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I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths
On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …
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Yeah, many of us give up and hide out there!
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Were there any Katharines in attendance? I don’t often meet others in the wild so it’s v exciting.
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One of my regrets in life is not saving the email we got about this, subject line “SNAKE!!!!!”
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Every now and then, when I think about Starts of the Academic Year Past, I remember 2008, when we had a campus alert about Snakey, a 6ft boa constrictor, who had escaped nearby…

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Kent | Missing snake found after 53 days
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Yep - I’ve not seen anything in the local press about it, but I can see the appeal of getting drone footage of the wreck (for some, at least!)

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Yep - and, since this summer, a no-fly zone over it, too!

Which I wish had been there before…
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I wouldn’t associate Sheppey with being such a target as the dockyard is long gone but, yes, the SS Richard Montgomery absolutely is one…

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Happy Monday! I was having a good day until I was reminded by the SS Richard Montgomery… via @kentcurrent.news
Screen shot of text: An ally of Vladimir Putin has gone on Russian state television to suggest blowing up the SS Montgomery, a sunken ship in the Thames Estuary with roughly 1,400 tonnes of explosives on board.
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If you would like to become a Fellow or Member of the Society, we have several membership categories for historians of different backgrounds and career stages: bit.ly/4gXhsBw

Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2
Image of urban map with text: 'Join the Royal Historical Society. Closing dates for next application rounds: Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025. The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.'
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We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2
Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS
At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...
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Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person
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Picture it: White racist thugs who've never done a day's work in their lives, taunting brown people in trains or pubs about 'not doing enough work for our great country' (and then demanding they do humiliating things to prove themselves).

It's never just the policy; it's the atmosphere generated
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15d
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
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Thank you!!!
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Ran the Vitality 10K face!

Managed to knock 2.5 mins off last year’s time, too. Think that warrants putting my feet up this afternoon!
Me holding up a finisher’s medal to the camera whilst standing in the middle of a park.
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Two perspectives of the theatre at Uncanny last night in Brighton with @aridge.bsky.social! Inept purple squiggle roughly locates our spot! It was fab, though I remain #TeamSceptic
A view of the stage - two sets of modular shelving on either side of the stage, with archive boxes and objects associated with the podcast on them. There are three large screens above them, which are currently showing a blueish background, two of them have the word Uncanny on them. A screenshot of Danny Robins’ selfie of the theatre, with him, Evelyn Hollow and Ciarán O’Keefe in the foreground, the stalls, circles etc behind them.
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ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
The IHR Black British History seminar series is now on BlueSky!

Follow us for updates and keep your eyes peeled for information about our upcoming seminars 👀

@ihr.bsky.social #BlackBritishHistory #historians #academia
Photograph of the Black People’s Day of Action, March 1981
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Look what we have here then.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
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It is now apparently a September tradition that I bung packed lunches in the wrong bag, though the 2025 edition is my school dinner-eating son getting my pasta salad and me getting… nowt!!
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Sep 9
I hope your Monday is going better than my son’s, who has gone to school with my salad whilst I have the prospect of chicken popcorn and a Marvel oat bar…
A Minecraft lunch bag with chicken popcorn, grapes, and loads of kid friendly things
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History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
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Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
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About to kick off here at #PostCivilWarSocieties symposium in Helsinki & looking forward to our panel later with @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @profingrid.bsky.social. @ucddublin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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We were in schools when I arrived in 2006 - that reflected an abolition of department in the late 1990s, I think? Most schools = departments elsewhere, but mine was and remains a smorgasbord of social science disciplines… but we lost faculties for divisions, and schools have merged again since…
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Many thanks to Karin Friedtich, Jackson Armstrong, and all the other colleagues at Aberdeen for making this event a success.
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Heading back to Glasgow after two busy days at the University of Aberdeen, where hosted a brilliant @royalhistsoc.org visit to the outstanding historians working here.
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Our great thanks to Matthew J. Smith who gave our public lecture yesterday evening at the University of Aberdeen.

Matthew's lecture, which explored new digital histories of Caribbean families and kinship networks, is part of the Society's visit to historians at Aberdeen bit.ly/4miT3aB #Skystorians
Society visit to historians at the University of Aberdeen, 17-18 September - RHS
On 17-18 September, members of the Society's Council visited historians at the University of Aberdeen: to learn more about the department, and historical studies across the institution; to discuss sha...
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Ooooh - exciting!!! Looking forward to reading it!
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royalhistsoc.org
This Wednesday we are visiting historians at the University of Aberdeen.

The visit includes a public lecture, 5.30pm on 17 Sept,
given by our guest speaker, Matthew J Smith (Director of the Centre for the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL) bit.ly/3IjbMVj. All in the region are v. welcome to attend.
Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen
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