Gareth Millward
@millieqed.bsky.social
Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
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Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
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@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
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My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy
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The working classes are cursed to forever carry the ghosts of the rich on their backs
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The working classes are cursed to forever carry the ghosts of the rich on their backs
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It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A League of Their Own: Halifax Hospital League of Friends
This article develops academic literature on the history of the Hospital League of Friends, using the Halifax League as a case study. The League of Friends of the Halifax Hospitals was one of the f...
www.tandfonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's publication day! My new article in Northern History builds on work by @millieqed.bsky.social to produce a study of the League of Hospital Friends in Halifax mostly using local newspapers.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A reminder that the UK gets MPs from the Co-op, while Reykjavik gets them from Iceland.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A reminder that the UK gets MPs from the Co-op, while Reykjavik gets them from Iceland.
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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I mean look, this is straightforward reputational damage to this university right? Like, do I need to draw a line from this immensely lazy 'teaching' to the PR and recruitment consequences? I suspect I don't. People hamming it up like AI will change education forever are sellin' snake-oil
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I mean look, this is straightforward reputational damage to this university right? Like, do I need to draw a line from this immensely lazy 'teaching' to the PR and recruitment consequences? I suspect I don't. People hamming it up like AI will change education forever are sellin' snake-oil
I'm loathed to do PR for the competition (😘), but if anyone is interested in this (excellent-looking!) post and wants to talk to someone about what it's like as a foreigner to work in the Danish system, I'm happy to chat.
Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I'm loathed to do PR for the competition (😘), but if anyone is interested in this (excellent-looking!) post and wants to talk to someone about what it's like as a foreigner to work in the Danish system, I'm happy to chat.
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Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
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Once again: Labour produced a spectacularly untalented generation of politicians in New Labour’s slipstream, and everything from Corbyn’s election as leader to the current government’s travails is downstream of and undeniable proof of that.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Once again: Labour produced a spectacularly untalented generation of politicians in New Labour’s slipstream, and everything from Corbyn’s election as leader to the current government’s travails is downstream of and undeniable proof of that.
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I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
The Social Democrat defeat in Copenhagen is big and significant, but I do warn people - if Labour completely collapsed in London, would that *in itself* make this Labour leadership change course?
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The Social Democrat defeat in Copenhagen is big and significant, but I do warn people - if Labour completely collapsed in London, would that *in itself* make this Labour leadership change course?
lol
lmao, in fact
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lmao, in fact
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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
lol
lmao, in fact
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lmao, in fact
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Surefire sign that it's a great Star Trek idea
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Surefire sign that it's a great Star Trek idea
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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Still time to sign up for @garylove.bsky.social's online seminar tomorrow on Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives
Professor Gary Love will present his research on Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91
www.history.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Still time to sign up for @garylove.bsky.social's online seminar tomorrow on Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Nå.
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Nå.