Southampton is a city that has had real problems with racial violence and racist division in the past, but because of this it also has a strong and proud tradition of anti-racist activism. The community will drive this scum out of the city like they chased out Mosley in 1937.

Now 34 years. I will continue to post the story of Giovanni Falcone because even if just one person who didn't know it reads it, learns about this extraordinary man, and maybe shares it with others, the world will be a slightly better place.

I loved Marina Zucchelli’s novel Latte about the relationship between a wealthy new mother and the wet nurse she employed in late 1950s Bologna. Such a fascinating exploration of maternity, class and power, I hope it will be translated so I can recommend it to more people

Just a reminder, emotions historians take note. Please continue to circulate the cfp.

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

A very Turin climate protest

Does anyone write regularly in multiple languages in Word? I changed my spell check to Italian to write a thing and it won’t change back. Surely it should be normal to be able to switch between supported languages? I have done it before but not super regularly…

Tickets are free but going fast - come along to hear about the secret censors' library. #SpéirGhorm www.eventbrite.ie/e/manuals-of...

Nice to see the new issue of @thedublinreview.bsky.social arrive in the post today, with my essay about the time a pigeon decided to make a nest in my office at work

The Phoenix is great for a load of reasons but last year's (brick-themed) April Fool issue nailed AI far better than most of our prominent satirists. Excuse the state of my kid's copy.

This went down very well in our house too! The Phoenix is great

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

In our latest @uk.theconversation.com article, our Professor Tony Kushner writes about the Golders Green ambulance attack, and how the London suburb became a home for Jews👇 theconversation.com/golders-gree... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!

This generation of children will never forgive us for this. They will particularly not forgive us if we took all their social media away - which was problematic but at least conversation with real people - and pushed them toward AI chatbots.

Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social

Hello! During the pandemic, I compiled a collection of digitised Great War primary sources for student research essays. Going through them just now for my current class, loads of those links are now dead. Does anyone have any favourite online source collections (that work)? Will share new list!

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For the #InternationalWomensDay, I wrote this blogpost commemorating Avis Waterman, the forgotten war correspondent of The Times, who covered the First World War on the Italian front. I have been researching her story during the last 2 years in various archives. stephanieseul.com/2026/03/avis...

Really important piece considering the further recent developments on AI as war weapon

Yallaa would love 100 responses by the end of today and they're only 10 away. TBH, that doesn't seem like enough voices to me so please complete this and share. They are the best people.

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25? 🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com Closing date is 28 February 2026! #WomensHist #GenderHist

Delighted to see that my review of Laura Kelly’s brilliant book Contraception and Modern Ireland is out with @irishhiststudies.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Essential reading for anyone working on histories of gender, feminism, contraception and Catholicism

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

For UK and Irish students - scholarships are available for our MA programme in Gender & Sexuality (and other MAs). See www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola... for details.

Significant harms were raised in the Lords yesterday that do not uniquely apply to people under 16 Then you have this from Kemi 🤦‍♂️ There are incredibly dark and damaging dangers online and this goes much wider than young people The idea that a hard-start at 16 will fix this is for the birds

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

The US is threatening to invade a European country 🇪🇺. One small way to resist: use European alternatives to US big tech: european-alternatives.eu

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️

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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

This is such great news, I can’t wait to have erasmus students in my classes again

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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami #WomensArt

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools

Very happy to be included on this shortlist for my biography-in-progress on Darina Silone, an Irishwoman in the Italian antifascist resistance thebiographersclub.com/the-biograph... @qubhistory.bsky.social

It also includes one of the most outrageously realistic portrayals of breastfeeding I have seen in religious art! Especially love Jesus pushing his halo away…