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Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 11h

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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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 12h

Part time positions on social mobility & inequality says everything about Oxford's attitude to both. That it wants to look at AI in inequality research is hilarious too.

The attitudes their university encourages are a bigger issue than anything these positions could address

Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · 13h

FOUR new positions available at INET Oxford!

@zparolin.bsky.social is hiring:

🠺 1x FT Post-Doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility
🠺 3x PT Rsearchers in Inequality, Social Policy, and Social Mobility

Find out more and apply HERE ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Incidently if there were anyone interested/knows someone interested in supporting/mentoring I've got a great project perfect for Leverhulme Postdoc using Romani history pre-1850 to address present day racism

I know its not the done thing to ask but its hard to judge who/where would be a good fit

Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another report confirming discrimination of Romani people is systematic.

Despite this historical and current discrimination we're not considered important enough to have positions dedicated to our history, we don't even figure on the RHS minority stats.

romea.cz/en/opinion/t...

"The Unheard 12 Million": New Council of Europe report confirms discrimination of Romani people is systematic - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place

Exactly what we, as Awen Amenca, and other Romani and pro-Roma organizations across Europe have been drawing attention to for many years has recently received a strong, official voice. The Council of ...

romea.cz

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch says she became a Tory because her lack of success at A Levels was caused by "the soft bigotry of low expectations".

She now intends to enforce those low expectations on working class kids.

Fortunately she's not in power. Unfortunately those sentiments are taking hold in Labour too

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1d

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Incidently if there were anyone interested/knows someone interested in supporting/mentoring I've got a great project perfect for Leverhulme Postdoc using Romani history pre-1850 to address present day racism

I know its not the done thing to ask but its hard to judge who/where would be a good fit

Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another report confirming discrimination of Romani people is systematic.

Despite this historical and current discrimination we're not considered important enough to have positions dedicated to our history, we don't even figure on the RHS minority stats.

romea.cz/en/opinion/t...

"The Unheard 12 Million": New Council of Europe report confirms discrimination of Romani people is systematic - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place

Exactly what we, as Awen Amenca, and other Romani and pro-Roma organizations across Europe have been drawing attention to for many years has recently received a strong, official voice. The Council of ...

romea.cz

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another report confirming discrimination of Romani people is systematic.

Despite this historical and current discrimination we're not considered important enough to have positions dedicated to our history, we don't even figure on the RHS minority stats.

romea.cz/en/opinion/t...

"The Unheard 12 Million": New Council of Europe report confirms discrimination of Romani people is systematic - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place

Exactly what we, as Awen Amenca, and other Romani and pro-Roma organizations across Europe have been drawing attention to for many years has recently received a strong, official voice. The Council of ...

romea.cz

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 2d

That's true. You think Starmer should apologise for his leadership campaign I assume?

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 5d

Academics never want to talk about let alone address how much they willingly (and very happily) discriminate on class

At every level they socially cleanse academia

My appeal is representation is important, value challenges overcome & lived experience over middle class, nice school, posh university

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Red Cavalry @redcavalry.bsky.social · 5d

Alas, So Long is now our best selling record beating our £1 Democracy Died EP!

Thank you so much for the support!

If you've not heard Alas, So Long yet today is Bandcamp Friday & the perfect chance to get one of a limited number of CDs!

redcavalrymusic.bandcamp.com/album/alas-s...

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 5d

I'm coming to terms with my academic career being a failure but I just wish I could find a role that helps change the barriers to students at all academic levels. But so few people consider it important, I've no idea how best to move things in the right direction

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 5d

I think most (historians at least) don't want change, they only want to work with scholars from similar backgrounds

They don't see that post 92 expansion was based on more working class & British BAME students in HE. If they don't feed through to all levels of the system that expansion has failed

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 5d

Very much agree, its really hard to get people to care (in my field at least). Though it also needs speaking up. I know I've spent too much time towing the line hoping to fit in, rather than pushing back against a system that doesn't want people from backgrounds like mine.

