How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
Our incredible students have written a letter of support to the VC and are asking students to co-sign their petition - a few extracts from their Instagram post here, and links below! ✊
Since a handful of hate filled people protested outside RNLI HQ yesterday because they're angry that crews don't discriminate in their rescues and work to save all lives at sea you might want to show your support with a one off or regular donation.
rnli.org/pages/ig/new...
'Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.'
Cheery news from Columbia University's Dean of AI. 1/3
Next Wednesday, the Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield.
Our visit closes (5.45pm) with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) on 'History and Well-Being: a Historian's Perspective' bit.ly/4aa4Yoe
Open to all and followed by a reception.
On 16 April, we co-host 'History and Archives in Practice, 2026' with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library.
For #HAP26 our theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’ bit.ly/4tvKUnX. Booking now #Skystorians
Registration for #HAP26 is now OPEN!
Join us on the 16 April in Sheffield as we explore ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’
With @royalhistsoc.org @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy & @uoscollections.bsky.social
Register today: bit.ly/4roSsqU
CFP for 5-minute lightening talk proposals (due 13 March) for the IHR's British History in the Long 18th Century seminar is now live. Come introduce your PhD project to an enthusiastic group of fellow historians. Contact Brendan Tam (brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk ) for more details. #Skystorians
Great turn out for the first of six continuous days of strike action by @ucuessex.bsky.social staff and students are battling the closure of Southend campus and loss of 400 jobs across the University of Essex.
Closing date for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, jointly with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Discovered, identified, conserved, understood, contextualised and explained by historical experts and specialists. Thank you all #Skystorians
The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb
> RHS Workshop Grants
> Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social
> Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR
#Skystorians
If @netflix.com new adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials has you curious about Seven Dials & #20s30s Britain, you might like the @manchesterup.bsky.social Jan sale:
40% off Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/
Sorry Charlie. It’s so hard trying to work in our profession at the moment.
Thanks Charlotte.
Thanks Matt.
Yup. PS staff hear next year.
Hurrah! Congratulations Charlotte
Almost like university management have forgotten the actual purpose of a university.
And of course not just Essex. This is endemic and the result of treating education as a business, rather than a public good with proven social and economic benefits.
Brilliant thank you.
If you could share this Margot that would be great. And - as ever-thank you!
For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.
Please share the post if you can Rob. Thanks.
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
New opportunity for ECR colleagues to share their research with a large and interested public audience ⬇️
Links below to the RE announcement on REF29 below. We will share more thoughts on this via the RHS website as soon as we can.
🚨BREAKING🚨
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
😂 a very tired one! Thank you Simon- all of this was very much a collaborative project. Just like the Centenary itself.
This www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Noakes... (eBook 🆓) bringing back all the memories as Head of Remembrance at the Royal British Legion working on Lights Out, Everyman Remembered and Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red! @lucynoakes1.bsky.social @teachlearnwar.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social 👏
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
