My Pimlott lecture is available to read open access! It argues two things: that everyday understandings of old age are profoundly shaped by family relationships; and that how we narrate those intimate ties has changed in important ways over the past fifty years. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Rhythm Colour no. 1076 (1939) by Sonia Delaunay, painter and designer #WomensArt

It was a busy 12th May for this particular diarist! Don't forget that tomorrow is our national diary day! We welcome contributions from all ages, especially when they are recounting days as busy as this one! Find out more about how to submit your diary at massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

Don't forget that it is @massobsarchive.bsky.social diary day. Anyone can contribute to this wonderful social history archive - anyone in the UK can submit massobs.org.uk/12th-may/

One good thing you can say about the UK is that we're spoilt for metaphors

I spent way too long this weekend correlating 81 census variables with local election results, so you don't have to. Enjoy! datawrapper.dwcdn.net/QQQ3D/7/

You don't need to "unify the country" to win elections. You just need 35% of the vote & ignore everyone else - as Thatcher knew. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Manchester's map looks a bit like Berlin's and Vienna's - green core with social democratic red ring around it, radical right in the poor suburbs, traditional right in the rich ones..

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Seven years in the making – @kurtiveson.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share that our book, People Power in Cities, is about to be released with Oxford University Press - out in print 3 June 2026. academic.oup.com/book/62529

Headline measures of wealth inequality haven't meaningfully changed since the 1980s, but it's harder to work and save your way up the ladder than it used to be. Meanwhile, inheritances are becoming ever more important. Me for this weekend's Observer: observer.co.uk/news/capital...

The way things are going it won’t be long before each academic has their own personal regulator.

'Perhaps most damaging for the regulator meant to oversee freedom of speech, the accusation of bias in the process was also upheld. Mrs Justice Lieven said the OfS had "closed its mind" to anything that would lead to not finding failure to uphold freedom of speech and therefore fine the university.

Loved writing this piece on drinking in Westminster. It's one of those topics that really highlights how our oral history project gets behind the scenes into the culture in parliament. There's so much on this in the archive, considering writing it up in a full article.

New paper with @casey-lynch.bsky.social on AI refusal, an introduction to our special issue on the topic. We examine cultural practices as potentially privileged, if messy and imperfect, sites of AI refusal. DM me for a PDF journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

The pay premium of the median teacher, or university lecturer, has also fallen

My new book Culture Wars in Britain is out today in e-book forms. Currently £13.48 on Kindle at Amazon (with the paperback which publishes on 13 May, available to pre-order at £14.19). You can also order direct from publisher at my pinned post. #Sociology #CultureWars #Britain

A reminder that we have this event coming up in conjunction with @amsruk.bsky.social which is sure to be fascinating! www.eventbrite.com/e/1982182572...

Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

New substack: whereas well-functioning markets can make bad people do good things, political systems can make even good people do bad things. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/in-it-for-...

Rather excited to see my book reviewed in the @newyorker.com by the excellent @chaykak.bsky.social. "Dekeyser offers a tidy manifesto that may urge us on: “There is insufficient hatred for this technological world.” I could get a tattoo of that line, or at least use it as my iPhone background."

It’s nearly time for our national diary day! Every 12th May we ask people to write down what they got up to. This year we’re also really interested in experiences of nature and wellbeing, as well as what else you get up to on the day! #diary #journal #nature #skystorians #write #Archive

London ❤️

Rug design by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) pioneer in modern weaving #WomensArt

Love the daily Freecycle email. Every one a slice of life.

My department @uniofbath.bsky.social is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics on an open-ended teaching and research contract. I and other colleagues will be at PSA next week if anybody wants to chat informally about the position. Deadline is 14/4. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Jürgen Habermas FBA believed in critical dialogue, reasoned debate and the possibility of a better future. Following his recent passing, British Academy President Professor Susan Smith reflects on why his ideas matter now more than ever. Read the full article in The Conversation.

Yesterday we sent out our latest directive! For Spring 2026 we have a combination of collaborative topics and in-house questions. Part one is a collaboration with Dr Ellen Pilsworth from @uniofreading.bsky.social, and is on 'Seeking Asylum', part of a 4-year research project, 'Nation of Refuge'.

Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton. Please share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW415/t...

New piece in Progress in Human Geography, 'Crisis-thinking and critical urbanism'. What might crisis-thinking be doing to how the urban is conceived, researched, and politicised? How might it impact how we see urban possibility? Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 If you missed Vincent Hiribarren's recent @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best', the talk is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/VO26YAK1mu0 #dhist

Officially released today!💥Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine💥 Tracing the refusal that haunts the history of tech, my book offers a source of inspiration for those looking for a new tech politics beyond reform/acceleration. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773... Buy w/ discount👇

We're excited for this online talk! We'll be hearing from Ben Highmore (Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, @sussex.ac.uk), Phyllis MacFarlane (Head of Content, @amsruk.bsky.social) & Stella Moss (Lecturer in Modern British History, @royalholloway.bsky.social ). Book here: tinyurl.com/37sdd74x

Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton. Four-month post to cover my teaching from Sept 2026. Deadline for applications: 13 April. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton. Please share. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW415/t...

This is a very rich resource for sociologists as well

Very useful piece by Nick Clarke, Alex Hill and Jonathan Moss on an archive heavily used by historians of modern Britain - and underutilised by scholars of British politics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are looking to appoint a full-time Teaching Fellow in Human Geography for a fixed term contract to cover @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social's teaching. Details below. Please share. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social

I have a short Chapter out on why cultural geographers need to take the premise of abolitionism seriously, part of the wonderful new 'Handbook of Cultural Geographies' by @ajsecor.bsky.social P Merriman ans S Sumartojo. Message me for scans of the chapter. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Job opportunity: Teaching Fellow in Human Geography, University of Southampton. Four-month post to cover my teaching from Sept 2026. Deadline for applications: 13 April. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New substack: wherein I compare prices now to those in 1939: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/housing-co...

Today I'll mainly be looking at my public lecture for the @royalhistsoc.org in London on 25 Sept... One thing I'll be talking about then will be the rapid growth of mapping techniques and geographical approaches in the study history. Just a snippet from my list below. 👇

In new issue of Progress in Human Geography: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach." Connects policy mobilities & social movements studies. Focus on geogs of counterhegemonic ideas. Abstract 👇 #academicsky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper: Mass Observing British Politics On what Mass Observation might contribute to political studies (and what political studies might contribute to Mass Observation). With @jmoss88.bsky.social and Alex Hill. Also paging @massobsarchive.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New paper: Mass Observing British Politics On what Mass Observation might contribute to political studies (and what political studies might contribute to Mass Observation). With @jmoss88.bsky.social and Alex Hill. Also paging @massobsarchive.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

All seven volumes to date in the #MassObservation Critical Series @massobscritical.bsky.social are also currently at attractive prices in the @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social sale until Sunday @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

As good as people say it is

We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate