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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 9h

Delighted to be at the launch of Saothar 50: the journal of the Irish labour history society (ILHS),50 years in publication. A wonderful collection of essays on labour, class,women,etc. excited to see the new exhibit at the ILHS archives-the banner of the Irish Women Workers Union (IWWU) #speirgorm

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 11h

TIL from a talk at @gladlib.bsky.social by @satisfactory20.bsky.social that almost all MPs' and Peers' offices in the Palace of Westminster weren't designed as such by Charles Barry.

They were originally living quarters for the large residential staff of maids, cooks etc.

Only converted later.

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 9h

NEW on Wonkhe: The othering of students is getting worse bit.ly/3KAOL1b

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 9h

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

academic.oup.com

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 9h

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 10h

So very sorry to hear this 😔

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 12h

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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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 12h

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray and his family found their plane reservations mysteriously cancelled *after successfully checking their bags and going through security* and are planning to try to leave the US again tonight.

Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 1d

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 1d

3. Meanwhile Jenrick says he's concerned that "people are living parallel lives". Yet his home county identifies as 96.9% white and his constituency identifies as 98% white. The parallel universes in his own back yards speak volumes. Meanwhile, Handsworth is one of Britain's most diverse areas.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 1d

2. The current rhetoric of those who mobilise racism for political gain proposes that those who investigate colonial history and modern racism are the problem. Not racism itself.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 1d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections

www.history.ac.uk

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Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social · 16h

In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 6d

🖥 We have a number of online research training courses starting in October.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h

'The report recommends there should be increased legal and statutory protection of these bodies enshrined in law, limits to ministerial involvement in appointing leadership positions, exploring multi-year funding models to ensure “resilience”, and strengthening their operational autonomy.' 3/3

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h

UCL Policy Lab report: 'The organisations, it says, are often dependent on government ministers for their funding, setting of priorities and for the appointment of their leaders, “making them highly exposed to political influence”.' 2/3

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h

'Arm’s-length bodies such as the Office for Students (OfS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are particularly “vulnerable to political interference”, a new report has warned.' 1/3

‘Learn lessons from US’ and stop political interference, UK told

OfS and UKRI seen as particularly vulnerable to meddling from government, with report authors calling for more safeguards to ensure independence

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 15h

4. Tthe Windrush generation, descended from the enslaved, were denied credit or bank accounts when they arrived in the 1940s, and had to start up their own savings and credit system known as the Pardner Hand (still in operation today): www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...

Pardner Hand: A Caribbean answer to British banking exclusion

An exhibition by Museumand, The National Caribbean Heritage Museum

www.bankofengland.co.uk

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 15h

3. Racism is a legacy of slavery. Reparation £ can be used to repair its harms & address its causes.//Meanwhile, the 1830s slavery compensation scheme loan was finally paid off in 2015, hence many Black Britons had to repay the loan used to compensate those who enslaved their ancestors.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 15h

2. In the Caribbean, suggested forms of reparation aren't usually compensation paid to individuals, but returning land that was used for slavery plantations/addressing the diabetes crisis (an intergenerational legacy of enslaved people's diets)/ funding slavery research centres..

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 15h

1. On reparation for transatlantic slavery.
I have not read Lenny Henry's book yet but I want to provide some general context in the face of his apparent shock suggestion

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits

The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17h

Joseph Goebbels once explained that the long-term mission of the Nazis was to "erase 1789 from history".

And here we are.

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 2d

It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.

And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 17h

Many congratulations 🎊 to @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @teachlearnwar.bsky.social and Dr Stella Fletcher on their election to the Council of @royalhistsoc.org 👏🏻

a fireworks display with purple and green fireworks exploding in the night sky

Alt: a fireworks display with purple and green fireworks exploding in the night sky

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