Stuart Jones
@stuartjones.bsky.social
Historian, Manchester UK 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
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📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
I'm speaking about my new book in Oxford at 12 today talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f6...
'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
talks.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I'm speaking about my new book in Oxford at 12 today talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f6...
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
Out today (in USA)
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Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Out today (in USA)
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
An ideal Christmas present
📢 Ed. with @capandgown.bsky.social A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry was published by Bloomsbury today! Many thanks to the series eds & all contributors
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social
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#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
An ideal Christmas present
Third World War imminent
In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists' greatest ally. That deserves our backing | Simon Jenkins
In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists' greatest ally. That deserves our backing | Simon Jenkins
It’s a fool’s game trying to understand the president’s true motives, but do our misgivings matter if the outcome is a speedy end to war, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Third World War imminent
A rare piece of good news for the Royal Family: Simon Jenkins forecasts its demise www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The latest Prince Andrew abuse claims are a new low for the Royal Family brand. In this form, it can’t survive | Simon Jenkins
‘The Firm’ as a modernising strategy was already falling apart, but with the shocking allegations so fully in the public domain, it has now collapsed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A rare piece of good news for the Royal Family: Simon Jenkins forecasts its demise www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
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This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Thrilled to have another piece out on the history of economic republicanism! In the 19th century, republican ideas were mobilised to argue for popular economic self-government, ideas that still have much to offer in our own age of oligarchy.
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
October 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thrilled to have another piece out on the history of economic republicanism! In the 19th century, republican ideas were mobilised to argue for popular economic self-government, ideas that still have much to offer in our own age of oligarchy.
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Higher Learning
How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
My almost-published book on Bryce is reviewed in distinguished company by Greg Conti here doi.org/10.1080/0191...
Worlds of Liberalism
This essay analyses two outstanding recent books on the history of British Liberalism: H.S. Jones's “Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect” and Jonathan Parry's “Liberalism.” The...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My almost-published book on Bryce is reviewed in distinguished company by Greg Conti here doi.org/10.1080/0191...
Sartor Resartus
Taylor Swift dévoile « The Life of a Showgirl », son douzième album
Taylor Swift dévoile « The Life of a Showgirl », son douzième album
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October 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sartor Resartus
A symposium on Georgios Varouxakis, The West: A History of an Idea
Date: 24 Oct • 15:00
Location: 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposiu...
Date: 24 Oct • 15:00
Location: 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposiu...
A symposium on Georgios Varouxakis, The West: A History of an Idea
Georgios Varouxakis Symposium
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A symposium on Georgios Varouxakis, The West: A History of an Idea
Date: 24 Oct • 15:00
Location: 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposiu...
Date: 24 Oct • 15:00
Location: 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-symposiu...
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First historian who claims Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth were radicalized at university will get the Presidential Medal for Freedom (and possibly prime time interview on CBS).
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
First historian who claims Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth were radicalized at university will get the Presidential Medal for Freedom (and possibly prime time interview on CBS).
I had the pleasure to attend this wonderful new book by the inimitable @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I had the pleasure to attend this wonderful new book by the inimitable @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
30 Oct, Senate House - symposium on Collini's History of English Studies in Britain
🎤 Speakers inc Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc [tinyurl.com]
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
🎤 Speakers inc Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc [tinyurl.com]
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium
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September 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
30 Oct, Senate House - symposium on Collini's History of English Studies in Britain
🎤 Speakers inc Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc [tinyurl.com]
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
🎤 Speakers inc Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini
Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc [tinyurl.com]
#EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature
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Irony of this article about giving better coverage to Lib Dems (and others)…
…doesn't mention Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
…doesn't mention Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
BBC not ‘trying to ingratiate’ itself to Reform UK, Tim Davie tells MPs
Director general says broadcaster is ‘trying to get the balance right’ amid increased coverage
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Irony of this article about giving better coverage to Lib Dems (and others)…
…doesn't mention Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
…doesn't mention Lib Dems
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
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Good job if you care about the arts and humanities.
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
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Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
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Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement
Salary: £91,943 - £99,000 | UKRI Band X | Closing Date: 5th October 2025
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September 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Good job if you care about the arts and humanities.
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Executive Director for Portfolios, Partnerships and Engagement at the Arts and Humanities Research Council - £91k-£99k
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This is Tory member who has voted Labour in the only two general elections since she turned 18?
September 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is Tory member who has voted Labour in the only two general elections since she turned 18?
A rousing rendition of the Horst Wessel song
September 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A rousing rendition of the Horst Wessel song
I'm sorry Google isn't going to be broken up. I was looking forward to Go Maps and Ogle Images
September 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I'm sorry Google isn't going to be broken up. I was looking forward to Go Maps and Ogle Images
I'm old enough to remember when it jarred to speak of 'countries like North Korea and the USA'
August 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I'm old enough to remember when it jarred to speak of 'countries like North Korea and the USA'