The second part of our Creative History in the Classroom series is coming together for @hisjournalha.bsky.social. Here’s a new early view piece by @housing-jill.bsky.social & Zoe Hendon on using ‘learning walks’ when teaching Housing History & how they can be creative tools! @cathfeely.bsky.social

I've just been spammed about how to clean my house like a professional. To be honest, I'd be more than happy with competent amateur.

This was the first episode of Buffy I ever saw and it genuinely scared me! It still does ...

What is maddening about this debate is that citation practices are not just about AI hallucinations. Scholars should be familiar with the ongoing conversations in their fields. Citations aren't throwaway padding. They are about matters of methodology, ethics, and care. 🛢1/2

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

Nice reminder to what remains of the Starmer project that there might be an easier way of "winning over Reform voters" that doesn't entail bragging about robbing refugees of their personal possessions in militarised detention centres.

You mean that it started badly, improved as lessons were learned and experience was gained, and ended in a strategic success that contributed to eventual victory?

This is the kind of shameless populist rabble-rousing I can get behind.

Fellowship and Membership applications are welcome at anytime from those working with history, across all career stages and sectors: bit.ly/43bmMLe Our newly elected Fellows teach and research in 16 countries; our new Postgraduate Members are studying in 61 universities in 13 countries 2/2

Congratulations and well done to all those joining us at the @royalhistsoc.org

don’t get me started on reviewers putting articles into an LLM to generate reviews. *this* is v v severe infringement of use rights and should be actionable tbqh

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

THIS. Solidarity to all facing this, wherever they are.

5 June deadline for these Royal Historical research grants. #Skystorians

Well,this looks very timely ... with an excellent panel.

Once again: Jo Cox MP was murdered. David Amess MP was murdered.

Wigan? You sure?!

Yep.

Writes a professor of mathematics who researches number theory and automorphic forms. Meanwhile, Dame Nathalie Lieven QC, who ruled on the Sussex case, was called to the bar in 1989, took Silk in 2006 and was appointed as a deputy High Court judge in 2016. Just saying.

This response is understandable, and feels compassionate. I said very similar things about the area that I grew up, which voted heavily for Brexit. But the thing is: these people have been indulged in their ideas — which are racist, and also simply incoherent — for over a decade.

So the £85million+ spent (aka 'wasted') on a completely failed new city campus has dropped off this news altogether. This disaster was defended repeatedly in Senate by the VC who is now 'excited' by the opportunities presented by ending the careers of 100s of staff. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Tomorrow /Weds 13th May Join us at 12:30 for the last of this season's half-hour Dracula Lunchtime Bites. The Derby Dracula team, led by Dan Webber, will talk about the many things that the Derby Dracula has been doing over the past year. Book for free at www.ticketsource.com/draculalunchtimebites

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.

Was listening to someone talk about an interdisciplinary grant proposal that got hilariously split reviews. It was the historian, I suggested, wasn't it? People, it was indeed the historian. Always the historian. We're like someone ready with a needle to pop someone's balloon.

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

Also published today in Transactions: Peter Gatrell's article 'The "RefugeeWorld": A Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/49nWmtg This is an article version of Peter's 2025 Prothero Lecture given in July last year. Now available free Open Access 1/2 #Skystorians

Children of the Blitz review – wonderful, priceless television

Gosh, Children of the Blitz on BBC2 on the noise and the feeling it in the body. Incredible stuff. To think that children still suffer this somewhere in the world every night.

Siri, can you show me the face of a born quisling?

oh is Starmer banging on about steel again

We currently invite applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

We're very pleased to announce that the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) on Weds 1 July bit.ly/4eF0DMp. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is now open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

wish this site had Circles so fellow historians could join with me in confidentially sharing just how outrageously, gloriously slow some of their projects have been

This Wednesday we're @librarywales.bsky.social and @aberuni.bsky.social to meet with historians from the region. Subjects include history in Welsh HE and new work in Welsh history. Our public lecture (6pm) is by Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL). All welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackbeaut... #Skystorians

Is there a more relationship-straining DIY task than hanging pictures? Asking for a friend.

All over the place leaders of humanities departments have had to justify our existence to central administrators as if the university AS SUCH does not owe its very origins to humanistic disciplines.

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

This report is crucially important. Our University serves a whole region, with a widening participation agenda. We will now be a cold spot for Humanities, as our University has removed the opportunity for local students from WP backgrounds to study well-established and employable subjects.

It’s nearly time for our national diary day! Every 12th May we ask people to write down what they got up to. This year we’re also really interested in experiences of nature and wellbeing, as well as what else you get up to on the day! #diary #journal #nature #skystorians #write #Archive

There’s still time, I still have an hour to repost. May you find that person who looks at you the way Zendaya looks at him after he, um, grinds her legs

So tonight our History Society won a Union Award and I didn't win lecturer of the year (always nice to be nominated though) BUT I did get an article acceptance email so prosecco has been had! A good day!

This language of 'opportunity' is pervasive and corrosive.

So much is so very wrong with UK Humanities at this time, but here's a ray of haunting illumination. If you missed Professor Sasha Handley's Royal Historical Society lecture at the University of Warwick, you can now catch yourself (& your students, this or next year) up with the video. #Skystorians

Are you a History GCSE teacher keen to engage students with the deeper past? A reminder that this and other articles in @royalhistsoc.org 's Transactions are now published open access, so they're free for you (and your students) to read and download. @histassoc.bsky.social #Skystorians

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

"The annual review also requires me to write up my accomplishments in detail and submit them two weeks before the review. This involves searching four different places to find the correct information on how to submit the document."

Anyone who votes for this party knows what they are voting for and every single one of them is deserving of our utter contempt. It should be as socially unacceptable to vote for them as it was to vote BNP 20 years ago.