Sam Grinsell

I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.

files and carefully store them to make sure they remain available. Could this not be grounds to have the verdict rescinded? Also, it is rather surprising that nobody in the House of Lords has commented on this, given that the report was by cross-parliamentarian workgroup "European Union Committee".

as an expansive term to include trans people in the classes of male and female. All this evidence is dated AFTER the reference that Supreme Court used when referring to the sex and their interpretation of what it meant for the Equality Act. I have taken the opportunity to download all the evidence

evidence to support that point, mentioning how they were at that time out of step with most European countries. Also, that interpretation is further supported by all subsequent discussions in the House of Lords about the Equality Act 2010. Each time sex differences are mentioned they use "gender"

Earlier today I found in the national archives undisputable evidence showing that the Supreme Court were wrong in their interpretation. The explanatory memorandum is clear about a GRC effectively meaning that someone is of the sex they acquired. And the explanatory note linked in it further provides

ELIZA's creator was so alarmed by the fact that people mistook the chatbot for a sentient being that he wrote an entire book about why this implementation of computer technology was a huge problem and it is a staggering achievement

The only difference between my children and your children is where they were born.

"Ahhhhh the elusive Mr F!"

Poster for Sense & Sensibility in a creamy yellow with Kate Winslet spinning above and Emma Thompson looking like she’s looking at Kate Winslet below - the tag line is Lose your heart and come to your senses

Re?watched Sense & Sensibility and I love how they show Hugh Grant’s Edward Ferrars caring for all the Dashwoods, especially Margaret who they also develop with an adventurous spirit and a travelling tree house 🖤

Does anyone have a list of a) books/culture journalists or b) bookstagrammers that you would contact with a news story? Posting in the hope that one of you might be able to save me a lot of time...

A moment to reflect on what it means, what it feels like, to work in a profession dedicated to veracity, factuality, rigour and open debate, in a world spiralling ever-faster into the unchallenged reign of liars, ramming their lies home at gunpoint, as they kill thousands and make millions.

There I was the other day, tutoring a student for his MA dissertation, a student I first taught as an undergraduate in 1994, straight off an Access Course, who became a teacher, and is now the head of an International school in India.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but when the hardback of this came out, I’d just been made redundant by one crisis-ridden university. The paperback’s being published when my current employer is threatening to make about 400 people redundant (we still don’t know who).

Thanks so much for sharing! Just a small note that I'm a Dr not a Prof, unless anyone wants to jump in and change that 😁

Very much enjoyed doing this video interview about my article! Thanks to @erikahanna.bsky.social and @urbanhistory.bsky.social for the opportunity. Hopefully of interest to colleagues across urban history and environmental humanities #UrbanHist #UrbanStudies #EnviroHums #CoastalHist

Check out Sam's article 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' for free: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

And catch up on our seminars and interviews: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Urban History as Urgent Work: Erika Hanna in Conversation with Sam Grinsell Erika Hanna's interviews Sam Grinsell on urban history as urgent work. Read Prof. Ginsell's Urban History as Urgent Work, an Argument for Disciplinary…

In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research

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My book cover: bright yellow with the title in big letters ‘Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World’ and the head of a statue making a “shhh” motion.

So the @plutopress.bsky.social catalogue is out and… my new book is in there! 🥳📚

Scroll to page 14 to read about it: www.plutobooks.com/wp-content/u... (it’s for fans of @profdanhicks.bsky.social, or so the catalogue says!)

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.

Have any Routledge/Taylor and Francis authors received anything like this?

Always fascinated by these things. Personally I'm up for endsay instead of conclusion

"we are living through unprecedented times". bro these times have so much precedent. these are some of the most precedented times of all time.

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” Arundhati Roy, War Talk

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

Back a long time ago when I used iTunes on a computer, I would go through phases of being obsessed with the visualiser that spat out various lava-lamp colours and shapes. Some I enjoyed so much that I took screenshots. I never expected this to feel so topical twenty years later

I’m finding it particularly hard to just ‘be’ & ‘work’, when news of death/war pervade all my media & senses. Every fiber of my being knows that we can just keep still, ‘normal’ whilst the world & future of others beings is being brutally burnt! #endgenocide #resist #NoToWar #Peace #HumanRights