Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

but guess what for: ‘“These people should all be prosecuted someday,” Kammen says, portraying the administration’s assault on the environment as a crime against humanity. “I’m not joking. These people should be prosecuted.”’

Did you listen to our podcast yet? youtu.be/7YB6sUNsPtE?...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

And more reviews from: Matthew Roberts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... And @richardtoye.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to be part of the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social collaboration with CUP as its first commissioned author of its new series ‘Elements in History and Contemporary Society’. Thank you @richardtoye.bsky.social for inviting me! @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

In which I share my thoughts! Also starting @richardtoye.bsky.social, Victoria Honeyman, and Rochard Gaunt www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social 'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness

Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to @listentotimesradio.bsky.social about Winston Churchill and VE Day. Listen again here www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Bristol about the history of the UK Parliament - and why MPs from rival political parties sit facing each other. Listen again here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“If Churchill becomes merely a prop, the UK may find itself playing to a story Trump is no longer interested in finishing” - Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uoearchhist.bsky.social discusses how the UK may use history on the forthcoming USA state visit inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Pleased to see that our book Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900 now has a cover and will be out with Cambridge University Press in January! @richardtoye.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/no/universit...

Listen to @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social discuss the legacy of Clement Attlee in the new #LeadingLabour podcast open.spotify.com/episode/10wB...

Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio Wales about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Listen to the new podcast about the amazing wartime life of Winston Churchill by @richardtoye.bsky.social from @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social and Dr Warren Dockter. "Churchill: The Finest Half Hour" begins with the momentous events of 1939 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-j...

Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.

Today I had a good 30-minute chat with Michael Weatherburn from Project Hindsight, covering what historical lessons the incoming Labour government might learn on economic policy... The recording is here: youtube.com/watch?v=IcWC...

Just finished watching Pompeii: The New Dig, it was fantastic! A great archaeological documentary with no presenter, just the archaeologists and specialists explaining the astonishing archaeology themselves: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's 9 days until polling day and we’re continuing our countdown of Victorian election facts. 9. The secret ballot was not used at parliamentary elections until 1872. Before this, voting took place in public. This blog explains how the system worked: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/e...

I understand why so many critical studies academics are rushing to pivot their research toward using AI to do digital humanities work, but I really REALLY wish more of them would double down on critical analysis, argumentation, ethics, and discernment in the age of AI instead.

It's the latest new and free writing from me! Our university Arts and Humanities are being torn apart by a lack of planning and care. We must act now, or we're going to waste all the decades and billions we've invested in them: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

More **NEW** and **FREE** writing from our 'All Our Footsteps' project on Rights of Way... This time Gareth Roddy of Northumbria University writes about what the many pasts of Hadrian's Wall tell us about landscape and the experience of space. Take a look! 👇 www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/s...

Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief - 'Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often highly problematic colonial role “[has] to be part of the mainstream narrative about British history” '

I don't like Stoicism, but I've got to put up with it.

Q. What do you get if you cross Nye Bevan with Desperate Dan? A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.

Roger Liddle's generous review of Age of Hope: "Toye’s book is a joy to read, thoroughly researched and intellectually stimulating, compelling analysis laced with amusing anecdote." www.progressivebritain.org/review-richa...

Politicians will discount constituent letters if they disagree with the letters. But providing strong, unambiguous evidence of expertise in the policy area can reduce this discounting, finds Bergan et al. When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...

Am vergangenen Wochenende habe ich in der SZ über meine Geburtsstadt Dresden, über Victor Klemperer und meine Lesungen aus seinem Tagebuch 1933-1945 geschrieben. Habt vielen Dank für die schöne Resonanz! www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...

Hamas murdered Vivian Silver. www.jta.org/2023/11/13/i...

Call for Contributions! Ed. Collection: #Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day. Please share! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

We offer bursaries to final year undergraduates, those studying for taught Masters degrees, and postgrad MA/PhD-level researchers. Find out more sslh.org.uk/2023/10/08/s...

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇

gosh there's no pleasing her, is there?

#jobalert Project Manager: Collections Move, Holburne Museum, Bath Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/

We don't have any font suggestions, but what an excellent poster. Huzzah for the reform bill!

Please do join us for the launch of Pet Revolution, with me, Julie-Marie Strange, Helen Cowie and Diana James (Blue Cross) in conversation on histories of animals in British Life. Fri Nov 24th - online at lunchtime. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pet-revolu...

Samuel Smiles and working-class politics: a new work from the late Malcolm Chase - and it’s open access sslh.org.uk/2023/10/19/s...

📣New BLOG Ben Jackson (Oxford): 'Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/poli...

Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...

Thanks to Richard Toye for his excellent book presentation yesterday and to Gareth Millward for his great comments and questions. Get your copy asap! #AgeOfHope #politiskhistoriesdu #sdu @richardtoye.bsky.social @millieqed.bsky.social @christiandp.bsky.social

Looking forward to next research seminar today with Richard Toye, “Arguing About Empire: Methods for Studying Imperial Rhetoric”, co-organized by Network for the study of imperialism and SDU Political History Group @richardtoye.bsky.social @polhistsdu.bsky.social #politiskhistoriesdu

Bloody hell. Really? REALLY? Suspending the EDI committee with immediate effect???

I'm a reviews editor for the Journal of Contemporary History and forever looking for 1. reviewers and 2. books to be reviewed (history; after 1930). Do YOU want to write something for me? Get in touch! Journal here: journals.sagepub.com/home/jch My details here: mau.se/en/persons/e...

Hal Draper's Labor Action newspaper uses Halloween to call out the McCarthyite anti-communist witch-hunts in the United States in 1953 www.marxists.org/history/etol...

Cold plunge tub salesman: in an ideal world, how would you start each day Me: cup of coff- Him: that's right, a simulation of an ice fishing accident