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I'm very keen for that! Mind you, I'm currently a generation of consoles behind being able to play it (and a few decades or so behind in PC terms), so it is definitely one for the future

If only they had read 'Terror and Terroir', available in paperback for £25 (with 30% off if you sign up for the MUP newsletter):

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526131898/

#shamelessplug

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team "Beyond Neoliberalism: The Dream Team" is a 16-minute video essay that threads together the big themes of the conference: industrial policy, climate, inequality, state capacity, and the future of globalization. Featuring an all-star cast of thinkers, policymakers, and journalists. Visit the CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://beyond-neoliberalism.org/ - watch highlights and full-length videos of every panel - listen to the conference podcast - see a full archive of photographs Listen to the Conference Podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-neoliberalism-the-conference-podcast/id1825070611 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7Gc3JCHtVwCaoMjibrAGxi

🚨 It’s live! 🚨
The full #BeyondNeoliberalism experience is now online:
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🎥 Session videos + podcast recordings
→ beyond-neoliberalism.org

If you're looking for me, then... I'm currently quite hard to find! We're moving house today

Grinning fool in a gown

Graduation day! It's a doubler for me at QMUL: I'll start by trying to hold back tears as our first ever cohort of BA Liberal Arts graduates crosses the stage, before congratulating our wonderful Historians!

Throwback to the wonderful "Resist" conference that took place in Paris earlier this month. Thank you to everyone who participated!

To accompany the article, Alex has also written for the RHS blog, with 'Four Suggestions for the Future of (Environmental) History' bit.ly/4o6ZPCa

Alex's post offers important advice on the skills historians bring to questions of climate change, and the skills historians need for this subject.

Coronation chicken obviously remains a top-tier sandwich filling, but has anyone made a habit of the quiche that the King introduced? I'd wager not

Swift disclaimer as you felt an imminent hexing, eh? Also, I love the disclaimer on the MIT site

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

La Pensée by Rodin

Man bathing in a wheely bin

This Rodin sculpture in the Musée d'Orsay is called 'La Pensée' and apparently the contrast between the masterful feminine face and the brute marble connotes something of the complexity of thought. I'm afraid all I ended up thinking of was this bloke famously bathing in his wheely bin

Thank you and sorry we didn't see each other! I thought you did well in the journals panel (and Anne S asking for the microphone back at the end was hilarious)

I've had a brilliant time at #GCFHSResist - rich, engaging papers and lots of brilliant colleagues. It was all pulled off with a riotous panache as well! Chapeau to the organisers and to Luc and Solveig for being brilliant hosts! Now for a few days off

GCFHS panel journal roundtable

GCFHS panel listing

Today was the last day of #GCFHSresist. This morning I went to a great journals roundtable, followed by a panel which explored visual culture & mobility. Really enjoyed hearing about Soldier photographers in Algeria & references to Joan of Arc

As atonement for last night's excesses, I'm up early doing laundry at the hotel before today's panels!

And then (after a dash back to the room to do some Paper Trails editorial work) it was off to the gala! They'd taken over a bar and there was a DJ, karaoke and... ahem... quite a lot of champagne #GCFHSResist

GCFHS panel listing

The last #GCFHSResist panel yesterday was a creative engagement with archives of resistance to recover silenced voices and transmit memory

GCFHS panel listing for Gerson

Then back to #GCFHSResist for a couple of great plenaries. First up was Stéphane Gerson's reflective piece on his grandmother's storytelling which was theoretically rich as well as a brilliant story!

After that, it was a quick duck out for the HistoryUK steering group meeting

GCFHS panel listing

Yesterday at #GCFHSResist, I started the day with a panel on media. I really enjoyed hearing about the role of radio and ritual in sustaining wartime memories. Likewise, really interesting stuff on Russian emigres in Paris in 1917 (and the new newspaper is they launched every 5 minutes!)

Institute of Historical Research The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

Panel list at GCFHS

The last #GCFHSResist panel of the day was a bit of a palate cleanser, listening to discussions of French rap through lenses of memory agents and postcolonial soundscapes, with excellent paper from @redgillett.bsky.social

Next #GCFHSResist panel was this incredible panel. Moll used the lens of Yugoslavia to map debates within French resistance, then Farmer revealed a moving and astounding trail of a Jewish girl killed at Oradour and how memory moved around her

bsky.app/profile/lmeb...

List of panels at GCFHS

The first panel I attended yesterday at #GCFHSResist was a brilliant paper by Daniel Gordon on the anti-fascist action in June 1973 and its international threads. Dalil Ferguensis spoke about fascinating project of resisting bidonville clearances

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Helpful guidance that both demystifies the purpose of Select Committee evidence-writing AND helps making your submission connect with its intended audience.

Of great use to anyone planning to submit something to the finances in #UKHE enquiry: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Sorry not to see you and hope all's well

After that @lmebroch.bsky.social & I were drafted in to represent the SSFH on the plenary panel discussing the health of the sector, creative resistance, and the pragmatic reciprocities which can sustain us in challenging times #GCFHSResist