Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026) - New Books Network
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
01.03.2026 09:35 β
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1800?! Makes Essex (400) look like a nice stroll in the countryside.
01.03.2026 08:53 β
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And in the UK Higher Education sector as a whole? Easily double that possibly treble.
NB: βRussell Groupβ is a completely arbitrary marketing label. It means next to nothing.
28.02.2026 18:21 β
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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!
28.02.2026 15:40 β
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I'd really love to experience a month that will be lost to the history books. A whole month. What paradise that would be.
28.02.2026 14:24 β
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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/...
27.02.2026 19:20 β
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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
27.02.2026 19:10 β
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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?
27.02.2026 19:10 β
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A reminder that this post closes in one week! ππ
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Jobs
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/
27.02.2026 19:12 β
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Daffodils in bloom with a concrete path in the background
Many congratulations π to @sophiemhistory.bsky.social for an excellent viva today with Prof. Ros Crone & me on the Peterborough Coroner's Court, 1856-1905!! πππ
27.02.2026 17:23 β
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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.
27.02.2026 16:29 β
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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 wouldnβt call that a narrow defeat.
27.02.2026 08:23 β
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Hello darkness my old friend...
27.02.2026 08:33 β
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'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.
11.02.2026 14:23 β
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Link to print version here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
26.02.2026 20:15 β
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Workshop: Second Projects
A roundtable and discussion sponsored by History UK.
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...
26.02.2026 14:59 β
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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. Itβs about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Hereβs a little thread of whatβs inside:
26.02.2026 12:33 β
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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.
26.02.2026 17:48 β
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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
26.02.2026 15:55 β
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Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.socialβs Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
26.02.2026 15:51 β
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Just arrived at @dculibrary.bsky.social to examine a PhD shortly & what a beautiful sculpture sits outside the library, βTeachersβ by Sandra Bell.
26.02.2026 12:23 β
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This timeline is a nightmare and we have YEARS to goβββββββββββββββββ
26.02.2026 12:25 β
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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...
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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 βThe Modern World After Colonialism: Remaking the Social Sciencesβ, this groundbreaking text book is a real testament to the exceptional work of Gurminder Bhambra & colleagues & the βConnected Sociologies Curriculumβ thesociologicalreview.org/projects/con...
26.02.2026 10:14 β
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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
26.02.2026 10:09 β
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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 facesβand what those interpretations say about us. I didnβt even know about face blindness until reading this. Youβll never look at first impressions the same way. shorturl.at/3AbAG
26.02.2026 09:29 β
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NHS maternity units often cover up harmful errors in childbirth, report finds
Damning inquiry into services in England reveals falsification of medical records after βnegligentβ 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.
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