Lucy Delap

Makes me wonder what treasures might have survived if the rest of Europe had escaped the damage of twentieth century wars...

Large north German organ, 1500 pipes, in white painted sunny church

In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.

“Despite global uncertainty, the UK is increasingly viewed as the most reliable option compared to the disruption seen in the US, Canada and Australia,” he added.

Can we have a chat about what causes the disruption in Canada & Australia, not ruled by Trump?

That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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Servants “No matter how hard you work or how capable you are, you can't do it all yourself. You have to seek reliable help.” Those were Margaret Thatcher’s words in...

Domestic servant, au pair, char, cleaner, treasure.... Historical change, but similar dynamics of outsourcing dirty work. Good to discuss this with Ros Taylor
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Seven rotary dial phones in colours from black to light pink, close to a world map.

...and pastel phones in the command room used to coordinate South Vietnam's military operations until its defeat 1975.

A bank of grey telex machines in an underground room, with grey office chairs and brown walls.

You'd love these bunkers under Vietnam's Independence Palace for office heritage.

Does your toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, dish washer products have dangerous PFA levels? Check here. If governments won't ban them, we can at least stop buying these toxic items.
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Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information?

Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths?

We've got a plan. Please look and share!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌

Congratulations Holly!! Fantastic achievement and super innovative work

WHN Annual Book Prize We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
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Moyne Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Ireland - Madeline Ffrench-Mullen

Please join us this Tuesday, 3 June, 5-7pm, for the book launch of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, with Sir Richard J. Evans, Maxine Berg, Richard Drayton, Abigail Green, Jan Rüger, and me, at MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

“While States debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Teresa Segura-Garcia uncovers Downing College's refusal, as a key UK educator of Indian nationalist lawyers
www.dow.cam.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Trump's assault on Harvard has a more polite forebear, in the quiet pressure brought on elite UK institutions to limit Indian student numbers during early twentieth century anti-colonial agitation. Most Cambridge colleges agreed to Lord Morley's request to restrict Indian applicants in 1909

Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London Apply for the Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now...

Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World)
King's College London - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp (1982-3) and After: Local nuclear resistance, grassroots feminisms, and transnational solidarities

Our next @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social is on Weds 28 May, 5.30pm (in person only) with brilliant @racheljcollett.bsky.social on grassroots feminisms, resistance & transnational solidarities. Don't miss it, sign up today 👇. #womensgrassrootsactivism @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Beautiful, thoughtful, urgent writing that centres philosophy and cultural critique as key modes for African feminism

Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.

Inventing Japanese Braille Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille.

Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States.

In this new article Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the global significance of inventing Japanese Braille.

Excited to be talking today @ Uni of NSW abt why disability isn't always useful as a category of analysis - a chance to look at alternatives (braves, poor things, handicapped, cripples, shut ins, crooked stalks) across the C20 that do important work in showing how impairment was socially experienced

Apply for a proxy vote Use this service to apply to vote by proxy in certain elections in the UK. You and your proxy must both be registered to vote in the UK.

If you can't make it to the polling station on 1 May, there is still a day left to apply for a proxy vote! It's dead easy. Don't let anything interfere with your precious right to vote.
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The Men's Dress Reform Party (1930s, UK) was extraordinary: they sought to make men 'beautiful' & 'free'. Strongly eugenic & part of the New Health movement. Eccentrics? Early Men's Rights Movement? Certainly part of the colonialist project. See my blog here: www.joannabourke.com/blog.

Congratulations! Wonderful news

Image of the title page of a thesis

contents page of the thesis

contents page of the thesis

short abstract of the thesis

📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳

‘A weakness can become your biggest strength’ – wise words from 26 brilliant disabled women In this second extract from Frances Ryan’s new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions

“The world around you will try to tell you that your life isn’t worth as much as others – don’t believe them.”

For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In previous periods of tariff wars, some countries turned to barter as an alternative. India for ex. had barter agreements with Egypt, China, the USSR and Argentina in the late 1940s, for weapons, grain, cotton.... Some arrangements lasted for decades. Any good histories of this out there?

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

The US right is coming for disabled people. Here’s why that threatens everyone Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties

"Eventually, the ideas become so ubiquitous they are adopted by politicians who use them to engage their base..." #disabilityrights #inclusion www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...