Matt Kerry

Images of burning tyres on dual carriageways, police firing rubber bullets, etc took me straight back to the miners' strike of 2012

Including images of the some of the first "caceroladas" organised and labelled as such in Spain, as I have argued

Great exhibition on the "Battle of Sagunt" over the closure of the steelworks

Homemade cot made from fruit boxes, c1960. Museu Valencia d'Etnología

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

This is a hell of a thing to read.

Isn't there a certain canyon at said theme park..?

That's me, masquerading as an urban historian of sorts...

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join: Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's probably too far from my expertise to review but definitely one for the reading list

Oooh I had missed this!

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

Oxford needs a Rambla

Koch Junior Fellowship in History

Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

Always a joy in the bleakness of January.

Chuffed they've taken so well after being split and transplanted.

Looks great 👇👇

See also Newcastle, Durham, UEA and a long etc...

Grim, grim news.

And a School of "Global Humanities" at the same time as slashing languages

CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Call for Papers University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025  The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally depicted through the lens of symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics: ma…

CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity

University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025

helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

As a million people have already said on here, hmmm i wonder if it’s ethical to use this infinite plagiarism machine that uses more electricity than several major economies to get the wrong answer to the question how many countries are in NATO

Another one for the list of must-reads

ESC Vacancies - St Antony's

👇📢 Applications now invited for the Ramón Areces Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College Oxford for 2025-6.

Amazing international environment, the resources of the Bodleian etc...

www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...

Solidarity with colleagues out defending publicly-funded higher education in Madrid

Our starter pack now has a sequel! As ever, comment to be added to it!

go.bsky.app/GX3v293

A rather impressive snowman in second quad given the desultory amount of snow

*Actually my book on the 30s was so good I decided to get it published twice

I've lurked here for a while, but I'm now a more regular presence as I leave my account moribund on the other place.

Hello 👋 new followers! For those who don't know me: I wrote a book on radicalism in 1930s Spain and now mainly write about sound and politics across the C20, from pot-banging and charivari to loudspeakers and shouting.