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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Join us for a special live-streamed event with Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, on Monday 7 July at 2.30pm. She'll discuss the value of the humanities and social sciences in policymaking. Join live: vimeo.com/event/5202389

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In Conversation with Professor Dame Angela McLean: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Policymaking

Hear from Dame Angela on the value of the humanities and social sciences in delivery of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser’s (GCSA) priorities in putting…

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

It wasn't a dream then. I no longer feel I have to apologise to my kids and grandkids for having made them Tottenham supporters - this is what it's for! But then my father never apologised to me.

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Jon Topham @jontopham.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to come and work with us in Leeds. Deadlines coming up shortly!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“Some airlines and hotel groups have warned of waning demand for transatlantic travel and a “bad buzz” about visiting the US”

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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Congratulations! I can't wait to read it.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Lectureship in Digital History. A new, permanent post on a teaching & research contract. Any period from ancient to contemporary. Specialism in history of any region of the world. Friendly, committed, diverse department in the heart of Bloomsbury. Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

Image of an outdated TV or PC screen ensconced in grey rocks, against a black background.

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

At the end of the financial year, and the last government's comprehensive spending review, what did AHRC do with our £300m share of the nearly £27bn of UKRI funding? Over £350m of coinvestment 6000 jobs Reached over 1 million people anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...

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Stocktaking

It’s the end of the financial year – but it’s also the end of the Comprehensive Spending Review launched by the previous government in 2021 in the wake of COVID. Of the nearly £27bn which UKRI rec…

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

on.ft.com/4aLgR2y Ephemeral messages remove scrutiny from government (unless you inadvertently bring the editor of @theatlantic.com into your group chat). I did warn about the use of these messaging systems in transacting government business in @ft.com.web.brid.gy some years ago!

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Ephemeral messages remove scrutiny from government

The lack of record in affairs of state is a concern both for now and future historians

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... The Paiamentary question asks about government support for the arts and humanities. The answer is only about the creative arts - important as they are - with nothing to say on the humanities.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So no more arts activities in French prisons. Even though there is so much evidence of their positive impact.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

So many leading Chartists ended up running mutual benefit societies as Wheeler did. Shows us how the scale and variety of Chartism meant real management skills were learned by men who would otherwise have had little access to them.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Wheeler had a brief walk-on part in my doctoral thesis, so many years ago, through the Chartists' take-over of an Anti-Corn Law meeting in Deptford in 1842. So the latest in these fascinating Chartist biographies was particularly welcome!

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Creative Lives has launched its Monitor to gather information from as many local voluntary arts organisations and groups as possible. To help it plan its own activities and to help it influence local and national policy. www.creative-lives.org/creative-liv... Circulate as widely as possible!

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Creative Lives Monitor 2025

Tell us about your creative group - and you could win a £250/€300 grant!

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David Prosser @davidprosser.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A pleasure to join with both Imperial colleagues and representatives of the wider library community to honour @chrisabanks.bsky.social as she steps away from her Imperial role. But we’re reassured that we won’t be losing her drive and expertise…

Chris Banks speaking as she steps down as Library Director at Imperial

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Wonderful drawings by Charles Darwin’s children. I love that some were on the manuscript of Origin of the Species. Very suggestive of the family culture #childhist

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Like many I did this long ago. The real challenge is cultural and academic organisations who say they stay on X because of its 'reach'. Principles have to prevail over pragmatism here, so good that the Royal Historical Society has closed its X account. And being good historians they've archived it!

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Paule Constable richly merits her retirement after remarkable career as theatre lighting designer. We gave her an honorary degree while I was at Goldsmiths and I learned how central lighting design was to the creative process in theatre. Something I've never forgotten when watching performances.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The USA's NEA has cut its scheme to extend the arts to 'underserved groups/communities', and prioritised projects to mark 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Which read 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...'. Trump in 1776 would have banned it.

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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Fantastic opportunity here! Not only is Dr Oman a sector-changing scholar overflowing with integrity and clever, she is one of the most compassionate and lovely people I know. Like I said, fantastic opportunity

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.

Call for papers for the 14 March 2025 IHR British History in the Long 18th Century seminar. Short (5 minute) presentations by new and and new-ish PhDs students on their doctoral research. Contact brendan.tam@warwick.ac.uk for details and to submit an abstract. Hybrid format, so you don't need to be in London.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Opinion: Modern #arts and #humanities demand modern policy approaches. As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says @christophersmith.bsky.social. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Modern arts and humanities demand modern policy approaches - Research Professional News

As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says Christopher Smith

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

BBC headline tells us "Art fans from UK to be charged more to visit Louvre than those from EU". Well, all citizens from countries outside the EU are to be charged the higher ticket price. Far from being singled out for punishment the UK is being enabled to enjoy its Brexit freedom.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

University of Newcastle's plans to cut 'unfunded research time' defines funded as through external research grants. If they're excluding QR funding then arts and humanities will be very disproportionately hit.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

It feels like more. Are there any left?

