In the June edition of #Highways, I think about getting serious about #VisionZero, why the UK government's road safety strategy falls short and what if we included more than safety in the discussion. Digital issue available here: www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/latest-issues

The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

@gfearn.bsky.social on the bus man and Manchesterism tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/the-...

North Tyneside Council is closing its outdoor education centre, High Borrans in Windermere. Owned by the council since 1967, for 60 years children and young people from North Tyneside have had free and subsidised trips to walk, climb, kayak, and play together. Another loss to austerity.

I originally started filming Utrecht because of its cycling infrastructure. Looking back over seventeen years of footage, I realised I have documented something much bigger: the transformation of an entire city. Blog, video and playlist:

"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

If you're in the UK and looking at this, thinking "This doesn't look like a very good thing", please do head to pavementoverload.com and support the campaign (you can send a letter to your MP).

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

NEWS: A 1960s mural depicting more than a thousand years of the history of County Durham is under threat of demolition, with C20 joining local campaigners trying to save and relocate it. The unusual pixelated mosaic design predates digital imagery by decades. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/moves-t...

Thankfully my daughter has a teacher training day so won’t have to go to school wearing tights today. Yes that is the uniform policy. They’ve only just relaxed rules around coats to allow them to wear a winter coat when it’s cold. And they wonder why children don’t want to go to school.

OK go on then. "I was thrilled to speak to the BBC.... " www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a really interesting read for environmental historians and anyone interested in the potential shaping of research by University processes 📗

My 500 year history of disabled people's political activism is out now! Thanks to The Independent for making it their non-fiction book of the month! www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782... #disabilityhistory

Highly recommend this exhibition at Newcastle Arts Centre if you are in this neck of the woods. anne.art/event/galena/

The Collective has just published a policy paper in History & Policy on community collaboration in the UK research landscape! Read it here: Who Holds the Agenda? Participation, Partnership, Power, and the Funding of Collaborative Oral History Research historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Just passed one of North Tyneside’s legacy play streets, The Nook. I never found out when this one was designated (archive work to be done!) but suspect it was when they widened the main road and blocked off a couple of the side roads (when plans to dual the main road were fortunately abandoned).

📢 Job opportunity - Finds Liaison Assistant The successful candidate will have experience of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, as well as an interest and enthusiasm for research and archaeology. Apply by 2 July, full details 👇 www.northeastmuseums.org.uk/about/jobs

It’s #volunteersweek here in the UK and I am seeking a volunteer, or volunteers, to help me with some grunt data work with a historical flavour. It’s a neat project I’m doing for the Cycling History & Educational Trust. I am a trustee. www.nationalcyclearchive.org.uk/trust/

At Shiremoor Adventure Playground for a day exploring the potential of play and playwork for the north east, and launching my report on the playground’s social impact - more to follow…

For #WorldBicycleDay, here is our blog about parts of our community that are a delight to cycle through - all thanks to the humble bollard!

Looking forward to discussing my new book Palace of the Ether with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social on 26 June. It’s both in-person & online & tickets are available now. @c20society.bsky.social secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Does anyone know of a definitive list of the concrete murals of Henry Collins and Joyce Pallot? This Surbiton example is a favourite of mine, and their work in places like Colchester (where they were based), Southampton and Newcastle is well known. But what of the rest?

Women's History Today latest issue focusses on women and the built environment. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo... #history #women @politicdormouse.bsky.social

A powerful and important piece from @londonplay.bsky.social on a much better way to spend the £300m being spent on cutting VAT on theme parks: londonplay.org.uk/our_news/the...

This story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

Some children - up to the age of 15 - to travel for free on some buses in England over the summer. Why not all children all of the time and on all buses? Like pensioners?

If you want to follow the new revived Rural Modernism, we're at www.instagram.com/rural_modern...

Preparing materials today for the installation of the first Rebellion! exhibition later this month at Newcastle City Library. It’s all coming together.

“It looks awful, but it’s *magnificently* awful.” This could apply to some of the buildings featured in the amazing ‘Brutal Scotland’ photography exhibition by Simon Phipps at Streetlevel Photoworks in Glasgow. A visually stimulating display of architecture evoking complex, contradictory responses.

One more signature for the petition to save Humanities at Hertfordshire to hit 2,500! Please take a minute to sign and share. #UCU www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

This looks good - @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social - a network for historians working outside of academia

Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

My article on Disabled family utility cycling just got published- it’s been scary to make experiences this personal public. I hope it can support some people in authority to support accessibility better! doi.org/10.16997/ats...

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

I went to check in on Gulliver’s foot and ankle this afternoon – one of the most interesting listed ruins in Edinburgh. c20society.org.uk/news/remnant...

The whole of the UK voted for Brexit. Sunderland was nowhere near the highest Brexit vote, they were just the 1st to declare.

One of the Collective's PhD students, Lily Tidman, is recruiting interviewees for her project! Lily is interested in interviewing people who volunteered in hospitals in Cumbria, Northumberland, and County Durham, 1979-1997. For more info, get in touch with Lily via email. #oralhistory

This is the south Tyneside reform rabble that were elected as councillors. A handful of women in there. 11 out of 41 reform cllrs are women.

There’s quite a collection of such photos!

All 10 of the new Reform councillors elected in North Tyneside are men. Of the other 10, there are 3 Labour women, one Green woman, and one independent woman. So 5 women, 15 men elected yesterday. Would need to check the gender balance of the whole council.

Less talked about is the number of women elected. Would be interested to know what this looks like elsewhere. Newcastle down to 20 women out of 78 councillors: Lib Dems - 6 women Greens - 6 women Reform 7 women Independent 1 woman There were previously 32 women, including 19 of Labour’s 34 seats

I'll be back at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social on Tuesday where I'm going to be talking about a burger. Well BBQ season is starting after all. Sign up here: www.activetravelcafe.org.uk

All change in Newcastle. Inner city gone Green, north Lib Dem and outer east and west Reform.

A little bump for our event PLAYING WITH HISTORY - "This event brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in examining how play—across its many forms—shapes, reflects, and reimagines the past." www.northampton.ac.uk/research/res... 🗃️

📣 Calling all historians of activism and social movements! We're planning a new undergrad module on Power and Protest in 19th/20th century Britain and we would LOVE your ideas on existing and emerging research. Key questions are "what is protest?" and "who gets to protest?" and topics include...

"Many environmental organisations in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s were sponsored by companies, including oil companies." Paul Merchant uses oral history to examine the links between corporate sponsorship and environmental activism in 1980s and 1990s Britain.

You can download the report from here…https://playingout.net/take-action/nationally/a-child-lens-on-streets-and-transport-policy

NEW Streets Ahead EPISODE! 🚨 Children and streets with @aliceferguson.bsky.social and Tim Gill. The impact of cars on children amounts to a 100-year pandemic hiding in plain sight, they say, following the launch of their new report. Listen here: shows.acast.com/5e8ee3bc4fc2...

Fantastic set of perspectives here on resources, mobility, and public space, with Martin Tillman, Eunhye Enki Yoo, Levke Sönksen, and the @urbancyclinginstitute.org's @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social.