Christine Grandy
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data shaping and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Pinned
Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
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"[U]sable pasts can create elegiac narratives, calls to arms and empathetic dramas, but they can also lead to historical orthodoxies that marginalise the hidden, the silenced and the inarticulate."
A rich review essay on the 1984/5 miners' strike by Keith Gildart.
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
A rich review essay on the 1984/5 miners' strike by Keith Gildart.
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"[U]sable pasts can create elegiac narratives, calls to arms and empathetic dramas, but they can also lead to historical orthodoxies that marginalise the hidden, the silenced and the inarticulate."
A rich review essay on the 1984/5 miners' strike by Keith Gildart.
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
A rich review essay on the 1984/5 miners' strike by Keith Gildart.
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
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What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
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As historians, we depend on libraries and library staff, and we owe it to our library colleagues to show up for them. It would be great to see more historians sign!
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As historians, we depend on libraries and library staff, and we owe it to our library colleagues to show up for them. It would be great to see more historians sign!
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I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This looks great and is open access. Amelia Acker, Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
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If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
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Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Teaching Slavery
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
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A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.
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There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.
1/15
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A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
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...
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
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September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
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And here is the table of contents.
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
And here is the table of contents.
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✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...
September 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...
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The latest in our Creative History in the Classroom cluster, edited by @luciejones83.bsky.social and me. Great piece.
#History Also just out 'Sex and the Social Order: Creative Approaches to Teaching the History of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain', by Laura Harrison, @drrosewallis.bsky.social, Alexis Evans, and Libby Everall, OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The latest in our Creative History in the Classroom cluster, edited by @luciejones83.bsky.social and me. Great piece.
Trailer for The Lowdown-->Ethan Hawke, Sterlin Harjo, Tulsa history. YES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9b....
The Lowdown | Official Trailer | Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Keith David | FX
YouTube video by FX Networks
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August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Trailer for The Lowdown-->Ethan Hawke, Sterlin Harjo, Tulsa history. YES. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9b....
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Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025
Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign:
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
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Fund. Cataloguing. Hire. Cataloguers.
article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
August 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fund. Cataloguing. Hire. Cataloguers.
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When did Tony Blair first use the internet?
New evidence from this file: Information Technology Policy Part 1, 2001-2002
New evidence from this file: Information Technology Policy Part 1, 2001-2002
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
When did Tony Blair first use the internet?
New evidence from this file: Information Technology Policy Part 1, 2001-2002
New evidence from this file: Information Technology Policy Part 1, 2001-2002
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This was entirely predictable in an environment where there is little to no spare cash in universities to cover research expenses.
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News
Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This was entirely predictable in an environment where there is little to no spare cash in universities to cover research expenses.
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It's pretty bleak, but this is a useful visualisation of UK HE finances...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-t...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-t...
What the latest HESA data tells us about university finances
The headlines are well known, but the full HESA release adds a lot of detail to a generally bleak picture. David Kernohan has the charts
wonkhe.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It's pretty bleak, but this is a useful visualisation of UK HE finances...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-t...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-t...
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Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Does a ChatGPT query really use ten times more energy than a Google search? Does training any AI model emit as much CO2 as 5 cars? and can AI help us reduce global GHG emissions by 10%? 🤔
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
We tracked down the origins of these numbers 🕵♀️ and wrote a paper about it!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15572
This is fantastic.
How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal?
Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?'
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Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?'
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...
Is there really fashion in Jamaica?
Elli Young explores how archiving Jamaican fashion history challenges colonial narratives of the Caribbean.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
May 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is fantastic.
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The regional newspaper has a live feed going, btw. Might be geolocked, but if it isn't you can see the progress (or lack of it) pretty well.
Direkte: Containerskip på grunn utenfor Byneset
Vi sender direkte fra Byneset der et containserskip har gått på grunn.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The regional newspaper has a live feed going, btw. Might be geolocked, but if it isn't you can see the progress (or lack of it) pretty well.
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We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.
May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)
Register here 👇
ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)
Register here 👇
ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
April 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.
May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)
Register here 👇
ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)
Register here 👇
ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...