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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Thibaut Poirot @thpoirot.bsky.social · 5h

Aujourd’hui @lemonde.fr publie l’interview d’un homme qui a été mon directeur de thèse. Cet homme a été sanctionné pour plusieurs faits de harcèlement moral. Un homme qui parle « déni de responsabilité » applaudi par @edwyplenel.bsky.social et d’autres, pendant que ces faits sont tus.

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Teoni Maughan Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social · 6h

I was invited to co-organise this upcoming conference being held later this month at the University of Exeter. With two days of exciting talks and panels, plus a walking historical tour of Exeter and a group dinner, I'd highly recommend coming along if you can!

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Deepthi Murali @deepthimurali.bsky.social · 6h

Talking about Indian textiles, colonialism and 18th-19th century dress and identity in India and the Caribbean. Friday. Online and in-person at @georgemasonu.bsky.social

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 6h

The meat industry's ability to (1) weaponise the discourse on UPFs against meat alternatives (while somehow leaving the meat industry itself entirely untouched) and (2) impose tedious obstacles like this will one day be case studies in understanding the West's failure to reduce its carbon emissions

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods

Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 10h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 10h

Does anyone have access to the article below? I'd be very grateful if you can send me a pdf!

doi.org/10.1002/9781...

Demerara Slave Rebellion, 1823

The Demerara Slave Rebellion was one of several revolts that erupted in the Caribbean in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Founded as a Dutch colony in 1746, Demerara stretched for about 2...

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Centre de recherches historiques @crh.ehess.fr · 1d

📍La taxe Zucman au miroir de l’Ancien Régime📍
🗣️par Arnaud Orain @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr #GRHÉCO #GEHM ▶️https://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?7544 @arnaudorain.bsky.social
📻 France Culture, Émission "Le Fil éco"
📅 Lundi 6 octobre 2025
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La taxe Zucman au miroir de l’Ancien Régime

Arnaud Orain interroge notre idéal démocratique et l’impôt sur les ultra-riches. La taxe Zucman rappelle les débats du XVIIIᵉ siècle, quand Forbonnais conseillait Silhouette : renflouer l’État en frap...

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 13h

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 13h

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 1d

It's alarming to see the Tories pivoting to "we're offering the same bonfire of society as Reform, but we're the only ones who actually have the experience and competence to make it burn" as their platform

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 14h

A few observations:

1. This will take a while to filter through to the consumer downstream. Don't expect prices in the supermarket to be coming down anytime soon.

2. This crisis has brought into focus the institutional inequities of the cocoa market, but have the necessary lessons been learned?

acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 16h

#cocoa prices have tumbled to a 20-month low, bringing to an end a dramatic 2y rally that had driven the market to record highs and squeezed #chocolate #manufacturers worldwide, chart @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ce...

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George Rudé Society @georgerudesociety.bsky.social · 5d

We're very excited to announce our Call for Papers for the 25th George Rudé Seminar, the largest gathering of scholars of French history & culture in the southern hemisphere! Taking place in beautiful Boorloo/Perth at the Uni of Western Australia 8-10 July 2026. Pls share!
h-france.net/rude/cfp/

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 6d

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @dailymail.co.uk and @thespectator1828.bsky.social have all promoted Nigel Biggar’s latest book as the definitive riposte to reparations claims. But what exactly are its arguments and how do they stand up to scrutiny?

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The Anti-Reparations Bible

Alan Lester Promoting the Anti-Reparations Bible Britain’s right-wing press has mobilised to promote Nigel Biggar’s latest book, Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt as the defin…

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

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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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 1d

It's alarming to see the Tories pivoting to "we're offering the same bonfire of society as Reform, but we're the only ones who actually have the experience and competence to make it burn" as their platform

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 1d

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14d

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com

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Falsifying Heritage: The Denial and Disavowal of Glasgow’s Links with Atlantic Slavery

By Stephen Mullen In a recent article in The Times, (‘Scottish Taxpayers should not have to pay the price for Slavery, 7 June 2025), Professor Nigel Biggar misrepresented an exhibition in Glasgow’s…

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