You have to wonder where is the line for this government? What message does it send about UK government’s VAWG policies? These sexualised images are a threat to the safety of women and children everywhere. X should be prosecuted in the same way any other publisher (newspapers?) would be prosecuted

I’d rather help draw attention to human rights abuses in my small way than visit the US under this regime, thanks. Don’t comply in advance. Freedom of speech exists when we exercise it, and as the great Audre Lorde memorably said: your silence will not protect you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An important historical example for these darkening times. Sounds like a great exhibition!

Far too many Brits underestimating how many people in parliament would happily create a British ICE. Also astonishing that people have to be reminded that no one should ever be murdered by anyone.

Meanwhile, in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

How have History Workshop Journal articles been used to teach history over the past 50 years? From the French Revolution, to policing in early modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight the HWJ archive as a valuable resource within many different classrooms.

The lack of the words ‘illegal’ and ‘invasion’ in BBC Radio 4 news coverage of the crisis in Venezuela is highly alarming.

Includes a short reflection from me on how I used History Workshop articles in modules designed for the MA in Black British History. Many congratulations to @historyworkshop.org.uk on this milestone year. #HWJ100

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue. To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

So clever of US, UK and European universities, with ample encouragement from their governments, to have been closing down Area Studies, History, Languages and Politics & International Relations programmes, so clearly irrelevant to the world in the second half of the 21st century.

If anyone ever doubted the value of a history education…. *gestures at world geopolitics and US imperialism in Latin America in historian*

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

#BoycottAmerican until this human rights abusing regime is out of power. To my American friends, I hope you find community and strength in resistance.

Historians of religion & culture in 20th century Britain, please share in this joy with me… I just found a 1963 edition of Honest to God in a vintage shop in Crystal Palace for £1!

"Pressed on whether marketing an addictive AI chatbot to kids is ethical, Hardin shrugged: “I mean sure, but that’s not really our problem. That’s something parents or maybe lawmakers might want to look into.”

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

The British Library‘s mistake, like that of our Universities, was that it never branched out into car manufacturing. If it had, then maybe the government would care.

By donating to our GoFundMe, you are not only helping us fund our projects, but you are also us fund the development of the young Black British people who choose to volunteer their time into helping these projects come to fruition. Thank you! #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿 gofund.me/2d21c2b9a

I’m looking at old Conservative Party positions on immigration from the 1970s today, and it’s just incredible how much of this has been cut and paste into Labour policy c. 2024-5. Someone start a plagiarism case. Citations needed.

Racism, xenophobia and misogyny in full display in five sentences from the leader of the opposition.

'Nottingham Trent University – which reported a £2 million deficit – paid its departing vice-chancellor Edward Peck a bonus of £66,000 in his last year in the job....Peck...received a total pay package of £435,000 in 2024-25 – up from £407,000 the year before.'

London has fully entered Love Actually montage season.

Something is deeply wrong at the Guardian. From trivialising deportation to adopting the slogans of the far-right, this is profoundly grim.

'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2

Postcards from 1920s and 1930s Seven Dials 1 Before there was Monmouth Coffee, there was Jim and Emily Kitten’s café in Great White Lion Street. #London #SevenDials #CoventGarden #History #20s30s

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

This destruction at Essex isn’t going to result in an improved learning or working environment. It will ossify research, it will diminish student learning environments, it will be catastrophic for working conditions. Hard to see what the outcome will be aside from something not like a university.

Join us this Thursday for a book talk Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past! 📍 Hybrid: Room 349, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📆 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today! 👇🏾

Saying goodbye to the matriarch of the Elias family today, one of my role models. My great-auntie Gwen, a deeply intelligent, curious & adventurous woman, who was responsible for bringing our clan from Sri Lanka to England in the 1960s. She threw the best parties, knew everyone’s news. RIP Auntie.

Essential updates from @eicathomefinn.bsky.social on the latest #REF2029 news ⬇️

UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years. Average real wage stuck at 2008 level. Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

Started my new part-time role as an officer of @royalhistsoc.org today! I’ll be working with the RHS on events, academic engagement and helping deliver the new 2026-8 strategy advocating for the value of history. Still pursuing my career as a historian of race, faith & culture, writing half-time

Reached the end of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk fellowship, and it was such a generative and creative time. Words were put on pages, and it was brilliant to put research at the forefront of my mind. Glad I got one last early morning walk around Christ Church meadow in today.

7 minutes in: "But as a moral philosopher and theologian, you would surely agree that Not Being the Nazis shouldn't be the bar"

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.

Oh my word. Vanished has made it to the Smithsonian’s list of best books of 2025. My roar reaching further than I ever imagined in its first 180 days in the wide world. Such lovely news on the night of this glorious moon.

The time in Oxford has been so useful for putting my book project back in the forefront of my mind. I’m thinking in it like a language. Looking forward to sharing pieces when ready.

Brilliant talk and reflections from @tricksterprince.bsky.social about ‘Songs of Seven Dials’ at the double session of the Oxford Modern British History seminar and the Women’s, Gender and Queer History seminar. Even more excited to read this. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?

This thread details the appalling lack of understanding of HE among many people responsible for HE. Utterly shocking disregard for a sector that is as economically significant as it is, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

😮😮😮 Again: this dismantling and destabilising of UKHE is part of a plan tested first in Australia, then exported via consultants at KPMG & copied elsewhere calling for the ‘end of a golden age of higher education’ Whole thread worth reading, thank you @davehitchcock.bsky.social

Nothing I’ve witnessed in the shrinking and downsizing of higher education screams ‘efficiency.’ Quite the opposite in fact.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

I can’t say enough how fantastic the programme staff are at the Visiting Scholars Programme @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. If you don’t know about this wonderful programme, read more here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh... 🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.

Instead of plunging some of the country’s elite learning institutions into financial chaos and ruin, could the Treasury please consider taxing Starbucks more than £7m a year. (Same applies for all American mega-corporations operating in U.K.)

What a spectacular way to pour petrol on the flames of the UKHE financial crisis. If you want to change the economics of the sector then please do so, but this change alone without anything else (return of cap, direct funding for unis, increased Home student fees) will just speed up uni closures.

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