A reminder that for all those preppers, survivalists and 'natural' healing fans that civilization is the ultimate survival plan. It's the one created by the people who grew up actually surviving all the shit we worry so little about now. It was their ambition to live like us.

Confirmation that Erasmus+ association halts the Turing Scheme. "From 2027 UK providers will be able to seek funding for international placements through Erasmus+...In light of this decision the Turing Scheme will not be operating in the 2027-28 academic year." Source: www.gov.uk/guidance/tur...

🚀 New publication! Super happy that my study on local responses to the #FarRight is now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social! 😍 Focusing on mayors in Germany, I show why their role perceptions are crucial for maintaining the #Brandmauer (cordon sanitaire). 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474... #OpenAccess

📢 New Article! How did women shape liberation struggles beyond activism and military roles? Ntombela examines the intellectual work of ANC and PAC women in exile, showing how organising, writing & political debate helped redefine ideas of women’s emancipation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is really good. Read it.

Sydney’s Double Bay doesn’t have a specific Indigenous name, but sits in an area called Wallara/Willarra, which is the Dharug word for Woollahra. I’ve taken an expansive view of the bay on a beautiful winters dawn.

Hmmm. Storytelling, communication and empathy. Which disciplines might enhance those skills, one wonders....

New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A colleague at another university had a work experience students shadowing him and it involved lots of meetings. His quip that he had also set her a research task so she also 'knows what it's like to be a historian on annual leave' has stayed in my head rent free all week.

Some snark from 1542: asked her age by the inquisitor, Ana de Leão responded that "she did not know because she did not see herself being born" (nam sabia porque nam se vyu nacer) but admitted she was probably 19, "more or less."

If someone asks me if I've 'finished for the summer' one more time, I suspect I will turn into a banshee.

New subheading for the CV:

Born today: Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree and a tireless advocate for public health and land rights for the Omaha, was born 17 June 1865. Read more about her at infinite-women.com/women/susan-la-flesche-picotte

This is a great thread, beautifully & humanly constructed! I would say that academic men like the 1 here should resign as they have functionally already resigned to AI Sadly, I fear universities would not then hire one of the many many fully qualified professionals available to do the work

I'm working on new histories of protest across the 18th to the 20th centuries. My new theme and angle on this is "pedantic protest." The more petty and protracted the better. Protests led by the "I think you'll find" brigade. An army of Colin Robinsons and Alan Partridges...

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

UK HE markers, how long are you given to mark & provide feedback on undergraduate work, from submission closing to returning work? 20 working days for us; 15 elsewhere, which is tough, especially where you're expected to mark late work by the same deadline. Asking as an external examiner, thanks

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Goodnight from Danny Draper, wondering if summoning Seraphim is the most blasphemous form of magic given he’s trumping God’s command. Goodnight from Claire Whittle, pulling on her eel-skin gloves before heading out to the Doom Pond at Chidgrove. Goodnight from Hookland.

19th century Turkish miniature, musician horse.

Over the next two weeks, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today: 'Domestic labor and white Creole womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938', by Liz Egan, published in 'Journal of British Studies' #Skystorians 1/2

I think that if you're from England — including Hot England (Australia) and Gun England (America) — you should generally take a moment before posting your little joke about Ireland just to check if it's actually funny.

I think this is especially true of history. For some reason, everyone in other professions believes that there is no method, theory, or philosophy to history. Thinking of doctors writing ‘histories’ of epilepsy without ever setting foot in an archive

Our final paper today is Jack Cox: Imperial Nostalgia and the Criminal Justice System: An Exploration of how Radical Politics Echoes Past Penal Policy.

Now we have The Turner Diaries and Serpent’s Walk: nostalgia, time, and radicalisation in neo-Nazi future histories @clivehenry.bsky.social - discussing two far-right future histories

Now William Hatfield: “Keep Troth!”: Viking Youth and the utilisation of radical nostalgia within fascist youth groups - discussing publications like "Nordic Twilight" which sold a nostalgic vision of a folk nationalism.