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 5d

Academics never want to talk about let alone address how much they willingly (and very happily) discriminate on class

At every level they socially cleanse academia

My appeal is representation is important, value challenges overcome & lived experience over middle class, nice school, posh university

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 6d

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades | British Politics and Policy at LSE

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities, but only part of that is explained by better grades.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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European Roma Rights Centre @romarights.bsky.social · 7d

“The time for indifference is over”: Human Rights Commissioner call for decisive action on Roma rights ➡️ www.errc.org/news/the-tim...

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 7d

Go read Sam's whole thread on Wuthering Heights as its really goo.d But this analysis is really important.

The addition of the romanticised & sexualised Romani into the greater Romani stereotype in the 19th century did not represent progress for Romani people in Britain

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7d

This raises a good point. The sexualised Romani figure (both male and female) is also a harmful, racist trope which objectifies and exoticises.

In critiquing Fennell's framing, I am criticising Fennell's whitewashing of a character, but sexualising Heathcliff BECAUSE Romani would be equally awful.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 7d

As someone whose experience of having some Romanichal ancestry as a child in the 1970s was: ‘Never tell anyone about Granny Ash’ I seethe when people take the approach of ‘It is a positive depiction’. The magic/sexy/wise Romany trope is not somehow good because it doesn’t involve horse stealing.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7d

Reading an article this morning on the Elordi casting where Fennell defends the Elordi casting on questions of age and race as 'he looked like the Heathcliff ilustration'in her teenage copy. Her response to the book, she says, was 'primal, sexual' 1/

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be here! Talking about adapting Wuthering Heights and the ongoing issues of anti-Romani racism in Gothic studies.

Come join us! (Online)

Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 7d

October is the best month for some monstrously fun entertainment. On Halloween @cncsi.bsky.social will be hosting a chillingly-good online workshop: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives. I hope you can join us. It will be a real screamer! 👻

Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 7d

I agree its classim in the extreme.

But to the historians on here how are you any different?

Where are the academics in your departments from these backgrounds? What do you do to help them get jobs/positions?

Historians don't value disadvantaged students past their undergrad fees.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'

Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’

Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be here! Talking about adapting Wuthering Heights and the ongoing issues of anti-Romani racism in Gothic studies.

Come join us! (Online)

Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 7d

October is the best month for some monstrously fun entertainment. On Halloween @cncsi.bsky.social will be hosting a chillingly-good online workshop: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives. I hope you can join us. It will be a real screamer! 👻

Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - CNCSI

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives Free and Online One-Day Halloween Workshop Friday 31st October, 10.45 am ̶ 5.00 pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign up here. The Centre ...

cn-csi.com

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 7d

These have been refreshingly honest, if not doing anything positive for your mental health.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 7d

“Know how to make this work for you.”

This is the last set of posts from the French History Network ECR in 2025*

We asked what advice ECRs would give to other ECRs or PG students.

🗃️

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6695/

ECR in 2025: Part Three- Advice to ECRs – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 8d

Why not force the Oxbridge colleges to merge & create a system that shares their wealth & resources with other UK universities & looks for the succes & stability of all?

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 8d

Oxbridge grads are a bit of problem when it comes to regressive policy. Glasman is a Cambridge grad calling for the closure of universities that won't include his alma mater.

Oxford is just as bad, look at the policy of Mahmood this week or Truss, Johnson et al over the Tory years.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

'He added: "But also close down half of universities and turn them into vocational colleges just to open the conversation."'

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 8d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 12d

A request for help. I am looking for article-length examples of historiography that takes place and built environment seriously. I don't think exactly architectural history, but emphasizing people occupying and using particular places. This is a methodological example for an undergraduate project. 🗃️

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 12d

Sorry that this is my own work but it might be the sort thing you're after and its London so has some prominence that might be appealing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Romani Capital? Romanies and London in the Eighteenth Century

The history of Romanies in England during the eighteenth century has been largely neglected by existing historical scholarship. Yet, the Romani experience of and in London had a notable impact on t...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social · 14d

That's great news! Congratulations!

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