Dr Priya Atwal

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

As I said on day one, the first day that the Times broke the story about the gangs: the idea that the police were too petrified to investigate sexual offences by Asian men because they might be perceived as racist did not pass *the laugh test*, never mind the smell test.

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

Zohran Mamdani won by being himself – and his victory has revealed the Islamophobic ugliness of others | Nesrine Malik The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

This week’s column is on people losing their minds, and insulting the public’s intelligence, over Mamdani.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely! It's horrifying to think about.

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover

A must-read piece by Suresh Grover, one of the leaders of the Southall Youth Movement, on why it’s so dangerous to proscribe Palestine Action. He even points out that Keir Starmer once defended other activists for v similar tactics back in 2003!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So looking forward to chairing this discussion about Nicole Ranganath's wonderful new book! It's all about the music-making of Sikh/Punjabi migrant women in California. Hear some of their songs & join me in conversation with Nicole in Oxford, on 13 June!

Register here: forms.office.com/e/wpDPzC37E8

Ah thank you! Lovely to see this!

Up to 9k signatures now - nowhere near enough. If you’re a writer, translator or literary creative of any sort, you should be signing this.

Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI' Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other Society of Authors (SoA) members will demonstrate outside Meta HQ after millions of pirated books were allegedly used to train Meta’s artificial int...

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www.thebookseller.com/news/society...

There are also physical protests you can attend in London today, and you can write to your local MP - I’ve reposted various resources relating to these actions.

International friends, please take up the fight at home with your local reps! This is a struggle for creatives/scholars everywhere! 3/3

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

If you’re in the UK, please sign and share this petition to urge the Culture & Media Secretary, Lisa Nandy, to hold #Meta to account. 2/3

www.change.org/p/protect-au...

I’m a writer who has had work pirated by LibGen & scraped without license by #MetaBookThieves to train their AI. My book was based on PhD research funded with great difficulty, thanks to lack of grants for #Humanities students.

Posting in solidarity with the Society of Authors’ campaign today. 1/3

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

If you're an affected author, here's a template (by all means make it your own) to send a letter to Meta: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

And here's a list of planned action from the Society of Authors (UK) specifically for action on April 3rd including delivering the letter to Meta's offices: mailchi.mp/societyofaut...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’ Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest

Silvia Galandini: “We live in the 6th-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.”

No-one voted for this!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Graphic of the word 'History' composed of people with the additional text: Applications invited for RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025. New funding programme, closes 23 May'.

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK

Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups.

#Skystorians 1/2 👇

So excited for this amazing workshop, organised by the wonderful Saima Nasar! Some spaces are still available, so do get in touch with Saima if you’re interested in attending.

Koch Junior Fellowship in History

Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...

Thanks to Ruth & the @ihr.bsky.social for a fab online seminar last night. Really enjoyed our chat about the practicalities of community-uni partnerships in all their messy glory! Lots of work still to be done to enable sustainable, well-paid & egalitarian collabs between historians all of stripes.

Ethical Community History

Everyone is really welcome at our next event on Wednesday 5th Feb. Join us online at 5.30pm to explore Ethical Community History with @priyaatwal.bsky.social & colleagues from @ox.ac.uk #community #history hub. Sign up for this free event here www.history.ac.uk/events/ethic...

Really great to see such wonderful writers, Preeti Dhillon, @lucyfulford.bsky.social & Sheela Banerjee, offering this helpful workshop for people looking to write a non-fiction book proposal! Their books on British South Asian histories are amazing.

www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-wri...

Looking forward to talking about the power of #Humanities research in contributing towards #policy development & tackling environmental issues with @vbivar.bsky.social and @torchoxford2013.bsky.social! Come join us in #Oxford for this fab lunchtime event on 30 Jan.

I guess I spoke too soon - didn’t expect #ElonMusk to be so fickle! One can only hope that these far-right thugs tear each other apart.

Slide promoting the RHS Workshop Grants. Supporting projects and networking by historians. New Calls for Projects, Friday 24 January 2025

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T

Closing date: Friday 24 January

Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and more. #Skystorians 1/2

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

Professor Lucy Noakes, President of the Royal Historical Society, gives her Presidential Lecture on 22 November 2024 on taking up the Presidency of the Society. Lucy delivers her lecture before an image of Professor Jinty Nelson, a former President, who died in October and was remembered at the event.

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to be here, from today, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social We look forward to engaging with you to support and promote History and historians together.

The Society is led by Prof Lucy Noakes, who began her Presidency of the RHS on 22 November royalhistsoc.org

“Two years after capturing the public’s imagination, it seems ChatGPT’s main legacy has been in padding the finances of tech’s biggest players.”

This piece is magnificent, filled with exactly the right data 📈

Elon Musk wants to give Nigel Farage US$100 million – this is the funding loophole that makes it legal The world’s richest man played a major role in the 2024 US election and is now turning his attention to the UK.

It’s truly alarming to read this and think about the possible impact of Elon Musk giving £100m to Nigel Farage’s Reform ‘Party’. Let’s not forget that Reform is set up as a private limited company & the majority of its shares were owned by Farage until recently.
theconversation.com/elon-musk-wa...