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Alexia Yates

@ayates.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It’s imperative that all members at the #AHA26 come to the business meeting tonight at 5:15 in the Hilton Continental Ballroom to exercise our democratic rights as AHA members
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 10/01/2026
It matters because we have e.g. health care and gun control because *people fought and worked for them*, and I want to continue that fight, our fight here, which is far from complete. Fundamentally borders are bullshit; also, the differences among policies enacted within borders are life and death.
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Forced into retiring the Great Coffeepot of Danish-American Amity.
Photograph of a large white porcelain coffeepot decorated with Danish and American flags. The lid of the coffeepot, which is sat on a wooden table, has a gilded knob.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Lol Nobel Committee now saying Machado can't barter her Nobel for presidency of Venezuela. As they say play stupid games, win stupid prizes. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/articles/is-...
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Is it possible to revoke a Nobel Peace Prize? - Nobel Peace Prize
It is not possible to revoke a Nobel Peace Prize. Neither Alfred Nobel’s will nor the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation mention any such possibility.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Terrific slide from Kathleen Thelen’s talk at the EUI today. Makes me wistful.
PowerPoint slide showing mid-20th century newspaper caricatures against discount retailers.PowerPoint slide showing mid-20th century newspaper caricatures against discount retailers.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Why the @royalsociety.org want to be tethered to this sinking ship is beyond me ☹️
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Coming to #AHA26? Historians 4 Palestine invite you to MAKE NOISE & TAKE UP SPACE! 1. Wear your kuffiyehs! 2. Read this H4P script during your panel! 3. Pick up HPAD flyers and have some conversations with your peers! 4. ATTEND THE BUSINESS MEETING on Saturday, 5:15pm. Bring a friend!
Consider reading this Historians for Palestine script at your AHA panel. "Over the last 2 years, Israel has obliterated the education system in Gaza-- what experts have called scholasticide. In response, Palestinian academics in Gaza have called upon their colleagues around the world to resist scholasticide and help them rebuild their demolished universities. For over a year, a coalition of historians have been trying to do just that. At this conference, they have sought to have AHA membership, vote on resolutions, opposing scholasticide and Palestine and supporting academic freedom for all. But the current aha Council has refused to put them on the agenda of the business meeting. I ask you all to attend the business meeting this Saturday at 5:15 p.m. at the Hilton Chicago, Continental ABC to challenge this profoundly anti-democratic decision and demand to vote on the resolutions. The leadership of the AHA should not silence the Democratic will of its membership."
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As the saying goes "If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. It’s your job to look out the window and find out which is true.”
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Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So there are equally good arguments that spending on expanded oil export infrastructure will likely to lead to wasted billions on a stranded asset as China sees the economic (and strategic) advantage of decarbonizing. But that's not what Moe wants you to think about 6/6 cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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China’s shrinking oil footprint: How electric vehicle adoption is shaping China’s oil consumption
Between 2005 and 2024, China more than doubled its oil consumption, accounting for over half of the global increase in oil demand during that period. But in 2024 Chinese annual oil demand declined for the first time in twenty years. This column develops a dynamic model which suggests that the rapid adoption of electric vehicles in China has been a major driver of this trend. In 2024 alone, EV diffusion displaced about 0.43 million barrels per day of gasoline, and this figure could quadruple by 2040 with an accelerated transition.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
we are nearing the point when we will be banging on about some 'global financial crisis' that happened before our students were born
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Architect and planner Frederick Gibberd was born on 7th January 1908 in Coventry. From @modinmetro.bsky.social, 'Frederick Gibberd and The Modern Flat' ... substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Frederick Gibberd and The Modern Flat
Frederick Gibberd was born in Coventry on January 7th 1908.
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
if you want to do a PhD in history, fully funded and join an incredible community of people researching Europe and the world, 1500-present, you have about a month!! Don’t hesitate to ask me questions.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Job Opportunity! Washington & Jefferson College - Assistant Professor of History - Tenure-Track The Department of History invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in European history before 1750. networks.h-net.org/jobs/69675/w...
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Washington & Jefferson College - Assistant Professor of History - Tenure-Track | H-Net
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
That is now 2 statements from Carney that have legitimized Trump's violent, extrajudicial overthrow & kidnapping of another country's leader. Our prime minister looks more Neville Chamberlain than elbows up rn. (He has also failed to speak directly to Canadians who might be feeling unsettled.)
