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Matt Kerry
@mdkerry.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Spain at Oxford. Currently thinking about sound and politics.
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Fancy joining us in Oxford?

The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.

Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.

For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...

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November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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We're looking for a new modern European colleague @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Preference for 1900-45.

Details 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN091/t...
Tutorial Fellow in History and Associate Professor (or Professor) of Modern European History at University of Oxford
Discover Tutorial Fellow in History and Associate Professor (or Professor) of Modern European History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Great exhibition on the "Battle of Sagunt" over the closure of the steelworks
July 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Homemade cot made from fruit boxes, c1960. Museu Valencia d'Etnología
July 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, with whom KING and THACKER, Circuit Judges, join: Upon review of the government's motion, the court denies the motion for an emergency stay pending appeal and for a writ of mandamus. The relief the government is requesting is both extraordinary and premature. While we fully respect the Executive's robust assertion of its Article II powers, we shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision.
April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Oxford needs a Rambla
oxfordclarion.bsky.social Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · Mar 3
At St Giles, bus stops could be moved here from Magdalen Street, and tourist coach bays relocated. A public square could be created at St Mary Mags, pavements widened and dedicated cycle tracks laid out.
St Giles with cycle tracks and relocated bus parking
March 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Apply now to be one of our first Koch Fellows in History!

Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

Find out all the details here:

www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-j...
Koch Junior Fellowship in History
history.web.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Always a joy in the bleakness of January.

Chuffed they've taken so well after being split and transplanted.
January 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Looks great 👇👇
vaidanik.bsky.social Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Jan 30
Join us for the conference “Propaganda and Influence: New Historiographical Perspectives.”
Call for papers (in French or English) open until 1 March 2025.
calenda.org/1217954?lang...

@hugodecursi.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Grim, grim news.

And a School of "Global Humanities" at the same time as slashing languages
January 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity

University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025

helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...
CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity
Call for Papers University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025  The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally depicted through the lens of symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics: ma…
helsinkinotebooks.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
As a million people have already said on here, hmmm i wonder if it’s ethical to use this infinite plagiarism machine that uses more electricity than several major economies to get the wrong answer to the question how many countries are in NATO
January 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Another one for the list of must-reads
jwomenshistory.bsky.social Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social · Jan 8
5/6 Rosón and Pol's article can be found here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... If you would like to read this article in the original Spanish, go here: jwomenshistory.org/el-rapado-ar...
Project MUSE - Head Shaving: Archives and Repertoires of Shame
muse.jhu.edu
January 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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👇📢 Applications now invited for the Ramón Areces Visiting Fellowship at St Antony's College Oxford for 2025-6.

Amazing international environment, the resources of the Bodleian etc...

www.sant.ox.ac.uk/european-stu...
ESC Vacancies - St Antony's
www.sant.ox.ac.uk
December 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Solidarity with colleagues out defending publicly-funded higher education in Madrid
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Our starter pack now has a sequel! As ever, comment to be added to it!

go.bsky.app/GX3v293
November 22, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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A rather impressive snowman in second quad given the desultory amount of snow
November 19, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Hello 👋 new followers! For those who don't know me: I wrote a book on radicalism in 1930s Spain and now mainly write about sound and politics across the C20, from pot-banging and charivari to loudspeakers and shouting.
November 15, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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The restored frontón Beti Jai, Madrid
September 28, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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First time that the Tories haven't won a general election since I gained the right to vote. I'm nearly 37.
July 5, 2024 at 9:04 AM