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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

(I have been very frustrated not just over the dominance of WWII history, but especially on how it has been taught. It's so evasive of responsibility.)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

seconded.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honoured to have been elected one of three incoming @royalhistsoc.org council members for a three year term. The Society does an immense amount of good for historians in the UK and beyond and I am flattered I get a chance to play a part in that work.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

OH HURRAH!!!! Excellent news for the discipline that @davehitchcock.bsky.social is going to be working on the @royalhistsoc.org Council for us! An already great bunch of people joined by another powerhouse. I'm hopeful about what excellent advocacy work is to come.

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honoured to have been elected one of three incoming @royalhistsoc.org council members for a three year term. The Society does an immense amount of good for historians in the UK and beyond and I am flattered I get a chance to play a part in that work.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

Because the anglophone world could claim victory and claim they were the Good Guys.

If only there were this many books about the 1920s-1930s that showed how European societies were toxified, and who was trying to resist this rise of fascism and how.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 3d

How are there so many WWII books?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

oh hoe heerlijk van dit op film te hebben!

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Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social · 2d

@tzumliterairweblog.bsky.social publiceerde vorige week dit TV interview over de vrouwenbeweging met Annie Romein Verschoor uit 1970, www.tzum.info/2025/10/film...

De interviewster was mijn toen 30-jarige moeder Tessel, die ook wat eigen ervaringen deelde. Fascinerend.

Filmpje: Annie Romein-Verschoor over het feminisme - Tzum

In 1970, toen iedereen nog gezellig rookte, interviewt Tessel Pollmann Annie Romein-Verschoor (1895-1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcXCOveZCnE

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 2d

“I often tell students that source analysis is about the skills and imagination the historian brings, rather than just the nature of the source”

New post on a brilliant article from Michaela Kalcher on a 1790s diarist

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/u... 🗃️

Unverbal Diarier

‘Céléstin Guittard de Floriban did not leave much of a mark on history,’ writes Michaela Kalcher. What this unremarkable bourgeois did leave, however, was a day-by-day account of the Fr…

williamgpooley.wordpress.com

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 1d

Another #NewAcq incunable (permanent loan) 📚💙 📜

Morticellarium aureum ('The golden undertaker'), a manual to contemplate a Christian death, printed in Antwerp by Gerard Leeu in 1488. EHC 913035.

Not sure the guy in the fancy hat is ready to contemplate anything.

Title page of the book, with a woodcut of a monk in a hood showing a guy in a fancy hat that death (a grinning skeleton with a scyte) is already in his house. Details of the black-and-white woodcut are coloured in with red.

The woodcut printer's mark of Gerard Leeu, showing a fantasy representation of the City of Antwerp. Details of the black-and-white image are coloured in red and yellow.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 1d

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

indeed! It's a skill I haven't fully mastered yet, judging from the slightly confused looks and frequent 'hang on, let me give you some background... hang on, some further background....' whenever I get on my UKHE hobby horse...

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d

According to a lot of governmental & university 'consulting': absolutely nothing. It's been really horrifying to see how all the actual knowledgeable bodies have been pushed aside by for-profit consultants in any discussion of higher education and research, isn't it?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 2d

"to use a technical constitutional term, this is bollocks" -- @robertsaunders.bsky.social.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 2d

It's not a @robertsaunders.bsky.social paper without a Taylor Swift slide.

(VERRRRRY excited the History Department @qmul.bsky.social gets to discuss his work on Brexit as Democratic crsis)

screenshot of a powerpoint slide of taylor swift singing 'this is me swallowing my pride, standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that DRAFT'

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 3d

You're speaking my language here.

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Barry Lyga @barrylyga.com · 3d

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 3d

Why not listen to this podcast of a previous conversation about #YayArchives @rshc.bsky.social in preparation for the 28 October event? #SkyStorians

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 10d

Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10d

How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

Changing The Record

How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 3d

Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 3d

OOOOO! This sounds utterly fascinating! More #YayArchives research @rshc.bsky.social!

#SkyStorians #HistArchives

Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 3d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 7d

"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."

Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 6d

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 5d

Your Sunday read on #UKHE:

Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research. It abandons generations of students as the campuses and scholarly communities we invite them to join become, in multiple senses, impoverished. The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination: even when the collapse of higher education is perceived as a problem, policymakers, academics, and the communities they serve are left with little recourse. One can only despair at the lack of viable alternatives.

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