It’s interesting how feeble civil society has proved to be in the US.

share.google/67AfzMLebCN5... York council. Stop pandering to Fascists.

All those flags around are just a coincidence, right?

York now resembles the Shankill Road. It’ll barbed wire and watchtowers next.

An acute critique of cultural history, fashionable Whiggery and an article that has implications for #earlymodern history.

My sons just released their first album #newmusic

Thanks to David Myers for this amazing review. Relieved to have the endorsement of a Germanist. Waiting to see what the English have to say. #skystorians #earlymodern

What’s holding you up, Keir?

on.ft.com/458PQUy Unfortunately, History has a tendency to repeat itself.

Bromley, 1652. Bet these highwaymen were from Catford.

Historicide. Good word.

Any #earlymodern English historians help me with information on Sir Thomas Wortley knt. shot in an affray in St Martin’s in the Field, 1656?

Montesquieu more cited than read. Much misunderstood. A prophet for our times.

Why haven’t we switched to closed papers already? Universities are complicit.

Really proud of Sian.

Pity the poor historian. This is going to unleash a flood of dreadful MA Dissertation proposals. I know one colleague who has already banned Anne Boleyn and witchcraft as potential topics. Sensible.

Disappointing news…

Letter of Remission for the bodyguard of Thomas Poyntz, English religious refugee, 1546.

At the launch of the amazing Pardons project in Brussels.

It might be worth adding why we are spending billions on Aircraft Carriers, which are sitting ducks and depend on US support ships?

PSG are a great team, but they now join Real Madrid and Manchester City in the pantheon of clubs that all real fans should hate.

More reflections on Pinker…The Enlightenment was a complex phenomenon. Students will need to learn about its contribution to racism…but they’ll also need to know about Diderot.

The biggest problem with Steven Pinker is that he’s very much like the people he effects to despise. He doesn’t weigh the evidence and he doesn’t do his research properly. He’s a culture war warrior, where polemic trumps (!) thinking. Just another example of the closing of the American mind.

Don’t get me started on Steven Pinker…

Show the men the way #Arsenal

Please keep him…

National emergency. It’s time to stop tinkering with benefit cuts and raise income tax on upper middle class people like me. Simple Rachel.

Impressed that a ferry has a rare book library, including an early edition of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire Philosophique. Well done Brittany Ferries.

Think this article has a lot of relevance for historians. We’ve become obsessed with print culture and representation. Experience is more significant historically, but of course harder to get at. #skystorians

On the road to Normandy in the footsteps of my great uncle, Teddy, wounded with 47 Royal Marine Commando at D-Day.

In case you missed it ... Here's proof that Brexit is directly responsible for the rise in net immigration. The simple truth is that we need foreign workers – and while EU workers generally came alone, workers from further afield need to bring their families with them. Otherwise, they won't come.

Best way to solve the growth/labour shortage problem would be to rejoin the EU.

Unlike J D Vance, I dismissed Violence and the Sacred when I read it. Wonder why?

The beginning of the end of the welfare state…

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... One of our best ever European performances.

Clip of Hobsbawm in this discussion shows he had excellent French. Ideas about brigands are fantasy unfortunately.

This is how democracy ends.

This is funny. Jean Jure, a bookseller and binder, arrested in 1556 for ‘meditating’ over forbidden books on a feast day, is released after claiming he is illiterate!

It’s true that students don’t read books any more. But we are also complicit. Treating them as customers we infantilise them.

Quite a few posts about the genius of this picture. It’s a picture about women’s justice. Gentilleschi’s personal desire for vengeance against her attacker highlights the injustices of the official legal system. Unfortunately, in regards to rape, not much has changed.

@paulecohen.bsky.social Good win last night. We’re very pleased.

This beauty just arrived in paperback #earlymodern #skystorians

Disappointed but not surprised that so many historians continue to fund #Musk by remaining on #x.

Thanks to everyone who came to see #plasticfactory last night at the Fulford Arms.

Simply put, you can’t trust the yanks.

It pains me to say it but Carl Schmitt was right about politics and enmity. I just didn’t think that America would be the enemy that gave liberal democracy in Europe its mojo back.

on.ft.com/3XpOAZQ How France got America right in the end Great to see an end to all that Atlantic World bullshit.

If it wasn’t already, the #ukraine war just became an existential fight for liberal democracy.