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Accepting applications: ICS Public Engagement Grants

Apply for up to £500 to support Classics-themed public engagement activities, demonstrating aspects of research in Classics in ways that are accessible, enjoyable & understandable for non-specialist audiences
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Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Massive congratulations Leon!!

So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions.

No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.

This again...

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Paul Magdalino is delivering his keynote speech on the stage. Brigitte Pitarakis, the con-convener of 324 symposium is seated as she is the moderator of the session.

Paul Magdalino is back in Istanbul as the co-convener of the 324 Symposium at the Pera Museum. In his keynote speech, he described the identity of early Constantinople as “Constantinian first, Roman second, and Christian third.” #byzantinebluesky #blueskybyzantine #medievalbluesky

Dimiter Angelov’s ‘Imperial Ideology and Politicls Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330’ sits on a coffee shop table.

Starting Dimiter Angelov’s Imperial Ideology & Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330 (CUP).

Always struck by how Byzantium’s resilience was intellectual as much as political.

#Byzantium #MedievalStudies #IntellectualHistory

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok Times may be tough on the high street but the bookseller Waterstones is enjoying strong sales as younger adults embrace reading as an escape from their screens and as online competition eases. “People have come back to reading and buying books in bookshops as we have made a place which is an enjoyable and effective way to buy books,” says James Daunt, the CEO of the British retailer, which has 320 UK bookshops and owns the Foyles, Hatchards and Blackwell’s names, and whose parent group also owns Barnes & Noble, the US’s largest bookstore chain. Continue reading...

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

imo a big problem right now is the fetishism for proper procedure that grips so many left-of-center elites, which leads them to believe that the only way to resist is lawsuits. sooner or later someone must realize that you have to simply refuse (or give a countermanding order) and face trump down

The other day someone described getting a degree to me as an exercise in delayed gratification.

For me (in research and teaching), the process was always the thing. There's no end point where research or learning is "done", so if you really care about either, you have to connect to that process.

Don’t worry. No one else knows what they’re doing either.

I know this feeling!

In anticipation of my book on the Roman emperor Julian coming out next month…

1 like = 1 fact/opinion/observation about him.

another weird thing about the genocide is that you can arguably trace it back to British imperial decisions via a stranger route than the usual faultlines. namely, before 1857 there were a *lot* of Bengalis in John Company's army. After 1857 80-90 percent of Bengal regiments were dissolved ...

Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

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Trying to teach myself Greek is hard, especially when the sources I want to read are so complex. Here’s hoping I discover a previously under-explored faculty for languages

🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history.

The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

And they didn't link the crowdfunder... I despair for journalism.

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AHA Reads - AHA In these chaotic times, we’re feeling the need to escape. And what better way is there to forget about the present than by diving into a good book about the past? So we invite you to participate in th...

We’re nearing the end of the second month of #AHAReads! What books did you read? Which tasks did you fulfill with them? 📚🗃️

Looking to branch out into Byzantine/Eastern Roman History. Any accounts that I should be following? Book recommendations also welcome! #Byzantium #EasternRoman #Medieval #LateAntiquity #Historians #History

<taps the Royal Historical Society briefing, once again>

Both quantitative and qualitative data showing that History is a verrrrry valuable degree. But will university managers and market departments listen, or continue the vibes-based approach?
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Chances of the deal actually working are low, but PM has achieved the impossible by persuading Macron to accept returns www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...

‘The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century’ by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, has recently been published in the Oxf…

New on the blog: Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley explore the lasting impact of the "Black Legend" - the narrative of Spain and its empire as cruel and intolerant - examining its historical roots, and modern debates on colonialism and memory. Read more: bit.ly/4b1Zf2q @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18

The cover of The Shape of Sex by Leah DeVun

Some good counterprogramming for today. Just start it for my Wed seminar