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interesting(ish) if this is in any way your jam: rateyourmusic.com/list/Kentuck...

also ffs.

So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)

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A rival to 'Labour isn't working'...? (1978)

FT columnist Janan Ganesh recently wrote of his conversion to the 'Great Man' theory of history - but only a minority agree

-History is primarily shaped by major figures: 27%
-Primarily shaped by broad social / economic / cultural / tech changes: 51%

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I'd blame the editor for that!

A personal opinion is that if an archive is moving to ‘structured content releases’, it is no longer an archive but a private comms repository. What an incredible loss to our understanding of UK culture and heritage.

Isn’t this extended opening hours idea straight outta Crosland?

Really interesting read. Fussell was, unless I've seriously misread it, couched in taking the proverbial?

Chiles plus Jenkins gives me feelings about the Guardian.

Or boiling lobsters...

la-di-da...

I'll be putting a tie on... shoddily x

I mean, that’s the perfect title too!

Bursaries The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

We offer #bursaries up to £500 for final-year undergraduates or taught Masters students to support archival and library research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

What’s the point of bluesky

The Modern British City 1945-2000 is out on November 28th, and is available for pre-order from ‪@lhartbooks.bsky.social‬: www.lundhumphries.com/products/the....

Interviewer was historian Christopher Hibbert's son

Interviewer was historian Christopher Hibbert's son.

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025 Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:

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And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !

Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar On Britain’s new left party—3.

Interesting... newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Deep play: notes for a Bethesda dust bath.’ ?? I know nothing about birds, had to google what on earth was going on

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Enjoying Tannenhaus. Sort of. E.g how Buckley’s fictional undercover agent was partly named after Michael Oakeshott. At a tangent on incompleteness &/or distraction from finishing there’s Nick salvato’s “Obstruction”

@wshcommanders.bsky.social name suggestion: the Washington Offenders?

Limehouse. But wasn’t he teetotal?