Amusing

I've been critical of Keir's term as PM, but I was still secretly hoping for a Peerage for his old 'Pabloist' comrades in his leaving list... damn.

A bit of York labour history: sslh.org.uk/2025/12/10/c...

England were quite good, until they scored. Should learn from that…

'In the past year, the University of Sussex shed 528 members of staff, with plans to increase that figure by 200.' 'In May, the University of Hertfordshire said it would suspend multiple undergraduate humanities courses.' 1/4

a propos of nothing in particular, but this is definitely one of the best things I've ever read.

Keen to hear from any British-based historians looking for freelance research work. Happy to hear from all backgrounds and experiences.

Missing TAA much? I have mixed feelings about this game since I have Congo in the sweepstake

Book review for AHR. Open access license price, $4851. I feel valued.

I'm confident this has already been thought / written, but are we allowed to refer to Burnham as the Mancunian Candidate?

Timely: link.springer.com/collections/...

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

The Swiss coach is the dude-est so far…

Oh man… blues for a hip king

Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

Besides deeper ideological reasons (and Labour's chronic myopia), one answer to this is surely that UUK and VCs (and lets be honest, UCU and professional bodies too) have been so useless/timid at pushing this up the policy agenda

WTF. I've just realized that WFH can mean both working from home and wages for housework.

Neologism... "Thatcheresque". ©

F W S Craig, a very familiar name to political historians. But also who knew (i.e. I did not): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._S...

Yes, make a film of it. UTB!

I fancy us

Today's important news (and a blessed relief from the other). Cheaters gonna cheat as someone sang: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Also... isn't Streeting (if he wins) going to be haunted by Burnham? The Prince of Manchester (can't call him Prince Andy) forever waiting in the wings?

Isn't Streeting's constituency majority minute. Maybe he'll pick up the vacant seat before Burnham does?

Hard agree. Tells us much more about the form of reporting (nod to Chris Mason & the new newsnight in particular) than the content of what is being reported.

Weekly how crap are Labour... if Starmer goes, doesn't Reeves too? Would Burnham even win a by-election atm?

C’mon @mfc.co.uk let’s beat the cheats. Utb

*Reminder: Deadline Approaching* Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Deadline: 4 May 2026. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

My kind of niche, but really interesting: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Er… what now?

This has to be the most useless Labour govt ever, which is kinda saying something…

York Talk. 7 May. Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite. www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...

This looks amazing. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

If Starmer isn’t making this up - big if - isn’t this a case of civil servants undermining Labour? I mean that has no historical precedent, does it?

York talk. 16 April. Scott Anthony on the state as a cultural patron: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-will-tak...

Universities: you must complete a risk assessment and ethical review for this perfectly safe activity. Also universities: please embrace this energy-hungry water-guzzling plagiarism machine that is frequently wrong. Also, it makes you thick and may encourage you to kill yourself.

Is this by LJK Setright?

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

From Our Archive: 'The Choice Before the Labour Party' Was society to be dominated by bankers, industrialists and landowners, or will it ‘distribute the product of its labours in accordance with some generally recognised principles of justice?’

New paper: Mass Observing British Politics On what Mass Observation might contribute to political studies (and what political studies might contribute to Mass Observation). With @jmoss88.bsky.social and Alex Hill. Also paging @massobsarchive.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why isn't 'political dissensus' in more common usage?

Some History jobs: features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs...

Interesting: www.jstor.org/stable/3317548

Open call for thematic issues of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: For further details and how to apply, please visit 👉 iamhist.net/call-for-pro... ✍️

Look at this: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Historians are cited: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

bizarre detail from the nyt (I’m not amongst the 6) “Vue, a major European cinema operator, is offering nine showings (451 seats in all) at its multiplex in York, England, from Friday through Sunday, one analyst noted. As of Wednesday, it had sold six seats.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...