if you wrote a book on labor history published in 2025, I encourage you to apply for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The term “labor history” is defined broadly to include the history of workers, institutions, and workplaces & working-class life www.ilr.cornell.edu/taft-award

Starting 9 October, we have a series of free CRMEP public lectures at Westminster: www.tickettailor.com/events/radic...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

Really excited for this (free!) event at MayDay Rooms on 26 June about The Aesthetics of Resistance

As course leader for said Westminster MA I endorse this message :) A lovely afternoon talking about our modules and the great work our students produce

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

I’ve written a bit about interwar British antifascism and anti-imperialism (and their limits) for this. Available via this VE Day subscription offer…

We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.

Happy Birthday, Yuri Gagarin, 12 years old today!

Just watched The Women of Llanrumney at Stratford East. Amazing work on Wales’s relationship with slavery, really bowled over by it. www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...

✨ THE RAYMOND WILLIAMS FOUNDATION TARGETED GRANTS SCHEME 2025 The RWF invites applications for up to eight grants of max £1,500 to support self-organised adult learning activities to help realise social justice aims. Deadline: 29 June 2025. Full info: www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.uk/grants

I am very excited to announce a new fully funded PhD opportunity with Imperial War Museums: "'Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War" Thank you for sharing! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

Incredibly bleak stuff

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated. truthout.org/articles/kee... Spread the word! The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔

🎓 Three fully-funded PhD positions for a project on "Visual Cultures of Fascism" - as timely as it can be in this age of anxiety. @liverpooluni.bsky.social #FascismStudies #Fascism #AcademicSky www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Check out our Humanities Research Seminars programme. Very exciting opportunities to learn about a diverse range of topics, from the history of women's employment to the formlessness of the novel! All welcome (external guests please book here: https://buff.ly/4huoXPi )

The latest issue of Twentieth Century Communism journal has been published by @lawrencewishart.bsky.social. It is a special issue on poetry and communism, edited by Ben Harker. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...

Wrote something for this book forum on Auritro Majumder’s excellent *Insurgent Imaginations*, just published: kairostext.in/index.php/ka...

The Magi

CfP: I've received funding for a workshop on Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories, which will take place in Malmö, Sweden, 11-12 June 2025. We're particularly keen to explore activism and solidarity as a set of ‘social and affective relations'. CfP attached!

New book series, "Towards a Global Understanding of Cultural Work," seeks manuscripts. I'm on the advisory board. Please share!

*Please share widely!* Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Here’s an interesting CDA studentship on the Wapping Post, set up by striking workers in the 86-7 dispute, offered by Brunel & the MML

Worth noting this can be a 1+3yr studentship for a student who doesn’t already have a master’s. Very rare at the moment and something other funders should be doing.

Stuart Hall PhD scholarship at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Hello, new people

Just saw an orphaned walrus calf described as ‘the thinking man’s Moo Deng’

This is absolutely extraordinary (& an incredible work of translation by Simon Leser)

I’m told it’s time to stop reading

I am delighted to share this fully funded PhD on 'The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s-present'. An AHRC CDP with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall, and @ MuseumoftheHome Marina Maniadaki, Louis Platman. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Annual re-read of The Toast’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, funnier every year: the-toast.net/2015/06/03/s...

Out of office on (Obviously, like every year, I’ll be working through the break but at least I can log out of the cursed inbox)

Call for papers for a workshop and special issue of Twentieth Century Communism on 'The Global 1956'.

@TECHNEDTP CDA funding: "Photography by Train: New Leisure Experiences of Heritage in Britain, 1880s–1930s" @UniWestminster in collaboration with @MediaMuseum and @RailwayMuseum Applications deadline: 05 January 2024. Please share widely! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Everyone seems to be celebrating promotions and grants and books, but I’m celebrating 10 years since I adopted my beautiful Yuri. Here he is on the day I got him and today. Happy Yuriversary!

Very flattering review of the Bloomsbury volume on 1930s fiction edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social @thehubble101.bsky.social and myself: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Some of our household have been on the catnip this evening

‘Any work of art depicting cowboys’

Goats on concrete obelisks at the city farm. I love goats.

This pub has a very placid lady cat, owning her little chaise longue

Google Streetview but for the inside of my own university’s buildings

We’ve got our ballot papers and Yuri has blessed them with his special cat powers. Yes to a new mandate

Friends fear she’s been buying shit on Etsy again

Frozen tube treats for the cats on a hot evening here in east London

I think if I worked in schools I would have just spontaneously combusted by now www.theguardian.com/education/20...