c.org/T5FKn56YzK Terrible decision to shut down Languages at Nottingham. Part of a wave of closures in the Humanities here and elsewhere in the UK. PLEASE SIGN!

An important piece taking stock of EDI @camhistory.bsky.social

Last week, I published a piece in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) critically assessing current attempts by political and scientific actors to counter the rise of right-wing parties in East Germany through new ‘lighthouse’ projects. Will this really help after years of neglect?

Happy to share my review of this timely book, just published in the AHR. Esther Elizabeth Adaire. Neo-Nazi Postmodern: Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989 url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Congratulations to Professor Lucy Delap, appointed new Chair of Cambridge's History Faculty, to succeed Professor Mary Laven on 1 October 2025. Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @cam.ac.uk and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. @lucydelap.bsky.social @marylaven.bsky.social

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Summer likely to be hottest ever in UK

British "debate" on migration is in the gutter, but we should still be shocked that Labour's response yesterday was to criticise Farage for being insufficiently detailed in his plan for mass detention camps.

🔎 New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality. The findings - from researchers incl. @camhistory.bsky.social's Prof Simon Szreter - reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period. Read more⬇️

In hope and trepidation ...

I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

🌳 Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Open letter re Lord Browne's candidacy for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge now at 300 signatures. 🥳 chancellorletter.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/o...

The rainstorm that caused the Texas flooding disaster was of a severity that would occur just once in 1,000 years in a stable climate. This was a complex, compound tragedy of a type that climate warming is making more frequent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

350 signatures! including many plucky fighters from the tuition fee wars of 2010-11. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Some welcome publicity (in yesterday's Times) for our open letter opposing Lord Browne of Madingley's bid for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge -- the letter is at chancellorletter.wordpress.com

My letter in today’s Guardian.

'Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution' - co-edited by @camhistory.bsky.social's @pramospinto.bsky.social - goes beyond the limits of national history to locate the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena. A new global approach to this still understudied event ⬇️

Campaigning for Cam Uni Chancellor to be an ethical force. Focusing on its core purposes, education, research, and caring for all its staff and students. Severing all connections with oil and arms. @mikescialom.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The sea is now the only available conduit to bring essential aid to Palestinians. If Israel attacks these aid flotillas, as it has threatened, it will also set a dangerous long-term precedent of unlawful policing in international waters, which will further entrench its unlawful occupation on land.

And a great chance to hear our brilliant colleagues @julieb534.bsky.social @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Sujit Sivasundaram speaking about why History matters.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social @ehess.fr @pse.bsky.social @pramospinto.bsky.social @historyecon.bsky.social

Many thanks to Emily Betz for a great conversation.

A lovely piece about our wonderful colleague Peter Mandler.

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

Pro-Palestine student activists at Cambridge Uni disrupted graduation in protest saying: “Cambridge Uni is complicit in genocide in Gaza,” one student protester said, holding a Palestinian flag. “Over 60k have been killed by Israel, & Cambridge continues to invest in Israeli arms,” she added.

1/2 Vladimir Kara-Murza, Cambridge graduate and Russian opposition politician, presented the 2025 Trevelyan Lecture at Magdalene College on 8 March, chaired by our Regius professor, Christopher Clark...

Great excitement in Cambridge as Thomas Piketty gives the second of his three lectures. I think this is the first time in 15 years that I have seen historians, economists, geographers, and political scientists all in one room.

How did the definition of the 'urban' and the 'suburban' affect the lives of residents? Antoni Porayski-Pomsta (@camhistory.bsky.social) addresses this important question through his research on early twentieth century Warsaw

Cambridge has been teaching History for 300 years. In that time historians have changed their minds on many key issues. But is History now more contested than ever? Must-read interview in latest CAM Mag with Profs Chris Clark, Mary Laven, Sujit Sivasundaram, Helen McCarthy & others. Link below⬇️

I want to send a very sincere Fuck You to Columbia University, let me be specific: Columbia was where I started learning Arabic, and in my class were at least three Orthodox Jewish women who consistently bodied everyone else due to their excellent Hebrew grammar. 1/

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

We're excited to reach 1,000 followers (and counting) on Bluesky! In honour of this milestone, we'd like to share our catalogued edition with the USTC no. 1000: Les illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye Lyon, Etienne Baland et Jean Rocher, 1510 www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/1000

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

Saw Richard II @bridgetheatre.bsky.social yesterday. Jonathan Bailey is breathtakingly good. Loved the nods to Succession (music, costume) - half expected Kieran Culkin to stride out on stage ☺️Congrats to all the cast (and behind the scenes people). Just brilliant.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

If you are interested in what the British public actually thinks about international students (rather than the anti-migration mishmash we get from Labour/Tories/Reform) check out the report @hendaly.bsky.social has been working on with @britishfuture.bsky.social:

Started the day with Rachel Reeves lying through her teeth on 'sustainable aviation fuel.' Today Programme interviewer does his best, but Reeves is incapable of deploying a scrap of evidence in support of her assertion that a third runway at Heathrow is compatible with UK climate targets.

"Thirty-two dolphins have died since fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken tankers three weeks ago in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula from Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, an animal rescue group said Sunday." (AP) #collapse

Tomorrow, UK bus fares go up from £2 to £3 (£2.50 if you win the postcode lottery). On the Today Programme, the Mayor of West Yorkshire has just referred to these changes as 'slight rises.' #outoftouch @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

One of the more important reviews of 2024: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chilling report @financialtimes.com on the Valencia floods. Lessons not learned. Warnings ignored. on.ft.com/4iMABXc

Insane and unjust ruling.

When even the Telegraph perceives the nonsense of this decision ...

Israel killed the last remaining orthopedic surgeon in Northern Gaza today. Dr Saeed Joudeh was on his way to the hospital when Israel shot him in the head. He was not a combatant. He was a doctor devoted to saving lives. 😢 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

How many major news organizations can you name, anywhere in North America - aside from relatively small Indy outlets - that aren't journalistically corrupted by their ownership at the moment?

This genuinely scares me, as an Australian Jew The refusal to accept legitimate criticism, and the awful accusation that legitimate criticism is antisemitic, is, imho, among the leading drivers of antisemitism, and paints our community in a very negative light. It’s what I feared from the envoy