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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 4h

'Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.'

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 3h

#otd in 2004, for the first time, a Black African woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Maathai's award had come at a terrible price including physical abuse and imprisonment. Her crime? Planting 30 million trees and exposing corruption. 👇

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

Women's History Month - Wangari Maathai - Manchester University Press

To mark Women’s History Month and the publication of her new book Wildly different, we asked historian Sarah Lonsdale to profile the five pioneering women she focuses on, bringing their fascinating st...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 18h

The British Newspaper Archive now includes Jackie and I was delighted to note problem pages in prominent position blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Black, Brummie and proud: a walking tour of the real Handsworth

The Birmingham neighbourhood is hugely significant in the Black British story – a history seemingly unknown to Tory MP Robert Jenrick – as revealed on a guided walk that remembers Nelson Mandela and Benjamin Zephaniah

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 1d

“I often tell students that source analysis is about the skills and imagination the historian brings, rather than just the nature of the source”

New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️

Unverbal Diarier

‘Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history,’ writes Michaela Kalcher. What this unremarkable bourgeois did leave, however, was a day-by-day account of the Fr…

williamgpooley.wordpress.com

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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 1d

"There is a sense of pre-emptive mourning for something that we know is on the way"

Interview: Prof. Sadiah Qureshi on her career, research and latest book, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction histfest.substack.com/p/there-is-a...

"There is a sense of pre-emptive mourning for something that we know is on the way"

Sadiah Qureshi on her career, research and latest book, Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

histfest.substack.com

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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 1d

We're funding doctoral programmes to train the next generation of clinically-active academic leaders. 🩺

This call continues our commitment to supporting healthcare professionals in research careers.

Applications are open now. Here’s what you need to know 🧵

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 1d

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 2d

*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*

The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New PhD Student Session

For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 3d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 6d

The Secret Desi History blog is a lovely collection of random snippets of South Asian American history from the curators of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour www.secretdesihistory.com

Secret Desi History – Snippets of South Asian American history

www.secretdesihistory.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 7d

Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!

Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 7d

Horrified and heartbroken by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester, on Yom Kippur, the holiest time in the Jewish calendar.

My thoughts are with the victims, their families and all Jewish communities.

Antisemitism is an evil we must confront and stand resolutely against.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 8d

It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth 🎨

This page gives you a useful starting point to begin exploring the work of Black artists on Art UK 👉 artuk.org/discover/art...

🧑‍🎨 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London. 📷the artist.

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 9d

✈️ Our PGR internship series returns, as PhD @uobrishistory.bsky.social candidate Jenny Hutton tells us about working with Dr @smawdsley.bsky.social to examine the history of aircraft cabin air contamination

Read more about this important research with global reach 👉 bit.ly/3IHyV47

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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 9d

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 9d

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Chapeltown Bonfire incident, I’ll be talking about Black women’s community activism in Leeds at Leeds Beckett University.

⏰ 18:00 - 19:00
📍 Rose Bowl, City Campus
🎟️ bit.ly/480KUUD

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackBritishHistory

50 years on: Caribbean women and the Chapeltown bonfire night incident 1975

Marking 50 years since the Bonfire Twelve, this talk explores the women's role in resisting racism and injustice in Leeds.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 10d

This should be a great lecture @phm.org.uk to mark the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan African Congress with the wonderful Gary Younge. Tickets going fast here phm.org.uk/events_new/w...

What Peace? Whose Freedom? with Gary Younge - People's History Museum

phm.org.uk

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 10d

There is a film screening of Fanon (2024) in Bristol later this weekend.

Sat 4 Oct, 8PM–10.30PM
The Cube Microplex, Bristol
www.brff.org.uk

Frantz Fanon’s story — from his early psychiatric work in Algeria to his role in anti-colonial struggle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaO...

Fanon (2025) - Trailer (English Subs)

YouTube video by Unifrance

www.youtube.com

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Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism Project @wcifproject.bsky.social · 10d

Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social · 13d

New article (with Exeter colleagues and Louise Ashley) thinking about the nature of the current 'social mobility industry' in England

British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 13d

This new article examines civil society organisations working to enhance social mobility in England, especially through higher education.

#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 14d

V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 14d

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

doi.org

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