Dr Tanya Rideout (Hawkes)

‘Plastic progressive.’ Starmer’s comms people are terrible. Like just actually bad, and don’t even understand what insults would stick.

Sim, vamos espalhar a palavra de andor

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📣 New Podcast! "19 August 1909: Little Red Song Book published" on @Spreaker #history #iww #music

Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

How beautiful 🤩

The Woman Who Took on the Fashion Industry to Save the Birds A global trade in feathers, with London at its heart, saw hundreds of millions of birds killed every year. Emily Williamson waged a long and furious campaign against it

For International Women's Day let's also celebrate the MANY women who have fought for nature. An early example: Emily Williamson. Denied membership in the British Ornithologists' Union, her work led to the Royal Soc. Protection Birds & the saving of countless birds' lives. time.com/6076571/hist...

Here’s the thing — is school about achieving the highest possible grades regardless of the methods, or is it about nurturing the whole child? One of the horrible things about edutwitter was how many teachers were happy to advocate cruelty so long as it helped schools hit targets.

I don’t think the theft of the toilet is the real problem here

Insisting boys must be strong is “gender ideology.”

Telling girls to be nurturing is “gender ideology.”

Assuming that kids ought to grow up to be heterosexual and get married is “gender ideology.”

This gender ideology is everywhere. It just goes unnoticed because society mandates it as “normal.”

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

How do historical narratives and memories shape our understanding of national identity and collective memory? 💭
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Tomorrow on my live webcast: “History Matters:”

The Department of Education: Why It Matters

Wondering about its history and what it does?

Join us!
It’s…timely, to say the least.

Friday 10AM ET
NCHEteach.org/conversations

‘A Socialist Identity in Parliament’? The Campaign Group of Labour MPs, 1982-2015 - The History of Parliament Ahead of next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Alfie Steer of Hertford College, University of Oxford. On 11 February

Ahead of next Tuesday's 'Parliaments, Politics and People' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social, @alfiesteer.bsky.social has written for #HistParl about the Campaign Group of Labour MPs, and their radical approach to the parliamentary system, and an MPs role within it. historyofparliament.com/2025/02/06/c...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

A birthday for a loved one ❤️

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...

just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

My newest fave curse is "May you be the sole subject of a Menswear Guy thread"

Yes to all of this.

The Anarchists versus the Plague In 1884, despite a looming prison sentence, Errico Malatesta joined other anarchists on a daring mission to Naples to treat a cholera outbreak.

The tireless anarchist organizer Errico Malatesta was born on this day in 1853. 🏴

In 1884, he and other anarchists defied the state to treat a cholera outbreak in Naples—demonstrating a model for grassroots healthcare and mutual aid that remains relevant in the #COVID19 era:

crimethinc.com/cholera

Decided to make this my first post. It is just symbolic BUT we must all do our part to be outwardly a d loudly comrades.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Social History Society 2025 Conference – CfP Deadline Extended! We are extending our deadline for our call for papers for the Social History Society’s 2025 Conference! We are now taking proposals for papers and panels up until the 24 January (rather than …

📢CfP deadline extended!

We are extending the deadline for applications to our 2025 Conference (which takes place 7-9 July).

⏰You now have until 24 January to apply!

👉https://socialhistory.org.uk/2025/01/17/social-history-society-2025-conference-cfp-deadline-extended/

Watching The Long Shadow and I’m raging at the police 😡

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Inclusive Histories - 12 Months) at Royal Holloway, University of London Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate (Inclusive Histories - 12 Months) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Royal Holloway, University of London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI088/p...

I think instead of saying “namaste” at yoga we should say “ohhh BIG stretch” like we do with our pets

Book of photography by Fred Little, the OPs great grandfather. Around the 1880s. The cover shows a shoe maker sat outside smoking, surrounded by boots.

A supposed mermaid that Fred Little photographed. A wrinkled, scaled face, arms out in front and a fish like tail…

My great grandfather, Fred Little once photographed a mermaid 🧜 apparently…

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

📢 Hot off Press New Book Alert 📢. 1/2: With @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social we are exited to share our new co-edited book that demands a re-think of histories of welfare in modern Britain. Fully OA. Links to all chapters to follow & our Chap 1 Intro 👇
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Granton Gasholder’s disused structure against the blue sky.

Granton Gasholder. Spared the fate of demolition. The disused gasholders leave traces of pollution and memory, and the more-than-human-world finds a home in the relative safety of their empty structures.

Copy of the book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. The cover is a drawing of ‘hare’ as she was named.

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. I’ve never been so emotionally invested in a book. Extraordinary.