It's happening all over the post-92 bit of the sector. Moves are afoot in places not making headlines yet and the cover excuse is the TPS pension. The question now is will organised labour react and will this get the urgency it demands from academics in USS?

I started donating to @wikipedia.org when I looked up the personnel of the Travelling Wilburys for the hundredth time. It was a good decision. Maybe you should consider donating too.

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

New from me and Ben Wellings, an adventure into the 20th century significance of Magna Carta in Australia (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Basta. Big up to Dolores Huerta.

Just heard @dannybate.bsky.social on NPR! How cool! Have a listen and read the book! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5732...

Lacks, read this!

These well-dressed rats will be going into our galleries from 28 March as we reimagine and update our very popular Rat Trail: a challenge for visitors to find rats hidden throughout our displays. Each rat represents a different experience of rural childhood. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rat...

One of the great things we have at OU Classical Studies is scholarships for MA students who are either teachers working in state schools or UK Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic students. You can find out more and apply here: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

This week our second project gets underway, the first modern survey of the major baronial border fortress of Cockermouth. Team lead Tom Addyman explains what they aim to do over the coming weeks to learn more about this little understood major baronial castle. castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2026/03...

'claude can now research like a phd student!' bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning

Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers - FREE online training 18 March 2-3pm. Explore some of the pitfalls, opportunities and challenges you can expect to face as you put together your funding application. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

This is going to be a fun event. I’ll be talking about fictional book trade crime as well as theft, fraud, and conspiracy against and by London’s rare book sellers. 👇 @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...

In June the wonderful Michelle Brown is teaching her summer school course on Medieval Women @ #LRBS @ies-sas.bsky.social. Book now 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

CfP 'Contested Prophecies, Uncertain Futures - Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Views of the Future in Late Antiquity' @ Late Antique Encounters Conference, Ghent, 3-5 February, 2027 Please send in your abstracts (<300 words) and a brief academic CV to mateusz.kusio[at]kuleuven.be by 10 May, 2026. +

It's #InternationalWomensDay! Today is a day to commemorate and to celebrate women’s achievements but also to think about what more still can be done. Women remain underrepresented across school History curricula leading to enduring and potentially harmful misinterpretations of the past. #IWD2026

No one: Orderic Vitalis: So Mabel Talvas

No one: Orderic Vitalis: So Mabel Talvas

Oh my sweet baby jesus, just reading Dudo makes me want to tell every single man in Normandy and Francia in the early 940s just to get in the sea

Every now and again I really struggle in spelling Gloucester, which is a real pain when I'm actually writing about Robert of Gloucester.

blue steel!

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Him: what are you thinking about? Me: Paul Bettany in A Knight's Tale

Him: what are you thinking about? Me: Paul Bettany in A Knight's Tale

Nominations for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History are now open ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... (closing date 31 May). You can submit your own work or recommend a book or article by someone else that you’ve loved reading.

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

Bursaries for London Rare Book School courses including this one are available thanks to @bibsoc.bsky.social! 📖

Saw Wuthering Heights last night. I don't mind accuracy or anachronisms in adaptations particularly if they're done well (see: A Knight's Tale), but apparently I draw the line at geography. No, there are not harsh, jagged lines of basalt or obsidian jutting out of the Yorkshire Moors.

One of the starting points for this year’s summer school course in book collecting will be the Durning-Lawrence collection @senatehouselib.bsky.social. Constructed to try to prove that the works of Shakespeare were written by Francis Bacon… #BookSky #BookHistory 1/2

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Jobs! Senate House Library is embarking on an ambitious project to transform access to one of the UK’s largest and richest collections of queer literature —the remarkable Haud Nominandum Collection, donated by activist, bookseller and co-founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop, Jonathan Cutbill.

I feel so miserable about this. Nearly broke myself working 16, 18 hour days during the pandemic. We did everything we possibly could, then doubled it, tripled it. HE is still struggling to get back off the floor, years later. Now another financial punch in the face. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've just finished watching the ANTM documentary on Netflix and it strikes me that there, as in the study of history: 'that was how it was at the time' contextualises, but doesn't excuse.

I've just finished watching the ANTM documentary on Netflix and it strikes me that there, as in the study of history: 'that was how it was at the time' contextualises, but doesn't excuse.

I just loudly cheered for myself in the tiny photocopy room all on my own for putting the page the wrong side down and printing off a dozen A3 blank pages.

Have any of your colleagues recently been made redundant by a UK university? Have you? Do you fear losing your job? What has been the effect of redundancies on departmental morale? We are keen to hear your views

Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies? This Call for Papers is for you! Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference! Link in the reply.

Of all the stars in the sky, @laurajcleaver.bsky.social ❤️

don't let anyone tell you what is or isn't a great bowl

It’s live! Many thanks to Dr Duncan Wright of @newcastleuni.bsky.social for taking part in this pod. What came before castles? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Him: what are you thinking about? Me: the Mongolian Winter Olympics uniform

Had such fun today up in that London doing some filming for a thing, pink glasses and big hair and all. The bigger the hair, the closer to the top of the motte, as my people definitely don't say.

Had such fun today up in that London doing some filming for a thing, pink glasses and big hair and all. The bigger the hair, the closer to the top of the motte, as my people definitely don't say.

I like how sometimes my phone autocorrects 'mostly' to 'moatly'