One last request for (types of or specific) courses that might incl my book in reading lists. I'm not as familiar with the course names and profiles in US unis, so any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hello #AcademicSky hive mind! It's me again. This one specifically for colleagues in the US... Course adoption. What sorts of course do you teach that my book bsky.app/profile/jenn... might be used in? (Don't worry, I'm not asking you to add it to your reading list, though you'd be very welcome!)

This is the money paragraph for me.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Who looks at these flags on roundabouts and lampposts and feels pride? Far right thugs and racists. And who looks at them with fear and loathing? Everyone else. National flags are being used as Nazi bunting by Reform and the far right. Let’s call this what it is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

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

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

Just spotted this book on the UNC website. I was talking to students today about memories of the civil rights movement - this looks like it's going to be an interesting take and a great addition to the scholarship. Look forward to reading it.

Hello #AcademicSky hive mind! It's me again. This one specifically for colleagues in the US... Course adoption. What sorts of course do you teach that my book bsky.app/profile/jenn... might be used in? (Don't worry, I'm not asking you to add it to your reading list, though you'd be very welcome!)

'History provides a stark example for 2024-25: a 6 per cent increase in the Russell Group and a 5 per cent fall elsewhere. Since 2011-12, history enrolments have risen by 4 percent, but dropped 52 per cent in pre-92 institutions and 58 per cent in post-92 and alternative providers.' 3/4

Thanks, @jennywoodley.bsky.social for asking this question about #AcademicPublishing #BookMarketing as I’m in the same boat. Any tips for filling out the academic book author questionnaire #writersky #academicsky?

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

HELP! Any tips for completing the marketing questionnaire for academic books? It's been a while since I've done one of these and I feel like the landscape has changed in the last decade or so! #skystorians #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #BookSky

This project was only possible because of support and funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk A research fellowship provided funds to visit over 20 sites discussed in the book. But more importantly, it gave me the time and space to think and write.

As I get ready to submit my final manuscript to @ugapress.bsky.social, I thought it was time for a thread about my forthcoming book. ‘Mourning Black’ explores grief and mourning in the archive and museum, from enslavement to Black Lives Matter.

I'm looking forward to reading Leigh Raiford's new book When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (also great 40% discount offer available via @dukepress.bsky.social) www.dukeupress.edu/when-home-is...

fair play to Martin, using RIP dot ie the way the lord intended #speirgorm

I'm reading a book that includes a storyline involving gnats and I don't know if someone originally misspelled the word and then did an automatic change but every word with "nat" is now "gnat"! It's very distracting!

Here's where Louis Mosley, the black-shirt wearing grandson of the black-shirt wearing fascist Oswald Mosley, who runs Palantir in the UK, says how and when they might use your medical data for "immigration enforcement" and, by logical extension, whatever other purposes became convenient.

Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

This is a thread for historians: Our most important use of our professional skills is informing the public of our shared past, especially at times like this. Human histories of the costs of Jim Crow, what this all means in accessible terms, it needs to get out. Resources and publication options:

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.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

Another good post-92 deciding that its students don’t deserve humanities.

"The court has drawn new standards for plaintiffs to establish claims of illegal racial discrimination in voting that virtually no case will be able to meet," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Supreme Court rules Black voters had no rights which the white man was bound to respect

This:is 💯 correct. The vast majority of Section 2 litigation (and settlements made under the threat of litigation) have been at the local level. Callais will gut minority representation in city councils, county supervisors, and school boards across the county.

If you want to learn more about how the Taney court got delegitimized and what happened after, I’ve got you scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-arti...

It's so disheartening watching this court carry out the explicit project of white supremacy so blatantly while gaslighting the public to say it's trying to stop discrimination. They're dismantling every major legacy of the civil rights movement. We need to reform this court.

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

Well, the Reconstruction Amendments were nice while they lasted.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Very excited for this event tonight. Join us online at 18:00 UTC.

A parent from school is cycling between all 10 UK test match grounds (over 600 miles) on his old 3-speed bike in memory of his son, Raff, and to raise money for It's Never You. Follow on Insta @raffsride and sponsor his brilliant efforts for a fantastic cause here www.justgiving.com/page/raffsride

'Visits to dark heritage attractions are shaped less by exhibits, explanation panels and audio guides, and more by interactions with other visitors, according to recent research led by Dr Rachael Ironside at Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University and funded by the British Academy.' 1/2

This might be me favourite thing on the internet ever

A parent from school is cycling between all 10 UK test match grounds (over 600 miles) on his old 3-speed bike in memory of his son, Raff, and to raise money for It's Never You. Follow on Insta @raffsride and sponsor his brilliant efforts for a fantastic cause here www.justgiving.com/page/raffsride

Excellent from start to finish. @sorayanadiamcdonald.com's remarks, about the kind of society we live in and what it's willing to overlook, are clearly not just about MJ. Hit me hard and I'm still thinking about it.