Will Clement

Is this on your radar, @joshuarushton8.bsky.social ?

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:

Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

Okay great, I'll send via email :)

Any of the names tagged in @djrgrey.bsky.social 's post here about a workshop last month will also have good material to share I'm sure bsky.app/profile/djrg...

I'm developing a new course on the history of policing (with England, France, and USA as cases we will use) and am surprised that I'm not coming up with many examples of already-existing courses. Anyone teach something like this? #skystorians

I ran a week on a wider European (not including British) C19 survey course on 'states, bureaucracy, and crime'. Just checked my list though and imagine you'll know all the French stuff and that the stuff on Italy/Germany/Hapsburg/Balkans may all be irrelevant - just shout if you want it anyway

Hi Julia -- are you taking 'Victorian' in a British history only sense of the word, or 'Victorian' in a broader nineteenth-century sense? I am considering whether some of my work on French housing communities in the C19 and their legacies today might fit.

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Check out this line-up to continue the theme www.slamdunkfestival.com/line-up

It's even got "A" on it, the band named (I assume) to maximise placement in HMV CD racks

Thoughts, @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social ? @magdamaaoui.bsky.social is looking for social housing pioneers beyond France — who comes to mind?

Thanks for the tag @manonraffard.bsky.social !
Sounds like brilliant research, though I'm afraid I'm not sure who to add (I mostly work pre-loi Siegfried)
You may already know their work, but Annie Fourcaut, Yankel Fijalkow and Thibault Tellier all have excellent works on C20 housing

Currently doing some work on Renée Gailhoustet and her pioneer work on French social housing. I put her in the same category of genius as Charlotte Perriand.

Any other names that should be included in that group in your opinion?

Almost as if it’s the start of the teaching year in Europe and everyone’s logging on at once!

Dear Will, Thank you for your message. We are currently experiencing temporary issues with access to Cambridge Core and Cambridge Aspire. Our development team has identified the root cause and is actively working with Cambridge to resolve it as quickly as possible. We will reach out to you as soon as the services are fully restored and everything is back to normal. Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any further questions or issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. Kind regards, Mariana Cavazos Lomelin Cambridge Core Cambridge University Press & Assessment Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8EA

I've had this from their support team who, in fairness to them, replied within an hour:

Anyone else having issues with Cambridge Core @universitypress.cambridge.org ? It was working fine this morning, but just getting error messages (and panicked emails from students who can't access set readings for tomorrow...) all afternoon

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going…
go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

Thank you!

Great list! Can I ask to be added please? I work on the history of workers’ housing, including tenant-landlord relations and conflicts

OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.

Photo of a rat with a red colour filter over it. Text at the top reads BBC INDEPTH. Text at the bottom reads Ratmageddon: What rats are overrunning our cities

The headline and framing of this looks very similar to @mikkelhoeghoej.bsky.social 's work on early C20 rats in Copenhagen, presented at @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social

Half a million. Net migration poster.

Controls on immigration mug.

Go home van from Theresa may.

Pm says Britain has been squeamish about illegal immigration.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.

Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.

Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.

A residential landlord demanding that the tenant, as a standard contract term, sign over all rights to intellectual property accrued while working from their property.

Like, literally, if you write a novel on the weekends, they want to own it.

There is no end to these ****ers' greed.

Is it too late to change my proposed book cover, I wonder?

“a discussion about trans history became a springboard from which to imagine trans futures—futures that located epistemic authority and political power not in the clinic, but in community.”

Fantastic and powerful piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social that deserves to be widely read

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

Thanks!

Pile of coins = bourgeoisie!

(I was working with the in-built MS Word icons so I had to think creatively for some)

Each week, different character role cards have short tailored primary sources for each week.

This worked as a great ice-breaker for seminars (e.g. "What was your character/class/profession doing at this stage of the Revolution?" "How would your group have reacted to Napoleon's coup?")

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Character Roles What could this mean? Find out more in our first class on Tuesday 30 September! [Nine black and white images showing a crown, a cathedral, two crossed swords, a pile of coins, a hammer breaking ground, a farmer, a quill writing, a drum and drumsticks, a neoclassical courthouse]

Second year of running a L3 France 1780-1871 course with 'character role cards' as part of the syllabus

Each student gets a card in the first week with one of nine social classes/professions.

I may have gone too suspenseful when setting up the new VLE though

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