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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · Jul 1

So: the new book's going well.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 36m

Not gonna lie, I didn’t see Thatcherites rising from their death beds to save us coming, but here we are.

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1h

I find this kind of judgement rarely has weight loss as its concern, and more about demanding people only adopt a certain conformist lifestyle. These drugs are life changing, I can attest to that myself. Who cares how or why people lose weight.

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, and in the context of Oxbridge more about prestige than the Humanities themselves.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3h

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

'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 · 3h

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 · 4h

'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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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 3h

The Lowdown with Ethan Hawke is my new fave show. Such a good little black comedy. ‘Whatchya lookin’ for books for?’ ‘To read them.’ ‘Shakesqueer!’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 4h

Stayed up to midnight to finish this last night. How’s this for a passage: ‘How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-strings: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Long commute today, but with one of my all time fave books which I last read probably before Henry was born! How did I let that happen?! As I’m writing my new book I need some inspiring prose. And who better than Faulkner.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 6d

For the first time ever, London has met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide.

When I became Mayor, we were told it would take 193 years. We did it 184 years earlier than expected.

Cleaner air means a healthier city and big savings for the NHS.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

I’m no Tudor nerd but this is a biggie. Of course note the ‘public’ - scholars have undoubtedly engaged with it for a long time. But this is the sort of stuff that really should be easily accessible, so it’s good news.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

They’re right: protesting genocide is ‘anti British’, as historically it’s often been the British supporting and on occasion committing genocide.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

What traces of Indigenous American history lie within English country houses? In our latest article, Lauren Working and Stephanie Pratt explore how trade and tobacco shaped a famous stately home.

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Display case of dozens of white clay tobacco pipes excavated in England. Their form derives from Indigenous American pipe traditions, showing how Native technologies were adopted, industrialised, and embedded into English social life.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Making a mental note for a future read!

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

‘That’s what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and the despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t she just?

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Yep 😂

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine the man, god rest his soul, would be dismayed at this. And, I imagine, also find it hilarious.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

This passage has always stuck with me. I love the idea of emptying yourself for sleep. ‘In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Best chapter. Poor little Vardaman.

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

‘That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable brooding image.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

Any good?

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

‘It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

‘I did not think Darl would, that sits at the supper table with his eyes gone further than the food and the lamp, full of the land dug out of his skull and the holes filled with distance beyond the land.’

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

I believe few things as strongly as I believe that statement.

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