Surely that's his agenda, crash the country. Destroy the NHS and sell it to big pharma. He's poison. #BrexitBrokeBritain and Farage engineered Brexit.

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #Corbyn #Sultana #yourpartyuk @thetimes - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Loved this! James O’Brien v Farage. Farage gets mauled as O’Brien shows what a hypocrite he really is! youtu.be/838XYZD5d9g?...

Across all ages, Reform UK and the Conservatives have increased their combined vote share by 8pts. Among the under 30s, they have only increased 5pts

Britain is now one of very few countries where Gen Z are firmly left-of-centre

What Gen am I in if I can never remember what Gen Z refers to?

Sunday reading. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/3I9zX8I

Marie Antoinette at the V&A: opens 20 September 2025.

So… that traitor, farage, was lying? Again? No? Really? I. Cannot. Believe. It… www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Peace loving PA , friend to silver martyrs everywhere 😵‍💫

Fabulous running pal has written a book! Please join me in preordering if you like witches, history and Scotland (or any combo of the above. #TinyJoys www.waterstones.com/book/the-wis...

Every PA arrested person should be carefully researched in order to understand the source of their motivation . Information has clearly been misused in leading them to direct their altruism towards a poisonous body. Where and how did that happen ? Support for Palestinians is not the same thing

It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.

The London Economic: David Cameron treated Brexit referendum as ‘some sort of Eton game’, admits Tory MP www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dav...

The London Economic: Over 5,000 complaints sent to Sky News for their ‘excessive coverage’ of Reform www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sky...

@historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social celebrate Judge McMahon’s decision for @authorsguild.bsky.social, putting a stay on the cancellations of awarded NEH grants. We remain steadfast in our efforts to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. 🗃️

We interrupt this rant about the future of radio to inform you that my favourite radio programme, Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics, is back on BBC Radio 4 with an episode about Alexandria with Edith Hall and Islam Issa. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Another truly great @humanists.uk Convention 💜 Inspiring talks, the very loveliest people, and - of course - #HumanistHeritage aplenty

#OtD 20 Jun 1912 Voltairine de Cleyre, American anarchist-feminist, atheist, poet and free-thinker, died at the age of 45. Two thousand attended the funeral at Waldheim cemetery where she was buried next to the Haymarket Martyrs stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9285...

Perpetually inspired by the great minds behind (and within) the Our Subversive Voice project. Always a joy to hear South Place/ @conwayhall.bsky.social get a shout out too 📢

Thrilled to finally see our special issue 'Death and the Senses in the Early Modern World' appear in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme! With essays by me, Martin Christ, Ines Jahudka, Jacob Baum & others, & an afterword by Susan Karant-Nunn! jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

A young woman, Cornelis Pietersz. Bega, 1642 - 1664 (Rijksmuseum)

ChatGPT: expanding the frontiers…of gender bias.

Just watched episode 2 of Mansfield Park www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Travel costs plus £1,000. Two clearly articulated research questions. (In 2/2 below). Have a look. 1/2

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Macron telling UK population some home truths that starmer is afraid to

Just finished "The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary" by @kateloveman.bsky.social. Scholarly, accessible, and fascinating. One that book historians, in particular, will appreciate. And so to bed (well, in an hour or so...).

OTD 375 years ago: Cathalina del Monte stood in the office of notary Willem Hasen behind the Stock Exchange in #Amsterdam. Cathalina, a Black woman, was to serve at the royal court Lüneburg, as chambermaid to 'her royal grace'.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Please help us share the call for papers for this exciting conference I am co-organising this autumn! 📜 We welcome submissions from anyone looking at any aspect of early modern violence, particularly those looking beyond military history, and those who would not call themselves historians at all 🗡️⚓

Excellent to see this call for papers for a conference bridging the gap between military, political, social & cultural approaches to conflict, war and violence in the #EarlyModern world. 🗃️ 👇

A new account here on Bluesky, for the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, scheduled for the end of October at the University of Exeter. @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Please do follow (and make plans for this autumn)

Aaaand here we go. Two months after RefUK were sweeping to power in the local elections, unstoppable force, Farage for PM etc etc etc, we now have them coming 3rd behind Lib Dems and Labour after the pillock elected in May resigned.

DAILY MIRROR: Angela Rayner pledges radical reforms to social housing, mandating qualified leadership amid a surge in tenant complaints. Labour's plan aims to rebuild trust and deliver 300,000 affordable homes by 2035. - by Dave Burke

It really won't be long before it's "You should be allowed to murder brown people in the street, if they scare you."

Very exciting and surreal to see my name in print for the first time!! Delighted to have been a part of this wonderful volume, please give it a read online here! 👇👇 brill.com/edcollchap/b...

Delighted to say that my review of Tony Claydon's new biography of William III has just been published online! Give it a read here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UYDCJ...