I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Available now with @starwarsexplained.com is an indepth interview about 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire'. AND I also give the world first announcement of my new Star Wars book. I'll give you all 2 hours to watch & then fully announce here too. youtu.be/nNTLYZiGf54?...

Ah welcome to the Dubai campus club!

Snapshots from today's protest against staff cuts, an incredible display of solidarity and support from many student groups. (Photos courtesy of www.instagram.com/amplifyprote...)

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

We devastated by the loss of our student and thank the Gazette for this important initiative. Please contribute if you can.

How many universities are being sabotaged by people neck-deep in bad investments, cosplaying as property tycoons at the publics expense? How many opportunities did we have to prevent this?

Nottingham University bought the site for £37.5m in 2021 and spent another £40m refurbishing it Now it’s up for sale at £14m Many hundreds of redundancies later, we can rest assured that those responsible for the fiasco have done just fine www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.

Feeling very much under the weather during a week I earmarked for writing, which is typical. However, nothing like the arrival of some new Star Wars fiction to cheer me up.

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Republic continues to have fascinating and haunting connections to the real world.

Absolutely barmy priorities. Nearly £19k on catering 🤯 FOIs are displaying the chaos behind Future Nottingham decision-making www.instagram.com/p/DSm9i77DP-...

Sounds like a wonderful four-volume collection of documents and commentary that will be of great interest to the BrANCH community and beyond! Cheers to @alysbeverton.bsky.social, @edwardmair.bsky.social, @Adam Burns & @alex-bryne.bsky.social

The majority of archival material out there has NOT been digitized. So if you really want to figure something out, odds are that you have to go to an archive and dig. Historians are trained to dig.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

This is shameful. The University of Cambridge has a duty to stand against the disgraceful anti-intellectualism of the right. www.varsity.co.uk/news/30787

For those who enjoy ebooks on Kindle, it seems that 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' is *massively* discounted today down to $1.99 in the US and £7.99 in the UK. Which feels like a pretty good deal really. US: www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Ri... UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Ri...

I would not be the historian I am today without the American and Canadian Studies Department at the University of Nottingham. My time studying for a PhD in this department was an incredible experience.

We were thrilled to host former congressmen Mike Ross & Jeff Duncan at DMU today for a dynamic talk on leadership, global affairs and much more. Thanks to everyone who joined! 🌟 #DMUPolitics #Congress @usainuk.bsky.social

Furious at this indefensible decision.

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE! In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India. Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

Another story about university leadership appears in the Leicester Gazette: www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...

Solidarity to all our nottingham colleagues as they continue strike action! ✊

🚀 Dr. Luis da Vinha (DMU Politics & IR) co-authors a new International Relations (Q1) article: “‘Active Non-Alignment’ in Outer Space: Brazil’s Hedging Strategy in the Sino-American Space Race.” It explores how Brazil balances between the U.S. and China in the new space race!

Our Senior Lecturer, Dr. Simon Stevens, was interviewed by The Big Issue on hostile architecture — and how it even appears in the world of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. A fascinating take on how politics, design, and culture intersect. Read here: www.bigissue.com/culture/poke...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Private Eye once again reporting on the DMU leadership. Credit to the Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.news who first broke the story.

Been saying this repeatedly - it's not a 'bit', I genuinely don't understand why we waste our time teaching students about research ethics if we're encouraging them to use tools that ignore every single one of those requirements. If we support skipping ethics why just for genAI? sheer hypocrisy.

Our branch is proud to stand with our colleagues at @leicesterucu.bsky.social

The link might be tenuous, but I believe my position on the dangers of GenAI is partly influenced by my own historical research. Back in 2020 I published an article that explored the ways in which the development of early aviation in the U.S. was partly guided by Pan-Americanism. [1]

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

Fresh from the September Passport issue: We are honored to publish a roundtable on the Cold War International History Project and the many wonderful things it has done! www.shafr.org/assets/docs/...

“Unfortunately, we have a Labour government seemingly determined to outflank Reform on immigration . . .These attacks are having a severe impact on the financial health of the sector” - @drjogrady.bsky.social in the @theipaper.com today inews.co.uk/news/flag-wa...

I contributed to a roundtable review of Tore Olsson's book Red Dead History in SHAFR's latest issue of Passport. shafr.memberclicks.net/passport-sep...

Thanks again to @leicestergazette.leicester.news for following up on this story. £5m spent on consultants. www.leicester.news/de-montfort-...

The first annual CSE Midlands Group Conference is happening on Tuesday 16 Sept at the University of Birmingham:"Britain’s financialised capitalism & the politics of change". Free, in-person, no registration. DMU Politics' Pinar Donmez is one of the contributors: Full programme: tinyurl.com/ytvk54p5

A reminder that the Leicester Branch's first free talk of the year will take place online at 6pm on Tuesday 9th September. Andy Chapman, the Hon. Secretary of the Northamptonshire Archaeological Society, will be speaking about Excavations at St James’s Abbey in Northampton.

How much are gaming CEOs making compared to the people they've been firing? Ellen went rooting around in some financial statements to find out... youtu.be/V-dYttts94o

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

The fact that Kelley has had to leave it's an absolute disgrace and a testament of the state of the university. PHRC will continue, in spite of all, but this is outrageous britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...

Solidarity with our East Midlands colleagues. We are also experiencing this loss at present, with more to come. UK HE is in a terrible state and some urgent action is needed.

The Leicester Branch of the Historical Association is delighted to announce its programme of events for the 2025/26 academic year. This year's programme will be held in collaboration with the Northampton Branch. www.history.org.uk/branches/cat...

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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages