Daniel Grey

My new book is out today! Aways a nervous thing..... FIVE EVIL WOMEN: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker. First interview: newbooksnetwork.com/five-evil-wo... Really enjoyed talking to the amazing Miranda Melcher about evil & femininity. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

1800?! Makes Essex (400) look like a nice stroll in the countryside.

And in the UK Higher Education sector as a whole? Easily double that possibly treble.

NB: ‘Russell Group’ is a completely arbitrary marketing label. It means next to nothing.

I know I keep pointing this out but: if you want immigrants to contribute to British society, integrate across community lines, become engaged civic actors, you actually *want* them to get citizenship, and as soon as possible in fact!

I'd really love to experience a month that will be lost to the history books. A whole month. What paradise that would be.

Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women’s Citizenship In this guest post, Kay Crosby uses the early history of women’s jury service to explore the criteria by which the state recognized some women (but not others) as citizens.

Guest post by @kaycrosby.bsky.social: 'Identifying Women Jurors and Institutionalising Women's Citizenship'
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/02/19/i...

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Hegseth always reminds me of a malevolent little boy when he says "warfighters" and "department of war" except he's not, hes an actual evil adult man

I am looking for a career coach who can help support a friend who has been a tenured professor in the humanities who needs to be thinking about next steps outside the professoriate. (Not me.) Has anyone here had a good experience with a specific coach?

A reminder that this post closes in one week! 👀👀

Want to work for @britishacademy.bsky.social? We are hiring several roles at the moment including 3 policy roles at different levels, a Deputy Head of Research Funding and several more. We are a lovely place to work. Take a look
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/about/jobs/

Daffodils in bloom with a concrete path in the background

Many congratulations 🎊 to @sophiemhistory.bsky.social for an excellent viva today with Prof. Ros Crone & me on the Peterborough Coroner's Court, 1856-1905!! 🌟🌟🌟

Me standing on the steps of Walton Hall, at the Open University campus

Fourteen years ago, I started my BSc at the Open University.
Today, I finished up by passing my viva.

Enormous thanks to my wonderful examiners @djrgrey.bsky.social and Rosalind Crone.
Massive thanks to my supervisors, Prof Paul Lawrence and Prof Donna Loftus and to my hype crew.

After winning narrowly in Runcorn last year, this time around Reform tasted the bitter wine of narrow defeat.

Greens got 41% of the vote #BBC, Reform got 29%. I wouldn’t call that a narrow defeat.

Hello darkness my old friend...

'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.

Link to print version here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below!

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

‘How can I start again at 68?’ Maria has spent 50 years in the UK – and is fighting deportation She left the Netherlands for Britain in the 1970s at just 17. Now, after receiving a short suspended sentence, she faces removal to a country she hasn’t lived in for five decades or visited since 1999

How can deporting this poor woman (a carer) that has called the UK home for 50 years "be conducive to the public good,” or "in the public interest" ?
Our toxic Home Office strikes again.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Nigel Biggar does not have 'utterly moderate' views on the British empire and he is telling on himself by insisting that he does. 'Views' itself is a revealing choice, suggesting to me a person driven far less by original research than they should be, if they are going to write on this topic.

Disgusting (though not surprising) to see Biggar and the Spectator publishing these completely unjustified smears of colleagues at the Uni of Sussex. Sending solidarity @alanlester.bsky.social

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Just arrived at @dculibrary.bsky.social to examine a PhD shortly & what a beautiful sculpture sits outside the library, ‘Teachers’ by Sandra Bell.

This timeline is a nightmare and we have YEARS to go—————————————————

New book by @selenadaly.bsky.social :

Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Image of book cover the modern world after colonialism

Image of contents page the modern world after colonialism

Very excited to receive my copy of “The Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciences”, this groundbreaking text book is a real testament to the exceptional work of Gurminder Bhambra & colleagues & the “Connected Sociologies Curriculum” thesociologicalreview.org/projects/con...

Old Royal Naval college - very sunny

Figurehead of HMS Implacable

Drawing of a whale

Collection of figureheads

A day in Greenwich visiting the Old Royal Naval College and National Maritime Museum and Caird Archives with our field trip in sunny weather

The cover of THE FACE featuring a sculpture of a face on its side against a blue background.

Happy #PubDay to @fayboundalberti.bsky.social! THE FACE is a brilliant, wide-ranging look at how we interpret faces—and what those interpretations say about us. I didn’t even know about face blindness until reading this. You’ll never look at first impressions the same way. shorturl.at/3AbAG

NHS maternity units often cover up harmful errors in childbirth, report finds Damning inquiry into services in England reveals falsification of medical records after ‘negligent’ care

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... There are recently trained nurses, in debt, but without work, and many others on fixed term contracts (Women's Hour report on Monday). Employment for these people would be a start.