The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners. It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Oh GB News. Have a day off and enjoy a mince pie. How dare I talk positively about migration & refugee rights at this time of year that should be about *checks notes* good tidings and warm wishes. Tune in at 3pm to watch and judge for yourself. Merry Christmas everyone!

It. Doesn't. Actually. Understand. A. Single. Word. Of. What. It. Is. Fed. It just chops up sentences and calculates how often words follow each other. That's it. Nothing more. It can't summarize material for you because it doesn't understand that material.

In my lit review, I comment on how much shit coroner history exists, how much objectively wrong stuff is in the public domain, based on lazy assumption. I found that out by reading it. All of it. It took fucking MONTHS. That is what doing history means.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

Last night I was at the Society of Antiquaries for wonderful papers by Farrell Monaco and Marc Meltonville FSA, both of which got me thinking about different ways of approaching my own research. Fortunate also to meet and chat to the inspiring and utterly charming @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

This is such a good observation.

Well, this would be a nice bonus

As Francois Verges compels us to ask: who cleans (and cares for) the world? The answer is pretty clear. Sending out my own personal thanks to the many migrants who have cared for me and my family in the NHS on this #InternationalMigrantsDay

#Day18 of our #TimeTravelAdvent and we're on Chapter 18 of #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems: 'Rules and Regulations', written by Lewis Carroll when he was still Charles Dodgson - just 13 years old (1845). What did this poem and its pictures look like in his original home-made 'magazine'? Take a look...

On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.

“Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form. How we will look back on the decade 2026-35 is ultimately up to us.”

A reminder that Nigel Farage has pocketed more than £400,000 this year from GB News. No wonder Farage is cheering Trump on in his attacks on the BBC.

We are at the stage of British politics where David Lammy and Keir Starmer are seemingly willing to let hunger strikers in prison die. The situation is extremely concerning. They have been in prison, without trial, for over a year. www.instagram.com/p/DSVg7zFiOi...

📢 NOW LIVE: December's 'Will of the Month' post! 📢 Read on to find out about the life of a Ragusan merchant who found himself in Stuart London, sick of 'the Disease of the Stone' 👇 He left bequests of: 1 parrot 🦜, 300 pairs of stockings 🧦, & 360 jars of wine 🍾 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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

Did you know that there's no generic word for "cheese" in colloquial Macedonian and Bulgarian The story of the sirene/sirenje and kashkaval duopoly... #cheese #macedonian #bulgarian

Excellent cheese-related tour and tasting led by freelance cheesemonger, historian, storyteller and best-selling author Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social This man can get cheese into any story (and of course therefore improve the story) 🧀

This week, following an upgrade viva, I was confirmed as a bona fide PhD candidate - another exciting stage in my nine-year/three-degree plan. So many people to thank for helping me get to this stage ❤️

There they are, pictured. Two of the three great threats to European democracy; the third being their ally, Putin. Their weapons will be vast amounts of neo-nazi cash, and in Britain's case, the outdated first-past-the-post system. We MUST wake up. Urgently! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interested in connections between #history & #CreativeWriting / #poetry? @ihr.bsky.social is seeking a Creative Practitioner in Residence for 2026. £1000 monthly stipend, opportunities for collaboration & developing projects. Happy to have a chat! Please share: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

New Statesman reporting Reform politicians are avoiding head to head debates with me. Their lies come crumbling down when confronted with the truth. Let's keep building the movement to take on Reform: Join.greenparty.org.uk

Do the right thing for everyone. Get jabbed.

Thanks to @mazinggrace.bsky.social for organising a gathering for early modernists at Birkbeck - students, fellows, staff - to hang around, natter about our projects, and transcribe some fun (?!?) 17th-century manuscripts! A lovely way to finish the term at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social. 🗃️

Excellent endorsement of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and three more reasons to support him and @greenparty.org.uk

Farage thinks I'm a maniac? Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts? Badenoch thinks I'm weird? Join.greenparty.org.uk

🇪🇺 The Green Party is clear: we should be repairing our relationship with the EU and undoing the damage of Brexit. That's why yesterday Green MPs voted in favour of re-joining the Customs Union - as a vital first step.

Happy #HumanRightsDay! Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"

This is a superb speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social It’s why the #BBC make Question Time, in order to hear different voices, and Zack’s is undoubtedly the strongest in the room here. “You’re a Government of cowards.” Spot on. Labour *never* speaks positively about immigration #bbcqt

Graduation Day……thanks again to my brilliant and very patient supervisor…@brodiewaddell.bsky.social

As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition. The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

Annual shameless Xmas or other seasonal holiday gift suggestion for those interested in any of material culture, empire or British country houses. Over 500 pages & 100 illustrations. Paperback a mere £30. (Alternatively, free to download from @uclpress.bsky.social or @jstor.bsky.social ).

Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Always a joy to work with Morgan's map of London (1682), especially the wonderful drawings of ships. 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March. Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

🚨Now at almost 85,000 signatures. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hate techbros so much.

New article from Ellen Paterson on how petitioners 'evoked and confronted the parliamentary past' in their economic disputes is the tumultuous years preceding the outbreak of civil war.🗃️ #OpenAccess #PowerOfPetitioning Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🇺🇸"The BBC removed part of Rutger Bregman's Reith lecture, where he alleged Donald Trump was the most openly corrupt president in US history" 🔇"If the national broadcaster can't air defensible claims, what hope is there for any of our free press to effectively challenge power?"

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️