Dr David Vessey
@davidcvessey.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain and the media. University of Sheffield. Probably won’t rant about Sheffield Wednesday on here (I’ll save that for the hellsite formerly known as Twitter).
There are no cuts on the table beyond a review for certain programmes that was already in place. The UCU seems to want an extended guarantee beyond this year.
August 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
There are no cuts on the table beyond a review for certain programmes that was already in place. The UCU seems to want an extended guarantee beyond this year.
Nicked a couple of my articles it seems. Here’s hoping my shocking grammar brings it down from within …
March 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nicked a couple of my articles it seems. Here’s hoping my shocking grammar brings it down from within …
Sounds similar to our current predicament. What uni is this?
March 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sounds similar to our current predicament. What uni is this?
I don’t understand the figures in this story. Regrettable though it is, £16.5 million has already been saved from VSS, so there’s no way that there will be 1,000 additional job losses. The UCU are just scoring political points as usual, and I’m as critical of our management as the next person.
February 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I don’t understand the figures in this story. Regrettable though it is, £16.5 million has already been saved from VSS, so there’s no way that there will be 1,000 additional job losses. The UCU are just scoring political points as usual, and I’m as critical of our management as the next person.
Unfortunately not a decision based on an objective analysis, and there are other resources on the chopping block.
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Unfortunately not a decision based on an objective analysis, and there are other resources on the chopping block.
Reposted by Dr David Vessey
This is a problem of how we conflate engineering and science. Students using LLMs to write is like building a robot to lift weights for you at the gym. The point of lifting the weights is for your training, not because weights need lifting
December 12, 2024 at 3:38 PM
This is a problem of how we conflate engineering and science. Students using LLMs to write is like building a robot to lift weights for you at the gym. The point of lifting the weights is for your training, not because weights need lifting
The Donny DNA is strong. Would certainly kick the arse of Cambridge.
November 30, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The Donny DNA is strong. Would certainly kick the arse of Cambridge.
Hang on, have you been a fellow Doncastrian all this time without me realising?
November 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Hang on, have you been a fellow Doncastrian all this time without me realising?
Our morale is in the toilet. It’s a masterclass in torpedoing performance.
November 16, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Our morale is in the toilet. It’s a masterclass in torpedoing performance.
And finally for now, the equally curious case of Truth in the early Cold War: doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Speaking Truth to a Foreign Power: Anti-Bolshevism and Truth in the Early Cold War, 1945–53 - David Vessey, 2024
Analysis of the periodical press allows historians to further their understanding of the turn against the Soviet Union in the West after the Second World War, a...
doi.org
November 9, 2024 at 7:17 PM
And finally for now, the equally curious case of Truth in the early Cold War: doi.org/10.1177/0022...
This next article is on the Sisyphean task of Moscow correspondents in the 1930s: doi.org/10.1080/1461...
First-hand Accounts? Walter Duranty, William Henry Chamberlin and Eugene Lyons as Moscow Correspondents in the 1930s
Previous studies on Moscow correspondents in the 1930s have prioritised the work of individual reporters over the infrastructure that actually conditioned how Western journalists could operate. Thi...
doi.org
November 9, 2024 at 7:16 PM
This next article is on the Sisyphean task of Moscow correspondents in the 1930s: doi.org/10.1080/1461...
I’d like to be added please!
November 8, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I’d like to be added please!
Too little, too late and pleases no one. If it’s a sticking plaster pending more serious surgery then fair enough, but I’m not hopeful.
November 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Too little, too late and pleases no one. If it’s a sticking plaster pending more serious surgery then fair enough, but I’m not hopeful.
Not historiography but the first Royal Commission on the Press might have something on N. Ireland. There’s also Coglan’s report from 1936, but I don’t remember it having circulation for local papers.
October 28, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Not historiography but the first Royal Commission on the Press might have something on N. Ireland. There’s also Coglan’s report from 1936, but I don’t remember it having circulation for local papers.
Same. With a quill pen and calligraphy.
October 18, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Same. With a quill pen and calligraphy.
Not a great surprise at that point in 1945 when he’s still in the late ’Uncle Joe’ phase. And there was always a tendency to separate Stalin to some degree from the worst tyrannies of the Bolsheviks in the 1930s.
August 30, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Not a great surprise at that point in 1945 when he’s still in the late ’Uncle Joe’ phase. And there was always a tendency to separate Stalin to some degree from the worst tyrannies of the Bolsheviks in the 1930s.
Going deep on the Morrison ‘coup’ that never was?
August 7, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Going deep on the Morrison ‘coup’ that never was?
I do this all the time. Tomorrow I’ll think it’s a pile of stinking turd 😐
July 30, 2024 at 6:19 PM
I do this all the time. Tomorrow I’ll think it’s a pile of stinking turd 😐