Finally we have our PhD showcase of lightning talks. First, 9. Luke Adams:“Our Green and pleasant land bulldozed” (BNP Leaflet) - The British Extreme Right and nostalgia for landscape, nature and countryside. Discussing nostalgia driven by heritage and its role in the far right.

Now on a related theme we have @narson.bsky.social : Nostalgia for pre-Modern White America: The Fiction of Tito Perdue. Perdue is a novelist in the picaresque tradition, and he is also a proud member of a neo-Confederate movement.

A brief break and now session 3, starting with Moses A Hunsaker: Necessary Self-Deception: Historical Comparison in the Rhetoric of January 6th. "Today is 1776" - why for Jan 6 insurrectionists was the American Revolution so propulsive in nostalgic imagining?

Some excellent common threads in this panel around living in transformative eras, attempts to build community in times of feeling disenfranchised and disconnected...

Aileen thought about enduring role of the Paris commune in the leftist nostalgic imaginary. Final paper in this session is Mark Hampton: The Uses of the Past in the Post-War British Fascist Press: History and Political Mission in The European and Combat.

Great thoughts there about triumphalist interpretations of Portugese history! Now for Aileen Lichtenstein: Nostalgia in radical German exile politics of the nineteenth century. Today she's especially considering German anarchists of the period.

Had a fantastic discussion after session 1 and a good lunch. Now our second session! 1. Pedro Martins: “Nostalgia for the Middle Ages”? Medievalism and Anti-Modern Views during the Portuguese Military Dictatorship and the Early Years of the Estado Novo (1926–1940)

For anyone contemplating a history research degree, or finishing one and pondering what to do next, Becoming a Historian by Penelope Corfield and @timhitchcock.bsky.social, published by @ihr.bsky.social in 2022, is an invaluable guide. I wish I’d kept Hugh Trevor-Roper’s short guide for comparison.

Now we have David Anderson: Memory of an Enslaved Christmas: Radical Black Nostalgia after Emancipation. In white slaver imagination, there was a softening of the memory of slavery by use of the plantation Christmas. Black writers, however, demonstrate Christmas was used to reassert racial control.

Our first paper was Paula Read: The Stale Nostalgia of the New 'Heritage Americans'. Paula discussed the pernicious nature of white Americans claiming a heritage dating back to the Mayflower era - what that heritage occludes, & what it makes people feel entitled to in today's polity.

Today I am hosting Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present @uninorthampton.bsky.social, sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social! Currently in session 1, North American Nostalgias. Follow this thread to read about the event. 🗃️#politicalnostalgias

Not all STEM guys, ofc. But anybody who’s ever worked in, say, education, humanities, health care, etc can tell you that they’ve met their share of STEM guys who are under the impression that they could just effortlessly pivot to your field if they wanted to do so

Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing

👤 Who can apply? Candidates should hold a PhD (or equivalent professional experience) in a relevant field and demonstrate experience in research, teaching, curating, and/or public engagement. 🔗 Learn more: arthist.net/archive/52445 (4/7)

Fellows will have the opportunity to: • Conduct innovative interdisciplinary research • Contribute to curatorial projects • Teach on the MA programme co-convened with King’s College London • Develop public engagement initiatives (3/7)

📍 London, UK 📅 Sept 2026 – Sept 2028 💰 £38,133 per year ⏰ Application deadline: 30 June 2026 (2/7)

🎨📚 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Art & Religion | London, UK The National Gallery, London is recruiting two Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellows in Art and Religion for a 22-month full-time postdoctoral fellowship based in its newly established Research Department. (1/7)

(in fact it looks like the policy, if enacted, would actively ruin the study design, lol)

Reminder that the big, trumpeted, wellcome trust-funded trial intended to be the FIRST EVIDENCE of a link between teen mental health and social media has been running for, uh, 3 months and doesn't finish unitil next summer. Evidence based policy, innit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social on 'Archive/s, Methodologies, and Silenced Subjects in the Past, Present, and Future of Global Histories' #Roundtable #Archives #History #Global #World 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Evidence from Australia six months after implementing its "total ban" on young people accessing social media indicated that SEVENTY PERCENT of young people were evading it. SEVENTY PERCENT. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.