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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 1h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 5h

when i started my phd in 2010 one thing i definitely underestimated was how much of my life 15 years later would be “making PowerPoints”

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 3d

Joseph Stella, First Light, c. 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135045

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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 2h

York people, I'm giving a paper at the Uni History Department's research seminar on Wednesday 15 October. Particularly keen for feedback from historians of crime, historical criminologists, and criminologists.

An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome.

www.york.ac.uk

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7h

'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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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 6h

Longer description:

The Ethnographic Atlas, drawn up by George Murdock in the 1950s and 1960s, is a widely used resource in economics, political science and even in evolutionary psychology. The Atlas tabulates a broad range of attributes for over 1200 pre-industrial societies across the entire globe, with notable granularity for Africa and North America in particular. For Africa, Murdock also drew up a map with ethnic homelands. Later scholars have matched the Atlas and the Map to create a spatial dataset which has sparked a large and influential recent literature.
In this literature, researchers have leveraged various aspects of the Atlas, each with their own empirical and conceptual challenges. One of the most influential uses of the Atlas involves the spatial matching of past 'ethnic characteristics' with outcomes today, for example to measure the lasting impact of pre-colonial states or gender norms. Others have specifically looked at the location of ethnic borders in Africa, for example to evaluate how they coincide with colonial borders.
As use of the Atlas has expanded, so has criticism of the data it contains. How reliable is the Atlas? Is the research that underpins it not well past its due date? And to what extent can potential weaknesses be overcome? Research outputs using the Atlas may cite these critiques, but rarely have the space to engage with questions of data quality in any significant depth. Our aim is to bring together scholars who have engaged with the Atlas in their research and are interested in an open, cross-disciplinary, and forward-looking conversation on the merits, limitations and pitfalls of using Murdock's Atlas in social science research.

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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 6h

CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at LSE next April on 'Uses and Abuses of the Murdock Atlas in Social Science Research'. We're looking for cross-disciplinary engagement to think critically about what this widely used source means, what it can & can't tell us. Submit by Nov 14
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...

Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research

www.lse.ac.uk

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 1d

Attention French historians and researchers in adjacent fields: the call for papers is now open for the next George Rudé conference. 8–10 July 2026, in Perth, Western Australia. Generous funding ($3300AUD) is available to support research students' travel. Deadline for proposal is 15 December 2025.

George Rudé Society @georgerudesociety.bsky.social · 5d

We're very excited to announce our Call for Papers for the 25th George Rudé Seminar, the largest gathering of scholars of French history & culture in the southern hemisphere! Taking place in beautiful Boorloo/Perth at the Uni of Western Australia 8-10 July 2026. Pls share!
h-france.net/rude/cfp/

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 22h

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 6h

I am absolutely fed up of this assault on critical thinking. Those in power & those who aspire to it don't want people to think critically; they don't want people to _think_. The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences are valuable in themselves, but watch the economy tank if Badenoch has her way...

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 7h

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 22h

important reflections on the colonial archive and how we might use it, from @camilleriana.bsky.social - makes me wonder how to get myself over to Eritrea!

Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 1d

A great new post on researching the history of former Ascari in Eritrea by our own @camilleriana.bsky.social. colvet.eu/338-2/

Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’. | Colvet.eu

colvet.eu

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Britain's Fascist Thread

Camilla Schofield explores the unbroken thread of fascism in Britain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Maartje Abbenhuis @maartjeabb.bsky.social · 1d

Lectureship in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland! Come join me and my wonderful colleagues! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

Very ornate library with beautiful glass ceiling

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

It is possible to have a society where abuse and human trafficking is taken seriously and critically, but also understands that AI porn/brothels will create monsters who will not be able to restrict their violent impulses to ‘AI girls’

Obscene to use this as a justification.

of the industry. They also argue that AI performers do not get ill, do not need to have days off, do not get exhausted at the end of a shift, or feel humiliated by the demands made by clients.

“Do you prefer your porn with a lot of abuse and human trafficking, or would you rather talk to an AI?” Steve Jones, who runs an AI porn site, asked. “We hear about human trafficking, girls being forced to be on camera 10 hours a day. You’ll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You’ll never have a girl who is forced or coerced into a sex scene that she’s so humiliated by, that she ends up killing herself. AI doesn’t get humiliated, it’s not going to kill itself.”

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 4d

This week the Society also launched the call for its First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, should be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 2d

My most charitable reading of this is that some people think "anxiety" is like "flu" (people colloquially use the term for an actual, very serious condition when they mean something milder, blunting the effect of the diagnosis).

But that's not it. They're just arseholes.

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d

"Welfare system should be a safety net, not a lifestyle choice... that’s why we will stop benefits for anxiety" Helen Whately, Shadow Secretary for State, work and pensions. Daily Mail.

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 2d

You can get a sense of what I might be talking about in this blog post on my time in the Bristol Theatre Archives
theatrecollection.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/08/28/p...

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

making a deal = agreeing that there is no more law

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