A 2:1 or above 'in any discipline' is what employers in finance and insurance as well as trade and logistics look for. In Tech and IT: 'degrees ranging from nursing, biomedical science, art, languages, humanities, business, economics and law'. So study something you're genuinely interested in.

I am a straight white male but sometimes you have to put your head above the parapet in support of others. In truth this isn't just about one particular grouping - that is just the start, Black History month next...? Heritage is everyone's regardless of

Last week I was honoured to host Queen Mother Chief Freda Sideroff & colleagues from St Lucia and St Vincent & the Grenadines. My former PhD student Abigail Coppins and I gave them & High Commissioners a tour of Portchester Castle where 2000 prisoners of war from the Caribbean were kept in 1796.🗃️

World Cup? We're dressed for success! #WorldCup2026 Other teams are available. W J Bassett as featured in 'The Sportfolio' - Portraits and Biographies of Heroes and Heroines of Sport & Pastime, 1896 Click on the link for other well-dressed sporting heroes mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

Who studies social sciences and humanities? We’ve brought together 10+ years of data on who studies SHAPE subjects across UK higher education into one interactive dashboard. Explore trends across nations, subjects and student backgrounds: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

I love this story! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'll present at Nottingham Uni on Language degrees in England: A cold spot analysis by language Part of a roundtable on Language education in the East Midlands and beyond: Cold spots, challenges, opportunities and School-HE collaboration An important event given lang degree closures in the region

What's it actually feel like to live through the decline and fall of mass Higher Education in Britain? Today I've written about this from the inside here... Hope you like it, and hope you find it useful. isrf.org/blog/what-do...

Appel à propositions | Le monde des révolutions. Jacques-Pierre Brissot: Circulations, réseaux et mobilisations politiques des années 1780 à nos jours Colloque international et interdisciplinaire, Université de Caen-Normandie (France), mars 2027. oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

France is starting to own its role in the slave trade. Now it needs to repair its Caribbean legacy | Marie-Annick Gournet

"Il s’est adressé à la presse en se plaignant qu’il était persécuté. Finalement, nous avons mis l’affaire entre les mains d’un juge d’instruction qui nous a donné raison." Un receleur de documents d'époque napoléonienne, volés dans les archives, obligé de les restituer. www.rtbf.be/article/napo...

Why was the 18th century the heyday of prize contests on virtually everything? Many answers in this new book, now available with a discount from @livunipress.bsky.social: mailchi.mp/e854e1290516...

The Weaver’s House will be open for visitors on Saturday June 6th, 10am until 4pm. Entry is free. The Weaver's House is a unique community-led restoration project which tells the story of 550 years of Coventry's industrial and domestic history - 121 Upper Spon Street, Spon End, Coventry CV1 3BQ

The latest issue of French History is now published! 💾🖥️🖨️ Articles covering the 11th to the 20th centuries... And a 🔥 series of decolonial reflections on historiography and curating via the landmark volume Colonisations: notre histoire and the Musée Carnavalet relaunch @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Colleagues from Belize and St Vincent welcomed to campus with British summer downpour and hail…

At the weekend, staff from @warwick-smlc.bsky.social delivered language-based singing, dancing and story sessions and drop-in activities to over 100 families visiting @warwickengages.bsky.social free Resonate festival. We were so busy that I failed t take any photos!

Am very excited about this: Amazons in Arles enfilade18thc.com/2026/05/23/e...

Join K-SAA Vice President Omar F. Miranda tomorrow for Romantic Drama, Contemporary Performance, a roundtable exploring the vibrant theatrical life of Romantic-era drama and its continuing impact on contemporary performance. 2 June | 5pm UK uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #RomanticDrama #BARS

Striking changes in British Social Attitudes polling on attitudes to higher education. The proportion of people who believe a degree is not worth the time and money has grown from 14% in 2005 to 34% in 2025. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sometimes the research process brings you into unusual spaces like an eighteenth-century French dovecote built for the royal family…

This is a great scheme! In 2024 I had one of their pilot awards to work with the charity @photoworks-uk.bsky.social on a project about the Black revolutionaries at Portchester Castle - you can see some of the amazing work that came out of it here: photoworks.org.uk/resources/ga...

