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Will Clement

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Historian of Modern Europe | poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Publication day for "State-Making in an Age of Revolution, 1830-1880"!

The full book - including my chapter "‘A Dead Letter in the Hands of Local Authorities’? Implementing Public Health Legislation in French Provincial Cities, 1850–60" - is here www.jstor.org/stable/jj.31...

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 1d

Is this on your radar, @joshuarushton8.bsky.social ?

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 4d

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15:

Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

Okay great, I'll send via email :)

Any of the names tagged in @djrgrey.bsky.social 's post here about a workshop last month will also have good material to share I'm sure bsky.app/profile/djrg...

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations 🎊 to @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and @janetweston.bsky.social for a brilliant conference! 👏🏻 Lots of amazing papers including @historywill.bsky.social @sophiemhistory.bsky.social @stephemmabrown.bsky.social @henryyeomans.bsky.social 🌟 Looking forward to next steps 😀

Photograph of two British women police officers from the 1950s wearing masks to protect themselves from the smog

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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 6d

I'm developing a new course on the history of policing (with England, France, and USA as cases we will use) and am surprised that I'm not coming up with many examples of already-existing courses. Anyone teach something like this? #skystorians

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

I ran a week on a wider European (not including British) C19 survey course on 'states, bureaucracy, and crime'. Just checked my list though and imagine you'll know all the French stuff and that the stuff on Italy/Germany/Hapsburg/Balkans may all be irrelevant - just shout if you want it anyway

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Julia -- are you taking 'Victorian' in a British history only sense of the word, or 'Victorian' in a broader nineteenth-century sense? I am considering whether some of my work on French housing communities in the C19 and their legacies today might fit.

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

"... but"

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this line-up to continue the theme www.slamdunkfestival.com/line-up

It's even got "A" on it, the band named (I assume) to maximise placement in HMV CD racks

LINE UP | Slam Dunk 2025

www.slamdunkfestival.com

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 5d

Thoughts, @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social ? @magdamaaoui.bsky.social is looking for social housing pioneers beyond France — who comes to mind?

Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social · 8d

Currently doing some work on Renée Gailhoustet and her pioneer work on French social housing. I put her in the same category of genius as Charlotte Perriand.

Any other names that should be included in that group in your opinion?

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the tag @manonraffard.bsky.social !
Sounds like brilliant research, though I'm afraid I'm not sure who to add (I mostly work pre-loi Siegfried)
You may already know their work, but Annie Fourcaut, Yankel Fijalkow and Thibault Tellier all have excellent works on C20 housing

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Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social · 8d

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 9d

Almost as if it’s the start of the teaching year in Europe and everyone’s logging on at once!

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 9d

I've had this from their support team who, in fairness to them, replied within an hour:

Dear Will,

Thank you for your message.

We are currently experiencing temporary issues with access to Cambridge Core and Cambridge Aspire. Our development team has identified the root cause and is actively working with Cambridge to resolve it as quickly as possible.

We will reach out to you as soon as the services are fully restored and everything is back to normal. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

If you have any further questions or issues, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards,
Mariana Cavazos Lomelin
Cambridge Core
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge, CB2 8EA

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 9d

Anyone else having issues with Cambridge Core @universitypress.cambridge.org ? It was working fine this morning, but just getting error messages (and panicked emails from students who can't access set readings for tomorrow...) all afternoon

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 9d

Historians, archivists, librarians and historians working in the field of labour history. A starter pack to get you going…
go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 9d

Great list! Can I ask to be added please? I work on the history of workers’ housing, including tenant-landlord relations and conflicts

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Michael Bono @mbonotheyounger.bsky.social · 10d

OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12d

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

www.nytimes.com

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 12d

The headline and framing of this looks very similar to @mikkelhoeghoej.bsky.social 's work on early C20 rats in Copenhagen, presented at @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social

Photo of a rat with a red colour filter over it. Text at the top reads BBC INDEPTH. Text at the bottom reads Ratmageddon: What rats are overrunning our cities

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12d

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.

Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.

Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk

Pm says Britain has been squeamish about illegal immigration.

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 12d

V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*

Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t

doi.org

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 15d

A residential landlord demanding that the tenant, as a standard contract term, sign over all rights to intellectual property accrued while working from their property.

Like, literally, if you write a novel on the weekends, they want to own it.

There is no end to these ****ers' greed.

Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 15d

This is Australia but holy shit

Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 15d

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 15d

Is it too late to change my proposed book cover, I wonder?

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15d

Every time this pops up on my feed I am afraid this is what flashes into my head

(but also, read it)

Meme showing david tennant as the tenth Doctor on the left. He is smiling. On the right we see tennant as the baddie from Jessica Jones. He looks VERY sinister in a purple shirt and dark blue suit. The left is labelled David Tennant. The right is labelled David Landlord.

Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 15d

“a discussion about trans history became a springboard from which to imagine trans futures—futures that located epistemic authority and political power not in the clinic, but in community.”

Fantastic and powerful piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social that deserves to be widely read

Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15d

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

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