Come along to the Watershed at the Briggait during Festival 2026 and the Merchant City Festival. Two weekends of river rights events, talks, poetry, song, storytelling & more! Hosted by UofG's @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & architect @judebarber.bsky.social ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/watershed...

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

This is timely. My institution, one of the most financially secure in the country, has just announced a voluntary severance scheme and a promotions freeze.

There is a LOT to think about in this thread.

Thanks for helping push this up the charts - a modest achievement but we've done this with relatively little mainstream media coverage. That's something we expected, so we came up with a plan to circumvent, which is why all your recommendations, shares, feedback etc matter a huge amount.

❗REMINDER ❗ This online event takes place on Tuesday 23 (next week). Phil Crockett Thomas @stirunicriminology.bsky.social will explore utopian temporalities and abolitionist world-building in her presentation. Just bring your lunch and your curiosity and we will see you there!

An excellent thread on museums and AI.

NEW: A Reform UK activist who campaigns with top party figures joined the racist rioters in Glasgow on Tuesday and has claimed that “Jews" are trying "to dilute our Protestant stock and shatter the Union”, The National can reveal.

Lovely, thoughtful article in the Bell on Glasgow's characteristic sandstone and the challenges of maintaining it: www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-sand...

As in the case of Section 28, the CoP’s effects will be highly uneven and more about fear and silencing than anything else. Carving out spaces in our own communities where its effects can’t be felt is an essential aspect of resisting it.

I spoke to @scotsman.com about social class as a dominant inequality which rarely speaks its name in Scottish politics. Holyrood is dominated by a professional polo class and has failed to meet the trade union movement’s hopes for a ‘workers’ parliament’.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I heard a cuckoo in Queen's Park this lunchtime, and it seemed to me so unlikely that I have to assume someone was (very convincingly) imitating one.

Yesssssss

Solidarity with uk (and global) trans folk. Archaeology says gender is and always has been complicated, contested, dynamic and definitely not binary. None of us is free until all of us are. Trans liberation now!

Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now / mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolo...

A monument in Glasgow to the 1948 massacre of Palestinians at the village of Deir Yassin, which also serves as a remembrance of the Nakba.

New post on RefugeeHistory.org by Emma Dal Mas on international Catholic action for children in the early Cold War: refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/5/...

I will never be able to say, or spell, the word 'quantitative' without having to check myself at least twice

Do you live in Glasgow & come from a Commonwealth background? I'm running the next @greatergovanhill.com community reporter training as part of the Commonwealth Games Festival - learn journalism skills & explore intersections of sport, culture and the Commonwealth Apply now! bit.ly/GGCommonwealth

Two thoughts about this. First, the way actually-existing AI is being applied to History as an academic discipline is a frontal attack on the (slow, halting, contested) democratization of the discipline over the last sixty years. Second, we urgently need a history of 'AI and History'.

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I've received notifications of two bold 'AI and History' initiatives in the last week, and both are so shriekingly problematic that I can't even speak

A little over a month until our book launch in the centre of Bristol for our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Histories and Practices on 17th June @ 5.30pm. Join @briandrohan.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication and all its contributors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/military-h...

‘We’re slashing your courses and sacking lecturers and support staff’

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

A while back, I noticed that data on refugee camps had gradually fallen out of UNHCR's influential annual report, Global Trends. This very useful 2022 article by @ulrikekrause.bsky.social helps explain what's going on there. doi.org/10.3167/arms...

Belatedly registering the publication of this important book:

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

There is A Job in my department - details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA732/l...

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool? If so could you point them in my direction?

My institution's IT security team: Do not click on links in unsolicited emails. Especially not from external senders. Every other unit at my institution: Here is an unsolicited email! Please click on this link! Also, we have commissioned an external org to send you more links, please click

Strong statement from UCU on principles for implementing AI in teaching, research and administration. This is much more reflective and comprehensive than the pervasive catch-all of 'responsible AI'. www.ucu.org.uk/media/15656/...

In wild news, I am so so pleased that my collection of books, pamphlets and zines on Glasgow’s radical history won the David Murray book collecting prize at the University of Glasgow library

Glasgow Anti-Empire Film Club Screening #1: Palestine 36. Glad Cafe, March 22, 7:30pm (screening promptly at 8pm) Pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds. Donations to cover cost with any excess going to Kufr Aqab Storytelling Centre. youtu.be/wWtwnae_5UI?...

A friend recently published a biography of a historical figure. I have been telling her that she should create a virtual tour of key sites of importance to post on her website. I think that more historians should do this. Invite the public to engage with your book and work differently.

We'll be screening & discussing @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social Clyde Reflections films at the GFT this Saturday at 3.30pm as part of @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social Short Film Festival where we will also be screening some rarely seen films of the Clyde. More info via gsff.filmchief.com/shop/tickets...

A single journalist asking the follow-up question, ‘so how is it fair when the state unilaterally changes the rules, harming millions, and then introduces a complex, multi-tiered system that penalises migrants working in some sectors and not others?’, a single journalist is all I ask!

Traditional annual outing for this. www.spaceavalanche.com/2010/03/16/p...

📣Public history prize now open! 👉Read here for more information: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/03/13/p...

Immense respect to the firefighters who kept this from reaching the station and who kept everyone safe; truly astonishing that no one was killed or injured. How bleak to see yet another bit of Glasgow history disappear

🚨 UPDATE: Our office is closed today due to the fire in Glasgow city centre last night. Please don’t attempt to visit the building. We are working remotely and our Helpline is open as usual

Web of Science, your trusted path to discovery, where you can discover (for example) that you've had a spurious institutional affiliation added to your profile and there's no way to correct it.

...and cars parked on the pavement, on double yellow lines, on street corners, and blocking kerb drops. Bring on the charges, tow the lot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Danish model (in practice) is life in limbo. House of Commons library.

We are disgusted by the latest cruel and inhumane anti-asylum policy announced by the Home Secretary. Limiting refugees to 30 months before needing to re-apply undermines their ability to rebuild their lives, to feel safe and secure, all while increasing Home Office bureaucracy and costs.