council offloading maintenance of municipal underpass (currently flooded and unuseable, forcing kids onto road) to school that is the main, but definitely not the only, user by calling it ‘flood preparedness’ is next level shittiness, esp in a city that claims It’s a bike haven

This was such an important and devastating read and a really interesting conversation; @evemworth.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social lots to think about for downward social mobility too

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week

Such a pleasure and privilege to sit and listen to a friend and colleague talking at length and fascinatingly about a subject they are so expert on. David's work is so original in its sources and approach, and so powerful in its commitment to thinking hard about social history

David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week

Looking forward to this later today

This calls to mind Lizabeth Cohen’s MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939, which demonstrates that voluntarism and charity were insufficient when things got tough and that working people turned to the state, which proved far more effective. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Repost for non-insomniacs. For avoidance of doubt I am 💯 pro-vax & I know that LCers and others can have immune system reactions

Looking forward to this - join us!

#LongCovid ppl - I got a Pfizer booster on Sat & feeling pretty ropey for the first time in a while - insomnia, aches, fatigue, feverish, tight chest ‘thrumming body’ - trusting its just a brief reaction but freaking out slightly, any anecdata on other ppls reactions?

Looking forward to this!

Great start to the term! Octavia Young talking about collaborative work & the weavers, dyers, and dye-makers who are obscured by the focus on Morris & Burne-Jones, opening questions around definitions of art/craft/vocation/amateur/professional /technical knowledge/book knowledge and design

Very much looking forward to the first seminar of term! join us.

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

Looking forward to this term's Long 19thC seminars on Arts, Crafts and the People at Exeter Cohen Quad: first up, Octavia Young on @exeter.ox.ac.uk 's own William Morris, Weds 15th Oct at 11.10

Very much looking forward to this term's seminars - can't wait to get started.

Please consider a donation; Sawsan is a friend living in Oxford, trying to help her family in this desperate situation: gofund.me/7e53805d2

We are at risk of losing a generation of researchers. It’s worse than the 1980s. I’d say: only do a PhD for its own sake. The work you do s as an ECR is itself important work. But this period of contractions is going to be incredibly hard for all career stages, & impossible for ECRs.

Some of these made me cry laughing

@drdaveobrien.bsky.social @evemworth.bsky.social

Don‘t think b sky saturation is at local Oxford intell level yet but just in case any of you are in cutteslowe and know - where and what is the party that’s been playing banging tunes since this afternoon? Has Water Eaton manor been taken over?

Apart from the BBC & Independent media coverage of our Rural Racsm report findings has been predictably abysmal, attempting to dismiss & discredit it rather than to engage with its serious, robust findings. You can read our reports here: le.ac.uk/hate-studies...

'underpinning all of this is an inescapable truth. Government policy, particularly on international students, risks destroying economic activity in the places that desperately benefit from university.'

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

My online short course Wars of the Roses runs 3x per year and is always popular. It's flexible and asynchronous so you can study when suits you: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...

Random thoughts from someone who accepts there could be positives to come from adoption and use of AI but hates the current situation. At minimum there should be:

@brepols.net and / or historian colleagues, I'm just getting a blank page when I ask to see selected items on BBIH as in attached. Any suggestions? And any way to get an export of selected results that looks the way it did in the old days - not requiring referencing software to read? (eg below)

Amis français, surtout ceux avec expérience de la vie autiste en France - si je demande des pâtes + sauce tomate toute bête dans un resto (qui sert des pâtes à la puttanesca) pour ma fille autiste qui a les goûts simples - est-ce que je serais comprise et bien reçue? Ou vaut mieux pas préciser?

Now I understand why my institution's efforts to translate this into some kind of code of practice produced so much (imo) dangerous word salad. Is there any chance of UUK or a powerful VC anywhere refusing to go along with this, or at least asking for a thoroughgoing review?

National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellowship programmes now accepting applications: naeducation.org/fellowships/ Highly recommended for anyone working on #HistEd

You know what post-BC menopausal women struggling with symptoms absolutely don’t need? Lectures about calories and sleep-hygiene

The Childers Professorship of Irish History University of Cambridge - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC329/t...

Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship 3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits www.lse.ac.uk/library/what... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social‬

Excited to share a new article by Dr Alice Billington on the pioneering research methods used by Alice Sanderson-Clow to study menstruation at Cheltenham Ladies' College 1912-32 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

Such a great project

Colleagues in Oxford - is Evision working for you? I've tried safari and chrome and tried to get results up for previous years just in case the issue is that this year's are not up yet, but I'm getting zero

I am so freaking tired of the enshittification of library catalogues - it wastes SO MUCH TIME.

Also this

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

If you need sthg to bolster you next time you are asked to do sthg you know you shld and want to say no to, remembering this stat might help

This is the part that’s so worrying - false information will become even more embedded by these processes

Follow @histchildoxford.bsky.social today where I'll be attempting to live-sky our annual colloquium on Becoming Human? Childhood Development and the Human Sciences

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Oh, wow 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Having real issues with outlook hiding incoming unread messages - anyone got a solution?

We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃

This will be amazing