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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

'If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues'.

Wales rules out levy on international student fees Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income

“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)

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Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

This looks superb, Mark, and intriguing.

Super news Mark!

Superbly insightful, balanced, but nonetheless scary episode of @newsagents.bsky.social on AI and its historic significance. Well done to @lewisgoodall.com for pushing this conversation forward.

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

'Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.'

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

obviously, the time to throw in a new 5* (sorry, 4* plus) rating to this system is the time when there are sector-wide cuts in research time and resources

Be my replacement for a year and work in a great School with lovely colleagues! Please share with any modern Europeanists who might be interested!

A short piece by me on early modern ships’ surgeons and emotions!

The British Academy has responded to a consultation by Medr on its new regulatory system for tertiary education in Wales.

We make the case for ensuring a wide breadth of subjects for all learners in Welsh tertiary education. Read our full response: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

I've written a short piece for History Today on ships' surgeons and emotional lives at sea. Enjoy!

Are you looking to publish your research in an academic journal? Then this ICCEES roundtable is for you! Featuring the editors of @conteurohistory.bsky.social sky.social @europe-asia.bsky.social, Diaspora, & Journal of Baltic Studies www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025 92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

Congratulations to all 92 newly elected FBAs including the wonderful @clairelanghamer.bsky.social whose sterling research is matched by her sterling (or is it platinum?) work for the discipline of History (in all its academic, public and other forms) at the also ace @ihr.bsky.social . 1/2

One year teaching fellow post at Warwick University in Modern Eastern European History. I will be on academic leave next year and the Histoty Department looks for someone to teach my two modules on Ukrainian History and on Stalinism. Look here warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

‘I want to be to Ireland what Walt Whitman was to America’: Esotericism and Queer Sexuality in an Irish Social Circle, 1890s–1920s Abstract. This article traces a transnational current of thinking on sexuality that flowed through Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centu

How did activists, artists and intellectuals in late 19th to early 20th century Ireland re-imagine what society and sexuality could look like?

Maurice Casey (@mauricejcasey.com) ‬explores in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal.

Read open access in HWJ 99: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

Absolute gibbering nonsense. You can’t only do the best research. You don’t know which research is going to be the best until it’s done.

That’s literally what research is.

Honestly, can we please just stop feeding this sort of research cowardice? Time and again, it's been proven that allowing blue-sky thinking to develop produces outstanding results. We don't know what's going to be important tomorrow: just let us be creative and inquisitive.

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union* Abstract. In the mid-1980s, HIV and AIDS were initially dismissed in the Soviet press as infections that could only be contracted by individuals engaged in

From the current issue: "AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union"

by @siobhanhearne.bsky.social (@uniofmanchester.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!

Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

Book cover for Metropolitan Science, by Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham, published by Bloomsbury. The top half of the cover is a detail of a 17thC map of London.

Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Coming weeks after the Russell Group warned against precisely this thinking, the message here screams ‘we are not a serious university.’

IAS Book Launch: Metropolitan Science Join authors Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin for the launch of their book 'Metropolitan Science. London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800'

If you're in or around London on Thursday 29 May, join @jasminekt.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication of Metropolitan Science. Big thanks to the Institute of Advanced Studies & @stsucl.bsky.social for supporting the event. Book a free ticket here: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #histsci 🗃️

New article!

'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.

It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!

Some context below:

academic.oup.com/histres/adva...