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Keith Dunne @keithdunne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 30/12/2025
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Defeated by winter travel in Canada, again. This morning's cancelled flight automatically rebooked for January 10 (!!!). Waiting time at the call centre has now stretched (on third call) to 15 hours. Callback scheduled more than 12 hours ago. Alternate flight in the 1000s $$$. Think I'm done...
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Dead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
working at a university
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Please note that over the last quarter century, BB had become a hateful piece of shit multiply prosecuted for inciting racial hatred. As @parisnoire.bsky.social put it, “animals over people.” Not just another outrageous quirk from a scandalous star, but vile fascism, racism, and Islamophobia
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Bardot guilty of inciting racial hatred ... again
Former actor hit with fifth conviction after claiming Muslim population is 'destroying France by imposing its acts'
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Marco Gervasoni @marcogervasoni.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Veramente era una delle principali finanziatrici di Jean Marie Le Pen, non proprio un liberale
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This was a wild find for 1€ and dated AF but still bittersweet in our current zeitgeist.
Cover of the album Do They Know it’s Christmas from 1984.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Largesse for the few, austerity for the rest. Spending at UK universities mirroring the UK fiscal state
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The Juicy Fruit and Extra ads in this thread are indelibly in my mind.
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I’m probably the last to realise it but I guess George Strait is ruined for me now.
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Christmas fave.
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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
And to cap off LAB22:3, here are a bunch of book reviews!
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
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Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Happy holidays to readers of global history and of the history of decolonization. States-in-Waiting is now out in paperback at an affordable price, especially with a 20% discount using code GHIS26. Many thanks to the team at @universitypress.cambridge.org cup.org/48wR0Mk
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Good to see that this hunger strike is now getting some attention, at least in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 22/12/2025
The extremism of organised transphobia and their unwavering belief in the necessity to exclude, dehumanise and make diappear a marginalised community should ring alarm bells to anyone who knows even a little about 19th and 20th century history...
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Boggles my mind that countries will spend nearly two centuries building networks like these and then throw them away. Yes, this is a sub-skeet of what’s happening (or not) at Canada Post.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m laid up with the flu, but I had to peek my head out and say that this is *so* much worse than it seems. And it’s already pretty fucking bad! bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I can't imagine a body representing professional historians recommending this, but here we are... It's completely unacceptable. Here are just a few reasons why.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The ambiguous intimacy of the census: women workers sort through forms in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️
b&w photo shows two women sitting with their backs to the viewer, reading papers they're holding in front of themselves. Walls are lined with wooden pigeonholes. Stacks of paper are in the foreground.
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Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 19/12/2025
Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7027 - Petitions
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
We know this tool does nothing and no one wants it but maybe lets just use it and whatever.
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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.
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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 New #OpenAccess article 🏮 Margo Buelens-Terryn, Ilja Van Damme and @thomassmits.bsky.social, 'Projecting cities: illustrated lantern lectures as forgotten practice of place promotion in Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article
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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Out of office is on. I hope your holiday is full of fancy cheese x
Comic titled Christmas Food Shopping. Two line drawn people, one with a shopping basket. Text "Instead of Cheese Let's buy the 'fancy cheese' " and in response "Let's buy a lot of chees for no good reason.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Absolutely fucking vile
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
At least they are being cut with eloquence and grace.
A clip from the article, with the quote: "And again, for a lot of conversation - and rightfully so - in higher ed about never facing those tougher questions about what we're not going to do, moving forward, I think here's an example where the recommendation at this point, from the group looking at this, was to try to do
that," Knuffman said at the November meeting.“
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
the link in this post doesn’t seem to work, but this one does: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
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Canada must process Palestinian student visas now
Baraa, 23, was accepted into the Master of Computer Science program at the University of New Brunswick. He was supposed to begin his studies in September, but instead he remains in a displacement camp...
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
What if stories like this just said “regulation” rather than “regulatory burden”, so they didn’t (un)consciously mimic the language that regulation is bad.
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Canadian history jobs are gold, people!
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 17/12/2025
Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years pressprogress.ca/canada-needs...
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Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say
The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
There is still ten days or so to self-nominate for the Koren Prize if you are a scholar affiliated to a Canadian or US institution who has published an article on any aspect of French history in 2025. Please do so! Details: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-...
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Koren Jr. Prize — SFHS
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