A reminder that I do freelance work. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

Thinking about Catherine Hall's lecture @modbritstud.bsky.social yesterday evening whilst gazing into the pond in my garden full of vibrancy and life & yes, in so many ways, that small plot of land is absolutely the way to reconnect & repair from the alienation engendered by capitalism. (And yet ..)

I do EDI training at work and the most common thing people say is "you can't say anything these days" or words to that effect, so I ask them "OK, what is it you used to be able to say?" It's amazing how many times I'm met with silence x

Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.

2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3

This chilling ruling suggests that people without the mental capacity to consent lack any concept of freedom and therefore cannot have their liberty removed. Welcome to the return of eugenics (if it ever went away). www.mencap.org.uk/press-releas...

Struggling to know what to read or do following the announcement of the UK's anti-trans segregation regime? I've created a basic set of information, resources, and actions - in the form of an auto-reply sent to every single person who emails me at work.

Urgent statement from Dr. Muneer Al-Bursh, Ministry of Health in #Gaza:

Great new report from Burcu Sevde Selvi @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk on why aggregate figures alone can't explain UK's creative industries, while exploring how AI, digital technologies, access and participation are impacting the growth of the sector. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/uks-cre...

@transsafety.network also very important! They've been doing deeper work on this topic, and it's really a shame Amnesty didn't actually speak with them because they would have had a more rigorous report.

This is an important report but not news to many of us who have been aware of the backlash since 2018. I'm curious to know when wider society/cis allies first became aware of the rise of transphobia. share.google/JkYIPAKyL5bM...

100% this. It's also deeply alienating for those of us who occupy multiply marginalised positions.

Dean of the Faculty at Radboud University has resigned, citing disagreement over strategies that have been determined by external consultants. www.voxweb.nl/en/dean-of-t...

What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? @tashwalker.bsky.social and @adamzmith.bsky.social discuss their award-winning podcast The Log Books with @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social 🎙️

The onus is on the service provider to exclude you. Don't comply in advance 💯💯

“Trans people will be left with a choice between researching toilet provision every time we go out… our worlds will get smaller, and so many trans people who enrich our communities will self-exclude, leaving everyone worse off.” Lawmakers must end the legal limbo undermining trans lives in the UK.

By @missyerem.bsky.social 2026. And here we are.

New on NOTCHES: Stephen Brogan examines the history of the “gender bender” in 1980s Britain through the career of the iconic DJ and nightlife figure Tasty Tim. Link to full article: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ur #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #GenderStudies #BritishHistory #1980s #PostPunk #NewRomantic

📣New Social History Society blog Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social on 'Losing Lifelong Learning' 👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

The 'stinging rebuke' is open access here. You don't need to be an historian to applaud it. #Skystorians 2/2

How loudly does everyone have to shout before those who are making these decisions back down? We can keep gathering voices. We WILL keep making noise and drawing attention #JoinUCU www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Out today! Congratulations to Richard Frohock! His book 'offers new insights into piracy literature by analyzing ways in which the pirate served as a contested figure of conversation in relation to imperialist violence, gender, race & topical philosophical matters'. www.routledge.com/Piracy-Mythm...

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Enjoying a quiet moment of interspecies intellectual exchange with Laali. Reading the excellent 'Race & the Scottish Enlightenment' by @brucealexb.bsky.social and @lindaaburnett.bsky.social.

'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2

So, I'm genuinely not one to denigrate generous gits to UK universities, including ones to 'those' 2 places. But this gift does (not least in light of recent election results) prompt some hard thinking about the geographies of inequality in UK HE, and where philanthropy might be best directed. 🧵 1/5

Here's the new version, with those numbers corrected, as well as CS current number.

At an absolute minimum British steel also needs chemists, physicists & architects. If the government lets HE collapse, then the bridges and buildings are next.

How about 'right-sizing' the number of managers who decided to invest in a building scheme which then had to be sold at a significant loss?

It’s time for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM staff to talk and stand together. We are actually all on the same ship. Stronger and better together.

This is just appalling. As an academic at risk of redundancy last year, I despair and send solidarity. As the mother of a 15 year old fascinated by music, languages history and English, I'm deeply saddened by what this - and news elsewhere - means for her future education.

Zines are self-published, community-made and rooted in queer culture. When so much of Trans+ history is not written by us, archives like these matter - because they preserve stories told by us, for us.

Management want to generate a 9% surplus to make up for their reckless purchase of Castle Meadow campus. So, they're slashing their core producers of revenue and profit. Make it make sense.

Please retweet.

And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

We have an excellent teacher who did his undergrad and MA at Nottingham. A colleague at my old school did UG and PGCE at Nottingham. Where will teachers come from if uni departments keep shrinking? History is important but you wouldn’t know from the way unis treat us! #historyteacher

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Looks like Nottingham are trying to run a university without staff. Or rather, staff that aren't senior management. This is so brutal even by their already dismal standards. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

"Join the relevant trade union. Union membership won’t save your job, but it can ensure that you’re treated fairly and that university policies are followed. I’ve seen two-tier treatment before, and if you have union or equivalent representation, management should behave themselves."

Universities fuel local economies, so it's not just students and redundant staff at risk, it's restaurants & bars, cultural institutions, cleaners, builders, plumbers, fitness instructors, massage therapists, landlords, we are all part of an ecosystem.

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

We're very pleased to announce that the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) on Weds 1 July bit.ly/4eF0DMp. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is now open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

Tfw the VC announces that 44% of the Faculty of Arts will likely be made redundant (subject, of course, to consultation with the unions). @uonucu.bsky.social

#milesformermaids update: did my first five miles with the family and dog today, around Clumber Park. 20 miles to go! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...