do not know why not all of them could do this, it's not hard to not shake the hand of somewhat being tried on 7 counts of rape

Hakimi too.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.

just to say that in my research on unemployment in the 70s and 80s, I had the surreal moment of seeing government officials blaming unemployment for school leavers in *1978* on the particular fecklessness of modern youth. absolutely zero sense of wider structural changes to the economy at all.

What's so telling is that this government will never have this kind of energy for excluding a cis man from anything

v much looking forward to this on Monday - book here if you want! www.thesocial.com/event/no-fut...

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?

Today is Cost of Rent Day. The point in the year when England’s renters have basically earned only for their landlord. In 2026, that’s until 11 May, over 4 months of wages or benefits gone on rent. High rents are driving people into poverty. Watch to find out more:

Really looking forward to talking with @lauratisdall.bsky.social this Wednesday about her fab new book at Gower St Waterstones - book below if you fancy coming!

not sure how i feel about david attenborough looking more sprightly of a friday night at 100 than i do at 39

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Looking forward to this tomorrow! More info below.

Here's my take on that (other answers are also available...) www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

I am so looking forward to chatting with the brilliant @lauratisdall.bsky.social about her ace new book at the Gower St Waterstones on 13 May - book below if you fancy coming!

Really important Big Read this on what is just straightforwardly a misselling scandal taking place in plain sight in my view:

There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.

seems indicative of well, something, that none of the links to the candidates that Lambeth Labour are standing in the May election actually work on their website www.lambeth-labour.org.uk#our-track-re...

Anyone got any intel on what's happening with the British Library's oral history collections post cyber-attack? The website simply points you to look at updates on its sound and vision blog, but the link it provides is broken (!) ...

just seen this doing the rounds, and it is absolutely brilliant on the fundamental problems underlining the UK HE model, and I wish everyone in the government and the OfS was forced to read it ten times over until the message finally sinks in

Really looking forward to hearing Alex Mayhew speak on this this Thursday at the IHR (5:30pm, in person and online). Sign up here!

⏰ Less than a week to apply for this funded PhD opportunity - apply by 31 March!

Iran sent Trump a giant horse on wheels. It is about to be wheeled into Mara Lago's grounds.

Really looking forward to hearing Alex Mayhew speak on this this Thursday at the IHR (5:30pm, in person and online). Sign up here!

looking forward to this tomorrow - book below if you fancy it

looking forward to talking at this in Haringey in a week's time, even more looking forward to actually meeting the activists involved, who will also be part of the panel. link to book below

This is terrible, and made worse by fact that SHU has also historically been an institution which employs a lot of teaching only staff. My dad worked there for 25 years and him and his entire department (maths) were teaching only! (That might have changed since, but was case in 2015 when he retired)

Great opportunity for Samuel Beckett scholars to work on the Beckett archive at Reading samuelbeckettsociety.org/2026/03/10/c...

This is a fascinating looking paper by @benjamin-bland.bsky.social, on processes of racialisation in the popular culture of late C20th Britain. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

just to be clear there is SO MUCH precedent for arresting a senior royal. just not any precedent where it ends well for them

this would be a dream PhD for one lucky individual...

if you missed No Future first time round ....there's 25% off here www.waterstones.com/book/no-futu...

Fantastic funded PhD opportunity here in the School of Humanities at Reading - please share widely! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

On Thursday 26 March, the Royal Historical Society will be holding an online meeting for Directors of Research / REF Leads to discuss preparations by historians for the REF. Contact [email protected] to participate.

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

Great to see this out in the world - was a pleasure to work with Gary and Richard

They'll probably never repeat that episode of 8/10 Cats with Brand, Walliams and Noam Chomsky

"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

"the Student Loans Company (the taxman in plastic glasses and fake moustache)"

i do wonder how much of this supposedly counter-intuitive effect is about the social capital a lot of humanities graduates - who tend to skew very middle-class - have, though?

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

I really love this from Keith G (and not just because it's nice about my book!). Properly insightful in a way that alas, quite often writing on the miners' strike is not...

Is this the result of under-awarding or over-applying? It’s both of course but it’s a particular problem that institutions require evidence of applying as part of promotions: they incentivise activity which cannot in all cases pay off, using up resources in performative performance review (1/3).

Really looking forward to Scott Anthony's seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social tomorrow at 5:30 - sign up below!

jenrick calling 80s football hooliganism 'good-natured fun' is both absolutely insane and the best #accidentalpartridge i've heard in a while

ah, i'm pleased to see this - read with great curiosity the book 'we pretty pieces of flesh' that this story is from as i went to school with the author, and it was great (as well as totally surreal to read a book set in a not-really-fictionalised-at-all version of the school you went to)