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Very fitting that the stylish and well-off Thomas Duncombe MP occupies the most valuable property on the board, the equivalent of Mayfair. Lovett would have understood but Harney would have railed against it.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What did we do before we had fiscal rules? Maybe we had the balance of trade which was always in the headlines when I was young.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The massive gap between favourable and unfavourable has been pretty steady since the middle of 2023. Musk's interventions about grooming gangs seem to have mostly served to make the previous don't knows approve (up slightly) or disapprove (up by more).

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The only decision a government serious about research could make. Excellent news.

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Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

CFP: Material Scotland, Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference, 15-16 May 2025, University of Edinburgh. Celebrating the career of Prof Nenadic (1954-2024) papers invited on Scottish material & visual cultural history. Deadline for proposals 31 Jan. ECR and postgrad particularly welcome. Please share!

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 07/01/2025

Always regret not writing more on mechanics of broadcasting in old job. Anyway, I *did not know* that the reason BBC Radio 4 still broadcasts on long wave in 2025 is that it secretly carries the Economy 7 signal for cheap overnight power on old electricity meters. c20society.org.uk/news/c20-cal...

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C20 calls for Droitwich Transmitter Masts listing – The Twentieth Century Society

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Lift out of service at West Hampstead overground. My companion on crutches had to use stairs. Changing at Highbury & Islington escalator out of action. We had to sort out buses instead. Step-free access is great but too often doesn't work. @transportforlondon.bsky.social

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Some good #DigitalHistory infrastructure news: After the Bodleian took down their British Book Trade Index interface, they made the data available under an #OpenAccess license; the Grub Street Project has now put it back online: bbti.grubstreetproject.net/index.php #History #BookHistory 🗃️

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British Book Trade Index archive

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There is a chance we can keep ahead and deliver the creative industries strategy we need, but without a strategic funder, we will fall behind. The real cost of #arts & #humanities #research is not what we spend, it’s what we lose by failing to invest. anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/c...

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Creative Industries

A recurrent theme of this series has been that we are funding 21st century arts and humanities with a 20th century model. Unsurprisingly it is showing its age, and the same is true of the way…

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A strong recommendation to anyone who hasn't been reading Christopher Smith's thoughtful, rich and critical blogs about arts and humanities research to do so. And start at the beginning! anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/26/t...

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The Arts and Humanities: Light in a time of rising darkness

It is well known that the Christian and now secularized holiday over the end of the year, the notion of twelve days of Christmas, owes something to the Roman festivities, the Saturnalia, that start…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

is a subject systematically studied by (for example) political scientists, sociologists, historians & media studies researchers. If we want to tackle wicked problems, we need to work with a 'European' concept of 'science'. Careful analysis of this agenda from a Humanities perspective below. 2/2

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2025 The way ahead

This year, Government will set a multi-year spending settlement for financial years 2026/7 and on. It’s the first major reset since 2021. In that settlement the overall science budget r…

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Another fascinating biography that tells us much of the kind of maverick characters often prominent in early 19thC radical movements. And I loved Norther Star's reference to 'the physical force Whigs.'

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Absence of research in the UUK statement itself (just a mention about AI) struck me too. One could say UUK project is about OfS/DoE/fees side of universities. But, although different govt depts and funding, they're bound together in finances, resources, staffing, and, often, teaching.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Well worth reading the text - a fascinating biography.

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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

For anyone producing any original work in the UK, the government is currently pursuing a deeply flawed 'opt-out' model for AI companies to indiscriminately hoover up content, whilst conveniently placing the administrative burden with creators and creatives. Please do respond to the consultation:

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Question for French historians. Notarial archives for early 20thC are mostly in departmental archives but some are still with successors of the Etude. In such cases is the Etude required to give access? I'm looking for a marriage contract but the Etude ignores my letters. Are they allowed to?

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I should have said it was in his FT round up of the year!

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Geoff Crossick @geoffcrossick.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Dan Einav rightly made 'Carol and the End of the World' one of his top TV series of last year. 'A strangely life-affirming tale about an imminent apocalypse'. Yes, a joy to watch and proof that deceptively simple animation can convey emotion and nuance. I wish I could watch it for the first time!

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