#Balzac / C19th French literature people, is there an edition of 'Le Colonel Chabert' translated into English that you'd recommend? (image: caricature of Balzac caricature by Nadar, 1850)

Petition for Lord Peter Mandelson to be stripped of his title: c.org/DCmvJdQRsm

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New laws in #Afghanistan have further relegated the status and safety of women. Society is now divided into free people and 'the enslaved'; #domesticviolence is specifically met with impunity, provided a man does not break a woman's bones; if a woman repeatedly leaves the marital home against...

US federal agents have murdered another US citizen in Minneapolis, less than three weeks after they murdered Renee Good. Today’s victim is Alex Pretti, another 37-yo, who was an intensive care nurse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes…’ can make #NobelPeacePrize nominations.

The print version is released 19th February, and the Open Access version is already available here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Thanks to SSHRC and Wellcome for support in making OA available

Trump to an audience in Davos - a town where most residents speak Swiss German 🙄

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

If the government did this for Thomas Cooke they should do it for education providers.

Whilst you read articles like this on how to keep warm during this cold spell during a cost of living crisis, I just want to remind you that energy companies made £30 Billion a year in profit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The foul smirk on Farage's face tells you everything you need to know about Reform's attitude to pornography, paedophilia, and sexual violence against women and children.

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Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com

Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.

Remember this? Farage is no less offensive, racist, or frightening than he was 11 years ago.

If you want to do an MA in London but have 'barriers accessing education or may face greater challenges while undertaking their degree' (specific criteria below), you can apply for a £3,000 tuition grant at Birkbeck. Lots of choices at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

Three 'reasons' and not one is about democracy. It's about oil, power, and intimidation.

Interested in Charles Lamb & his circle, Romantic poetry & culture, or #Keats? Come along to the Charles Lamb Society's annual lunch on 7 Feb @bathspauni.bsky.social London Hoxton campus to celebrate Lamb's birthday...

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This 'ultra Liberal' MP became so wealthy as a cotton manufacturer that he could afford to retire by my age, yet he was opposed to slavery, child labour, and long working hours in factories - all of which had lined his own pockets.

I get told that Labour is going to bring in new safe routes for asylum seekers… Great 😑 I’ll believe it when I see it. Here’s why I have my doubts they’ll stop the boats:

Looking for history book recommendations? Explore #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 winner Hannah Durkin's favourite historical non-fiction books on our @bookshop.org page⬇️📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/hannah...

This year’s charity appeal is all about countering the alarming rise of extremist politics – and the misconceptions that fuel them. Read more about how your donations can support our partner charities weave back the fraying threads of communities. Donate today at theguardian.com/charityappeal25bsk

The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer. Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

#WorldAIDSDay is especially important this year. US has cut nearly all support for HIV care and research, while UK has cut £150 million from its contribution to Global Health Fund. HIV activism and NGOs continue to save lives while govts betray people with HIV. www.iasociety.org/kigali-decla...

Want to study the history of science and technology? We're inviting applications for "1+3" year (MA+PHD) or 3-year PhD scholarships to study at CHoSTM and @kingshistory.bsky.social ! Click here for more information about how to apply and what we offer: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py

York is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)

Delighted that Bath Spa has been ranked second most ethical and sustainable university in the UK. Congratulations to all the colleagues and students who worked towards this!

Striking BL staff, struggling to pay their rent, advised to consider not giving presents this year, and interim CEO, Jeremy Silver, has the nerve to tell them they ‘don’t live in a real world’. Only 17% of staff guaranteed the Living Wage (£14.80 ph) suggests acute familiarity with the ‘real world’.

Sorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Society currently invites applications for 6 funding programmes across a broad range of career stages. These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2

Huge thanks to @annafranjam.bsky.social and @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic day of 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', and to all speakers for sharing such thoughtful approaches to this fascinating and wide-ranging field.

There is no ceasefire only people pretending there’s a ceasefire.

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people. Inequality is eating the whole world alive.

Can’t quite believe that the great Dickensian and kind, generous, thoughtful scholar Michael Slater has died. Happy memories of Dickens Days - his wonderful readings. I’m experiencing the creeping feeling that he sort of WAS Dickens - only in the best ways, of course. Dickensian and A Dickensian.

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!

Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!  www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

2 fantastic-looking history of medicine research fellowships at Warwick: Traumatised Minds, Neurosis and Hysteria in Soviet Medicine and Culture, 1917-1953 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK288/r...

Does Starmer really not realise that he has been legitimising division eg with what he says about immigrants and the ‘island of strangers’, and funding genocide? Does he truly think he represents ‘concern for others, [being] reasonable, … tolerant and compassionate’?

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Starmer's record: 🔥 TODAY opted out of flagship fund for world’s remaining tropical forests 🔥 Abandoned his £28bn green jobs & infrastructure pledge 🔥 Reconsidering drilling in Rosebank (UK’s biggest oil field) 🔥 Green light to Heathrow & Gatwick expansion 🔥 £17.5bn a year in fossil fuel subsidies

'CLIMATE CHANGE: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINE' - international online symposium for COP30 on behalf of the Commission on Science & Literature and the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability & Climate Action @unibirmingham.bsky.social 29 Nov. Programme & booking: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/clima...

In the year to March 2025, a prisoner was accidentally released more days than not - 262, ‘up from 115 the previous year. The Labour government has repeatedly attacked the Tories for leaving them a broken justice system.’

This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how. @asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames