UK folks: now that the paperback is out, the gorgeous hardback of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is on sale at Waterstones for 10 GBP - down from 25 GBP! Spinoff essays and excerpts are linked in the thread. 🧪💙📚 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

OMFG. Check out the one on ‘Explorers and Conquerors’. WVU should be embarrassed to teach such dated bullshit.

So fed up of this kind of book.

This is what I mean when I say that Trump is less coherent than during his first term. He always sounded batshit. He didn’t always forget who he was.

"For instance, after noting that copper artefacts began appearing in large numbers in western Asia around 7,000 years ago, Ennos makes the startling claim that archaeologists and historians have entirely failed to consider 'what it is that made metals so important'." This is a personal attack.

"Historians will also be surprised to hear that they have never attempted to understand the causes of the Peloponnesian War" Woomph, crackle, crackle, crackle...

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Excellent stuff from @carolinepennock.bsky.social, succinctly capturing exactly why I detest these grand narrative works.

My first @thetls.bsky.social byline! But I’m afraid it’s for a book that will infuriate most historians. (That’s why you can read almost all of the review in the preview - you probably didn’t want to read 1500 words of my head exploding.)

Ah LinkedIn, where people who claim to be good enough to have secured funding for foreign full-ride postdocs are mysteriously incapable of recognising who works in the same field as them.

Of all the generations that have ever lived on Earth, this one is the only one to have even attempted to recognise the substantive equality of all people. If it dies, it dies with us. But let it not die without a fight.

Rowan is currently playing in her first major production as Sophie in School of Rock at The Montgomery and, look, she is literally FLYING. #proudparent Photo credit: Phil Gascoyne

It is REMARKABLE the number of things on which Kathleen Stock is now apparently an expert.

"Kemi is a big fan of animals." (I'm not kidding. This is an official statement made by the representative of the leader of the Conservative Party on a day that the global oil supply is severely threatened by war.)

If you think that NHS England and Wes Streeting are just ‘looking after children’s best interests’ in banning puberty blockers, and ‘doing a trial’, you should really take a look at this thread about the ‘evidence’ they’re using for their scientific decision making.

Just a few places left for our in-person workshop with Marnie Hughes-Warrington (but unlimited space on the livestream!) on Monday March 30th. It's a superb opportunity to explore how History teachers can use their disciplinary expertise 2 train AI models and make them work better for our students.

I didn't come out until I was 43. No one I work with, are friends with or any of my family care that I am trans. What this government is doing is horrific. But not being "you" is no way to live. And you must live. If only so you're living breathing "fuck you" to these bastards.

Jolyon is literally doing the lords work with GLP so this isn’t a call out of him at all as in individual. I really should say, I’m not keen on this messaging 1. It’s not true that “most” trans people don’t pass if they do so over 18, in fact it couldn’t be further from it

This is heartbreaking.

Watching BBC2 and the claim that Joan Jett and Anita Baker are ‘One Hit Wonders on the BBC’ is quite something.

The conclusion of Stranger Things may be perfectly good (we’ve only just started it) but two hours eight minutes isn’t an ‘episode’. That’s a movie, and not even a short movie. I’m tired of streaming as an excuse for lazy film-making.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

This is a topic I don’t tend to speak on, but we all know that it’s problematic/colonising/racist to insist that individuals and groups can only be Indigenous if they’re ‘officially’ recognised by the settler-colonial state, right?

This is a topic I don’t tend to speak on, but we all know that it’s problematic/colonising/racist to insist that individuals and groups can only be Indigenous if they’re ‘officially’ recognised by the settler-colonial state, right?

I am the third kind: historians who dream about reading and writing because they don’t have time to do either.

Are they bollocks. The drop in children attending private schools is only 0.6% when adjusted against total student population and the trend has been downwards for a decade. This is just PR for the independent sector.

Thank you to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for your clear support for the trans community. In a political climate where too many are stepping back, visible allyship from political leaders matters. We were proud to meet Zack at launch of the Trans Lives Report by @transactualuk.bsky.social

One death is too many, but this feels like a lot in such a short time.

Bring back shame.

YIKES.

Daphne is slightly more engaged with the world this morning than Rosie, but she has no plans to get off the bed any time soon

Monday vibes.

Operation Epic Fury? These are not serious people. Though unfortunately their actions have very serious consequences.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Voters in nineteenth and early twentieth century Liverpool and Glasgow (to say nothing of Northern Ireland) would like to have a word about the 'sectarian turn'.

Final chance to register for the Schools History Project's fascinating webinar on Gardening and Medicine with presentations for both primary and secondary teachers of history. Email [email protected] before 12 noon on Sunday March 1.

Hoping to show this in Manchester later in the year

In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.

“Wes Streeting’s wanted to be the leader of the Labour Party since he was born, probably!” 😆😆

See above, re ‘bullshit artist’.

Nothing sets you up for the day like watching a smug, sexist, ethnonationalist, bullshit artist get their arse handed to them.

Yes, please keep this in mind. Some people cannot "just leave." They are caring for elderly relatives, have child custody situations, jobs where communities depend on them, etc. It's not so simple.

Enough politics. It is publication day for the paperback edition for The Far Edges of the Known World; it's a book that has been described in reviews as both strikingly and refreshingly original. So if you fancy reading about the ancient world from a different perspective - give it a read!

Apparently there ARE some things that AI can do flawlessly.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Top tip: If you are a scammer expecting me to believe you're calling me from a financial institution, don't say "Caroline, can you hear me for god's sake?" when you get frustrated with your dodgy line.

What does the @royalsociety.org have to do with monsters? How has our understanding of nature been shaped from stories about what is - and isn't - a monster? Come and find out at the @linneansociety.bsky.social, Thurs 5th March at 6pm. HUMANS: A Monstrous History will be on sale w/ a discount! 🗃

Speaking as a cis woman, and a feminist, I endorse this message.

THIS.

LOL! Academic writing is supposed to be dry, impenetrable, disengaging and entirely narrative-free because REASONS! Jesus wept. Who are these dinosaurs? h/t @carolinepennock.bsky.social