The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Do you want to teach wonderful students alongside great colleagues? Look no further and apply! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Do you want to teach wonderful students alongside great colleagues? Look no further and apply! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Curling community: we’re here to sweep away ICE

CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'. A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below, please share.

And if you’re a British citizen who is finding themselves Very Upset about all this, reminder that the right time to act is NOW, not later when all you can do is be sad about deportations. Respond to the consultation ASAP: vanessaganguin.com/news/how-to-...

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

This sounds great! #histchild #skystorians royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gen...

Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏

Spain gets it: “The Spanish government on Tuesday unexpectedly issued a decree that gives undocumented migrants a path out of legal limbo, putting Spain at odds with many countries around the world that have grown increasingly tough on illegal immigration.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

The SSFH conference bursary is now covering requests up to 500£ for PGs to attend the SSFH annual conference! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/confe... so submit your proposals and join us in Groningen this summer! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

It’s one of the great cons of history that this man, who services billionaires, science-denying fossil fuel lobbyists and the very Tories who, he says, “broke Britain”, still gets away with presenting himself as the great outsider and disruptor. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The JHoK 2025 special issue "Knowledge and Power: Projecting the Modern World" is now out in full! The issue is accompanied by the seven blog posts, where authors reflect on their articles and share a behind-the-scenes look at the research process. 📖 Happy reading! 1/8

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself! 18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

yas king (of the galette) crowning an evening kicked off by @renaudmorieux.bsky.social wonderful SSFH/ASMCF annual lecture on dislocated families in India during the age of revolutions #GaletteDesRois

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Claire's beloved horse Tango died in terror when holiday-makers set off a firework display at a nearby cottage. Sign her petition to protect animals and vulnerable people from the shock and terror of unexpected explosions. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

London-area friends: I’m looking forward to launching the UK edition of my book THE CROWN’S SILENCE at Waterstones @ Gower St on Jan 30th with Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social Please help spread the word! www.waterstones.com/events/the-c... www.waterstones.com/events/the-c...

Our latest Behind the Scenes is here! Don't miss @renaudmorieux.bsky.social's "The Present is a Foreign Country," a reflection on categorization and #deportation in the past and present, and colonial documents as "dynamic and always in-the-making." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/12...

I don't think a lot of people get quite how bad the situation has got with targeted attacks on the migrants rights and refugee sector. My wife would be very happy if I left the sector I know that for sure. It's also just getting worse, stoked in no small part by government rhetoric and policies.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Belle expo, étonnamment émouvante, qui donne des visages aux statistiques et aux grandes tendances de l’histoire sociale. www.carnavalet.paris.fr/expositions/...

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

Congratulations to Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn, Nicholas Draper and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Teaching Slavery published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/48vnDdJ #Education #Colonialism #Slavery #Racism

On advance access: "The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era" by Andrew Denning (@kuhistorydept.bsky.social) and Heidi J S Tworek (University of British Columbia) doi.org/10.1093/past...

We were honoured to welcome Secretary @hillaryclinton.bsky.social to St John's this week, in collaboration with @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, for two days of events celebrating the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History, held by Professor Sarah Knott. www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/new...

I'm thrilled to have received the Natalie Zemon Davis Award from @sfhs.bsky.social for my paper on Tamil consumers, caste, and mechanical timepieces in 18C Pondicherry. NZD is such an inspiration to early modernists and it's a huge honor to receive this award!

Please join us *today* 27 Nov for the next Core Seminar. 5:15pm in St John's Lightfoot Room. Gareth Austin (Cambridge) will speak about 'Coercion & Markets: reconciling economic & social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900'. Abstract: talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.” www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24 Is it A) to get them to leave? Why? B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits? C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.

Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.

Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions. For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website: www.asmcf.org/news/sixteen...

We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

"Another minister, who asked to be kept anonymous, told PoliticsHome it was 'pretty simple': "We either increase our birth rate, slash the state in half, or make the positive case for migration" Perhaps they could try saying this non-anonymously? Just a thought www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/