📢 Calling all students working in French history and Francophone studies!
"ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day: Resonances and Dissonances". Moments of echo and reverberation, rupture and interruption.
📅 10 April, 9-5pm
📍 Hybrid
Free for all to attend. Full programme & registration 👇
Meanwhile… 😂 youtu.be/Tlcjn0uisJU
09.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
Book launch 2. Andrew Smith's @smidbob.bsky.social ky.social Make Cheese not War. Transnational Resistance and the Larzac in modern France, 9pm, 5.30pm at @ihr.bsky.social in conversation with @alisoncarrol.bsky.social, @vbivar.bsky.social
& Sarah Farmer : www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.
Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.
Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
The next session in our seminar series, ‘The Fragile Record’, explores gaps and silences in cultural heritage collections.
Join us online at 4pm on 17 February as we examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives.
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
03.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our book launch!!
birmm.research.vub.be/virtual-book...
An imperial textbook classic: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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The Fayed/Harrods case bears the hallmarks of sex trafficking
At least 400 women have come forward in the wake of the Harrods abuse scandal so why aren’t they being referred to the National Referral Mechanism?
@centralbylines.co.uk
Very welcome news — and not before time!
16.12.2025 20:18 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Hello and welcome to our Francophone Friday thread, where we come together to highlight research being conducted in or about the Francophone world! These threads are created with help of our members, so if you want to advertise events, publications, etc about Francophone research, do reach out! 1/9
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"If I talk about myself, it has been seven years since I last met my mother.
I always dream about reuniting with her and think about how and when it can happen. Under the new law, family reunions now seem impossible."
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
A very comprehensive and informed analysis (as usual) from the Wonkhe team, helpfully putting the pieces of the English jigsaw in one place.
27.11.2025 10:28 — 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
RIP. A legend gone, but the music lives on…
24.11.2025 18:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library
https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Why study Humanities? Delving deep into the complexities of the human makes you more likely to understand the needs of others and be empathetic to their concerns. Think of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: in the end, do you empathise with the charismatic scientist, or the revenge-seeking Creature?
24.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What effect do school policies have on uptake and achievement in languages at Key Stage 4?
If you are interested to learn more, read @karenforbes.bsky.social article as well as Zhu Hua, Elin Arfon and Ann-Marie Hunter’s article
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rll...
AI is reshaping how we get news – but not always how we want.
A BBC/EBU study found AI assistants often blur fact and opinion, invent quotes, or get context wrong. New standards aim to fix that.
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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The conversation about immigration has taken a sinister turn. It’s no longer just about policy; it’s about race.
I won’t stand for it. We can’t let hate and division decide who belongs in Britain. This country is stronger, kinder, and better than that 🇬🇧 #immigration #race #sarahpochin #british
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
coming soon in Language and Linguistics
Cambridge University Press and the @lingsocam.bsky.social are proud to announce the new Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC), launching in 2027. JBLAC fosters a transdisciplinary conversation through a global, diasporic lens.
📢 Learn more: cup.org/3KA2i9a
#linguistics #LangSky
Ready for a new academic year? Let's start on a high note by kicking off the brand-new CTIS Research Seminar Series 2025-26 together! Here is the Semester 1 programme. Zoom links for individual sessions will be shared in the comments.
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