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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 16h

When people feel systematically unheard, radical-right populists fill the void. They claim to restore power to “the people”, even as they erode the checks and balances upon which liberal democracy depends.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 18h

It was the "balanced debate" between two writers for right-wing outlets that really was the icing on the cake with this one

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History Today @historytoday.com · 18h

King Henri Christophe died #OnThisDay in 1820. Forced into exile following the death of Haiti’s first and only king, Queen Marie-Louise and her daughters sought refuge from the turbulent events that engulfed their homeland. 🔓 This article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain

Forced into exile following the death of Haiti’s first and only king, Queen Marie-Louise and her daughters sought refuge from the turbulent events that engulfed their homeland.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 18h

Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 19h

As always, a huge hat tip to @garius.bsky.social whose own thread about Abbie first drew my attention to her and her actions.

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 18h

For #BannedBooksWeek we’re highlighting Reading Wars by Don Herzog 📚 From Reformation England to contemporary book bans, Herzog explores the long history of attempts to control who can read and what they can read, and what this reveals about equality and freedom. 🔗 bit.ly/4ue0C7w

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 18h

Organisations such as New Internationalist & ACDG/CIGE were arguing this with the Peters projection map in the 1980s and those in charge of school geography curricular actively resisted using it to align with conservative visions for the subject to ensure it remained in the National Curriculum

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h

'The project lead, Dr Rebecca Roach...said they did not create the archive “just for AI to scrape” and commercialise. She said the platform was built to ensure “it doesn’t replicate the exploitation of people of colour and their cultural heritage that technology has historically enabled”.'

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18h

'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 18h

This is really interesting but why on earth am I finding out about this scheme, based at my uni, from the guardian and not from staff bulletins etc? (the Cadbury Library have used a data poisoning programme to protect their digital holdings)

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Crime against Nature?

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 2026 annual Dr Williams's Library Lecture, hosted by the @ihr.bsky.social, will be given by Dr James Vigus on 'The 'idle' life of Henry Crabb Robinson: Suffolk dissenter, European traveller, lawyer, literator'. 28th October 2026, 5.30pm. Sign up online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Dr Williams's Library Annual Lecture

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 05/10/2026

Nottingham bought a campus for £37.5m. Spent £40m more on it. Its own accounts say it could now sell for £14m. Staff and students are paying for that. 609 jobs. Three departments. More than 40 courses. That's why we're on strike. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

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Lecturers on strike till Christmas: welcome to Nottingham University

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

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Mary Gilmartin @marygilmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Members of my union, IFUT, will have a one hour work stoppage today, from 12-1, as part of the broader public sector union dispute. Read about it here: www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... - solidarity welcome on World Teachers Day

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IFUT Public Service Dispute Hub 2026 | Irish Federation of University Teachers

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Solidarity with all at University of Nottingham combatting this violent dismantling of their university

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Between 1840 and 1918, British attitudes towards drink changed dramatically. Life assurance company archives reveal their influence and also offer insights into the lives of ordinary abstainers. Available (at 35% off with code GLR AT8) from Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc...

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Temperance Lives

This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918.James Kneal…

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“They shall not pass.” 90 years ago today, as antisemitism and fascism were on the rise throughout Europe, Oswald Mosley’s racist British Union of Fascists planned a provocative march through the Jewish community of East London.

A placard that reads "every street is cable street" in front of the Cable Street mural

Someone holding a sign that reads "no pasaran"

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One more thing about the Tyneside nurdle crisis is that the clean-up efforts have drawn attention to all the other plastic in our sea. This volunteer’s video shows all the plastics left after sieving out the nurdles; what’s not visible is the tiny tiny microplastics that wash through the nets.

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Janice Hallett @janicehallett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yay! 🎉 A Box Full of Murders The Puzzle Book is out TODAY 🧩 Over 100 puzzles by the fiendish Lucy Doncaster and illustrated by the lovely Marta Kissi this is also a mini murder mystery for Luke and Ava 🕵️‍♀️🔎 Perfect for fans and newbies ❤️ Thanks Jane Griffiths & @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social 🙏

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.

