Call for Chapters!! @historywill.bsky.social and I are looking for chapters on visual displays of monarchy for our edited volume! Please circulate widely!

Just published this co-authored article with my brilliant colleague @kathrynrix.bsky.social on the controversial 1835 election of the Commons Speaker! @histparl.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social historyofparliament.com/2026/07/17/s... 1/4

Not going to litter your timeline with all the strays that Romanies cop constantly on social media but here's another example from Bluesky with a flair of Cher to it. Here is 'Gypsies' being used as an insult to criticise the Trump administration. If only this user could turn back time

Here is a media piece on Romanian & Albanian gangs. It naturally leading to a comment saying it must be Romanies This happens every day

This is really important from Will as I don't think many realise how bad it is In a generation I've seen working class families like mine become completely alienated at HE & now my nephews are against going Working class PhDs/ECRs have the 'they all hate us' conversation when we find each other

I did history because I wanted to be a historian. The stats all say that was a mistake from someone from my background because they don't get hired. If I had my time again knowing what I wanted to do was blocked off - I'd have done something else. More understanding of students is needed in SHAPE

I'm particularly sensitive to this The ethnocide of British Romani people is so complete that terms like GRT are not only common but encouraged LLMs can only reflect the scholarly & archival material that has helped cause & reinforce that ethnocide

I do strongly deprecate the disaster at Exeter Uni, and oppose its ludicrous ham-fisted cuts, but I'm afraid the furore about it is just so on the nose about Britain's class system it cannot be ignored. Oh no, not a university I think of as good and important! www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

When a British organisation chooses People of Colour rather than something like BAME - its either designed exclude or put off Romani & Irish Travellers or does so through ignorance.

When a British organisation chooses People of Colour rather than something like BAME - its either designed exclude or put off Romani & Irish Travellers or does so through ignorance.

I see so many posts on here highlighting & rightfully complaining about the cuts in HE but MPs don't see them & think everything is fine Liesbeth has done a brilliant job with this template that makes it quick & easy to let your MP know what's going on & what needs to be done

History books by women are also available

Here's one for all of you Why should British Romanies & Irish Travellers care about cuts? There's a blanket hostility from every university & funder to our backgrounds & our history There are more Canadians 18th Century historians at Liverpool than GRT historians in UK HE So why?

Here's one for all of you Why should British Romanies & Irish Travellers care about cuts? There's a blanket hostility from every university & funder to our backgrounds & our history There are more Canadians 18th Century historians at Liverpool than GRT historians in UK HE So why?

About 25 years ago I was in a Hampshire pub and got talking to a Romani man who had an education to PhD level, he had rejected the world he worked so hard to enter which had worked so hard to reject him. He had enough of it.

This was bad all round as well as I knew the result was bad going in as the interview panel also a had Gadjoplaining historian who had told me that for a GRT History job they didn't want anyone who did GRT History 🤣

This was my worst academic experience. Interview feedback from a whitesplaining middle class Oxford scholar was that as a autistic, working class, Romani scholar they didn't think I'd help them diversify the journal. They hire a whitesplaining, middle class Oxford scholar 🚩🚩🚩

Today the government repealed the 1824 Vagrancy Act. The focus has been on rough sleeping but the government has also accidentality repealed one of the most anti-Romani pieces of legislation. I've been researching the act and here's why its interesting www.gov.uk/government/n... 1/5

The main thing about 1824 is that it moved from listing types of people (including Romani), to types of behaviour, and gave unprecendented authority to local policing officers. Its role in stop and search is indicative.

Today the government repealed the 1824 Vagrancy Act. The focus has been on rough sleeping but the government has also accidentality repealed one of the most anti-Romani pieces of legislation. I've been researching the act and here's why its interesting www.gov.uk/government/n... 1/5

#Belfast #Roma

Are any journalists going to ask Badenoch for her evidence? We want stats. Graphs. Just a few anecdotes would probably be fine tbh. Can we get some details? Presumably she does have them?

In GRT History Month Kemi Badenoch has decided to target GRT people in her equality drivel. Either Kemi has the evidence to back this up or she's just a racist that is not fit for public office. Were this any other race or community it would be headline news.....it mostly seems no has noticed.

In GRT History Month Kemi Badenoch has decided to target GRT people in her equality drivel. Either Kemi has the evidence to back this up or she's just a racist that is not fit for public office. Were this any other race or community it would be headline news.....it mostly seems no has noticed.

There is an effort throughout UK HE to reduce the amount of working class scholars in UK universities VCs don't like them as students Academics don't like them as colleagues The failure to address class discrimination in HE is the major failing of expansion www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Working class academics have made up 8-14% of departments, in humanities international scholars make up over 30% When academics think the degrees they teach to working class students are up to 3 times less valuable than ones abroad - why would anyone else value them? wonkhe.com/blogs/univer...

There will also be issues in areas that are supposedly not "cold spots". We get a lot of students who explicitly choose a smaller set of programmes at a modern university for staff contact, and because they feel they will fit in better. They may be right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Working class academics have made up 8-14% of departments, in humanities international scholars make up over 30% When academics think the degrees they teach to working class students are up to 3 times less valuable than ones abroad - why would anyone else value them? wonkhe.com/blogs/univer...

I didn't realise this had come out! But here's my last ever foray into 18th century politics if on election day you fancied learning how organised party political press developed www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I didn't realise this had come out! But here's my last ever foray into 18th century politics if on election day you fancied learning how organised party political press developed www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Of course this made worse as the whole thing assumes the smashing together of British Romani people & Irish travellers - who have very different ethnic origins but are recorded together purely based on a cultural perception of itinerancy - which is ridiculous in a health setting.

On Romani stereotyping - its remarkable how the mixture of revulsion & romance is the same in the 18th century through to today. Its really sad how I keep being shown that research into Romani stereotyping isn't considered even slightly important.

If anyone wonders why I thinking researching British Romani history/ culture & try & dispell stereotypes is so important: This is just the top comments from the other place on story Sky speaking to travellers. 'Their culture is not compatable with civilised British norms' 'Scum'

On Romani stereotyping - its remarkable how the mixture of revulsion & romance is the same in the 18th century through to today. Its really sad how I keep being shown that research into Romani stereotyping isn't considered even slightly important.

A perfect reminder of why using 'GRT' is useless & harmful. It totally strips Romanies & Irish Travellers of their ethnic identity. I've been told 'Romanies aren't a race they're a culture' in peer review. I've not found 1 university or funder interested in research to address things like this

Just by existing this is the comparison.

If anyone wonders why I thinking researching British Romani history/ culture & try & dispell stereotypes is so important: This is just the top comments from the other place on story Sky speaking to travellers. 'Their culture is not compatable with civilised British norms' 'Scum'

There are also even more of us ECRs that never get opportunties casual or otherwise. Your PhD, publications and experience just get 'feedback' that makes it clear your application wasn't read.

The HE system is broken - poorer students pay more for fewer opportunities. University expansion has exposed how much class discrimination is used to limit opportunites - no sector is more dedicated to this discrimination than universities themselves. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/graduat...