Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
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Yes, throughout history (I did a thread on royal ones). The difference (usually) is that those around them do something.
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1/ Apropos of nothing in particular, I was reflecting on monarchs that have been labelled as mad in the history books. A short 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Yes, throughout history (I did a thread on royal ones). The difference (usually) is that those around them do something.
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Tim Stanley has an editor? Is his editor named Grok?
January 19, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Tim Stanley has an editor? Is his editor named Grok?
'The answers to such questions are more readily imagined through contemporary cutting edge research agendas than by established approaches to engaging students with existing bodies of knowledge.' 3/3
January 19, 2026 at 7:21 AM
'The answers to such questions are more readily imagined through contemporary cutting edge research agendas than by established approaches to engaging students with existing bodies of knowledge.' 3/3
'AI can never (and should never) “replace” academics as stewards of disciplinary knowledge, but it should prompt a deep examination of what that reconfiguration of the relationship between knowledge and education purpose looks like for the different disciplines'. 2/3
January 19, 2026 at 7:21 AM
'AI can never (and should never) “replace” academics as stewards of disciplinary knowledge, but it should prompt a deep examination of what that reconfiguration of the relationship between knowledge and education purpose looks like for the different disciplines'. 2/3
'One is the actual efficacy of the technology; the other is the financial architecture of the AI boom. In Zitron’s view, the foundations are shaky in both cases.' 2/2
January 19, 2026 at 6:58 AM
'One is the actual efficacy of the technology; the other is the financial architecture of the AI boom. In Zitron’s view, the foundations are shaky in both cases.' 2/2
Yes it’s not that there aren’t available odious women in the T circle.
January 18, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Yes it’s not that there aren’t available odious women in the T circle.
Nobody is noticing that all the blokes about to rule over Palestinians are blokes. This has now been so naturalised, with normalisation of the return of ‘big man’ politics, that it no longer merits notice. I’m just suggesting we might want to take note, and reflect a bit on that.
January 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Nobody is noticing that all the blokes about to rule over Palestinians are blokes. This has now been so naturalised, with normalisation of the return of ‘big man’ politics, that it no longer merits notice. I’m just suggesting we might want to take note, and reflect a bit on that.
Discuss, with respect to gender in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Discuss, with respect to gender in the second quarter of the twentieth century.