Stuart Jones

What a headline for an obit

I get this list confused with the Epstein files

Surely the highlight of Nicholas Witchell's (admittedly mediocre) career

Of course, but a student owning up to recognising a joke, let alone liking it...?

Surely a first in the turbulent history of student feedback?

It was a typo. He meant 'last'

Did he really need to ask?

Just published in @aeonmag: My essay on economic republicanism — a forgotten tradition that linked freedom to shared power in work, markets, and finance.
If democracy feels unfinished, this history might help explain why. aeon.co/essays/the-w...

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Amendment: venue is Mansfield Cooper Building 1.02

Update: Mansfield Cooper Building 1.02

In a career first for me, tomorrow I'm going to an Away Day in the *very same room* we met in for the last ordinary meeting

Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect by H. S. Jones

Liberal Worlds by H. S. Jones is now available worldwide!

Delve into the intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #ReadUP

In Manchester next week? Come and hear Michael Collins (UCL) on his recent book on Windrush Cricket, Tuesday 27 January 2026, 4 p.m. @manchester.ac.uk Samuel Alexander Building A116 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

'Give me the Nobel Peace Prize or I'll nuke you.'

Mahmood would be even worse

The price of peerages is clearly soaring

Liberal Worlds The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath

Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Happy early morning discovery at Altrincham @waterstones.bsky.social - signed copies are now in store! ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory

Screenshot of checkout page with titles and discounted prices

MUP sale, 40% off my entire 2024 oeuvre. Discount at checkout manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

He might have waited to achieve something before writing his memoirs

Next up: Liz Truss

He's pleading 'shoot me now'

'Long before he wrote Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes was a 13 yr-old boy'

Gone by Hogmanay

Yes, I saw that

The final nail in the coffin

Freelance Work Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…

Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

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And congratulations on yours too Laura!

Graphic inviting expressions of interest - three people looking at the image of a lightbulb

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - University of Manchester

EOI deadline: 26 January 2026

More information: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...