1/2 Kemi Badenoch: “removing Churchill from banknotes is erasing our history”. Yes the entire country will forget who Churchill was and what he did because his face doesn’t appear fleetingly each time we hand over a fiver.
Banknotes, beavers and a very British backlash www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Richard Tice:
- engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax
- did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP
Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters
www.thetimes.com/article/6f55...
Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...
Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026).
I instinctively read this in a Dylan Thomas voice
I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?
www.ft.com/content/4493...
'On Tuesday, staff dialled into a video call, with the anodyne title of “March all staff event”. They were told that the university needed to make an astonishing £26.6 million of cost savings by August. Even in the midst of a bad patch for universities, this is bleak'. 1/3
Moby Dick is an incredible book because it is all of the things Chanda talks about in this video and also it is an excuse for Herman Melville to infodump (often incorrect) Whale Facts on his audience and I love that for him
In case the ever-deepening connections between AI development and global conflict wasn't being made clear enough ...
Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'.
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I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.
They pulled it because impersonated authors and just plain authors protested. The app was not simply ‘explosively controversial’. Its featured and monetised the supposed advice of ‘experts’, posthumous editorial advice rendered without said dead experts’ consent. Who signed off on this?
An honour to have you there, of course! And thank you again for your wonderful contributions.
This year's David Pinkney Prize goes to Miranda Spieler for Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Congratulations!
*probably Crycke. But hey that's not the primary thing really.
Ah you might well be right. Though other Ps in the text are similar.
Look, I have a lot of time for OCR in modern digital databases, but I cannot help but enjoy having searched for 'Sodomy' in East India Company records and gotten ...
'Jeremy Prycke' as a hit.
#skystorians
It's as though ChatGPT created the distilled image of exactly what a ChatGPT hype-guy would look like.
Time to reinvest that profit in the institutions that provide their content, I'd say ...
'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Of course you're right here but it's also just obscuring a long history if This Sort of Thing.
When 'the whole written history' apparently doesn't include the early modern period.
Sadly, European and Asian powers blowing each other up in the Strait of Hormuz is not a new thing, nor a thing likely to end any time soon.
#skystorians
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Deeply unfair. Also Wiley and Springer.
