Will Clement

Almost as if they could have written the legislation to make this impossible, and yet somehow chose not to.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

Excellent use of alt text here

When it gets too late in the semester to justify using name stickers anymore…

Looking forward to the trial of Andrew Capet

10:20 Analysis Hard to think of any precedent for this arrest Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent This is another extraordinary development in what has been an extraordinary story. It's hard to think of any precedent for the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the King's brother. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing, but this still has the capacity to shock and surprise as breaking news.

Meanwhile, in another lecture I'm giving today (it's a busy one) I'm discussing France 1789-92.

I wonder if I might challenge the idea that it is hard to find precedent of royals being arrested during this period...

Today I’m lecturing on the history of capitalism, focusing on how entrepreneurs use creative destruction to sell their innovations: making traditional technologies and ways of life seem outdated and backwards. Can’t imagine there are any resonances there…

Universities didn't create Covid, didn't choose lockdowns, and didn't set public health policy. By this logic every airline owes you damages for a hurricane.
This is a masterclass in punishing institutions for surviving a crisis. This will accelerate the collapse of UK higher education
#AcademicSky

Time for one of my perennial lazy historiographical questions: what are we reading on women's associational culture in postwar Britain? (I'm thinking WI etc?) Would love to read something kinda big-picture/conceptual about the gendered cultures of these kinds of orgs.

‘Who can we blame for this madness?’: collective violence in fin-de-siècle French newspapers Abstract. This article compares the media coverage of two instances of collective violence in early 1890s France to understand how the French press interpr

Louise Alestam on collective violence in fin-de-siècle newspapers

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Who is afraid of the duc de Guise? Henri III and the beginning of the noble branch of the Catholic League in 1585 Abstract. In March 1585, the creation of the noble branch of the Catholic League and the Guise call to arms were prepared so secretly that Henri III was ta

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Michel de Waele on Henri III and the Catholic League

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How historical research informs policy practice in home heating #Skystorians

I supervised a dissertation last year about Hollande’s presidency. The student kindly told me that they were in primary school when he was elected.

no, it simply isnt.
People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

UK folks - last day of the public consultation is TODAY.

I take a lot more issue with “Calling for curbs on immigration is one thing”. It has big Britta from Community “I can excuse X but draw the line at Y” meme energy and cedes a level of political acceptability to the topic

Summary of edits to a Wikipedia page. The highlighted text reads “(67 included)” meaning this was the recent addition to the page

Oh god, the 6-7 kids have come for the French Revolution haven’t they (there are, in fact, only five referenced included)

Background that is super real The fall of the Bastille on 14 July 1767 was followed by a mass uproar spreading from Paris to the countryside. Noble families were attacked, and many aristocratic manors were burned. Abbeys and castles were also attacked and destroyed.

Umm... does someone want to check on the wikipedia article for the French Abolition of Feudalism...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Table of contents, then page numbers listed as 'Pages:1 to 25', 'Pages:26 to 50' etc down to 'Pages:326 to 250'

Gosh, if only books had clearly divided sections or subsections of some description which eBook providers could use instead of dividing the text into sets of unnamed, twenty-five page chunks.

Also I like how she has deeply internalised that I’m on a Teaching only contract…

A child’s letter on a table. The letter reads Dear Empress Matilda, My dad is a teacher my mum is a person to help children safty and my brouther and I are at nursery and school. Just asking, but why did Stephen get to be king? Because I want you to be Queen. Love from P.S A Debat is a good way to fight

I enjoyed reading this letter written by the six-year-old this morning before school. Debats as a solution to all problems, any day

C'est bizarre le type qui dit que ça n'a aucun sens de boycotter la coupe du monde de foot aux USA dit lui-même qu'il était pour le boycott de celle au Qatar pour dénoncer les atteintes aux droits humains. 100% raciste.

According to the rigorous Father Christmas mark scheme, does this mean you are writing “Naughty!” on less strong work?

Also a great nugget for all book historians, professional vintagers worked in revolutionary America to ensure that pamphlets were stained and foxed immediately after printing to look real and „old“. They probably did this in Boston with tea.

Congratulations! Looks like a brilliant article that has gone straight to my 'to read' pile.

🎉My first peer reviewed article just published in Urban History as FirstView!
Following on from my thesis, it covers privy pails & ashpits, the fly problem, public health, mortality & sanitation investment

A smooth & stress free publishing experience @urbanhistory.bsky.social
#OpenAccess #histmed

Finish the book trilogy with something on Aioli?:

Andrew Smith, Aioli's Well That Ends Well? (MUP, 2028)

Educational disparities reimagined and reinforced: some get AI led education, others person led. Phillipson herself chose to study at Oxford in a system which offers individual face to face teaching. But a chatbot is good enough for others, I guess