James

On expensive, old, dirty trains which cost a fortune; my water and energy bills have increased an incredible amount in recent years, for United Utilities to still dump sewage into the river by mine.

Is there any wonder people are just fucking fed up?

In all seriousness: im 37, i have a PhD, I live in a rented house costing me a fortune, that had a leak the landlady didn’t get fixed for 6 months, and I have no hope of buying; there’s a pothole so big by my house it gave me a flat tyre which cost £200 to sort; I commute to work

Please, just a crumb of hope and a modicum of my life getting better.

How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn? This paper examines the historical, administrative, and socio-political history of Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, which was compounded by the external threat of Frenc...

Have a read of our recent thought-provoking article 'How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?' by James Brocklesby: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn? This paper examines the historical, administrative, and socio-political history of Pitcairn Island, a British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, which was compounded by the external threat of Frenc...

🎓 In a new article James Brocklesby asks "How do you Solve a Problem Like Pitcairn?" "The study contextualises Pitcairn’s position as a ‘problematic remnant’ of empire, [also] exploring ... the implications of nuclear testing in its vicinity".
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My valentine

I’m giving an (online) paper next Tuesday at the Institute of Historical Research. If anyone is interested in smaller territories, BOTs and decolonisation, feel free to join.

www.history.ac.uk/events/echoe...

Need to use this app much more. Anyway, here’s me and Hugo.

Need to stop buying cookbooks…

Timballo

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Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).

Christmas baking: amaretti, terrines - one in a camp chicken - and Nigella’s chilli jam (for gifts).

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Someone on Masterchef just cooked and dedicated a dish to Lady Gaga…

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Your 30s are great they said

Callum cried at the film, I think I’d cry at just that

Watched the Martha Stewart documentary; didn’t really get it before but kinda stan now.

Love to spend my dotage tending a garden and getting high with Snoop Dogg.

A real slap in the face during my lecture; someone laughed they weren’t born when 9/11 happened.

People snap chatting, girls next to me browsing the internet, groups chatting away…like it’s just rude

Enjoyed Wicked but one of the worst cinema experiences I’ve had. Why pay all that money to act like you’re in your front room?

Cake looks amazing. What flavour?

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Freedom of speech they all cry, whilst crying at companies doing something they don’t personally agree with.

This week, four students commented they love my module and teaching 🥹

Gran today: It's sad that John Prescott died, but he was a knob cos he kicked us off a table we booked at Chinese restaurant once, and his wife is a snob.

I’d like to see a national-marketing campaign on taking backpacks off on public transport.

Please, can a UK newspaper have their own version of connections. The American idioms do my head in.