Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
07.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 110 🔁 90 💬 7 📌 1
La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto: noticias y última hora de hoy | Público
Todos los vídeos rescatados por Público y la Corporación Hearst sobre la Guerra Civil que cambian la mirada sobre nuestro pasado
👉 Este proyecto ha sido posible gracias a The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) y a The UCLA Film and television Archive. 'Público' ha contado con el apoyo de la Generalitat de Catalunya y del Comisionado para la Celebración de los 50 años de España @50enlibertad.bsky.social
17.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🎥 TVE se hace eco de la serie 'La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto', que rescata imágenes inéditas de la Guerra Civil proyectadas en los noticiarios de EEUU.
17.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 130 🔁 44 💬 1 📌 0
Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'.
📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
17.11.2025 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SNII: género, desigualdad, mérito y crítica al sistema
Reflexión sobre la desigualdad de género en el SNII, la meritocracia académica y los desafíos estructurales que enfrentan las mujeres en la ciencia mexicana.
En lugar de cuestionar su organización jerárquica y excluyente, adoptamos, como si fuera parte de nuestro ethos, una forma de evaluación que reproduce lo peor del capitalismo y del colonialismo en la academia.
Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...
11.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
06.11.2025 20:20 — 👍 24 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
06.11.2025 22:29 — 👍 63 🔁 30 💬 0 📌 5
New book from @uncpress.bsky.social:
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
14.02.2025 03:28 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: The Latin American Right
It’s striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...
‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’
Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
02.11.2025 18:33 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Hay un gaslighting sistémico que está acabando con el propósito de la academia... un sistema que genera evidencias sobre patrones de diferencia de género para después no hacer nada con ellas.
En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...
29.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Proud to see this report out in the world today. After 10+ years of market experiments in UK HE, the data is clear: leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to the market has left students with less choice, fewer opportunities and more regional inequality. Read the deep dive below 👇
10.09.2025 08:49 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
25.09.2025 13:00 — 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
Emotion, agency and identity.
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
24.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Front cover - white text on green background reads: The Modern British City 1945-2000. Edited by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith.
Photo on cover depicts twe semi-detached (possibly formerly terraced) houses on a street corner in front of the modernist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.
"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today"
Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
24.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Dear Friends of the ITSH,
Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’
22.09.2025 09:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools
End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.
We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
24.09.2025 06:19 — 👍 75 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 5
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).
Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
25.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? - Dissent Magazine
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
25.09.2025 17:44 — 👍 57 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 4
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
02.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 110 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 6
‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
22.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 53 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2
On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)
💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
16.09.2025 00:30 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 5
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
22.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 169 🔁 93 💬 1 📌 3
This is near Windsor Castle where Trump will be.
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CRASSH Connections - CRASSH
NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥
Want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Apply by 12 Oct 2025
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections
11.09.2025 08:41 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Historian. Conicet. Author of La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina: Gender, Nation and Popular Culture (UPF 2020)
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Historian, philosopher, sociologist of science (anthropology; biology). Currently employed at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico City).
International & social theory | (Social) Science History | (German) Adjuncts | formerly @WZB_Berlin | @the_IAS | @CIDE_MX |
Paul Gilroy, a metaphysician in the dark, twanging. Soul rebel, IC7, dilettante, tele-ologist, Londoner, utopian, Dreamer Tribe affiliate, citizen of Golgonooza.
Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
President,The British Academy.
Writes about housing and economic inequality.
Life Fellow at Girton College, Emerita Honorary Professor in the Dept of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.
(Views my own).
Philosophe féministe 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇩🇪Junior Prof @FU_Berlin; We Are Not Born Submissive and La Conversation des sexes / The Joy of Consent
Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
End Sexism in Schools is a charity campaigning for a UK education system that is free of sexism and that allows all children to fulfil their potential. Find out more here: endsexisminschools.org.uk
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
