Niall Oddy

No! But I think you have to let the cat stay regardless!

Drawing on Ukrainian Republican Roots The egalitarian history of Ukrainian identity.

I've written about Ukraine as an outside observer but I felt this, from a Ukrainian leftist (and current soldier) @vlstarodubtsev.bsky.social was a great contribution regarding the history of Republicanism and Egalitarianism in Ukraine and a perspective unique to a Ukrainian author

PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

The entire purpose of building research on a citational structure is that the inevitable flaws are traceable and stable enough in their location that the overall field structure can take those mistakes/debates into account as part of the field discourse.

Wave of people filled the streets tonight for the one-year anniversary of daily, uninterrupted, non-stop #GeorgiaProtests. It’s day 366 and the resistance is as alive as ever. Until the end, until the victory.

black and white photo of to cats wearing small round sunglasses in the window of a "lunetterie"

You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925

Stevenson Lecture 2026 | Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books

The next Stevenson Lecture (25 Feb 2026) will be delivered by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social (University of Oxford). ‘Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books’ will be free to attend but booking essential. Link below 👇

Seems like I picked the wrong year to develop a Chocomel habit

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

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Day 361 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia.

A march planned for the 22nd anniversary of the Rose Revolution.

ROFL. Eco is not wrong. He's not wrong at all.

He’s paying me to imply that so he can get commissioned to write another op ed about being cancelled

Last time I was in Argonaut I didn’t see any books by Nigel Biggar or Boris Johnson.
I can’t say the same of the last New York based investment management fund owned Waterstones branch I went in

a black cat sitting on a chair by a dining table

What if we could pretend that my cat could talk and we decided to act on the basis that the words we made up were in fact words uttered by my cat?

This is TODAY! Join us in Bloomsbury or online! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...

And this government seems to be determined to placate the demands of people who didn’t vote for them and never will, instead of legislating for the millions of people who actually voted for them

A sleeper agent for Nigel Farage, surely?

Once again, a large crowd of protesters is marching through Tbilisi streets for day 353 of uninterrupted, nationwide demonstrations in Georgia. 🇬🇪

🎥 Mo Se

What is ironic about a great power like Russia is the persistent status insecurity and need of recognition by the US and Europe. If you really parted ways with the West and are fighting for a multipolar order what do you care how people in the West see you?

Brilliant! Well done!

Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

The effects of the proposed cull of languages provision at the University of Nottingham and the University of Leicester will be massive: for the wonderful staff, for current students, and for future budding linguists. Esp those who, like me, come from working-class backgrounds in the East Midlands.

"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies." - Shaharzad Akbar

"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies."

- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social

Read her article on Justice Info 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke...

#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid

Undeliverable promises like no rise in income tax, NI or VAT???

A former children's hospital which has become a casino.

The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.

I don't remember where I saw someone say that AI is particularly bad for historical thinking, because by definition it looks for what is the most likely to happen based on a pattern, whereas as historians we particularly like the outlying things, the weird things, the things that make us go "huh"?

EXCITED FOR OUR NEXT SESSION!

Sari Nauman on "Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the #EarlyModern Baltic Sea".

Monday, 10 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social NB02 and on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #SkyStorians #MovingHistory #HistoryOfMigration