Lovely to do a book launch-lunch today with @jennycrane.bsky.social and @sarahcrook.bsky.social - thanks to everyone who came along!

I love a news cycle which is basically “member of a party disagrees with another party!”. Like, yes, that’s the point. That’s the system. I’d like Labour to disagree with Reform MORE.

reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow 5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR @profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book now for a special day conference @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday 30 October organised by our Trades Union & Employment Forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it via the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Realising I have a deep association between Bristol and profound coolness in part because I watched Skins at a very impressionable age (it is also a cool city)

On my way to lovely Bristol to celebrate book publications with the wonderful Jenny Crane and Victoria Bates. And then I’m going to do a ritualistic book stress cleanse, recommendations welcome (douse it in gin?)

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

They have tiny feet and big tempers, so please donate if you can to make the experience of marching them around a Welsh park in the rain more worthwhile

Having spent a decent chunk of the last 6 years hoping Swansea would gentrify a bit I just spent £5 on a bougie coffee and I take it all back

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

They have tiny feet and big tempers, so please donate if you can to make the experience of marching them around a Welsh park in the rain more worthwhile

Hello lovely people. My little ones are doing a fundraising walk for Gaza, absolutely no pressure to donate but the link for their fundraising page is here: www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

It's a privilege to welcome @sarahcrook.bsky.social as our keynote speaker for this conference. Sarah's paper is drawn from her new book 'Unhappy Mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain' which is available to read Open Access.

Amid reports that MPs and an advisory taskforce will recommend scrapping the two-child limit on benefits, it's worth noting that this step would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty ⤵️

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Was enjoying this graffiti at our local bus stop until I had to explain fascism to my 6 year old

Gosh, they’re going to be so pleased that they’ve hit the target - and it sends such an important message to them about our responsibility to extend solidarity and care and attention across national borders. If you can donate to Gaza via their little walk, it would be lovely if you would.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Hello lovely people. My little ones are doing a fundraising walk for Gaza, absolutely no pressure to donate but the link for their fundraising page is here: www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

France recognises Palestine and calls for UN force in Gaza

Having turned my apparently completely cashless house upside down I am now wondering if I can tell my six year old that the tooth fairy is going digital and has transferred £1 into her premium bonds

One sad thing about the Corbyn/Sultana feud is that once upon a time this would’ve resulted in a furious pamphlet war and the launch of about five newspapers and journals. Now all that bitterness is being channeled into bourgeois institutions like the ICO and the libel courts…

Is there a 1 year 10 month sleep regression, I google as my baby wakes up again Is there a 5 year sleep regression, I google as the middle kid wanders out of his room Is there a 6 year sleep regression, I google as the oldest shuffles out Why do only mothers in their 30s want to sleep, I google

#CfP: The II International Seminar for Emerging Historians of Education, organised by HISTEDUP, invites submissions. Date: 24 November 2025 at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon. Submission deadline: 15 October 2025 Learn more: www.ische.org/g0wd #HistEd #ECRchat

Surely the most shocking news to be reported today was that Number 10 had a Director of Strategy.

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

Absolutely nothing more lovely than finding notes from my kids hidden in my desk drawers

We’ve been delighted to see so much interest in @historianhelen.bsky.social’s upcoming talk. Competition for tickets is fiercer than for Glastonbury, so act fast!

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist! @mbhjournal.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

genuinely staggering that Labour spent their time out of office planning how to win elections and not how to govern

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Are you at #EAHMH25 this week? 💊 Get 30% off our essential #histmed titles during the conference. Browse the reading list here ⬇️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...

The UK public drastically overestimate 'illegal' migration and are supportive of legal asylum claims. Some opportunity there if the govt was braver. But it would have to start telling its own story, not conceding ground due to fear (or an underbaked 2029 strategy). yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

People say Labour have no plan, but they have remained committed to this “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” campaign for many months, despite its obvious flaws and total failure to date.

I’m going to need to quit my job and all my hobbies as my youngest child has ordained me Chief Singer of Wheels on the Bus and will brook no resistance and this, it turns out, is a near 24/7 responsibility

If we know AI can basically do any assessment- and do it well, given the right prompts - should we scrap assessments and design a system that centres cultivating humanity and growth

My non-history job allowed me to write some history! (and its policy implications, ofc)

📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series? The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳 Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇

👉🏼 Rare Books Job Alert: Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western is hiring a director of rare books and university archives. 👈🏼 Pros: Cleveland rocks; our collections are fab, esp in history of print and science; you get to work with me 🥰 Cons: 🤷🏻‍♀️ employment.case.edu/psc/ERECRUIT...

Kids picking up random stones and proclaiming them to be from the Roman times is all very cute until you forget to empty their pockets and find that you have laundered a plethora of rocks

There’s no hope for Gaza while Netanyahu rules www.thetimes.com/article/7d06...

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

BOOK, MUMMY, BOOK, my 20 month old shouts at me from 7am onwards, like I’m living with the REF

Realised my 5 year old is being particularly adorable to his baby sister because he’s pretending that she’s his Pokémon

Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙 The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series. #histmed

Once again, the prestigious universities have pillaged the market, to their own destruction as a brand and the detriment to the students they are recruiting but can't teach properly. All the while laying financial waste to the post-1992s that can. When is government going to step in and fix this?

There is a real disconnect between media outlets putting together live coverage of A-level results and celebrating those going to university whilst also ignoring the decimation of the higher education sector and the impact that, over time, this will have on the experience of most of these students.