Erik Linstrum

Oh, that's wonderful, Felicity. Writing my last book, I could only guess at how many rich sources were still lurking in family collections. In any case, the exhibition is well worth a visit.

Christmas come early! My two picks for Books of the Year at History Today are out in print: Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain by Sam Wetherell and What Is Free Speech? by Fara Dabhoiwala

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.

Duncan Tanner Prize 2025 The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

"Making the unvarnished and unbounded history of empire a part of British heritage — making it, in other words, a past that people recognize as their own — will not be easy."

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

Well worth a visit, I think!

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

I’ve taught those students. There are way too many As.

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

How useful will AI be when it puts all reliable sources of information on the Web out of business?

Memory Exiled Matthew Hurst explores the 'politics of forgetting' through the missing files of the Hong Kong colonial archive.

In 2011 the British Government was forced to release tens of thousands of secretly held colonial documents from its archives. But 88,000 files on Britain's last colony remain withheld from the public.

Matthew Hurst (@mrmhurst.bsky.social) on Hong Kong's colonial archive.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Their vandalism has graduated from the metaphorical to the literal

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾

M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

The key passage in Interim President Mahoney's letter to the Department of Education

UVA says NO to the "compact"

Your turn, UVA

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

And now Brown University has rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. Two down and seven to go! @aaup.org @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Graphic announcing a noon Oct 17 rally at the UVA Rotunda to call on UVA to resist the DOJ’s higher ed “compact”

Friday at noon, the day before the 🚫👑 protest, show up to encourage UVA to resist DOJ extortion of higher education.

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

If anything is broken with academia, it might be allowing rich donors to run the place

Your turn, UVA

State Senate Democrats tell UVA to not consider education compact Democrats in the state Senate write that if UVA signs the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, “there will be significant consequences in future Virginia budget cycles.”

#JustIn: Democrats in the state Senate say "future budget considerations" could impact UVA if it signs onto the Trump administration's education compact.

Some thoughts I've shared with the Board of Visitors at UVA

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world." @sivav.bsky.social

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ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...