This was a wild find for 1€ and dated AF but still bittersweet in our current zeitgeist.

Largesse for the few, austerity for the rest. Spending at UK universities mirroring the UK fiscal state

The Juicy Fruit and Extra ads in this thread are indelibly in my mind.

I’m probably the last to realise it but I guess George Strait is ruined for me now.

Christmas fave.

And to cap off LAB22:3, here are a bunch of book reviews!

#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd

Happy holidays to readers of global history and of the history of decolonization. States-in-Waiting is now out in paperback at an affordable price, especially with a 20% discount using code GHIS26. Many thanks to the team at @universitypress.cambridge.org cup.org/48wR0Mk

Good to see that this hunger strike is now getting some attention, at least in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The extremism of organised transphobia and their unwavering belief in the necessity to exclude, dehumanise and make diappear a marginalised community should ring alarm bells to anyone who knows even a little about 19th and 20th century history...

I read about 350 books to prepare for my comprehensive exams as a PhD student. That is exactly what we do.

Boggles my mind that countries will spend nearly two centuries building networks like these and then throw them away. Yes, this is a sub-skeet of what’s happening (or not) at Canada Post.

I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

I can't imagine a body representing professional historians recommending this, but here we are... It's completely unacceptable. Here are just a few reasons why.

The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

We know this tool does nothing and no one wants it but maybe lets just use it and whatever.

Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.

📣 New #OpenAccess article 🏮 Margo Buelens-Terryn, Ilja Van Damme and @thomassmits.bsky.social, 'Projecting cities: illustrated lantern lectures as forgotten practice of place promotion in Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Out of office is on. I hope your holiday is full of fancy cheese x

Absolutely fucking vile

At least they are being cut with eloquence and grace.

the link in this post doesn’t seem to work, but this one does: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

What if stories like this just said “regulation” rather than “regulatory burden”, so they didn’t (un)consciously mimic the language that regulation is bad.

Canadian history jobs are gold, people!

Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years pressprogress.ca/canada-needs...

There is still ten days or so to self-nominate for the Koren Prize if you are a scholar affiliated to a Canadian or US institution who has published an article on any aspect of French history in 2025. Please do so! Details: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-...

Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org

A new issue of the Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique is available now classiques-garnier.com/revue-d-hist...

The content I’m here for.

Good. bsky.app/profile/grap...

Such good news!

Continuing our series on places in labour history, Constance Bantman explains why the back pages of French anarchist newspapers are her happy place sslh.org.uk/2025/12/12/t...

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a special preview of a short documentary film exploring women's experience of self-employment. The screening held @w_shed was followed by a Q&A with Dr Amy Edwards and filmmakers @blackbarkfilms. Information on how to view the film to follow 🎬

if you want to do a PhD in history, fully funded and join an incredible community of people researching Europe and the world, 1500-present, you have about a month!! Don’t hesitate to ask me questions.

Alcide De Gasperi: la cultura di un politico cattolico Our researcher Jacopo Cellini has just published an intellectual biography that examines De Gasperi’s life and work in the light of the ideas that guided his political commitment. 📘 loom.ly/nEXADfE

CFP: The Phanariot Past and its Multiple Afterlives: Historicizing “Corruption” in Central-South-East Europe (1750s-1920s) https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159397 Bucharest, 15.06.2026-16.06.2026, New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.02.2026 …

A housing crisis is when people are priced out of shelter (arguably a perennial condition under capitalism). Turning to crypto because houses are too expensive means being priced out of the ability to make money on a particular asset. Which is not the same kind of crisis.

Good for them. Just thinking of all the frontline NHS workers who worked countless hours during Covid without PPE masks to protect them; who died in their droves while fraudsters made millions from the public purse by supplying faulty masks. Good for them.

York is talking pests, vermin, weeds and germs next april! If you know anyone interested in historical approaches to these maligned beings, please send them this CFP (or apply yourself!)

In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe. @fdonoff.bsky.social

Grey Gardens, the great musical documentary by the Maysles brothers, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer, at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social at 5:30pm—with a Q. & A . w/Meyer and co-editor/producer Susan Froemke! www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going

Job: Full Professor "International History and Politics" (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159326 Geneva, , The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland, Bewerbungsschluss: …

At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films.

So awesome! Terrific and vocal support for the humanities. BUT this university is also near to slow-closing its languages programs and for real these schemes raise questions about economic feasibility arguments.

I’ve been listening to and sharing this voraciously (as my close associates can unfortunately attest to. there’s just no excuse for “live tweeting” a podcast.). It is So. Good.

Great read. “For decades and maybe centuries it has has been too late to save everything, but it will never be too late to save anything.”

Check this timely issue!!!