Company: We have to raise our prices because the new AI features are expensive for us to maintain 🤷‍♂ Me: I never asked for those features 🤔 C: We gave them to you anyway 🤷‍♂ M: I'm not going to use them 🤨 C: Money, please 💸

Pretty darn cool seeing my book in a bookshop for the first time! Thanks so much to The Reading Room for stocking “The Republican House Divided” and for hosting my book talk next month 📚🗃️

Just... I cant even... all history lovers will enjoy this AI slop for a while as they work through the issues from top to bottom. #aislop @waitmanwbeorn.com @normagraham.bsky.social

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado tells reporters she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump during their meeting. 🤮

Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.

Stephen deserves to win just on his reactions alone. And his amazing outfits #TheTraitors

"Mum I've got a job in #TheTraitors!" "Wow I'll look out for it!" The job:

Thank you to Patrick Young for this review of my book "The Republican House Divided" for The Reconstruction Era Blog. It is humbling to hear that I have made "a unique contribution to Civil War memory studies"! 🗃️ thereconstructionera.com/the-republic...

No, no, no, never! If I’m reading a document, whatever its length, I was to do my own analysis. This is so awful, people will lose the ability to read and critically engage with material. #feckoffAI

you can have Trump or James Madison. You cant have both.

📣The deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference closes TOMORROW! We really look forward to seeing many of you there!

The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.

Last chance - The deadline for submissions for the Ellen Craft Essay Prize, awarded to an outstanding essay by a PG or ECR is tomorrow (Friday 16th January).

🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery. Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects. (they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)

Harriet's detective work #TheTraitors

Are you an early career researcher looking for research training in history and related disciplines? You might be eligible for an IHR bursary of up to £500 to help cover the cost of one of our fantastic short courses! Deadline for applications is 31 Jan 2026. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

On today’s episode of “The Suppression and Censorship of US History” …

The BAAS website has been updated with news of a whole host of new books in American Studies 📚

In the spirit of the New Year, our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Editorial Assistant, Chloe Haney, is an illustration titled “The Birth of the New Year”, published in The Illustrated London News in 1846. Read the full post here: buff.ly/k3CCWt4

The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car. He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times. The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”. They hate women & it shows.

On this day, the hallowed birthday of COMMON SENSE, by Thomas Paine, I present to you some lesser known quotations (and some blockbusters) -- to help us understand what he hated about kings, and what he loved about the people. “It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”

Absolutely shooketh!!!! 😱😱😱 #TheTraitors

WE NOW CROSS LIVE TO THE TURRET #TheTraitors

The Republican Party, the Lost Cause, and Civil War Memory: A Conversation with @timgalsworthy.bsky.social 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Great to chat with @civilwarmemory.bsky.social earlier about my research into Civil War memory and the Republican Party. Do have a watch! 🗃️

Looking forward to this discussion in just a few hours.

How's this for a view? Here's Pen Y Fan, Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) looking sublime after fresh snowfall this week.

Shot, smoke, and snowballs. History echoes.

Historian here 2026 and we are back there.

What is with #TheTraitors obsession about making pretty much every Welsh person on the show a Traitor? We’re a nice people! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

This seems significant: not a FORMER DHS official, but a SENIOR (current) one saying the officer who fired acted counter to training. This is not an admin that admits mistakes. And they are hanging this guy out to dry on Day One. I think they know this is bad. Really bad.

I am looking forward to chatting with @timgalsworthy.bsky.social about the Republican Party's long-time use of the Lost Cause narrative and Civil War memory to promote their agenda below the Mason-Dixon Line. Catch us on Substack Live tomorrow at 12 noon EST. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Really looking forward to this Substack Live tomorrow, where I’ll be chatting with @civilwarmemory.bsky.social about my research into the Republican Party’s relationship with Civil War memory - especially the Lost Cause in the South 🗃️

Just saw the video of the ICE shooting in Minnesota. That’s murder, full stop. You don’t shoot someone in the head for trying to flee the scene.

We cannot say enough: This is insane. Just insanity start to finish.

"Norway, a NATO member, foolishly chose not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize." This is U.S. diplomacy, 2026. F-ing sad, really.

A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

Are you studying, researching or teaching a history topic and not sure where to start? Try a search using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

🚨The Great Resistance is officially out in the US. Many thanks to everyone who followed along with my chapter snippets and photos over the past 35 days. Now you can read the whole book! And I hope it can serve as a useful reminder of the power of people to end seemingly intractable problems. ❤️

Right after the January 6 insurrection and in the years afterward, historians wrote about its echoes in the past and its implications for the future. Here is a roundup of their online articles, with links: megankatenelson.com/historians-c...

I am honoured to have a chapter in “They Are Dead and Yet They Live” - edited by @johnmkinder.bsky.social and Jen Murray - alongside amazing scholars including @bds77.bsky.social, @sarahbelle721.bsky.social, and @civilwarmemory.bsky.social 🗃️ @univnebpress.bsky.social #BookSky

Very excited to get my hands on this brilliant new edited collection, in which I have a chapter about the Republican Party and the Lost Cause. This Thursday I will be having a Substack live chat with @civilwarmemory.bsky.social about this chapter and my wider research. Do come along! 🗃️

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

The Georgian Lords welcomes in the new year with a post by Robin Eagles on the likely identification of new Black voters in 18th-century London and Hertfordshire: historyofparliament.com/2026/01/05/s... #HistParl #skystorians

Calling postgraduates - You have until 16th January to submit your entry for the Ellen Craft Essay Prize. SASA offers the prize to encourage the study of marginalised voices. First-place will receive a cash prize & invitation to the March conference. How to submit:

My dad created the Omen ad campaign. He’s spinning in his grave.