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@djrgrey.bsky.social

Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.

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On weekends, São Paulo closes a 900-meter section of the Elevado João Goulart, AKA “Minhocão” (big worm), an elevated highway through the center of the city. It becomes an elevated linear park, open to pedestrians & cyclists, w. tables, chairs & giant board games. My photos from yesterday.

02.03.2026 11:42 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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Guide for Members - RHS In November 2025, the Society released its new Guide for Members to highlight the benefits available to current Fellows and Members. The Guide provides information relating to the following areas of m...

The benefits of RHS Fellowship and Membership are set out in our 'Guide for Members' bit.ly/4l0HVQp.

We welcome applications from historians at all career stages, of all subject areas, and from those - researching or studying - in the UK and worldwide. 2/2

02.03.2026 10:20 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: 

Join the Royal Historical Society

Closing dates for next applications:
Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026
 
The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

Screen shot from the RHS website from the Join Us page. Text reads: Join the Royal Historical Society Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 9 March and 11 May 2026 The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

The next closing date for applications to join the Royal Historical Society - as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member - is Monday 9 March.

We invite applications for each of our membership categories about which you'll find more here: bit.ly/4rM2H9h #Skystorians 1/2

02.03.2026 10:20 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much 😁

02.03.2026 08:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much 😁

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Poster with the words 'I've been nominated! Living the Values Award VCA 2026' and the University of Hertfordshire logo

Poster with the words 'I've been nominated! Living the Values Award VCA 2026' and the University of Hertfordshire logo

A very lovely surprise from a kind colleague - I've been nominated for the "Living the Values" Vice-Chancellor's Award category @herts.ac.uk for my part in the student success and outreach work that so many of us contribute to across departments. Very grateful and hugely appreciated #uhvca2026 🌟

02.03.2026 08:27 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

There is also a problematic assumption here that Oxbridge postdocs should have an inside track on permanent Oxbridge posts, a stance unlikely to impress the wider sector. The Humanities pipeline is in crisis, but is this the solution to the problem the 21st century needs? 2/2

02.03.2026 07:37 — 👍 70    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 3
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Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue

Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2

02.03.2026 07:37 — 👍 96    🔁 41    💬 6    📌 6

lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset

01.03.2026 23:49 — 👍 514    🔁 109    💬 58    📌 3
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Reform UK unveils proposals for electoral reform after by-election result The policy was born out of Mr Farage’s belief that allowing Commonwealth citizens to vote ‘undermines national sovereignty’

As with Trump the plan is to weigh any elections in their favour so it’s harder (or impossible) to get rid of them.
Racists hate democracy.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

02.03.2026 06:55 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

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

01.03.2026 08:53 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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.

28.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 27    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

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 — 👍 463    🔁 112    💬 9    📌 7

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 — 👍 228    🔁 35    💬 8    📌 1
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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...

19.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 12    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
Men studying a dragon

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 — 👍 176    🔁 145    💬 1    📌 6

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 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0

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 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 1

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

27.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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 — 👍 18    🔁 28    💬 0    📌 2
Daffodils in bloom with a concrete path in the background

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!! 🌟🌟🌟

27.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Me standing on the steps of Walton Hall, at the Open University campus

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 — 👍 234    🔁 7    💬 66    📌 5
After winning narrowly in Runcorn last year, this time around Reform tasted the bitter wine of narrow defeat.

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.

27.02.2026 08:23 — 👍 52    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 2
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Hello darkness my old friend...

27.02.2026 08:33 — 👍 1535    🔁 216    💬 51    📌 82
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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 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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

26.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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 — 👍 25    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 2
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.

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:

26.02.2026 12:33 — 👍 707    🔁 208    💬 32    📌 32
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‘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...

26.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 84    🔁 40    💬 9    📌 4