Halbert Jones

Nice to see my former @raioxford.bsky.social colleague Jay Sexton featured here.

Sad to see this news. Dan Howe was a longtime Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford and regularly made return visits to @raioxford.bsky.social during my time there.

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Makes it hard, though, if, anytime after first thing in the morning, you want something collected on the day.

This is what seems to have happened to most postboxes: It’s rare now to see ones that don’t have posted ‘last collection times’ of 9am (M-F) and 7am (Sa). Which doesn’t mean they’re all emptied at that time on the dot, but they’re saying it won’t be earlier.

View of the Asturias regional archives in Oviedo, Spain, housed in an old panopticon prison.

Having spent a lot of quality time at the AGN in Mexico City, I was excited to discover on a (touristic, non-research) visit to Oviedo, Spain, that the regional authorities of Asturias had the same idea of turning their panopticon prison into an archive.

Have been looking forward to catching up on this session.

But he was “heavily engaged with The University of Missouri Tigers football and basketball teams” during his one year at Mizzou! Shouldn’t that count for something??

British nationality law has all sorts of post-imperial complexities, but the principle that (pretty much) anyone born in the UK before 1983 was a citizen from birth is straightforward enough!

That had been the de facto position as a result of legislation culminating in the Immigration Act 1971, which introduced the concept of ‘right of abode’ in the UK, subjecting British passport holders without a direct link to the metropolis to immigration control. The BNA 1981 codified that.

Not relevant in this case: It’s not quite right that all ‘UK & Colonies’ citizens were unaffected by the BNA 1981. Only those with a connection to the *UK* (eg, by birth there) remained full British citizens. Those connected to colonies received lesser status (not including the right to live in 🇬🇧).

I think it would probably just be a matter of making an application for a British passport, with the birth certificate (and whatever else the forms ask for) as supporting documentation/proof of citizenship.

This ceased to be the case from 1/1/1983, when the British Nationality Act 1981 went into effect, limiting birthright citizenship to those born in the UK to a British citizen or ‘settled’ parent (with ‘settled’ meaning ‘granted permanent residence’). But that didn’t affect those born before 1983.

Check if you're a British citizen Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.

Seems it should be pretty straightforward (unless there are some unusual circumstances)? The British Nationality Act 1948 (then in effect) provided for birthright citizenship for all born in the ‘UK and Colonies’, unless the father was a foreign diplomat or a part of an enemy occupying force.

I think Curacao also supplies most of the players for the “Dutch” baseball team when it’s in international competitions!

Since the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved as an entity, Curacao has been a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands (alongside the Netherlands, Aruba & St Maarten). It’s some of the smaller Dutch Caribbean islands (Bonaire, Saba & St Eustatius) that are “special municipalities”.

Reading his press release, the renunciation he is talking about is the bit within the US oath of allegiance in which new citizens renounce allegiance to any foreign state — but that generally doesn’t affect whether a country of origin continues to regard the person as still being their citizen, too.

Well, yes, who *actually* does the bulk of the teaching at a place like Harvard?

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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Uncanny how often trains manage to arrive seconds before a higher delay compensation threshold is reached!

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That is indeed the principle behind the Ukraine visa schemes.

Analysis | State Department erases 15 pages of nuclear history — with no warning Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.

FRUS in the news …

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Mexico really did have the strongest WWII poster game

"MEXICO POR LA LIBERTAD" wwii poster

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

Mexican WWII poster

This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever

Another change: EU students don’t feature in the numbers before 2021 (as they didn’t need visas) but do now. So the data doesn’t show how many EU graduates of UK unis used to stay vs leave. They’ll be in the stats now, but of course there aren’t so many of them post-Brexit.

Changes in the make up of the int’l student population will reflect all sorts of things: recent aggressive/successful recruitment efforts by UK unis and their agents in India, Pakistan, & Nigeria; economic conditions in source countries; policies in other int’l education destination countries; etc.

There will also have been changes in the make up by nationality of the int’l student population 15 years ago vs today. This likely makes a difference in these figures, as a higher proportion of students from some countries (eg, India) stay on post-degree than those from others (eg, China).

Would be interesting to break down percentage of those on “other work visas” by those on the Health and Care route vs the main Skilled Worker route. The availability now of the former may partly account for why that “other work” category is higher than in the past.

Also interesting: proportion on grad visas 2-3 years out is much higher than percentage on work visas back in the era of the Tier 1 (Post-Study Work) visa, which was similar to the current Graduate visa. Its elimination ca 2011 must account for the drop in the work visa percentage at that point.