First Nations Mayflower hero was sold into slavery, files in Malaga Archives reveal www.thetimes.com/article/1306...

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

Coming soon from Wakefield Press @wakefieldpress.bsky.social : Bar Nicanor: Collected Writings, by Clément Pansaers wakefieldpress.com/products/bar... #Dada

William #Kentridge exhibition in Prague: The Battle between Yes and No: www.kunsthallepraha.org/en/events/wi...

Not going to get into the cross-confessional history of theological justifications of tyrannicide in the early modern period here but ... the guys who killed the English monarch weren't Catholics.

This is an interesting use case for AI translation of an ancient language. I'm less interested in discussing the ethics of it than I am interested in exploring the economy that fosters a project like this. I've shared some thoughts below, I'd be glad to hear your thoughts:

New #RadicalHistory event: “Not a thing was moving”: the 1926 General Strike in Hackney and beyond Sat 9 May 2026 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Hackney Archives, Dalston Square, E8 3BQ. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/e... #History

I have a joke about Reviewer 2, but it's poorly researched, wretchedly written, and doesn't cite their book.

Lovely interview with Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy on hacking, history and generosity. lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/... #DigitalHistory

'a great project of photographic ethnography, intended to classify and categorise their subjects.' www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

a refugee and genocide survivor is about to start her Master's at Goldsmith and this is the response from a senior politician. what a disgrace.

‘These connections are overlooked’: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition Britons learn about the country’s involvement ‘almost as a self-congratulatory narrative’, says historian Joseph Mulhern www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #History #EnslavedHistory

Hostile (website) architecture: The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au... Adblockers are mandatory self defence now.

#OtD 15 Mar 1908 "Women anarchists have become the terror of world's police," ran a headline of the Rochester, NY Sunday paper denouncing anarchist women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8699...

Shout-out to the Internet Archive for uploading the DOGE videos. These people carelessly wrecked the government and the hard work of thousands of people. They should be held accountable for their actions. archive.org/details/Doge...

Videos of DOGE depositions taken down: www.404media.co/doge-deposit... But are available via torrent. Magnet link here: www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde... Transcripts: www.acls.org/acls-aha-mla...

Exhibition of these photos on at Four Corners til next Saturday: www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/joy... #RadHist #Squatting

Jamie Oliver and the British food problem www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/bad-people...

The AI bros reinventing company scrip, turning word tokens into pseudo-money tokens: pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/12/a... Probably a sign of having no cash, as @davidgerard.co.uk suggests. #money

Bristol Radical History Festival, 25th & 26th April, program announced: www.brh.org.uk/site/event-s... #RadicalHistory #History

I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions: harrisslist.prisms.digital #HarrissList #DH #WIP

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

ah, for years we've been ringing the alarm bell that all the 'cost saving' measures which these VCs are pushing through are actually wildly elitist drives to destroy all the work of widening participation of the past few decades, and now he's just straight up declaring it himself. Hate to be right.

Newcastle Prison also had a wing for debtors, according to: newcastlegaol.co.uk/construction... #DebtHistory #CarceralHistory

'Author and researcher Dr Clare Sandford-Couch is part of a group of academics researching the history of women in the prison and co-wrote the book Newcastle Prison: A History, 1828-1925.'

A short blog post on my field trip the other day historyofpublicspace.uk/case-studies...

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

⬇️ This. Many collections everywhere, but particularly beyond Europe or N. America, are undercatalogued or not catalogued at all. When they burn, no trace survives.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps. Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

9/10 The anti-reparative activists think that because this investment in human suffering wasn't as profitable as the Church had hoped, the institution should wash its hands of any moral responsibility. The moral of their story: a sin is only a sin if it pays off financially.

The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Kurt Schwitters at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, featuring a reconstruction of the #Merzbau: www.zpk.org/en/ausstellu... www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio... #dada

Request for help checking website functionality! On my Alsatia site, using Wordpress, I've just published two PDFs (of 1811 debtor relief acts): alsatia.org.uk/site/statute... alsatia.org.uk/site/statute... Do they work for whatever hardware & software you're using? Thanks!

A tale of a common #C18th experience, of being detained for debt for just a few days. #History #DebtHistory

Crowdsourcing: What’s the best book on Red Vienna? #skystorians ?

Not strictly inspired by a book, so I’ll forgive them for omitting this one, but Hooligan by Max has to be the best song inspired by a Russian literary figure sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/06...

#OnThisDay in London petitioning history, 1723: The residents of the Southwark Mint rookery petition Parliament against the recent closure of their sanctuary, a stronghold against bailiffs chasing debtors. An article on this petition on the Alsatia blog: alsatia.org.uk/site/2012/02...

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

And more #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release from 'snippet view': Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: books.google.co.uk/books?id=zys... Sample Census 1966 books.google.co.uk/books?id=fyo... Consolidated list of Govt publications, 1925: books.google.co.uk/books?id=cyd...

#OTD in 1918: The Representation of the People Act is passed, extending the vote to men over 21 and some women over 30. statutes.org.uk/site/the-sta... #History #LegalHistory

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Free to download until Feb 17th: The Five Ages of Antifascism by Joseph Fronczak www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History #AntiFascism

Just to offer the counterpoint here, as I think it is very very important we do so: this is absolutely anticipatory obedience 101. Much as university leaders might see it as their responsibility to “plan” for this possibility, in effect REF are getting to set the agenda without winning any election

thinking about how there's a true solution to the trolley problem and union workers were the ones to point it out

Good riddance to these bullying swine. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

As the Government reveals the "AI Skills Hub", we find out the taxpayers of the UK have paid £4.1 million... for a bookmarks site. Nice work for those who can get it. mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...

One of the reasons why Elon Musk and other folks on the right want to shut down Wikipedia (or "compete" with it). It's a good platform for regular folks to accumulate data, even keep track of all of this administration's atrocities in real time. Great work