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Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 17d

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 7m

I’d wager that there’s a lot of Conservative Britain out there that agrees with this

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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

“In the letter, the government said it would be “reprioritising” the funding of post-16 education in England to focus on “larger than normal maths and high-value A-level programmes to support the pipeline of students for priority sectors””. Grim.

Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas

The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools

observer.co.uk

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 40m

Indeed…

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 48m

Is there AI insurance yet?

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 48m

Is there AI insurance yet?

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2h

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

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LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 11h

New indie band called ‘The 1974 Energy Crisis’ who specialise in barbed satire of British life and exclusively play children’s toy instruments. Debut single ‘Southwold Pier Suicide’ has received a rave review in The Quietus.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 17h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 12h

Love that the Guardian licensing hours piece is illustrated with a picture of the Harp

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Building a freeport (Jebel Ali?) also helped cement it. What’s notable is that this—shipping—is why Egypt used to be so important but it seems to have become less so other than as transit point through Suez. That said, without the canal, UAE would have problems.

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

UK did amazingly well exiting its positions i. the Gulf at least in part due to falconry…

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. And the royal family are based in AD.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

100%. Don’t tell people in the US.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. And, in my experience, archaeologists (as precarious as parts of that existence are).

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it’s both, right? The oil plus the fact it can quite easily become trading/travel entrepot

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely well located, globally speaking

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh also a very popular move to have a servant amongst the wealthier populations from everywhere else who move to Dubai

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

That is precisely it. The failed/third sons being sent abroad.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

All I think about when reading this is how many jobs the money spent on that pile of brick and glass could have saved in smaller humanities departments - my own colleagues. It’s like building a monument of gold in a landscape of wrack and ruin.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'The gleaming palace to the humanities – the single largest building project ever undertaken by the University of Oxford made possible by the largest philanthropic gift it has ever received – stands in stark contrast to the beleaguered, shrinking state of the rest of the sector.'

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t know who the journalist is, but he should win an award for sitting through that, frankly

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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