The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

Read Andrew Green's thoughts on Bob Dylan's concert in Swansea on Sunday... mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#in...

Minnie Pallister now out in paperback. Lovely job...thanks @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Please share 🙂 #WomensHistory #GenderHist #ECR

Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until it was. Everything was normal, life went on until it didn’t.

Early 1920s banner of Leningrad Bolshevik Party in its new home in Marx Memorial Library yesterday.

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.

2nd reading of the Terrorism Bill, 14 December 1999. Home Sec Jack Straw responds to an MP asking if supporting international protests involve property damage would be counted as supporting terrorism: "Not even remotely". This is the legislation being used to proscribe Palestine Action. #Palestine

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

Brilliant afternoon taking Minnie Pallister Fearless Rebel back to @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social Thanks to Dave & John for invitation & hospitality

The Netherlands just now ❤️❤️❤️🇵🇸 "If you're in the West Bank or Gaza in Iran or Syria or Lebanon and you see this...FREE FREE" This is what the world thinks - turn off your tv and news station it's all propaganda. The people want to stop the monstrous actions of Israel.

@llafur.bsky.social @neilevanshistory.bsky.social

Gary lineker sends parting shot to BBC with George Orwell poem

Happy to see my article published now in JEMS @scmrjems.bsky.social ! Heartfelt thanks to all the participants who generously shared their experiences. This work wouldn’t be possible without you. @warwick-smlc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Wowzer gig last night talking about Minnie Pallister at a Purple Plaques event put on by Cardiff West Labour Party. (Aim = to get Minnie into the Welsh national consciousness)

The deadline for the Pennar Scholarship in the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University comes at the end of the month. The Department welcomes PhD proposals for research on the social and economic history of Wales in the period 1500 to 2000. www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit...

Carole Cadwallader: A secret US-UK sweetheart tech deal? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I'm happy to be co-supervising a funded PhD project on the Valleys archive at Ffotogallery Wales (especially at a moment when the funding landscape is so dire). Please share/consider applying: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Really enjoyed speaking with Dr Elin Jones about Minnie Pallister at the excellent Llandeilo Literature Festival yesterday. A memorable day

📣 Kneecap statement repost from X:

USA reviving the 'Jungle School' - US army training facility in Panama Was used for counter-insurgency training for Latin America and in Vietnam US troops will also be stationed at 2 other bases in Panama - Rodman Naval Station & Howard Air Force Base pa.usembassy.gov/defense-secr....

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

Rich, engaging, well-ordered, packed with material and insights, Andrew Green has produced a history of human life in Wales according to walking ✍️ Desmond Clifford

really pleased talking today to Women's Archive Wales on The Feminism of Minnie Pallister ( - the most important talk i will give on Minnie, I believe... )

Waterstones, Abertawe, 19 Mawrth, 6:00 / Waterstones, Swansea, 19 March, 6:00pm.

Book Space, Caerdydd, 20 Mawrth, 6:30pm / Book Space, Cardiff, 20 March, 6:30pm.

Nos Iau yma, yng Nghrughywel / This Thursday, in Crickhowell.

Minnie Pallister is one of the foremost feminists to emerge from Wales in the 20th Century – albeit until now unrecognised ✍️Alun Burge

Giving the US a toilet paper shortage in the year of our Lord 2025 would be just the kind of petty PTSD this #tradewar needs.

Am I the only one to wonder whether Starmer was consciously appointing Mandelson to the appeaser Lord Halifax role when he named him as US Ambassador? (Halifax held the position from 1941 to 1946 having unsuccessfully argued against resisting Hitler)

'It would be an enormous public loss if Peter Lord’s great collection were to be dispersed or sold, for want of anyone in a position of cultural authority to care enough about it.' gwallter.com/art/no-welsh...

Our Black Mountains trek now available on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

So they want the tax payer to wipe the debt slate clean so they can start raking in the private profits again. Nationalise the debt. Privatise the profit. Charlatans. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Privileged to attend launch of Kev Morgan’s Serving the Public on school, prison & hospital food last night Kev is superb exponent of practical policy change as reflected in quality discussion involving local authorities, food suppliers, health service & govt officials & politicians. Brilliant event

UK taking the wrong turn here without a doubt. To badly translate a German saying they’re making the goat into the gardener

The true extent of the cuts has been hidden but museums, archives and libraries - not to mention music and drama services can only strech things so far before things start to collapse. We're already well beyond that point. www.bbc.com/news/article...