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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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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

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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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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 2d

This event is the third conference as part of our AHRC-funded 'Rethinking History' grant. For more info about our upcoming and past events, see: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/

Blog — Centre for the Study of Internationalism

Our blog features reports, notes, and writings on current events, research, conferences, and other items of interest.

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 11d

"writing about the United Nations is to become a pedant," @drmargottudor.bsky.social says, and um actually, why am I being read like this??

Okay anyway, so the thing about the Soviet typists at UNHQ in 1964 specifically was-

Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 21d

Check out my responses - along with other UN historians - about why we study the UN (and why you should too)

Passport @passportshafr.bsky.social · 23d

The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 20d

Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 21d

Check out my responses - along with other UN historians - about why we study the UN (and why you should too)

Passport @passportshafr.bsky.social · 23d

The September Passport issue is available! Including video games, the US in the Middle East, the Cold War International History Project, French resistance fighter, and 7 Questions about the United Nations: www.shafr.org/passport-sep...

Passport September 2025

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 22d

Men aren’t hot like Robert Redford anymore

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 25d

Back from a lovely week in Vaxjo for @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social conference on global history with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social and Daniel Laqua. I presented some new work on anti-UN peacekeeping protests on a double panel for our ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ project 🌍

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is who the Labour gov is arresting.

This is who the Labour government calls terrorists.

Hundreds more of them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Sep 6

This seems to be an instructive case: when legacy media appropriate the aesthetics of #MemeFascism (even if with critical intent), they make themselves into a vehicle for MAGA propaganda. The memefied brains behind the DHS account correctly recognized this as a perfect recruitment poster
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Matt Ficke @mattficke.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s the cover of the current issue of The Spectator magazine, they just edited it.

Original version of the image as the cover of The Spectator magazine

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · Sep 5

What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Sep 5

not academic at all but some personal positives: rewilding/tree planting becoming more mainstream, solar panel grants (rip), payment charge for plastic bags, reintroduction of wild animals (red kites, beavers, bison!!), allotments being a groovy thing :)

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Sep 4

This truth bears repeating, again and again.

theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...

Headline from The Intercept: "Trump’s Chicago Occupation Could Cost Four Times More Than Housing City Homeless -- Sending troops to Chicago could cost $1.6 million per day, four times as much as housing the city’s homeless — plus it’s illegal, experts say." September 3 2025. By Nick Turse

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yay!! Fantastic news :)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 15

in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

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Emma Kluge @emmakluge.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqj...

Oceans - Dr Emma Kluge, Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History

YouTube video by University of Exeter

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks to @us.theconversation.com for giving @victorkattan.bsky.social and I the chance to write about the #WesternSahara dispute amid changes in the UK policy, the investment race ahead of #FIFA2030 World Cup, and Trump's renewed disregard for international law
theconversation.com/morocco-usin...

Morocco using economic clout to strengthen grip on disputed Western Sahara territory

Morocco is entrenching its control of Western Sahara, or what it calls the ‘Southern Provinces’.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 12

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 12

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling

Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · Aug 12

UK gov: we want to build vast new data centres because something something AI and never mind the environmental cost.

Also UK gov: oh no! Water shortages! Quick, everyone delete a few emails!

Who put these chuds in charge? 🙄

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Aug 12

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 9

By my count this makes 5 out of 12 authors on the Polari First Book longlist who have withdrawn. It's hard to understate the moral courage this involves, esp for folk launching their first book into the world. As so often, those with the most to lose end up showing the most moral fibre. Solidarity x

Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here is my statement about the Polari award with alt text. Sorry for missing this the first time. X

This really sucks. I was overjoyed to be put on the Polari long list alongside other incredible LGBTQ+ authors. Absolutely over the moon in fact!

But an author, who has called themselves Trans Exclusionary, and has equated cis women who support trans folk with sexual abusers, has been included. I simply cannot continue with this in good faith.

The quality of his work is irrelevant. This is supposedly an award for ALL LGBTQ+ folk. Celebrating inclusion. Not exclusion and division.

My book is about ALL queer folk, it was supported by trans people and read by trans people. After the recent statement from Polari I find myself unsatisfied. I have to go with my integrity here just to be able to look myself in the mirror.

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