Ross Balzaretti
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Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte
about 11 hours ago
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴
about 14 hours ago
The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.
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These are really useful questions for workers fighting useless university senior management across the sector.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴
about 12 hours ago
The last person I want to hear from on employment rights is the woman overseeing the destruction of one of the UK’s most valuable sectors.
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Thingus
10 days ago
Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!
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Adrian Bowyer
about 13 hours ago
I'm a member of the Green Party, and I've just donated. If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well. Either way, please repost.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Lucy Jones
about 16 hours ago
It's on Linguist List so I guess it's official....Language & LGBTQ+ Youth is out now!! 🎉 📚
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Daniel Grey
3 days ago
Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of
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, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟
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A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the late twentieth century, Geraldine L. Wilson emerged as one of the leading voices in early Black childhood education, grounding her pedagogy in Black history and culture. This article traces th...
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70021
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University and College Union (UCU)
3 days ago
A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts. Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled. We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
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Prof Chris Jackson
3 days ago
Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…
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University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning
MPs called for the University of Nottingham to immediately pause the suspension of certain courses
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/university-nottingham-pressing-ahead-closures-10668422#ICID=Android_NottinghamPostNewApp_AppShare
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Onni Gust
3 days ago
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies. Who is the university? We are!!
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Agenda des médiévistes
4 days ago
Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
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Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project…
https://rmblf.be/2025/11/25/publication-aristocratic-networks-elites-and-social-dynamics-in-italy-in-the-age-of-lothar-i-ed-giuseppe-albertoni-manuel-fauliri-leonardo-sernagiotto/
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Nadia Whittome MP
4 days ago
Nottinghamshire MPs have written to
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, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
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Rally against course closures at University of Nottingham this afternoon. Round 2 tomorrow @ 10am
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University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
Staff, students and high-profile musicians have decried the proposals
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/university-nottingham-warned-course-closures-10663124#ICID=Android_NottinghamPostNewApp_AppShare
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Dr Hannah Murray
17 days ago
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts. Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
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Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
https://www.change.org/p/save-american-studies-teaching-at-the-university-of-nottingham
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Who could possibly have forseen this?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Palestine Action ban could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, Home Office official says
Exclusive: Member of homeland security group says anti-terrorism Prevent scheme risks being overwhelmed by Palestine advocates
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/23/palestine-action-ban-home-office-prevent-scheme?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Onni Gust
6 days ago
Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop
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Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
7 days ago
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
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savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
https://www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk/
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Faith Elisabeth Lilley
10 days ago
It's worth noting that this is NOT a protest about the genocide in Palestine. This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.
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I'll just leave this here without comment... Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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Activists led away as police swarm Palestine Action protest
The demonstration is organised by activist group Defend Our Juries near Central Library
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-city-centre-live-updates-10651608#ICID=Android_NottinghamPostNewApp_AppShare
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Stop Funding Hate
11 days ago
A GB News presenter tells Trump that she "loved" his UN speech because he was "relating… to so many people watching at home and particularly in Great Britain, who were agreeing". Meanwhile a recent YouGov / Eurotrack poll found that *77%* of Brits hold an unfavourable view of Donald Trump...
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Nadia Whittome MP
11 days ago
So the solution is… to join in? I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.
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Fraser MacDonald
11 days ago
Covid prevents me from being on the picket line but solidarity to everyone there. An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff. Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
12 days ago
Two student organised events happening this week. We will be doing our best to amplify actions by student groups, so if you hear of anything pass the word along!
#StopTheCuts
#SaveHE
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Prof. Ben Pohl
12 days ago
The UK does not have an asylum problem. What it does have is a far-right problem. The govt is inventing the former to appease and deflect from the latter.
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Margot Finn
15 days ago
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
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Latest in defence of Music department at University of Nottingham can be found here
protectuonmusic.com
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Home - Protect UoN Music
Protect the Department of Music of the University of Nottingham This website is dedicated to the preservation of the University of Nottingham's Department of
https://protectuonmusic.com/
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David Osborne
17 days ago
In Birmingham for tonight’s concert of Schumann & Stravinsky by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle and picked up this flyer about UoN’s dreadful Music Dept plans. Spread the word.
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Nottingham Green Party
17 days ago
Yesterday was a monumental day for Nottingham and the Green Party. Through the efforts of our Green Councillor Shuguftah Quddoos and Party Activist Animah , as well as countless others, a motion to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel has been passed uncontested.
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Matthew Hodson
17 days ago
Gay dating apps removed in China, reflecting a social shift that has also seen LGBTQ organisations closed and Shanghai Pride suspended since 2020.
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China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores
Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-removes-gay-dating-apps-blued-finka-apple-android-lgbt-rights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Best for Britain
18 days ago
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Nick Mayhew
18 days ago
Horrified by the proposed closure of Modern Languages
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This would end language higher education in the East Midlands & decimate the uni’s research profile. Shortsighted and reckless.
#University_of_Little_England
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This is a good rebuttal to ludicrous attacks from the hardly impartial hard right. We must defend the BBC before it is too late.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/10/stand-up-and-defend-bbc-right-resignations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
18 days ago
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Lisa Rullsenberg
18 days ago
Another strike so it's time for
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Lisa Rullsenberg
18 days ago
Blast of a morning, even if my back gave up just after 10am
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out in force making noise bringing the colours to the picket line
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James Meek
19 days ago
Great and brave reporting by the upstart startup Sheffield Tribune. A reminder that the internet is still available for the proper reporting of ‘local’ news if you do it right
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Dan Neidle
22 days ago
Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
20 days ago
There will only be more of this if the university is left unchecked. Join us as we fight back against the short sighted choices of this university. Picket line on monday and 4 more weeks of strikes. We will win this.
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Good for them, it's madness what has been proposed.
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Lisa Rullsenberg
20 days ago
Huge thanks to
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who came to photograph our second Agnes Flues parkrun. Photos to follow! People were appearing at Wollaton to join us right up to the event starting - you can catch a glimpse of
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folk in this lovely video
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We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
22 days ago
And if you can't make it, you can support the run here as we raise funds for our branch activities:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £750 to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/uonucu-fundraising-agnes2025
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
22 days ago
Taking a quick step back from yesterday's news to remind everyone that the annual Agnes Flues memorial park run will take place tomorrow (8/11) at 9 AM. Throw on some
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colours and join us as we honour this absolute legend.
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And as far as I am aware that has not yet happened. Whether a higher education institution can be a proper university without these subjects ...I don't think so.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch
22 days ago
You know it's a pretty bad decision when the response from people is to create about 100 different petitions... Sign every one. Let's fight this by all means necessary.
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Ulla Rajala
22 days ago
"The consultation is set to conclude by the end of February and includes a redundancy review of 163 colleagues". With Nottingham closing modern languages, East Midlands comes monoglot.
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University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
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Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (they/them)
22 days ago
Although I am inevitably caught up in the likely dire implications for my department (Music), it isn’t just us in the Faculty of Arts or in the university under threat. Do consider signing this petition in support of colleagues teaching Theology!
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Stop the removal of Theology Undergraduate courses at the University of Nottingham
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Stop the removal of Theology Undergraduate courses at the University of Nottingham
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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