First historian who claims Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth were radicalized at university will get the Presidential Medal for Freedom (and possibly prime time interview on CBS).

I had the pleasure to attend this wonderful new book by the inimitable @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

30 Oct, Senate House - symposium on Collini's History of English Studies in Britain 🎤 Speakers inc Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc [tinyurl.com] #EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

Irony of this article about giving better coverage to Lib Dems (and others)… …doesn't mention Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Good job if you care about the arts and humanities. Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

This is Tory member who has voted Labour in the only two general elections since she turned 18?

A rousing rendition of the Horst Wessel song

I'm sorry Google isn't going to be broken up. I was looking forward to Go Maps and Ogle Images

I'm old enough to remember when it jarred to speak of 'countries like North Korea and the USA'

Where am I?

Irish welcome, though

'UK basks in heatwave' 'Manchester - rain expected to stop in the next few hours'

New blog post: The Committee of Inquiry into Railway Pay Collection nuffieldcollegelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/t... Read all about the cataloguing and preservation of this archive collection - now available to consult in the Library #RailwayHistory #TradeUnionHistory

'A flat white without milk, please'

'He and I get on very well, even though he's a liberal', said Sir Keir

'Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for the slight delay to this train.'

Claire Morelon, Natasha Wheatley, Gábor Egry, Jan Rybak, + Daniel Unowsky have now sent in what they're going to talk about in Vienna July 18 at 3pm for our panel "End of Empire/Fall of Empire (honoring Pieter Judson). It's going to be AMAZING! Join us! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

The Jackman Humanities Institute is excited about our theme from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026: Dystopia and Trust. We have a whole new cohort of Fellows that we'll introduce to you over the coming months. Read more about our theme: uoft.me/jhi-themes

My entire 2024 oeuvre available half-price: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176325/ and manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176387/ and manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526190338/ until 7 July, using code SUN50 at checkout

It's especially interesting for me to see Jose Harris's interview with Asa Briggs

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Growing up in Northern Ireland, you think you know what terrorism is and then someone goes and paints some planes...

30% off advance purchases of my forthcoming book press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Well worth listening to this, and not just for the plug for my forthcoming book...

'...formerly known as the world's richest man'

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social. Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...

The life and ideas of one of the twentieth century’s leading political thinkers. Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography is out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Now open access - special issue edited by me, Dec 2024 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal..., including @heatherlwellis.bsky.social @erinbeeston.bsky.social

The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

'Just how important do you think it is for us to avoid speculating about the man involved in this incident?'

Books I can't wait for from @princetonupress.bsky.social

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Here are a couple of shelves from his library, at Somerville College, Oxford

I can offer >700 in my forthcoming book

To be fair, he had well over 1 million active conspiracy theorists to choose from

UPDATE: OPEN LETTER - HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS In just 10 days, over 700 historians signed to demand MPs stand up for trans rights. I'll send the emails to MPs tomorrow, so you have until 5pm GMT *today* to sign + share. Thank you all 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🏳️‍⚧️ Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

McSweeney: 'let's go for those 10%'

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Coverage of papal election sums up today's BBC ... talked over the announcement (because it was in Latin) and *didn't catch the name*

Morgan McTrumpface will be furious at this

Vatican stops the trade deal leading the news

Probably they elected Pizzaballa, intending to order a takeaway

Habemus papam

Rolls Royce says: 'when's Straight Pride, then?'

Bringing up the rear in the latest issue of @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. You can read 'AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union' here: academic.oup.com/past/article...

Reform are preposterously beatable. This flag policy should be called what it is - a Ukraine flag ban - and be an intense focus of attack from other parties www.theguardian.com/politics/202...