Good news for linguists who are great communicators and problem solvers!

Written 1943, sadly still relevant: ‘the hatred at the root of fascism […]weakens democracy. “By getting men to hate rather than to think,” it prevents them”from seeking the real cause & a democratic solution to the problem.” By falsely promising prosperity, it lures people to embrace its security.’

Elles étaient cantinières ou vivandières, épouses de soldats ou filles d'autres suiveuses de guerre et partageaient le quotidien austère de l'armée, notamment sous l'Ancien Régime et l'Empire. Qui étaient ces femmes au sujet desquelles les sources historiques sont peu loquaces ?

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

'Investing in languages is not a sentimental project; it is a strategic one.' Great blog from Martha Lane Fox martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/britain-is...

Clumsily worded by the college but their need to look for privately educated pupils in languages, music & classics reveals much about the collapse of those subjects in state schools - often A-level languages aren’t offered in state schools because too few want to study them - that’s the real scandal

Napoleon, you had a good run. Apparently the Arc de Trump will be even better than the Arc de Triomphe

The United States is the bad guy now. Are its citizens going to stand up and stop that, or not? That’s the real question the world wants to see answered.

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

I can't create new cartoons at the moment because I'm blissfully away in Spain, largely ignoring the news. But, if you need one - just replace a country in these with Venezuela, Cuba or Mexico and you'll get the idea

Il avait vraiment raison l’auteur de ce dessin

Come work with me: portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe... I'm co-leading a project on the experiences of student carers (esp. PhDs) at Warwick. We're recruiting for a part-time Project Officer (1 day week) to support in data analysis and writing report. Deadline 08/01. Feel free to get in touch.

We all need to send this link to data driven university administrators who view funding applications as key performance target.

'in 2025, it is as if something clicked, or broke. Extreme ideas claiming that the UK’s ills can be blamed on migrants, or that migrants somehow dilute Britishness, have permanently decamped from the fringes.' this is the genuine, awful reality they truly mean what they say

Il y a 200 ans, le 29 décembre 1825, le peintre Jacques Louis David, exilé en tant que régicide, s'éteignait à son domicile, derrière le Théâtre de la Monnaie, à Bruxelles. Le ministère Villèle refusa le rapatriement de son corps à Paris. Il repose aujourd'hui au cimetière de Bruxelles à Evere.

Trade books can lean heavily on the scholarship of others too without citing them and get away with it because as long as the author changes the odd adjective it doesn’t count as plagiarism…

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

We need a new house-swap app but for academic e-book downloads, i.e. you download an extra 50 pages for my book and I download an extra 50 pages for your book. 🤔

Make a Bond film academic. The Spy Who Plagiarized Me

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

It was such an honour to be invited on In our time (if slightly terrifying, especially the first time when the show was still live, as you never quite knew what probing question Melvyn Bragg would ask!)

Was very pleased that the new display room at the Musée de Cluny hangs them in the correct order for this beautiful and wholesome story to emerge 😊 (And now that I've said it, you won't be able to unsee it!)

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

This is going to be hard to beat!

The heatwave in Lille this summer closed the Patrimoine floor of the library so I couldn’t look at the stuff I wanted so I changed plans and went to the archives in Douai instead and the material I found there is going to make for a much better chapter, even if I got drenched in a thunderstorm!

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

3yo: “daddy’s phone is in his pocket!” me: “that’s true!” 3yo: “why isn’t mummy’s phone in her pocket?” me: “… buckle up, kiddo, we’re gonna discuss five hundred years of fashion and misogyny”

Latest fun academic pastime: tracking down how many times something you never wrote has already been cited…

Applications welcome by 9 January!

Guilty! But it adds up really quickly when you see how much is actually there 😁

How do we change the narrative? People believe what they want to believe and countering with facts is unlikely to work..

Les insurrections serviles menées par José Aponte à Cuba en 1812 et par Samuel Sharpe en Jamaïque en 1831 ont toutes les deux éclaté durant les fêtes de fin d'année. Un moment qui n'était en rien un hasard, nous rappelle @araujohistorian.bsky.social dans cet article pour @us.theconversation.com.👇

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism

We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française À paraître le 19 mars 2026 Gallimard, «Folio histoire» 🎉✨🎉

Cher Père Noël, peux tu dire à tes lutins d'arrêter avec la taxe rose ?

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

I’ve written this (micro-biography, my ass) & am just getting Mme Louverture off the island headed toward France. Will spend spring semester on rewrites of first 3 parts. Summer in France, followed by writing last part. I appreciate my village, who remind me that Suzanne is a story worth telling.

Identification du propriétaire légitime du carnet de croquis de Jacques-Louis David possédé par le Château de Versailles. Acquis en RFA en 1951, il a été volé à un particulier par des soldats allemands qui occupaient un village du Morvan pendant l'été 1940. www.francebleu.fr/infos/cultur...

Sooo... I'm on BBC Civilisations at 9pm this evening talking about Aztecs, and I've been persuaded to overcome my dislike of LinkedIn and use it to share what I'm reliably informed is a 'carousel' of information and tips for teachers using it in the classroom.

Let’s hope we have as much fun as last time we were in Manchester for a 3rd round FA cup game - and that the financial windfall similarly sets us up for another 20 years of Trust ownership!

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

And this in a nutshell is why using AI to look at research funding applications is a terrible idea

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...