Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo

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 👇

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

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

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...

‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’ - Research Professional News University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”

‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’.

University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

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.’

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.

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/...

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...

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

‼️ 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/...

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...

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:

This is near Windsor Castle where Trump will be.

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

Cover of A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe by Anne Garland Mahler. The top half features bold white text on a black background. Below, a sepia-toned photograph shows a fishing net strung across a sandy landscape, with shadows and scattered footprints in the sand. The subtitle appears in large white and orange text layered over the photo.

One of our exciting new books this month is "A Wide Net of Solidarity," by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, which shows how the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA) provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

My new book ‘Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and
Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041

I am honoured to share this news!

News article which reads: 'Female Football Foiled. Few of us like to be told what is and what is not good for us and on these grounds one can sympathise with those of the fair sex who desire to show their prowess at our great national game. The Football Association are wise, however, in not permitting their matches on our principal grounds and one must congratulate them on the action they have taken. A woman can never raise her standard of play above the farcical (from the footballer's view point) as she is not built by nature to undergo the severe physical strain which has to be exercised in almost every minute of the go minutes play. We do not want to keep them out of sport for it would be grossly unfair, but they would be well advised to keep, away from sports which are a severe tax on even a man's strength.'

'Female Football Foiled!'

As the WSL goes from strength to strength, a look back to 1922, when 'The Empire Citizen' magazine (strapline – “Down with the Bolshies – For Britain and Empire”) had Views on the FA’s 1921 ban on women playing on their grounds, a prohibition only lifted in 1971

The Elusive ‘Docent Grade’: Evaluative Cultures in and Beyond the Swedish Humanities (1876–1969) - Minerva In the late nineteenth and for much of the twentieth century, an academic career in Sweden was highly dependent on what grade a scholar’s doctoral dissertation was awarded. Unless receiving a so-calle...

What was the Swedish ”docent grade”? In a new article in Minerva, @isakhammar.bsky.social and I explore evaluative cultures in the history of the humanities: link.springer.com/article/10.1... This will be part of an upcoming special issue on the history of peer review in the humanities.

A document entitled 'The Women's History Network Autumn Seminar Series' detailing the five seminars which will comprise our upcoming series. The seminars are as follows: A Special Roundtable on 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' at 4pm BST on 10 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan' by Christine De Matos at 10am BST on 24 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty' by Margarette Lincoln at 4pm BST on 1 October 2025, a paper (title TBC) by Merry Wiesner-Hanks at 4pm BST on 15 October 2025, and a special roundtable entitled 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' at 4pm GMT on 5 November 2025.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

The Women’s History Network Annual Conference Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

Join us for the launch of Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out on 26th Sept.

The book is publishing in August, will be #OpenAccess and is published in association with @ihr.bsky.social.

uolpress.co.uk/book/democra...

Launch details 👇

Servants “No matter how hard you work or how capable you are, you can't do it all yourself. You have to seek reliable help.” Those were Margaret Thatcher’s words in...

Domestic servant, au pair, char, cleaner, treasure.... Historical change, but similar dynamics of outsourcing dirty work. Good to discuss this with Ros Taylor
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/serv...

Indigenous Historical Practices Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?

Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.

www.historyworkshop....

El final de un mundo (I) Este artículo propone, mediante una mirada tanto histórica como filosófica, nuevas formas de entender el ascenso de la ultraderecha en el mundo.

Aquí una reflexión sobre los horizontes temporales y de sentido del trumpismo. Sobre colapsismo y preparacionismo gubernamental, sobre las pulsiones apocalípticas de las nuevas derechas y sobre cómo el final de un mundo, su mundo, se confunde con el final del mundo. revistacomun.com/blog/el-fina...

Yes! Hallucinations and sycophancy are not some unintended consequence of AI. They are features, not bugs. If we want to improve things, we need changes in design, governance and incentives, not end-of-pipe fixes.

Paranoid Finance (Polity Press, 2024) Book Discussion Wednesday 21 May 2025, 2pm Fabian Muniesa InSIS, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography University of Oxford

Paranoid Finance: Book Discussion
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 2pm
Oxford
@oxford-anthro.bsky.social www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/parano...

A Don José “Pepe” Mujica Despedida al histórico presidente del Uruguay

Una despedida a Pepe Mujica, a cargo de @aletaamatto79.bsky.social
revistacomun.com/blog/a-don-j...