NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

I've been watching back videos from when I sailed from Dives-sur-Mer to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, following the route of the Norman invasion fleet in 1066. 130km of c. 70m chalk cliffs in a strong N/NE wind that turned into a gale just before we reached Fécamp. Similar conditions to 1066 #MedievalSky

2 Bretagnes better than 1? Maybe not. Don't use genAI to make maps.

Do you hold collections that relate to the Holocaust, whether that be its prehistory, its aftermath, or the role of antisemitism before, during and after WWII? The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) are keen to hear from you... (1/3)

There was a moving remembrance ceremony in the Octagon library today @qmul.bsky.social, remembering the stories of students who fell in both world wars and all those affected by conflict

Back in 2022, I went to Duisans graveyard near Arras to visit the grave of my Gran's uncle Allan McAskill, killed on 13th April 1917 while fighting with 6th Cameron Highlanders. His siblings back in Kintail were given Gaelic Bibles from his remaining regimental pay in his memory #armistice

Ghostly pallor - but a great pod. @QMUL's finest, @robertsaunders.bsky.social talking Britain going berserk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8q...

I was invited along to attend the commemorative Vitrine unveiling ceremony at the Lycée Charles de Gaulle in South Ken. Brigitte Williams, pictured laying a wreath with the ambassador, has curated a display on the Volontaires féminines of Free France 🗃 #skystorians

I'll always tune in to hear my PhD supervisor talk about his research. His book on Pétain's trail is a brilliant one and well worth your time

This is an important worked example of how systems thinking can help make the case for the humanities (in the face of rushed and shallow political scrutiny)

Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in November Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Australia/NZ #booksale #universitypress

We've been in the new place 3 months now and have largely unpacked and settled in. Yet somewhere in a box, in a cupboard, a clock is ticking like the telltale heart

I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co... #skystorians 🗃️

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

I've written up a blog post about the Isle of Wight, the Free French Navy, clandestine flights into wartime France to support resistance, and... garlic? This is part of the Save Tangmere Tower campaign I'm involved with organising savetangmeretower.com/espionage-co... #skystorians 🗃️

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

📣Out now on #firstview! David Andress (@uophistory.bsky.social) on 'The Language of confiance and the French cahiers de doléances of 1789' #Revolution #Emotion #Trust #Agency #France #Digital 18thc 🗃️📜 👉Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Sporting headlines from 1949 collected in a scrapbook in our #SportingHeritage collections. #Athletics @sportingheritage.bsky.social #StirScanStudio

What does the history of the #ChannelTunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...

Do we still live in Thatcher's Britain? I was joined at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social by Gillian Shephard, Simone Finn and @philipjcowley.bsky.social to discuss the Thatcher legacy, 100 years after her birth. The full video is available here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJK...

Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥 📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍 ⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️ 📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]

Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

Them, a conference attendee: 'This is a comment more than a question...' Me, a panellist:

Exciting times, as I think I've found an incorrect link in the training and reported to IT... will I receive a special prize? (I do not think I will receive a special prize)

Compulsory GDPR training. Now there's a true Monday morning task for you

"If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals. To assume otherwise would be to do a grave disservice to students, universities and the economy." 2/2

'Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?' bit.ly/4oHCWEQ New @russellgroup.bsky.social research highlights how many humanities graduates take up careers in the government's priority sectors, as set out in the recent White Paper #Skystorians 1/2

Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!

Good to spend an afternoon talking with other @manchesterup.bsky.social series editors & authors to people moving from thesis to book - lots of really good questions & excellent advice from authors. Good also to be reminded when you're battling your own writing that it is something that can be fun!

The witness account of Francesco Nitti, who survived 50 days in a deportation train from Toulouse to Dachau in 1944. Broch and Sorrell release this first learned edition buff.ly/wIFXcEp

This is now out in the world - get your copy now! 🙂

All arts and humanities approaches welcome! - 'Dispersal of Manuscripts From the Cotton Library' - 'Libraries, Literacy, and Learning in Leeds' - 'New Sources & Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - 'Cold-War Socialism, Non-Alignment & Anti-Colonialism in Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979'

"‘Whatever It Takes?’ The Policy Implications of Supporting Ukraine". What does supporting Ukraine mean in practice? What are the implications for national security, tax policy, EU relations, energy security & more? 28 Oct 12:00 at @mileendinstitute.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I spoke with the Canadian broadcaster CBC about the imprisonment of former French president Sarkozy www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiqM...

I've been invited to give a public lecture in Paris about my upcoming @manchesterup.bsky.social book on 4 December. If you're around then please do come and join (or you can also register to attend virtually)! @qmulsse.bsky.social www.london.ac.uk/institute-pa...

I spoke live on @en.france24.com this morning as former President Sarkozy was taken to prison, following his earlier conviction for criminal conspiracy relating to illicit campaign funding from Libya back in 2007: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyiK...

My favourite detail from the story of Sarkozy's imprisonment has been the books he has purposefully taken with him: both vols of The Count of Monte Cristo and a biography of Jesus Christ. I don't think you need to be a literary scholar to read this intended subtext www.20minutes.fr/societe/4180...

'We should support universities. We should cherish the value of what they do and recognise that if we run them down for sport we will not realise what we’ve lost until it’s gone. And, just once in a while, we should give students a break.' 3/3

Using generative AI to access practical information is a bit like asking a distracted teenager what time their school concert starts, or when their homework is due. The answer *might* be right, but you feel as though you probably ought to check just in case.

[The swimmer] said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was. It said 9.30am. So we were out on that side and then as soon as you come back over it was literally completely different. A lesson learned for me."

*Weeps in Glaswegian*

Looking forward to speaking to the Beckenham and Bromley branch of the @histassoc.bsky.social tonight. I'll be speaking about clandestine flights to support resistance in France during the Second World War 🗃️

One of these two positions will entail field work in Belgium French proficiency is required, Dutch is a plus. It's a great project that has the potential to lead to important new insights about Belgium's relationship with nuclear technologies So, to my Belgian colleagues, please spread the word!

Suspending the pension reform until 2027 is a big concession, so now we'll see whether there's enough folk looking to do the business of politics in parliament (or if that focus on 2027 is too pressing)

News from the group chat: my musical opinions were recently described as sounding like "a letter to the editor from a likable retired vicar", and I have decided that this is 100% the energy I want to put out into the world

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.