THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

We are delighted to announce with oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social a new Doctoral Studentship in Early Modern European History, named in honour of the late Prof Hamish Scott FBA FRSE, a Senior Research Fellow in History at Jesus from 2017 until his death in 2022. Read more https://ow.ly/ZFKh50XWMo8

Christmas came early. A wonderful way to round off sabbatical leave. Hopefully in print in 2027...

Eclectic book haul after a term of research in Madrid aka losing hours in secondhand bookshops

Fancy joining us in Oxford? The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'. Applications close at noon on 17th Dec. For details, see: www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta... Image: Valentin_21, Pexels

We're looking for a new modern European colleague @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Preference for 1900-45. Details 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN091/t...

Great exhibition on the "Battle of Sagunt" over the closure of the steelworks

Homemade cot made from fruit boxes, c1960. Museu Valencia d'Etnología

This is a hell of a thing to read.

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oxford needs a Rambla

Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History! Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025 Find out all the details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

Always a joy in the bleakness of January. Chuffed they've taken so well after being split and transplanted.

Looks great 👇👇

Grim, grim news. And a School of "Global Humanities" at the same time as slashing languages

CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025 helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

As a million people have already said on here, hmmm i wonder if it’s ethical to use this infinite plagiarism machine that uses more electricity than several major economies to get the wrong answer to the question how many countries are in NATO

Another one for the list of must-reads

👇📢 Applications now invited for the Ramón Areces Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College Oxford for 2025-6. Amazing international environment, the resources of the Bodleian etc... www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...

Solidarity with colleagues out defending publicly-funded higher education in Madrid

Our starter pack now has a sequel! As ever, comment to be added to it! go.bsky.app/GX3v293

A rather impressive snowman in second quad given the desultory amount of snow

Hello 👋 new followers! For those who don't know me: I wrote a book on radicalism in 1930s Spain and now mainly write about sound and politics across the C20, from pot-banging and charivari to loudspeakers and shouting.

The restored frontón Beti Jai, Madrid

First time that the Tories haven't won a general election since I gained the right to vote. I'm nearly 37.

7/ "The death of ‘traditional’ charivari and the invention of pot-banging in Spain, C.1960–2020" #OpenAccess by Matthew Kerry (Jesus College, University ofOxford) doi.org/10.1093/past...

I reflected on pots and pans as objects that are radical in their domesticity and mundanity for @historywo.bsky.social www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-sol...

As the Other Place staggers towards collapse, I thought it was about time to take the plunge