Such a key point about cutting back on language provision - it’s not good for science and it’s not good for growth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Please sign the petition below in support of colleagues at Nottingham, where courses in the highly respected Dept of Modern Languages & Cultures have been earmarked for suspension.

'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'

I leapt up swearing. Nottingham! Of Nottingham French Studies fame. A terrific, storied, innovative and important department.

This is horrifying! I have a degree in German and Russian from Nottingham. And I went there because it was in many respects a leading light in modern languages. This is incredibly short-sighted and idiotic.

shout it from the rooftops.

We’ve received more than 5000 signatures on our open letter to stop MPs from accessing private data about scientists, researchers and students in the university sector! This story is still developing- www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/ove...

Poilievre is such a bad Conservative and Carney such a bad Liberal that this can happen.

Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸 Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades: About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🚨 #CfP 🚨 Are you a #historian working on queer/intersectional perspectives? Check our @eui-qfg.bsky.social call for papers: InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice 👉 loom.ly/VL6GJSU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 28 November 2025! 📣 #skystorians #queerhistory

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

✉️🌎On 20-21 Nov. we'll host the workshop Letters& emotions in early modern/modern empires. With Carlotta Sorba-Mónica Burguera-Judith Farré-Xavier Andreu-M'hamed Oualdi-Alexia Yates-Pablo Hdez.Sau-Amelia Almorza- Elisa Heinrich-Ângela Barrero Xavier and our fantastic researchers and MWP fellows.

As universities and colleges cut academic programs, close programs, and slash 13,000+ jobs, Budget 2025 halves international student enrolment without boosting core funding.

Saw this today, forever changed, no big deal. I do have news for the guide, though. 150 000 francs in 1936/7 (what Picasso was paid) was not that much in today’s money - something around 75 000Euro, I think. (Still fine, I suppose…but we aren’t talking 1910s francs…)

It’s an exciting time of year - time for budding Europeanists to check out and apply for the PhD in history at the EUI. This is a special place that wants to support creative historical research into Europe and the world, from the early modern to contemporary periods. Happy to answer questions!

Thanks to Silvia Sebastiani for an incredible lecture last week at our Cultural History Seminar (co-convened with my colleague Carlotta Sorba) on the boundaries of humanity and the implications that 18c discussion on apes had on debates about gender, race and slavery. @eui-history.bsky.social

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩 #NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

Excellent opportunity for the university, UUK, and OfS to say the same.

A delight.

I’ve known parts of this story over the years - the entire thing laid out here is extraordinary and egregious. Well done to Laura for staying committed to her work on this. and wow…academic freedom doing good work for once in the recent past…

This is such a huge compliment to get from of the best urban historians of Britain My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.

If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.) noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

How do we talk about justice when it's erased from the story? In this #EUIUpFront episode, Revital Madar and Caitlin Procter (@eui-schuman.bsky.social) reflect on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire and the role of academia. 🎥 Watch: https://loom.ly/cN-w4Y0

Across the world it is the same story ---yet the solutions can be found locally in our neighbourhoods as we resist evictions and intimidation. This dynamic between international and local is known as the Interkiezionale. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/31/w...

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

Well here’s an instrument to learn about.

Ok, it's not exactly Danish Marxism, but there are some Danish (post)Maoists and Fourth Internationalists in here! My new article on the overlooked Copenhagen riots at the 1970 World Bank/IMF annual meeting is out, open-access, in Journal of Global History.

Congrats to this year's GSB winner, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, read her entry "The Healing Wounds of Light: Birds, Cities, & the Fast, Slow & Forgotten Violence of Artificial Illumination" & Alexandra Mitchell's "Playing with Fire: Pyrotechnic New York Youth at the Turn of the 20th century" here:

The history department bulletin board crammed with no fewer than 12 PhD defenses in the next six weeks. 2 history PhDs a week out into the world! That’s a lot of great research.

'A lawyer’s professional retainer is not a lottery ticket offering a bonus prize of generational wealth,' the judge ruled.

It's #MosseWednesday! 🎉 Congratulations to Catherine Tatiana Dunlop for winning @historians.org's George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History for her new book, The Mistral: A Windswept History Of Modern France. 🎉 #europeanstudiesatuwmadison #UWHistdept #AHA26

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Nobody in authority ever suggested that "Essay mills are just an inevitable part of modern life, you should change your teaching-methods to circumvent them". They fucking MADE THEM ILLEGAL.

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

Excellent

Just a terrifying prospect.

niche annoyance: the continued references to “France‘s crown jewels” give people the impression that these were anything other than the trinkets worn by 19th-century dictators and their wives. [Could apply to all Crown Jewels, I know.] Republicans have repeatedly sold them off in the past!

I am learning here that a lot of people did not know that Trump is demanding $1 billion from UCLA. He is.

As a white person, it must be said that ignoring this detail is some absolutely white bullshit that no serious left-wing person should accept. If you're going to hold your nose and vote for nazi tattoo guy, you have to at least be honest about what says about your values.

And (less so) French and Italian. Favourite time of day.

Alberta is strong and free, unless you're a striking worker than your freedoms are secondary to a government that doesn't know how to negotiate.

Apply!

So did the makers of The Residence know this was coming.

Nicolas Sarkozy qui part en prison, c'est le sort que connaissent 90 % des condamnés à des peines de plus de deux ans. Youssef Badr, magistrat, répond à Mathieu Magnaudeix sur cet épisode et la fabrication de la défiance envers la justice dans notre société.

I'd love your thoughts Alexia! I'll never forget the winning entry for a Scholastic Books Canada 125 contest: it was an illuminated map of Canada that stopped at Nova Scotia.

It’s (I assume) a Newfoundland trait to look at every map and instinctively see if it “remembered” to include Newfoundland, and how. Will try to find time to read this!