Enjoy the subtitles on the TV I'm watching couldn't quite pick up "we got gubbed" from the SNP lad.

The robots have colonised my local park over the past month and the discourse has been incredible. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/why...

The trouble of reducing international partnerships to just the fancy photo-op and PR campaign about internationalisation, @qmul.bsky.social, is that you have no interest in listening to what happens after with the people on those scholarships, or dismiss those ringing alarm bells as trouble-makers.

Sheffield Hallam UCU State of the University Report 2026. Previous cuts have reduced staffing to the lowest levels in the sector. Further proposed cuts exacerbate a death spiral of declining education and research quality, and ever declining income. See: ucuhallam.org/e6bx

At a seminar on the history of environmental activism hosted by the Mayday Rooms, which is not an archive I've done anything with (yet), but excitingly I've now discovered they have a collection on the GLC in the '80s :o maydayrooms.org/archive_item...

The biggest single improvement my partner has brought to my life is teaching me how to drink tea through a Tim Tam. The exhilaration, the joy, the melt.

Why’s an American pressure group that helped overturn Roe v Wade suddenly taken an interest in your local park? Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people, and we must hold back the tide. Get behind @transsolidarity.bsky.social’s campaign: https://protectparkrun.uk/

I love this in its own right, but also because it reminds me of when I started a non-serious campaign against time as an undergrad because I had an essay due too soon, and then spent the years after journeying through a crip[/]time awakening.

Voting by post just isn't as good is it

Next month, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Matt Downie (CEO, Crisis), Adam Page (Lincoln) Matt & Jess Turtle (@ourmoh.bsky.social), Peter Wood (Birkbeck), in convo on histories of homelessness. @rshc.bsky.social. May 22nd, 2pm, all welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homelessne...

"Reigns’ curiosity led him to found The Gay Rub, a collaborative archive of about 500 rubbings taken from LGBT historical markers, plaques, monuments and gravestones around the world." www.forbes.com/sites/rdanie...

Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people. The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws. Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants. www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...

Prime minister Keir Starmer attended the inaugural meeting of the Civil Society Council at Number 10 this week, in which a pledge was made to “unlock” procurement opportunities for the sector

Spending the day in a Quaker community centre with a bunch of radical community groups and an old campaigning pal and it is feeding my absolute soul <3

This is exactly what we've got in store for us at Hallam. We're not the first, and we won't be the last. @ucuhallam.bsky.social

Exciting books you find in the university library but don't have time to read (an ongoing problem). Love a timeline.

In 1976-78, the Grunwick dispute became a UK labour movement cause célèbre Dubbed the 'strikers in saris', the largely female and South Asian workforce fought for union recognition Recordings with key participants (in 2007) are available at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... #Archive30 #SoundAndVision

What a review.

[OPEN-ACCESS] Sean Lauer, Karen Lok Yi Wong & Miu Chung Yan write in Vol. 60, Issue 2 of the CDJ on situational dynamics and relationship-forming in community development organisations through a scoping review of the literature #CDJ #CommunityDevelopment buff.ly/vMjAXem

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Today in the Scottish public history column: Recording the voices of the last generation of lighthouse keepers and their families with Dr Erin Farley and the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust’s oral history project. www.thenational.scot/culture/2603...

#MapOnATuesday today is the Birmingham Electric Supply Company Limited map of 1889 showing the areas of Birmingham to be lighted under an Act of Parliament - August 12, 1889. Ref - MAP/304007 #LibraryofBham

In other train news, today I discovered my new freelance client has a model railway in their back garden and so they might have to become my freelance best friend...

I go on about how terrible the Cross Country service consistently is for overcrowding, but now one of my vestibule-mates has whipped out their own folding chair and that's just genius.

This is, I would argue a challenging room for a traditional academic presentation. Great fun though.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has today launched a major rebrand, including a change of name, as it applies to register as a charity.

Amrita Sen and co-authors write in Vol. 60, Iss. 4 of the CDJ on mangrove regeneration programmes in the Indian Sundarbans, and how combined institutional/community approaches and knowledge exchange can enhance outcomes, as well as empower communities buff.ly/U1F4qym #CDJ #Sundarbans

I'm sorry - Bernard WHAT?!

📢Join the National Housing Demonstration 📢 📅THIS Saturday 18th April, 1pm 📍Soho Square Gardens, Central London Together we can demand affordable, accessible homes for ALL. We'll be there alongside organisations across the movement. Join us! www.housingdemo.org

Prioritising density in our planned neighbourhood.

We've signed this Open Letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions as part of the Carers Poverty Coalition. On Sunday Carers Allowance will be 50. It's time Carers Allowance and carers benefits were fully reviewed.

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

The problem is though, I don't know how to make conferences and being Mad compatible. Fortunately, by chance, this one has fallen in The Good Week, but even so I've already started the obsessive thought train re all the bad things I said and did.

Gemma Quartarella, Romana Morda & Laurie A Chapin explore the perspectives of female adolescents in a youth leadership programme in Australia, and the importance of "finding your voice" and "not holding back" for becoming agents of social change #CDJ #YouthEmpowerment buff.ly/XZf25B7

I can't convince anyone to care. But I can try getting this in front of more eyes, and convince you to give recurringly to ANY family, then take bold, new action for their lives. Help six families + a camp of fifteen more. Click "weekly" if you can: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Free Epistemic Injustice workshop next week for social researchers interested in or already using it as a conceptual framework and keen to explore it more and learn about alternatives. Tues 14 April, 7pm London time via Zoom. See you there? #QualitativeResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #AcademicSky

Editor's Choice in our April '25 issue, Sutiyo Sutiyo writes in our latest issue on the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, an indigenous group in Indonesia, and the innovation possible in decentralising conflict resolution processes to a local level for positive-sum games in land development #CDJ #EditorsChoice

Are you a @socialhistsoc.bsky.social PGR member? Do you want to share your work? Or an idea that you’re working through? And want some feedback from a friendly bunch? Then please come join myself and @aayushigupta.bsky.social for our new work in progress sessions! First one is 17th April at 4pm!

A good morning of sociologists inventing the concept and study of History today (which I say with love, I'm no gate keeper, just enjoy the range of theories used to avoid saying they're doing history).

OK, as someone who swore off conferences after some truly harmful ones, BSA has been genuinely heartwarming so far. BUT - it's the first time I've seen the whole "Professor with their acolytes/servants" thing in real life. And so far the Profs in question are all women. Sigh.

Keynote speaker

Some v beautiful posters at BSA. Very much approve of the cutting and sticking approach.

Getting mixed signals from Dr Penta about this conference paper - there's a lot of purring, but also a lot of trying to scratch the words off the page.

. @jrct.bsky.social has appointed Keon West as its head of reparations to lead a programme that will address the legacy of its endowment

Looking for writings on histories of radical gardening, however you might define that. Bonus points for queerness. Already got Derek Jarman in my mood board. Please send me your recommendations and rabbit holes!

#Archive30 starts today! Use the hashtag throughout April to find posts of varying levels of tenuousness on the themes of the day For #YourArchive we're introducing ourselves with the MRC in 58 documents (should have been 50 but we got overexcited) warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Joyful lunchtime field trip for the Community Development Journal to Trans Pride Scotland's standing protest at the Scottish Parliament. DID YOU KNOW though trans women have been banned from using the women's toilets inside the Scottish Parliament. 🤮

Why will no one believe that I *already* have a doctorate (c.f. my employer who's been asking me to "prove it")