📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social

anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?

It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)

@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession. buff.ly/8dVQ52k

Judas Deacon

Dear colleagues and friends, A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨

Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman This reflects my interests pretty well.

I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.

Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!

"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.

Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...

Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.

Happening tomorrow! Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians

@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...

I think one of my main takeaways from #Bibliocon25 is that it's a fools errand trying to build sustainable research infrastructures, particularly on the national level, on the basis of projects with short-term funding and no clear idea of what happens after the end of the funding period.

Intrigued to hear at #Bibliocon25 about several cases in which "traditional" librarian roles have been replaced with media designers, in the context of library-based scholar-led OA publishing and as a research support role in a medical faculty.

At a library conference in Germany, attending my usual share of Open Research panels and I feel we’re still having the same conversations about OA and research data management that I was having 10 years ago when I started working on this at Cambridge (at least in the context of the humanities).

Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦‍♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?

It's my birthday! 🎂 To celebrate, can I invite you to check out the charity auction for trans rights that @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I are running with verrrry covetable donations by brilliant genre creators, ending 1am BST 7 June. bit.ly/genrefortrans

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

First we take the title, then we take Berlin.

Don't know how I managed to sleep on the fact that the German #Eurovision song is an absolute banger. I shall be voting early and often tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_s...

I am in this article.

Congratulations to Prof Helen Fulton, Prof Ad Putter & Dr Anna Havinga who have received a GW4 Generator grant! 🥳 Their project, Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities, will develop new methodologies for research in medieval studies using emerging technologies Read more 👉 bit.ly/44DUICr

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Any voter bleating on about immigration should be forced to take the 'Life in the UK' test that immigrants must pass, and see how they get on

In the meantime, happy Eurovision week to those who celebrate! ✨🎶🌈

Always nice to hear that I've done incalculable damage to the country I live in by being here, paying taxes and helping people. 🤷

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

Wishing everyone a happy Early May Bank Holiday Weekend! 🪻 The GHIL and our library will be closed on Monday 5 May and will reopen on Tuesday 6 May. ☀️

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Just under a week to go until the first lecture in our Summer Series! Sign up now to join us in person or virtually: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #historysky

Excited to finally share the program for "Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400-1500" at @ghilondon.bsky.social on 22-23 May 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 If you are interested in trans saints anywhere from late antique Egypt to late medieval Iceland, join us on zoom! Registration at wwwghil.ac.uk/events/confe...

THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.) www.32auctions.com/organization...

The "Gender Critical" position, pushed by Maya Forstater and the EHRC, of "we can ban trans men because of how they look regardless of their history, we can ban trans women because of their history regardless of how they look" is so blatantly ridiculous when spelled out. Why isn't this the headline

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

If this is the law, the law is wrong.

(Let's ignore the fact that "Deutsch" is misspelled in the stock image...)

The three historian pathways…

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Summer Lecture Series! 📣 We're kicking off our summer programme on 6 May with a lecture by David Milne (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social) on 'Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich'! 📅 1/2

You had me at the first sentence, given that I adore Elif Batuman’s writing.

Available in the @ghilondon.bsky.social Library, of course.

1/8 Open Book Collective, eine in UK registrierte charity, freut sich ihr neuestes Mitglied zu begrüßen zu dürfen: den unabhängigen Wissenschaftsverlag Verlag Barbara Budrich: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/fyo16qh3...

Here is a new documentary on the toxic working conditions in Max Planck Society, which is symptomatic of larger issues in German academia. Abuse is rife, and even if you're not subjected to that, the pressure is crushing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...

🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨 The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025 The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025. For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc... #GermanHistSoc2025

"Another supplier moving into nebulous negotiation territory, rather than transparent title by title pricing, has been met with frustration and disappointment across the sector" Helpful overview of the Clarivate situation from Kevin O’Donovan. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...