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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 24m

Have come across all this by tracking the Company's jurebasso in Tonkin - named Phuc Ngai - and it is basically wall-to-wall frustration and futility that runs through it. Unsurprising that Gyfford ends up elsewhere not long after this ...

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 31m

Ha! Yes indeed.

Though it'd be easy to overstate how successful things were in Tonkin/Cochinchina/etc. for the EIC. It really never does take off for them there.

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 55m

Not drawing any parallels here *ahem*, but in March 1672 William Gyfford was so ill that the Dutch chirurgeon (the English one lacked 'the wherewithall') could do nothing for him 'because his distemper proceeds from trouble ... in regard his industry for the Company'. #earlymodern #skystorians

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 17h

Some things never change.
Asked by their hosts at Tonkin (Trinh) in 1672 'which was ye Greatest Kingdome England, France, or Holland', the East India Company factors there responded 'the fame of Great Brittiagne was great all over Europe', but added they shouldn't praise themselves. #earlymodern

A manuscript in a tidy hand reading ' ... hasked us alsoe which was ye Greatest Kingdome England France or Holland'.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)

Wales rules out levy on international student fees

Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 13h

William Gyfford!

Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 15h

I've got a section of Ye Booke on the Dutch burning Charles II in effigy in Bandar Abbas when they learn about the Medway ...

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 17h

Some things never change.
Asked by their hosts at Tonkin (Trinh) in 1672 'which was ye Greatest Kingdome England, France, or Holland', the East India Company factors there responded 'the fame of Great Brittiagne was great all over Europe', but added they shouldn't praise themselves. #earlymodern

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 19h

Some would say it was foolhardy - maybe even deeply insensitive and cruel - to conduct a survey about a given university's 'Values' while a large section of its staff is in scope for redundancy.

'Still Employed' or 'Not Working Under Threat' are values, of course. Especially with Free Text options

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly just want to know how bread is holding up in all this.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social · 1d

Op 8 oktober 1673 werd in Den Bosch 'een Moor van Tituaan' (Tétouan in Marokko) gedoopt, hij kreeg de naam Michiel Cornelisze. #opdezedag #otd

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Writing in The Times, Starmer had urged students to avoid taking part in protests two years on from the day when more than 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas.'

If he's writing in The Times, he's not actually addressing students.

Students defy Starmer’s call not to hold Gaza protests

Hundreds gather in London despite the prime minister telling them to stay at home on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I will die on this hill.

As someone who grew up with and continues to know a lot of fundamentalists: state-funded faith schools are the *only way* to make sure that children growing up in religious extremism are receiving an education that broadly accords with modern life and values.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 1d

Look either you're for the current Gnome Office policies or you're against them. There's no middle ground.

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 2d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 2d

That's Robert 'There's only one homogeneous community dynamic I'll support' Jenrick right there.

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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 4d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread. Over-correction has been likely, as many of us have been warning.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 4d

With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like there's an ongoing effort to run Humanities out of the shop.

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 3d

It’s happened again

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Shabana Mahmood in 2014 via X (x.com/ShabanaMahmo...):

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 4d

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Annie Duprat @annieduprat.bsky.social · 4d

5 octobre 1789 marche des femmesde Paris vers Versailles. Elles réclament du pain. La disette, parfois famine est un élément important de la radicalité de la Révolution française

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