Hannah Barker

Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.

Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

From National Treasure to National Scandal British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...

British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

🚨Over 79,000 have now signed the petition. We are getting so close to 100,000🙏

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers.

You can support the campaign to change the law here 👇
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.

Lost learning: Prevalence, inequalities and outcomes of internal exclusion in mainstream secondary schools

'Children who identified as LGBTQ+ were nearly twice as likely to be in isolation, while Black, Asian and mixed heritage children were also more likely to be in isolation than their white British peers, the research from the University of Manchester found.'

Link to research article below. 2/2

In our recent volume, 'Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire', @anilliams.bsky.social contributed a chapter on the forced deportation of Liverpool's Chinese seamen at the end of WWII.

@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social

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Restaurant boss saves two people's lives after desperately shouting for them to stop He ran out of the restaurant and warned the pair to turn back

No problem these days. Just ask Chat GPT...

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Greater Manchester named productivity growth capital of UK New analysis from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership has demonstrated that Greater Manchester has seen the biggest increase in productivity of any UK region or mayoralty over the past two decades.

www.investinmanchester.com/resources/la...

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

At the station and 2/3rds of the ads are for ai. None of them say what it does or what it could do for you. GPT’s is just a still image of smiling people and a phone with their logo over it. I think their marketing people just gave up

screenshot from Goldsmith's webpage. title: Professor Frances Corner OBE has stepped down with immediate effect as Vice-Chancellor of Goldsmiths. text: Professor Corner will begin a period of research leave and will undertake existing commitments including her support of the University of London. Professor David Oswell has been appointed as Interim Vice-Chancellor while a permanent leader of the university is recruited. that's the full extent of the entire webpage, which is raising way more questions than it answers.

Goldsmiths's VC is booted out??? GOLDSMITHS'S FRANCES CORNER IS OUT???

The 'with immediate effect' and these three sentences being the full extent of the webpage is quite revealing of just how much drama we're not being told about: www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vc...

👀 @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social #UKHE

And why is it Damien Lewis?

Oh my

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

On PCE, none of us is in a position to say anything meaningful until the results of the PCE pilot are released. That delay has opened up a void now filled with more sound than light. 2/2

The battle for people, culture and environment Lizzie Gadd makes the case for embracing People, Culture and Environment and sets out why reverting to REF 2021 would be a mistake

'Because of the REF’s direct link both to (unhypothecated) gold and (international) glory, nothing really motivates universities more.'

Really? REF has dropped down the list of important things at rather a lot of universities, with student numbers a larger driver. 1/2

Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com

alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Grade deflation, overcrowding and ‘chaos’ as colleges scr... Russell group hoovers up international students to stave off budget deficit fears

Finally, an article that at least touches on teaching quality and staff workload issues. Not that it suggests any viable alternatives to the current state of play. (And for 'colleges' in the headline, read 'universities', a telling choice of nomenclature.

Ooh the opportunity to run the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity has come up. £81k. Based at Birmingham City University. Great chance to create positive change
jobs.bcu.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Sheffield UCU backs strike action over restructuring plans Union plans to call four weeks of continuous strikes as university reviews staffing across several academic departments

'more restructuring has been planned...with staff across its humanities courses, including English and politics, as well as staff in its schools of East Asian studies, civil and structural engineering, materials engineering, chemistry, and management courses, facing targeted voluntary severance'.

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The database itself:
www.depthsofparadise.co.uk

#History 🗃️

Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins

'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'

The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.

Great opportunity for Early Career Researchers and PhD students led by the GIS Sociabilités/Sociability Network: 'Sociability and the Travelling Letter: Message, Medium, Mobility in Europe and the Colonies in the Long Eighteenth Century'.
Brest, March 2026
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I should identify the Geo-locator expert as Steven Batty at Sheffield Hallam in case you want to acknowledge him in any way in future

From a friend who likes looking for this sort of thing

Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture 18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.

For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

Lecturer in Irish/British History
King's College London - Department of #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...