Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…

I love you, my students, who write genuinely awkward, human essays. That’s the whole point. We try.

This debate seems very provincial and divorced from what current historians of fascism actually do. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Attended an amazing and outstanding talk by Dr Leslie James on her new book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Als ob es dazu keine Bücher aus der Historikerzunft gäbe: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

What has happened to the Nuova Rivista Storica? Why and how did this august Italian journal get seized by a for-profit publishing outlet in Nevada?

When I was an undergraduate student, I had to buy a terrible and expensive textbook that praised the superiority of the US constitution, especially the checks and balances 'security valve.'

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

Come to hear @danielhedinger.bsky.social discuss our München 38 (CH Beck) on 5 May at @topographie.de www.tip-berlin.de/event/muench...

The perfect novel for our times?

Where will the international coterie of ultra-conservative and fascist journalists, politicians, and charlatans previously funded by the Orbán regime turn for money now?

Would the Pope consider excommunicating those who dare lecture him on theological matters?

Shops/restaurants that force their customers to order online are typically the ones to be avoided.

Presumably, Iran sent top-level and experienced diplomats to negotiate with the American amateurs led by Mr Vance.

The US President openly threatens genocide. Shame on him and his backers.

This from Trump who has done more than anyone else to appease the wanted war criminal Putin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Happy Easter. May the months ahead bring peace.

We have been hearing for weeks that the war against Iran will be over within a matter of weeks.

Students: if you really think that generative AI can do things better than you - not just quicker, but better - then why would anyone hire you? It is such a huge gamble to take that these tools will be around in this form in 2, 3, or 4 years and that you will never be in a work situation where you

Apart from attending the book fair, a great discussion of the book and seeing friends, I came across this odd machine in Leipzig.

Tomorrow! www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

Tomorrow, @danielhedinger.bsky.social and I will discuss our book at the Leipzig Book Fair. www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!

www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... @danielhedinger.bsky.social

On 22 March, @danielhedinger.bsky.social and I will discuss our new book at the Leipzig Book Fair. www.leipziger-buchmesse.de/pco-sprecher...

Today is the official publication day of www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed... @danielhedinger.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social

As the @munsecconf.bsky.social discusses how liberal democracies should deal with expansionist despots what about some historical perspective from @danielhedinger.bsky.social and me? www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

From the dictionary of UK university bureaucratese: "ecosystem."

Worth remembering: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Writing letters is now for the well-off, as a standard letter overseas now requires a £3.40 stamp.

@danielhedinger.bsky.social First copy arrived!

@danielhedinger.bsky.social First copy arrived!

The overhyped new airport terminal at Manchester, perhaps Europe's worst airport, is already getting disgusting and filthy.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

Time to update the “contemporary resonances” section in my book* introduction yet again before it goes off to the press next week… * The book explores some of the earliest state-led approaches to defining, inspecting, and managing substandard housing, focused on mid-nineteenth-century France

War at home/domestic conquest as a precondition of war against another country. If that isn't fascism, then what is it?

Wer schreibt eine Geschichte des vorauseilenden Gehorsams?

Will Starmer now finally have the courage to go on the attack against Reform, after all a party whose leader remains an enthusiastic fan of the US president who insulted British troops?

Good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Alles Schlechte, was man den Grünen - oft zu Unrecht - nachsagt, verdichtete sich in der Mercosur-Abstimmung, vor allem ihr moralischer Narzissmus. Heute wird daraus strategische Blindheit. Wenn aus dem Desaster nicht gelernt wird, ist es aus mit den Grünen, was schlimm wäre.

Just published in @aeonmag: My essay on economic republicanism — a forgotten tradition that linked freedom to shared power in work, markets, and finance. If democracy feels unfinished, this history might help explain why. aeon.co/essays/the-w...

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

have so much affection for my american colleague-friends but many of them don't realise how big the world is out there and how different things look from other (geographical) perspectives. it is eye opening spending some time outside the usual anglo-euro-american circuit

Appeasing imperialist despots only increases their appetite.

The unbelievable recklessness and stupidity of Trump and his associates to threaten war needs to stop.