We are new here. And we're starting with news that the cfp deadline for our next conference is approaching fast! We're meeting in Durham 8-10 July and welcome proposals from new and established historians. There are details and links to submit abstracts here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Reposting again for 📜 #museums

move to make “ozowned“ a verb, all in favor

"Elrond of Rivendell has called a meeting …" - A mental image I couldn't escape, so why should you? 😉

Happy Christmas broken finger

Mum. You've got you wine voice on again.

Excellent from @iandunt.bsky.social On this shit show of a policy open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Every year I challenge myself to pick a tree (by eye) that is as close to my 8 foot ceiling as I can get it. This year's attempt is within 23mm. Sense of smug satisfaction: priceless. (Apologies for mixing imperial and metric. Child of the 70s. Can't help it)

OMG. The lids from Pringles cartons fit the glass ramekins from Gu puddings. Life. Changed.

The last point nails it: a decade of Tory HE policy is hitting hard -- and there is no 'plan or strategy' relating to the actual strengths of UK academia, just pure market forces

Historic England have opened a consultation on an update to the 2011 Environmental Archaeology guidelines. Comments are welcomed from colleagues in the archaeological sector. historicengland.org.uk/about/what-w...

Can’t unsee it!

Announcing the launch of our highly anticipated Post Doctoral Early Career Research Fellowships! For additional details, please refer to this link: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/... (Deadline 31st January 2024) #IHRFellowships

The Institute of Historical Research annual early career fellowships have now been advertised. Schemes and details and deadlines are here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Nowhere does Christmas in November like Mangotsfield does Christmas in November!

Let’s turn this Daily Excrement poll around! Link avoids giving them clicks. Please vote and share widely. xd.wayin.com/display/cont... No need to put in your email address! Just click submit.

Very much sub-optimal, but as scholars and authors try to deal with the consequences of the ransomware attack, the Royal Historical Society has published a list of work arounds for at least some of the information normally available from the British Library's on-line resources and databases.

Will the human reality behind this statistic and graph from the Office of Budget Responsibility doom the Conservative Government, regardless of whether the General Election comes in the Spring or Autumn?

Deadline approaching! Get your submissions in for this fantastic opportunity! As always please let us know if you have any queries...

An opportunity to hear me speak on 28 November about the archaeology of Op Nightingale to the Company of Makers (supporting veterans with life on Civvy Street). It’s free and I hope will be interesting too! #archaeology #veterans #wellbeing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-pot...

Fully funded PHD scholarships for BAME students at UCL- UCL's Research Opportunity Scholarship (UCL-ROS) supports BAME postgraduate research degree students. www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

The #wordoftheday is 'refoulement' Rwanda judgement makes fascinating reading (link below). It was never ever, even momentarily gonna fly. Which do we think ladies and gentlemen, performative politics at its most blatant or genuine massive incompetence? caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2023/42

Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

Ministers could have made the Rwanda policy legal. They chose not to do so. The government has only itself to blame for this week’s Supreme Court outcome. By me, at Prospect www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/63...

Hello! We are the longest-established and most ambitious Local History project yet devised. Established in 1899, and part of @ihr.bsky.social and @chppc.bsky.social, we aim to produce histories of every English place from the earliest time to the ever moving now.

Two weeks ago, Jewish Currents interviewed three doctors in Gaza to show the world the direness of their situation. The story was just updated to reflect one of the doctors was killed by an airstrike in his own home, making this quote even more gutting. jewishcurrents.org/we-have-lost...

Following on from the Levelling-up bill, it's great to see the Historic England Advice Note on Climate Change and Historic Building Adaptation going out to consultation. Draft doc here and 6 weeks to register your comments. historicengland.org.uk/about/what-w...

There is no question to which this is the right answer

@RussInCheshire is back on the bird site with his #TheWeekInTory, though at the mo he's having to write one every couple of days or so. Here's the unroll link for the latest one on Thread Reader. You're welcome x threadreaderapp.com/thread/17240...

Hello World! How are you doing? We're now on BlueSky and happy to be here! Stay tuned for news about our events, prizes, grants, and all the other things we do. And if you're interested in joining us, check out our website www.bshs.org.uk/membership #histSci #HistSTEM

From Victorian to 'Brutalist', water towers are surprisingly varied, and this article includes the 'house in the clouds' in Thorpeness.

"But if you don't let me steal, I won't be obscenely rich!"

This Collaborative Doctoral Award project will play a central role in the ambitious transformation of the Roman Baths Museum. The student will explore the history of the museum in its Victorian imperial context ...> CDA2 Reimagining Roman Bath: Past, Present, and Future #skystorians 🗃 #Archaeology

In what may become an important statement of intent the Council for British Archaeology has launched it's new Youth Advisory Board. Important because of the widely acknowledged lack of diversity and an aging demographic in much of the sector. Much hinges on how the word "advisory" is interpreted.

📣 We are Hiring 📣 Lecturer, Archives & Records Management. UCL, London. Open Ended. To contribute to MA & undergraduate teaching, and to work with me on our fabulous new Information in Society programme at UCL East. £48,614-57,041 p.a. Deadline is 12 November 2023. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD820/l...

Too many seem to think that, in the end, NHS coped fine with covid. I'm planning a substack on what happened from March 2020 to 2021, inc ICU I'd like to include ANONYMOUS quotes from FRONTLINE staff on what it was like, to bear witness. Please fill out & share! www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PKH9MRT

Job! Come and work with Beth Johnson, Laura Minor and me as part of our project on class and television Research Fellow, 'What’s on? Rethinking class in the television industry' project, full time role till March 2026 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Love this thread but am now gagging for an ice cream.

Please can @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social remember in some of its coverage of how wonderfully the Afghan men's cricket team has done in the World Cup that original rules would have excluded them for not having a women's cricket team. Remember women and girls. 🏏

Interested in doing a History PhD in Travel Writing? The history department at the University of Warwick has received a donation from Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, for four fully-funded studentships! 2 with Autumn 2024 entry: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Please share: 4 year PhD scholarship working with National Trust (@HelenAntrobus and me! and Laura Schwartz!) on an interwar British women’s history & suffrage centenary 2028 project DEADLINE 10 Jan 2024, lots of public engagement opps. More details here www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Make a movie worse with a word that rhymes. I will go first: Aliens Vs. Redditor

you have to admit it would be very funny if it became a tiktok trend to shoot arrows at the cybertruck

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

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Important security option for drivers with Middle Ages commutes