We are pleased to be supporting the "Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'" worshop at Lincoln College, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) on 16 - 17 September 2026 See call for papers (closes 15 May 2026) below: pastandpresent.org.uk/call-for-pap...

The Dark Horse in Selhurst has such cat, plus another one. May sit in your lap if it's quiet in there ie no home game is on

I just want to run with my friends, and it is deeply silly to think I have an unfair advantage running in mass participation events alongside people dressed as pantomime horses.”

Tranathon member Bridie says: “Running has been increasingly important to me over the last few years. It keeps me fit and well, and it helps my bone health, which can sometimes be an issue for trans women - especially if, like me, they were bullied in PE at school and did no sport until adulthood.

Had a lovely time speaking to the Urban History/Regional and Local History Seminar at the University of Leicester. This is the only photo I took on the way though.

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

OH MY GOD THE TRAIN CAPTAIN JUST SHOWED THIS KID THE CONTROLS THEN HELD UP THE MIC SO HE COULD ANNOUNCE THE NEXT STATION. I am honest to god crying. God i love my city. Can you imagine being that kid, on his day out to london, right now.

ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE.

MY CURRENT TASTE IN MUSIC IS WOMEN SHOUTING IN EUROPEAN OVER INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS

Absolutely electric gig by Mandy, Indiana @ Heaven tonight. Completely brilliant.

ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE.

Off to see Mandy, Indiana at Heaven tonight

we keep talking about this as an issue of equity because it is — all students deserve access to all subject areas at university. otherwise you’re not running a higher education system but a multi-tier tertiary system with ‘skills’ for working class students and ‘higher learning’ for the elite

‘I am pleased to have the opportunity to update you on our longstanding position’ is how i will respond to all bad faith criticism from now on

We're so excited to say that all articles in @parlhistjournal.bsky.social's 2026 Special Issue, edited by #HistParl's Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones, are available to read for free! Click below to read the issue, titled 'The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century'.

"I stopped loving you since the Miners' strike" is a great lyric

Pictures that explain things ‘Understanding Maps’ 1966 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Great news everyone! The market has finally figured out a way to make a female historian! www.instagram.com/reel/DWQrKhr...

Currently, this statement could not be more relevant in the case of my Humanities department and its degree programmes

Good HE is really simple: quality time spent with subject experts who know and care about their students. My university and many others are deliberately abandoning this truth in favour of financial and organisational efficiency.

Does this save money by allowing them to shut down small courses? Very much yes. Repeat until there’s nothing and nobody left.

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

Yes! I discuss these and the Downham estate walls in Kent in my new book.

All articles in our 2026 special issue, edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones of @histparl.bsky.social can be read free online between now and the end of June! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...

Happy Free Money Day to all who celebrate. It's not quite the small fortune that I got last year, but it is still a modest and very welcome fortune to appear out of the ether. Thanks ALCS!

What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

This weekend’s best charity shop find - Townscape by Gordon Cullen for £2. A gorgeous and influential book, first published by The Architectural Press in 1961. Will share some of its wonderful illustrations in separate threads

Just a band? youtu.be/91QWp6Ygx7c?...

I am sitting on the balcony for the first time since September. It is lovely but disconcertingly warm.

Agree with all this thread. Next week we are indeed learning about the Chartists, but in doing so I hope the students will develop skills in selecting relevant information, comparing older and newer interpretations, navigating digital sources, and debating relevant questions about democracy today

How many times did we tell the managers introducing this system about the loss of skills that hyperlinked lists entail, and how many times were we treated as if we were dinosaurs refusing technology.

We've just had confirmation of the 4 colleagues leaving my discipline as a direct result of the last VR round Another colleague is leaving to join a new University All brilliant teachers and researchers No words

In the Garibaldi, Redhill. Wonderfully warm welcome by the landlady. Community pub. Lots of local ales on tap.

Missing the days of the Victorian settlements by factory barons or Chartist leaders: Saltaire, Akroydon, O'Connorville, etc.

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

I'm speaking at Conway Hall on Sunday 19 April. Tickets available here: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

The gigification of university. Utter disgrace.

I really like this new style of slow intro to #GardenersWorld and no "here's what's coming up".

News on Croydon’s crap housing company Brick by Brick: the Tory mayor paid £500,000 “hush money” to a property firm so Croydon could repossess three blocks of flats after the firm defaulted on payments in a £22m deal to buy the homes. 🧵1/2

The thing is the *entire internet* is different now than it was a decade ago (and, largely, not for the better). All of this is interrelated and there's no going *backwards* only forward. So work for a better future, don't angle for a return to an idealized past.

1/1 For those unfamiliar with this standard introduction who want to know more, see: Eric Hobsbawm & George Rudé, Harmondsworth, Penguin University Books, 1973, pbk revised edition of hdbk London Lawrence & Wishart, 1969. Four pertinent extracts from the hbk Introduction:

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Today's set reading for class. Still a classic.

Am i doing this right? #niche