📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Flag of the Arab Revolt, flown from a house occupied by Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al Hashemi in Damascus in September 1919, and given by Faisal to T E Lawrence. IWM FLA 592

Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is going full-on in tackling Musk. "He [Musk] is actually, I think, committing crimes," he told Laura Kuenssberg.

‘The wrath of Gough’ was the working title for this talk very briefly. No spoilers here though.

Our conference is a month away! With many talks and seminars to choose from. Friday night will see a focus on Haig and leadership during #WW1, and @bigandylock.bsky.social will be talking about decision-making during Third Ypres

The @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social conference is a month away! So many talks to choose from. Antonia Newell will be talking about the incredible Agnes Bennett, a doctor and the first female commissioned officer in the British Army. She eventually ran the Ostrovo Unit in Salonika. Ticket details 👇🏼

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

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In sad withdrawal after We Have Ways? Join us at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for a whole (indoors) weekend of the prequel… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @bigandylock.bsky.social

In sad withdrawal after We Have Ways? Join us at @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social for a whole (indoors) weekend of the prequel… @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @bigandylock.bsky.social

Niiiiiice.

Asking for a friend here, but need suggestions on how to make an art tour (literally paintings) accessible for a blind person. Any thoughts?

Israel murdered a team of Al Jazeera journalists to prevent them getting the many stories out of their genocidal slaughter of civilians, including children, in Gaza? Seems like something every news media should be carrying on front pages worldwide?

FFS. He didn't "kick off". It's not a "jibe". He said, with dignity and restraint, what we were all thinking - that Al-Obeid didn't just "die" - he, like tens of thousand of other innocent civilians, was killed by Israel as part of its ongoing programme of ethnic cleansing.

If you’re in any way enjoying this thread, fuming at it, or are finding it remotely interesting, join @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social and its community of historians and enthusiasts. Tons of knowledge, keenness to share, and a great social bunch too.

Risky, but let’s try this. 1 like = 1 opinion on the First World War which might be unorthodox.

A request, having had some success on here previously! Are there any Edinburgh / Glasgow based academics specialising in ecology and rewilding out there who’d be prepared to give a lecture or run a session for a group of US students coming over in May next year? Please repost!

A request, having had some success on here previously! Are there any Edinburgh / Glasgow based academics specialising in ecology and rewilding out there who’d be prepared to give a lecture or run a session for a group of US students coming over in May next year? Please repost!

Valuable research being done here

“Sooner or later, you have to quit collecting information and write the damned book.” Scott Donaldson

Bad day for my bookshelves incoming

I feel like baby catapults and big nets are more practical

Sorry what now

On the nerd side of normal 👍

Go on then.

RIP Jim Shooter. Comics legend. As a Marvel editor, he was handed a new toy license to do comics for. Neither Hasbro or Marvel leadership cared about their quality. Jim did. He rewrote Hasbro's character bios to not be shit, and made his writers treat it seriously. That license was Transformers.

Nice.

24 June 2025 is this Tuesday coming. There's still time. Don't stop Beleaving. #DanHannanDay

I heard the name Dominic Raab today by accident. Talk about a person that nobody misses.

I’ve always been suspicious of the Scilly Isles tbf.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

Odd request. I’m looking to set up a visit to Scotland for an American university group, focus to go on ecology / rewilding, and geology. Looking for connections with either groups that specialise thereon, or Scottish universities & academics that might be able to cooperate. Any ideas?

My online talk for the Great War Group, "War on the Water", which is about the Belgian sector on the River Yser 1914-1918: Youtibe version at youtu.be/VyAbeWxNgYI?... #WW1

Absolutely horrifying. Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

Watching from the sidelines as this has unfurled has been awful. Please support @sachacoward.bsky.social and other affected Unbound authors, who are owed money for the writing.

What I’m understanding from this is that lineouts are the best bit of rugby. Not wrong. 👍

Thoughts after reading the stupendous Ring of Fire from @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @pikegrey1418.bsky.social - one of the few popular histories of WW1 that cuts the sentiment & shows just how appalling and brutal 1914 is. I never wholly swallowed the Larkinesque innocence bollox anyway… 1/

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

In other news, I happened to be at the American Cemetery in Normandy on their Memorial Day today. Moving enough and very busy there.

British armed forces after Stan Hollis does his thing on D-Day

What do you mean you can’t just spend an hour and a half in the Mesopotamia galleries at the Louvre? Also, how hard would it be to learn how to read cuneiform script? Asking for a friend.

Anyone have any recommendations for reading material on music and composers during the Second World War?