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Johnny Oberg @johnoberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is World Animal Day today. She is not a product. She is not entertainment. She is not a tool or a resource. She has emotions, relationships, fears, and a desire to live. Her life matters not because of what she can give us, but because it belongs to her. 🧡

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lots of useful information & links to key resources for #Skystorians, but NB the Enslavement Registers did not make the records of 4 million enslave people searchable to the public: that was done by Ancestry partnered with UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery historians.

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Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori

Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice

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Giles Brown @polkapiquee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent relevant podcast ... bsky.app/profile/squa...

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me returning home from a shop at Aldi #CelebrityTraitors

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026

hey everyone if your uni uses turnitin, ask them about this.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Join us Wednesday 7 October at 5:30 pm at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, for Miles Ogborn's "Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832". Free and welcoming to researchers, students & the public. Please register in advance. #Skystorians

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Miles Ogborn, ‘Law, violence and empire: Understanding the Jamaican uprising trials of 1832’

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/2 ... and while I'm at it: every anti-reparations activist also claims that we should be focusing on modern slavery rather than historic, as if they are mutually exclusive. As this event shows though, ...

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members once again striking against compulsory redundancies and course closures. Such an outcome would devastate workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research. I urge the university leadership to do the right thing and protect jobs and courses.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't summon the vocabulary for the last (week? months? years?) of emotional regulation required on this topic. I can't say I don't have *any* friends who never experienced SA, but most have. Mine was at 13-- or the worst, anyway. As a historian, my point is that college SA is in a context.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/10/2026

“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...

Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital. Red and yellow illustration of an under-construction Equinix data centre in Slough, England

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Composting is a good analogy for the percolating and nutrient leeching of the whole research and writing process and thinking about other things while tending the hotbin is something that I find soothing. Bigger systems at play. Gifts perspectives on the human world. The worms know the secret 🤘

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How's the compost /book going? You know this is going to be an instant classic. So very excited for you. Upping the small wooden & papery /sawdust content in my hot bin right now. #AlchemyOfComposting

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I closed my account five years ago & it’s really no problem. Folks, this isn’t good. 👇

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Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Obrigado minha amiga 🙏🙏🙏

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot has been written about how this year's El Niño is already breaking records. Climate Dashboard's new interactive map lets you explore how this unusually strong El Niño is forecast to affect climate conditions around the world googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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The El Niño Forcast Map

Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The four lowest years on record for Antarctica's sea ice have all occurred in the past four years. Area falls 1m sq kmshort of long-term average, as scientists warn of a ‘now problem’ #climatecrisis Story by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 30/09/2026

What's your reading habit? This National Year of Reading, authors from the Cambridge Elements series 'Publishing and Book Culture' share their reading habits and quirks, because there's no single way to be a reader.📖 Read more 🔗 cup.org/4qXMjTj #NYR2026 #NationalYearofReading

An open book is held up against a clear blue sky. Text overlay reads: "Read your own way. ‘Publishing and Book Culture’ Elements authors share their reading habits.

Image of an Element titled 'The Social Life of Books' by Rebecca Roach with a quote: 'I date all my books when I finish them. Nerdy, but I like being able to fit my reading back into my life and memories of a particular place and time.' The text is accompanied by the message 'Read your own way' and mentions Dr. Rebecca Roach as the author.

The image features a Cambridge blue background with a quote: "Sticky notes! if I’m really paying attention to a physical book that I’m reading, then it’s full of sticky notes. I have dozens of sticky pads in a drawer in my office." It is attributed to Dr. Gavin Miller, author of "Penguins on the Couch Element." A book cover titled "Penguins on the Couch: Penguin Books and the Psychologisation of Britain, c.1945-c.1980" by Gavin Miller is shown.

A quote about reading habits is displayed on a Cambridge blue background. To the right, there is a book cover titled "Innovations in Digital Comics: A Popular Revolution" by Francesca Benatti. Below the quote, Dr. Francesca Benatti is mentioned as the author of "Innovations in Digital Comics" Element.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 28/09/2026

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 5 October & 14 December. Fellowship is open to those who've made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

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Apply for Fellowship - RHS

Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 5 October and 14 December 2026 Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the a...

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...

Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement

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