Daniel Grey

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Lectureship in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland! Come join me and my wonderful colleagues! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Very ornate library with beautiful glass ceiling

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

It is possible to have a society where abuse and human trafficking is taken seriously and critically, but also understands that AI porn/brothels will create monsters who will not be able to restrict their violent impulses to ‘AI girls’

Obscene to use this as a justification.

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

My most charitable reading of this is that some people think "anxiety" is like "flu" (people colloquially use the term for an actual, very serious condition when they mean something milder, blunting the effect of the diagnosis).

But that's not it. They're just arseholes.

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

You can get a sense of what I might be talking about in this blog post on my time in the Bristol Theatre Archives
theatrecollection.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/08/28/p...

making a deal = agreeing that there is no more law

The point here is that to agree to any sort of "compact" would not only be strategically disastrous for the uni in question and damaging to the sector as a whole but also directly detrimental to the rule of law as such

"The proposed 'compact' for unis is similar in a key respect to this govt’s actions across many areas of law & policy...replacing the regularity & fairness of law w highly discretionary systems that ensure all sorts of entities & institutions will face the govt...as supplicants in need of largesse."

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po... To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

"The overwhelming majority of asylum seekers want to share in our standards and escape from persecution or civil war. To describe them as thieves or rapists is not just dishonest but encourages the worst sort of prejudice in our communities," writes Michael Heseltine.

https://bit.ly/4mUIeM

I do wonder what version of Kent these people were living in before they were elected.

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

Planning your week? How you fixed tomorrow, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST?

Come along to @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, followed by The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

Free registration 👇

#histmed #histSTM #matcult

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Lubaina Himid (British, b. 1954). Between the Two my Heart is Balanced (1991, acrylic paint on canvas).

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Same here.

We still have a very long way to go, in my opinion, but views about gender and sexuality have shifted radically even since the late 2000s and early 2010s.. which is why the pushback's been so harsh and unrelenting.

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.”

Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.”

Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.”

Genocide is not a “justified action.”

These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

Image of badges with logo 'I know the value of history' and text 'The value and provision of history and the humanities: it's time for a political response.'

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw

#Skystorians

Higher education needs a plan in place for student “pastoral” use of AI Students are reaching out to AI tools and chatbots for support. For Kieran Phelan, it’s time to start thinking about the risks Students are reaching out to AI tools and chatbots for support. For Kieran...

This week on Wonkhe: Students are reaching out to AI tools and chatbots for support. For Kieran Phelan, it’s time to start thinking about the risks

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

This is the "it was Agatha all along" theory of the UK Constitution. We were distracted by the EU, and the ECHR was the real big bad! Leaving it will fix everything!

Leaving will not magically change any of these issues IF the UK still wants to be a liberal democracy:

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