#History #Skystorians Double new article drop from forthcoming Churchill special issue! First up, the intro by Allen Packwood, @richardtoye.bsky.social & Jayne Gifford's ' "Three Circles": Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Churchill: The Finest Half Hour In the latest episode we chart the beginnings of the wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the birth of the "special relationship". And answer the question: Did Roosevelt really see Churchill in the nude? open.spotify.com/show/7BwF62E...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Rest in peace and power, Jesse Jackson. Gift link:

New episodes every Thursday!

Have you listened yet? Let us know what you think! A new episode drops every Thursday. Content warning: Banter. open.spotify.com/show/7BwF62E...

An der KU Eichstätt soll die Professur für Theorie und Didaktik der Geschichte gestrichen werden, für alle, die sich dagegen aussprechen wollen gibt es u.a. eine Petition: chng.it/582MYzK5r5

Yep, that’s me. Yep, that’s my public library. Maybe they’ll ban dancing next and Kevin Bacon will show up. (And I mean the actor and not the pig that escapes from down Clinton Allen Road with that name. 🤣) www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/burn... @la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social

This disqualifies Farage from any office in the UK whatsoever on national security grounds alone. Tankie nonsense.

Latest episode has now dropped! Dr. Warren Dockter and I chart the beginnings of the wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the birth of the "special relationship". Please listen, like, comment, and share! open.spotify.com/episode/0bBD...

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Latest episode has now dropped! Dr. Warren Dockter and I chart the beginnings of the wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the birth of the "special relationship". Please listen, like, comment, and share! open.spotify.com/episode/0bBD...

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Delighted my new article published by Social & Cultural History is available open access. The title is 'Chance of a Lifetime (1950): Class, Collaboration, & the Shifting Landscape of British Cinema'. Many thanks to all who gave feedback especially the reviewers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finished reading Age of Hope by @richardtoye.bsky.social. A fascinating & detailed revisionist account of the Labour governments 1945-51. Includes a valuable chapter on historiography & discussion of the Attlee legacy & how it shaped the Labour party. Recommended #booksky

For my latest paper, I experimented with taking handwritten notes of excerpts from primary sources to quote (transcribing from archival photos on Dropbox), rather than print and highlight. It took longer to do but was more portable. I concluded that my handwriting sucks, but not much more yet.

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly. @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Interested in writing as a way of 'doing' politics? Then read this new collection of essays, Writing Politics in Modern Britain, edited by @richardtoye.bsky.social & @garylove.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

"So the next time a political book appears it is worth asking not just what it says, but what it is trying to do." Excellent (and very teaching friendly) blog from @garylove.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social, teeing up their new edited collection. cambridgeblog.org/2026/01/what...

On 1 February 1979, The Guardian first reported on the gynaecological examinations conducted by UK border control officials upon South Asian women. Often called ‘virginity testing’, we wrote this article on the Home Office archival records on this practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Assistant Professor in Irish History Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - School of History and Geography- University of Limerick #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/search/histo...

"Poring over photos and letters from grandparents, great-grandparents, and distant aunts and uncles in the Wiener Holocaust Library, I was able to trace the growing threat of antisemitism in Germany in the 1920s." buff.ly/MJXX1VT

CFP: explore the historical relationships among natural resources, institutions & socio-environmental change at the POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN HISTORY summer school! 18–20 June 2026, U of Tübingen 500-word abstract & 2-page CV to [email protected] by Feb 23.

Working in funding has broken my brain, I was trying to work out how Leverhulme (close enough) Prizes were not hipster before but are now

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The tide is turning. Which means now is the time to push harder than ever. Tell your Representatives we want Noem GONE! #ICEOffOurStreets

Here's me speaking about the Blair era at the University of Bristol today... Coming to York, Oxford and London for New Labour book launches soon!

I think the Matt Goodwin story is a sad one. It will likely happen to quite a few academics as they get made redundant and some resort to begging for clicks. They'll go down all sorts of grotesque rabbit holes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A (darkly) comic sketch that turns out just sad. How have we fallen to this rubbish politics of fakery and grifterism? Tawdry and bathetic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The press release for our book: Writing Politics in Modern Britain: Genre and Cultures of Publishing since 1900, is edited by Professor Gary Love, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Professor Richard Toye, from the University of Exeter. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Professor @richardtoye.bsky.social spoke to BBC Somerset about the situation in #Greenland www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The bad news rolling in from across Britain's universities seems endless. Very little of the traditional infrastructure outside the top-ranked 25 or so institutions will survive at this rate. Especially in the Arts and Humanities.

Remember that although things seem bleak, there's always hope and you always have allies. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Call for Papers #CfP: General Strike Exploration Day, Manchester, 9 May 2026. Short papers and presentations from academics, trade unionists, heritage professionals, archivists and independent researchers welcome. sslh.org.uk/2026/01/16/c...

Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History. @northernhistory.bsky.social (Open access version will be available soon).

Form, materiality and networks: looking at political writing through a wider lens. Great stuff from @garylove.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social

I've just noticed I've got 1.9k followers. Hello!

The article came out in the Journal of World History and it is open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899