why France is not going through an ordinary political crisis but that the Fifth Republic is a regime in crisis. 🇫🇷 #france #politics 👇 👇 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Delighted to announce I’ve been elected as a Council member to @royalhistsoc.org until 2029. Thank you for the confidence you’ve put in me to advocate for our colleagues & our discipline. Looking forward to working with other members, including Dr Stella Fletcher and @davidhitchcock.bsky.social

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

The history graduate and the Sundance Kid 🤠

Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-... Message me if you want a copy!