#medievalsky

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Aujourd'hui, à l'occasion du 27 mai, date de commémoration de l'abolition de l'esclavage en Guadeloupe, (re)découvrez Simone Schwarz-Bart, autrice de Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, roman publié en 1972 qui est au programme du baccalauréat de français 2027: youtube.com/shorts/eoBkh...

Anyone looking for 100% human-made book cover art? 16yo is looking for commissions this summer. The talent of a professional at teen prices! He's working on his website portfolio but can share examples privately for now. Please share!

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

What a surprise - not! - the overwhelming majority of people don’t have an issue with trans women in women’s spaces. I’ve written to my MP already and urge everyone to write to theirs to object to the discrimination at the heart of the statutory guidelines.

What’s the future of the humanities at a time of pressure in higher education and wider digital change? I’ll be on R4 at 4pm discussing this as part of their Rethink series. It was recorded several weeks ago so I now have no recollection of what I specifically said! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

All our languages @warwick-smlc.bsky.social are available to beginners both on our degree programmes and our modules for non-language degrees because we recognise that many students have just not had access to the languages they want to learn at school.

Deep sigh. How out of touch must the VC of Manchester be to think that students are ‘just studying’ while at university- almost everyone has jobs alongside - and also may not be able to give them up to do a short summer internship or (unpaid?) exchange …

#OTD 1794: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s most celebrated novel, Caleb Williams, in which the servant Caleb denounces his murderous employer, Falkland, & both are morally destroyed by fake news, dirty tricks, & all the truth-twisting deceptions by which authoritarian governments maintain power.

🔔 OUVERTURE DE L'APPEL À PROJETS ÉDUCATION 🔔 La société et le territoire français sont en partie façonnés par l’histoire de l’esclavage, ses mémoires, ses héritages, dont les empreintes sont partout présentes, même si elles sont peu visibles - ou peu visibilisées. 1/4

We believe policies and campaigns for trans exclusion distract from the true causes of inequality and violence against women by scapegoating a tiny minority, create problems for cis and trans+ people alike, and divide communities that naturally stand together. notinourname.org.uk/targeting-tr...

Fascism isn’t announced on the news - it’s the historians who raise the alarm.

As NION Women, we care about being a society that leaves no one behind, where everyone can feel safe and fully participate. That includes trans+ people, who have been increasingly blamed for problems they didn't cause - and who have faced growing hostility for the best part of a decade.

@gambichiara.bsky.social and are hosting a collaborative workshop on understanding the role of reward in language learning on June 17th at UCL.

À paraître aux @editionspur.bsky.social « Mort aux rats ! Une révolte de cabaretiers en 1814 » par François Ploux : www.pur-editions.fr/product/1055...

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Look a this BRILLIANT PhD studentship on C19 France www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ335/n...

I get to work with amazing creatives on impact projects, learn new stuff everyday from my students and my research reading, spend time in the archives, inspire school pupils with a love of the humanities while doing fun outreach work, and occasionally I even appear on cool radio shows!

I can’t even find books I know Google have digitised - it’s so frustrating to see how useless it’s become

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

‘Although the [British Library] has been making heroic efforts to bring its services back, without additional funding to speed up the recovery, our national research capacity will continue to suffer.’ @richove.bsky.social on why libraries should be on the policy agenda www.ft.com/content/fea2...

1/2 Help! Do I know anyone who's worked in the Y series on the commissaires' records who could give me some guidance about finding one in 1781? I have the name of the commissaire (Gauthier) and the neighborhood (Montmartre). www.quotidien-genealogie.fr/paris-les-mi...

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

The good people at Trans in the City have shared one of the most powerful videos we’ve seen on everyday trans experiences. A moving watch for our trans+ friends but we’d encourage you to share with everyone around you. We need to move beyond complacency to advocacy 🙏 www.transinthecity.co.uk