Catherine Fletcher

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It's at 11 - my grandfather would have been opening the sherry

at the risk of a slight spoiler, one for any of you teaching a public history class

Wigan's golden gladiator statue owner prepared for court battle Grant Adamson says he will risk a council fine rather than remove his 30ft (9m) golden statue.

Classical Reception, Wigan-style

LinkedIn advert for Digital Platform Manager job at Church of England

My morning coffee had just worn off when the door opened. I knew from the silhouette who it was.

"Leo. Hear you made it to the top."

"Yeah. Got a job for you." He said.

"Why me?"

"Catholicism needs your... unique skills again." He said, smiling darkly. "Time to bring them down. From the inside"

The Unclaimed Dead From the Spanish Civil War to the invasion of Ukraine, Nina Janz writes about foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.

How are soldiers who volunteer for foreign causes commemorated in the countries they served?

@ninajanz.bsky.social on foreign fighters and the struggle over memory.

If we fixed the gender pay gap, more women could afford to eat in the posh restaurants with tiny portions

I must be spending too much time online because I read this and thought, what, they have a whole District for Gaslighting now?

This is also key to the action thriller genre. When the hero picks up a gun, we know exactly which type of gun, how it's an improvement on the previous model, its relative recoil compared to the last gun he used etc.

The 500th anniversary of the Church of England is coming up, perfect timing for such an initiative.

From that religious position, where the great achievement of the British Empire was in bringing the Word of God to the world, it makes sense.

He is just a very committed US-style religious conservative, I think. Educated at Chicago, spent his immediate postdoctoral years at Oxford working for an evangelical think-tank alongside teaching.

Looks like a good Christmas present for music-lovers

(Trying not to think about the 10% success rate.)

a baby in a car seat is holding a stack of money Alt: a small child in a car seat is holding a stack of money

Finally I have a full draft of our grant application!

We really don't need well-meaning relatives chipping in for these because they can't think of a better Christmas present

Given my age I wonder if they're expecting me to buy this for my niece?

Ad for a service called "Not Actually Studying" with text reading "like where is the motivation..." and a picture of a woman with a laptop captioned "pov: I'm doing an assignment but then realize that NO ONE has gotten me an exam care package yet (especially a yearly plan for walterwrites.ai)

Facebook is now serving me ads for a 'cheat with AI' subscription service

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

These applied history fellowships are a positive thing, but it's odd to restrict this one, endowed by an expert on South Africa, to people working on British and Irish history of the Modern World. Surely studies of other countries can have policy relevance.

Combined with changes in patterns of work that make things worse, like the constant need to hit 5* feedback in customer service or risk losing your job.

I did my first one back in 2012 when it was still routinely live, and it was pretty nerve-wracking but once done it was done, and it saves the producers some effort

The bigger question about IoT is whether it's going back to live broadcast, once again the radio equivalent of an undergrad history exam for its contributors

Now every time you pet a cat you have to think about the Roman Empire

Yes, that usage is why we have 'public history' instead/as well to describe what could be called 'applied'.

we could do with a few more vice-chancellors making this case in the UK

The Loch Ness monster

I'm not sure about an angry parrot but there's a whole poem about a dead parrot (source for Monty Python?)

To be fair, this happens A LOT in the classical Latin corpus

This was never an ideal way to run seminars but it was pretty common when I was an undergraduate and even when I started teaching (20 years ago) it was feasible.