CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

Three generations of Welsh miners, 1950, photo by William Eugene Smith, American photojournalist.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

I'll be talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at Timperley Probus Club, Tues March 3rd, 10am, Timperley Sports Club, Stockport Road. Visitors welcome. Book due Feb 26th, available for preorder. www.timperleyprobus.co.uk

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

Trump's new sanctions are an order to starve the Cuban people - we must stop them.

New blog for February! Dylan Brewerton-Harper, a postgraduate student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dylan is interested in the “half-life” of the former shipyard, adorned with monuments, sculptures, and murals commemorating Port Glasgow's industrial past.

This note is from my English teacher, Miss Fielden. She taught me for 5 years, believed in me and encouraged me to pursue my passions. More than a decade on, I’ve written my first book.

#History My book is now out. All about the women merchant navy seafarers who died due to enemy action in the two world wars. www.lulu.com/shop/nina-ba... If any museums or other shops are interested in selling this, DM me for wholesale price.

The digitised magazine will be shared on The Transgender Archive, where you can already read some of the existing issues: www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5B...

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

The actual Julia Gordon is fundraising for the preservation of Scottish trans history!!!

Kids playing on the tenement streets of Dalmarnock around 1902. This photo, taken on Baltic Street, was one of a series commissioned by the Public Health Department to highlight housing conditions in the city. 📷 Glasgow City Archives #Glasgow

Tenement back courts on Muiryfauld Drive, Shettleston, Glasgow, photographed in 1968. 📷 Eastbank Model Railway Club #Glasgow

There's some great new research going on about the politics of heating in the 20thC. www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regio... hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/carbonbodies/

Glasgow-born filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. Known for Ratcatcher, We Need to Talk About Kevin and Morvern Callar. Pic: Sarah Lee

#OtD 22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains its power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

A lecture I gave on the history and social life of Wester Hailes for the Old Edinburgh Club is now available on YouTube! Keep in mind this is an *old* lecture, there’s some mistakes and the analysis has since been updated - but I’m still happy to share m.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VK...

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3

Look what arrived in the mail today! You can currently get your very own copy with a 40% discount until the end of January via the @manchesterup.bsky.social website. @d-j-frost.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Final version of my upcoming article (and my first publication) 'Resistance and Resilience in Edinburgh Council Housing Schemes, 1919 - 1999' sent off to the editors at ExHistoria. It should be live before the Spring. Happy days.

Give the people (me), what they want, a large mural in Glasgow City Cente of Coatbridge-born Margaret Skinnider - maths teacher in Lambhill, fighter in the Easter Rising, lesbian feminist icon.

Last chance to book for this special in-person event @ihr.bsky.social tomorrow discussing the record and legacy of the first Labour Government of 1924. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Check it out. ✌️

A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up. www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

📣 We’re hiring! The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team. 🔗 Details below: #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs

A close relationship between private companies and corporation officials shaped the poor living conditions of hundreds of Edinburgh residents Charlie Lynch takes a deep dive into the resistance and resilience among tenants 👇

A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up. www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

Starter pack for polling aggregators and election coverage accounts go.bsky.app/NS1fKvt

#OtD 11 Jan 1883, impoverished crofters on the mountainous Isle of Skye, Scotland, attacked a police messenger during a major land revolt that was eventually quelled only by dispatching gunships and hundreds of marines stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8297...

All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders sslh.org.uk/2026/01/08/a...

Solidarity with the transport workers. Here's hoping that First Bus and the rest of Scotland's private bus operators are gone by the year's end. Privatisation has been bad for riders, bad for the public budget and bad for staff. All power to the @betterbusesspt.bsky.social campaign.

Edinburgh and Canongate each had their own Stinking Close, Edinburgh also had the Stinkand or Stinking Style and Corstorphine Parish had (has) The Stank. Old Leith bested these all with Willie Water's Close.

I'm deep into redrafting my thesis chapters and making final edits for an upcoming journal article but I've got the itch to write something for magazine/newspaper. I need someone to tell me to shut up and get my nose to the grindstone

FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January

"This 'inspiring' map could transform Glasgow public transport"🚍🚇🚉 Great coverage in @glasgowtimes.bsky.social of our new Clyde Metro map, in collaboration with Metro Map Design 👏👏

RMT demands urgent action to protect rights of remand prisoners on hunger strike RMT has called on the government to immediately intervene to protect the lives of remand prisoners currently on hunger strike. rmtunion.org/3YyUk3E

I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage. I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?

Wealth in the UK is extremely concentrated at the top: over half belongs to the richest 10%, while the richest 1% control over a fifth by themselves. But the bottom half of the population – nearly 34 million people – have less than 1/20th between them. This is bad for all of us. It has to change.

In case you missed it… Tom Hulme and I’s new article in the Journal of the History of Sexuality. There are three biographical case studies of queer men from N. Ireland who lived between the early 20th century and the 1960s. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

#OtD 30 Nov 1923 Scottish revolutionary socialist, John Maclean, known as "Scotland's Lenin", died of pneumonia aged 44 following repeated incarceration and force feeding. His funeral (pictured) was attended by thousands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...

It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.

British military troops were trained in Israel during the genocide in Gaza, it has been revealed

This is one of my favourite poems of all time

Many will be pleased to see the back of the awful two-child cap and rape clause, but hard to understand how Reeves was happy to a) keep it going for 16 months and b) see MPs suspended for wanting it ended, if she really thinks it an unconscionable policy

- Labour MP Meg Hillier is on the board of Re:State, described by OpenDemocracy as "a free market think tank" & a "conduit for privatisation. - 7 of Re:State's 10 current funders profits from the NHS. - Look at their Board & Trustees: heavy on corporate lobbyists, private equity

🚨 We're marking the 1926 General Strike centenary. Read the latest article by our Assistant GS, @redhen90.bsky.social - https://www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-history-not-reliving-it-the-national-partnership-to-celebrate-100-anniversary-of-the-general-strike-1926-2025-10-05 #GeneralStrike100 #GFTU

Fantastic piece on the importance of tenants' organising in 21st century Britain, for both those in the private and 'social' housing sector. Points to the central role that women play and have always played in tenant-led organisations tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/join...

Not liking peshwari naan in a family of peshwari naan-lovers is a struggle few acknowledge. A lonely existence