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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

What a beautiful essay.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 2d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 10d

The people of Hull, Grimsby etc might well disagree!

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 10d

@clairelanghamer.bsky.social @tricksterprince.bsky.social Starmer just listed offshore wind turbines being built ‘in Humberside’ in his conference speech

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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social · 16d

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Mass Observation and Political Engagement in Britain - History & Policy

Low turnout in the 2024 General Election and other signs of voter disengagement from politics pose serious challenges for the UK’s democratic system. To meet these, this policy paper argues, we need a...

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 21d

I have not stopped talking about it! Such a fantastic read. Many congratulations!!

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 21d

Having had a sneak preview of this, I can say it’s every bit as good as the cover suggests!! 🔥

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 24d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social · 24d

The new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, themed around the far right, is out now and it couldn't be more timely. Free to read articles by guest editor @sachahilhorst.bsky.social, @profafinlayson.bsky.social and Cailtlin Prowle. Subscribe here to read the rest: renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 25d

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · 26d

My MP, Peter Kyle, might not be ‘disturbed’, but I certainly am!!

Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 26d

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

'Scale of unite the kingdom march shows free speech alive and well in UK, says minister

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 26d

this didn’t happen at the height of the Brexit referendum. I don’t *think* it’s happened since National Front were at their peak in 1970s.

This is organised racist intimidation & movement building, and it’s happening because Labour Party leaders have not opposed that campaign.

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 26d

Sometimes politicians saying something is wrong, regardless of who that angers, can swing things their way in itself, because it is good to watch them standing up. As the Prime Minister did in the face of the riots last summer.

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 10

All solidarity xxx

(Also not only is the early morning timing a complete mess, but what a way to destroy any new-academic-year optimism!!)

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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Labour has been quietly going quite hard on "community empowerment" – possibly because it's one of the few halfway coherent theories knocking around the party about how to tackle anti-politics. I've spoken to a lot of people about it for @newstatesman.com:

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Labour’s secret plan to thwart Reform

New legislation could unleash a transformation in community empowerment.

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Annie Drynan @adrynan.bsky.social · Sep 1

I just want him to come out and say “we’ve seen some disgusting, racist behaviour outside hotels housing asylum seekers and it’s got to stop”. Is that really so hard to say?

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Sep 1

(Griffiths won Smethwick in the 1964 election, after his supporters used that slogan (“if you want an [n-word] for a neighbour, vote Labour; if you’ve already got one, vote Conservative”) — his response to the slogan as above. Harold Wilson condemned him as a “parliamentary leper”. Quite a shift.)

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Sep 1

if people can’t apply for family to join them after their successful asylum applications, more women and children will be forced to make illegal and dangerous journeys to the UK, rather than sending male relatives first who later plan to reunite with family. this is: obvious.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · Aug 18

Such a perfect ex of how these things get students to cheat themselves. You have access to 1-on-1 advice from experts in their fields, and seeking it would help build relationships with mentors and confidence in seeking counsel, but grammarly lets you skip all that and this is…winning, somehow?

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · Aug 15

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

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Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · Aug 15

#MaritimeHeritage
#CoastalHeritage
#Shipwreck

Running Past @runningpast.bsky.social · Aug 15

Bits of the wreck of the Grimsby trawler Epine GY 7 on a Icelandic beach #FerrousFriday

The back of a black sandy beach - at the rear a pool and some rocks, in the distance mountains. At the front a large piece of rusty metal which is largely covered by sand.

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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · Aug 13

On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

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Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Interesting! I did not know about this history

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Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social · Aug 11

JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities!

A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA):Whiteknights Reading UK

Postdoctoral Research Associate(4 years, full time) in public history project ‘Nation of Refuge’.

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