May 5 1934, via Ireland's Liberator newspaper. 'After many evasions & denials, Oswald Mosley's Fascists have at last frankly acknowledged that they are anti-Jew... Personalities behind the scenes of Sir Oswald Mosley's organisation have insisted on the gradual adoption of anti-Jew policy.' [1/n]

I'm heading to London for @britishacademy.bsky.social The Age of Self? LATE event. Come for an exploratory evening of talks, performances & workshops that examine the complex notion of self. Stay for me talking about the self-improvers, the Pelman Age, & how we became restless a century or so ago.

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

I'm heading to London for @britishacademy.bsky.social The Age of Self? LATE event. Come for an exploratory evening of talks, performances & workshops that examine the complex notion of self. Stay for me talking about the self-improvers, the Pelman Age, & how we became restless a century or so ago.

Men from the villages and townships of North #Uist who had emigrated to Canada. During #WWI they volunteered to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force and return to Europe [published in the 'People's Journal' newspaper on this day in 1916]

Thanks Alan! Alan also kindly says “subscribe to The Quietus. It’s a jewel in our cultural landscape” and you can do so here thequietus.com/subscribers/

This looks like a fascinating article. I have a whole chapter on how hopes for - and visions of - peace sustained soldiers during the First World War. See below if the Clarke et al. piece sparks your interest in how perceptions of the future inflect the experience of conflict. bit.ly/3MAHZJY

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Successful man discovers women novelists exists

He so needs to get stuck into A Room of One's Own. And let's face it, Virginia Woolf would have - perhaps not hated, disdained? - him. Doesn't he, or earlier version, feature when she is looking up works on women in the BM Reading Room, all by men?

the absolute fucking crybabyness of these people when anything challenges their world view or makes them slightly uncomfortable. No wonder they want to replace all art with extruded product from the ingratiation machine.

Oh my god yes. If I see one more grifter or lackey crying about how it's so mean that all they did was steal our work, laugh about taking our jobs, and destroy our environment, and now we're not NIIICE to them and it's not FAAAAIIIIIR.

Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion? Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton 24/3/26, QMUL, London E1 Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594 @qmul.bsky.social

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

I’d like to see UBI introduced for speculative tech entrepreneurs, to cover the shortfall in income that happens when their businesses reveal that they cannot turn a profit while paying their suppliers or acting legally / morally.

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

On the one hand the terribleness of much of the Cabinet probably bolsters Starmer’s survival chances. On the other, there’s an argument for replacing him partly so the new leader can get shot of a lot of them too.

Sick of these fuckers

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more! www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...

Do folks have favorite examples storytelling in academic writing? I'm considering asking students to use their research to tell a story as an exercise and would love some models.

Third lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on the New Psychology and ideas of the self. (1/2)

"School Streets" have become a thing to watch. Even the loudest high-traffic neighbourhood trumpets will mumble "Except outside schools, of course", but this ignores how (1) kids don't live next to their schools and need to get to the School Street safely and (2) kids go to places that aren't school

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...

That tribune to working people, Matt Goodwin, refusing to do hustings unless he gets his own Green Room? Surely not!

He 'would be a nightmare' for the Labour Party.

C R W Nevinson, 'Night Arrival of Wounded' printed in The Gazette of the 3rd London General Hospital (Territorial Force), Wandsworth (1915). Wellcome Collection, London RAMC/866.

What a time to be tasked with revamping you department‘s public history module.

Absolute bunch of traitors hiding behind their supposed 'patriotism'. So depressing that in a right wing / demented social media dominated landscape this can't cut through.

Magnificently dead-pan statement of facts that Reform apparently don’t know (inc. none of the Bangors are in England).

What a time to be tasked with revamping you department‘s public history module.

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

“Does being in a landscape automatically imbue us with a greater understanding of it? … We all find our own way, and notice different things as we go.” @markhailwood.bsky.social manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i... 🗃️

Remind me: was this the company that stole my work? And the work of thousands of other writers?

Quite. @betterstreetswd.bsky.social #CleanAirNow

For half-term, next Tuesday I’m doing a fun kids’ event at @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London — I’ll be doing a funny talk on the history of Roman Britain, and my ace illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social will do a live draw-along tutorial Tix cheap! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/tot...

Tomorrow on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social at 3:20pm: “Something in City” (1950) where a city gent leads a double life as a bohemian artist. We featured it in ep 24 and art historian #DavidBoydHaycock talked about a real life Soho bohemian artist, #AugustusJohn sohobitespodcast.com/episode/24

Jeffrey Epstein of Epstein Island... Peter Mandelson of the Epstein Files... Wes Streeting of the Puberty Blocker ban... Tim Allen of "Sex Matters"... What lovely people!