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Ben Griffin
@historygriffin.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · Aug 21
Duncan Bell, “John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire,” History of Political Thought (2025)

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John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire: Ingenta Connect
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Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social · 9h
My new article is out in Nineteenth-Century Music Review! ‘Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire’ explores how 19th-century sailors’ songs reflect the noisy, lively, often precarious world of London’s docklands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#MaritimeHistory #Musicology #SeaShanties
Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4h
Homeless people 'deeply failed' as deaths in UK reach record high www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazenes increasingly deadly.
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Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 11h
There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 1d
Great thread. I have a go at explaining why it has been so easy to perceive masculinity as being in crisis in my contribution to this book (which is free to download):

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d
Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.
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George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 2d
The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 2d
A rather good puncturing of some of the silly claims underpinning demands that we should leave the ECHR.

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Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration
Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 2d
#OTD 110 years ago, the Hon. Charles Thomas Mills MP died at the Battle of Loos.

Dr Kathryn Rix explored the parliamentary and military service of the youngest MP killed during the First World War on the #HistParl site:
‘The hero legislator of Uxbridge’: the Hon. Charles Thomas Mills (1887-1915) - The History of Parliament
100 years ago the Battle of Loos proved deadly for a third MP, as today marks the anniversary of the seventh MP who died in fighting in the First World War.
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 4d
Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 6d
Lucy Delap, Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain (2011), pp. 33, 52, 74, 91.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d
Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young.

Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it
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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 16d
It’s also exciting to have doctoral student @chloechallender.bsky.social contributing ‘Ringside seat? Women’s modes of entry to the early 19th century parliament’, which promises to be a fascinating read!
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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 16d
We’re delighted that @jamesepeate.bsky.social is one of the early career contributors to the next edition of Parliamentary History on ‘Rough Work on the Hustings’: Sheridan, Cobbett, and Newspapers in the General Election of 1806.

Subscribe here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Parliamentary History
Click on the title to browse this journal
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 8d
Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants
The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 8d
#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.
Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust
Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations!
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d
How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d
WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 19d
Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 11d
Today we are celebrating #Railway200, as 200 years ago, #OTD 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened.

To mark this milestone, we thought we’d look at some of the ways Parliament and the railways have intersected in the last 200 years: (🧵 1/6)
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11d
Professorship of Economic History
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS980/p...
Professorship of Economic History at University of Cambridge
Apply for the Professorship of Economic History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11d
For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 14d
UK universities take note: “95% of organisations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies.”
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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 14d
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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 14d
Really good news!
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 14d
Our database of Queen Victoria's Journals is now back online and available to internet users in the UK: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account....
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 14d
Can confirm.
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Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social · 16d
A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 at University of Cambridge
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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