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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Unfortunately we have had to postpone Thursday’s seminar. We will contact sign-ups with a new date and time shortly. Please keep your eyes peeled for further information!

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada today. Canada’s process of reconciliation is very much an imperfect work in progress, I wonder what it will take for us to have a similar day in Britain to reflect on legacies of enslavement, colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/09/2026

Our great thanks to Prof Glen O'Hara for his excellent RHS lecture yesterday evening: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’ Recordings now available bit.ly/4ySyB6W #Skystorians @gsoh31.bsky.social 1/2

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Glen O'Hara gives latest RHS lecture on 'Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land' - RHS

On Friday 25 September the Society hosted the latest lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University) who spoke on: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026

Opening the series: > 'History is a Human Craft' @davehitchcock.bsky.social > 'The Machine’s Silences: Teaching History with AI', by @jesussanjurjo.bsky.social > 'Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Arms Race in History Assessment & HE Policies' @miguelhernandez.bsky.social 2/2

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026

'AI and History Teaching in UK Higher Education': today we launch a new autumn series on the Society's blog, with perspectives from historians as teachers bit.ly/4htgtcT We start with the first three posts, offering personal commentaries on current challenges and practice #Skystorians 1/2

Images of three opening blog posts for the RHS series 'AI and History Teaching in UK Higher Education', with contributions by:

> 'History is a Human Craft' by Dave Hitchcock

> 'The Machine’s Silences: Teaching History with AI', by Jesus Sanjurjo

> 'Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Arms Race in History Assessment & HE Policies' by Miguel Hernandez

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stunned and honoured by where my love letter to life living has reached. My profound thanks to everyone who made it possible: from beloveds who roared with me without reading a word, to the readers and judges who so kindly did, and found it worthwhile. I’m delighted to be in such company.

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

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Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andy Burnham is showing exactly why he lost two leadership contests. Would have been nice to have a race for leader instead of a coronation.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for

in North Cambridge, and a daughter. The
outbuildings and at least two other flats on the same road, which are owned by the family,
are home to a select group of postgraduate students from a range of faculties including
divinity. In a podcast interview in December 2024, Orr described having “10 students living
with us. They’re mainly PhD students or postdoctoral fellows.” He explained that they
always gather for Sunday lunch and often for dinner. “That’s amazingly stimulating,” he
said. “They’re . . . the cream of their generation in their respective subjects.”
The residents pay rent and do chores. Helen has fashioned a small chapel from a shipping
container, in which she holds morning prayers.

The housing of students raises potential conflicts of interest. Over the past academic year, there were three divinity scholars lodging at the Orrs’ community, according to several
people familiar with the living arrangements. One is a postgraduate student who is directly
supervised by Orr. Cambridge’s staff and student relationship policy stipulated that its
employees are “strongly discouraged” from entering into close personal relationships with
students. Any relationship which involves “any form of dependence, whether emotional,
practical, financial or otherwise”, must be declared.

Among the complaints upheld by the investigator are that Orr allegedly made belittling
remarks to the student, and had demanded an “excessive” and “unreasonable” amount of
written work in an effort to refine a thesis proposal. The report also criticised “at worst
inappropriate and at best thoughtless comments made [by Orr] in the equally
inappropriate context of [Orr’s] own home”. This was in reference to a dinner that the
student, who comes from a Christian, conservative background, had attended at Orr’s
house.

While the society was established long before Orr had any formal role in Reform, it has
taken on new significance as his political activities gathered pace. Orr has described
Cambridge as a useful recruiting ground for Reform, boasting last autumn in an interview
with The Telegraph that he had met “hundreds” of highly able students he thought would
make suitable allies. He has also, according to The Spectator magazine, been tasked by the
party with “building a pipeline” to bring talent to staff a future Reform administration.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨 🚨 A reminder to @royalhistsoc.org Fellows to make sure to vote for two new councillors. The email was sent from getinvolved@choicevoting.co.uk at ~2pm BST on Thurs 20 August 2026, with a list of candidates and details of how to cast your vote. 🗃️ (1/2)

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Canadian aluminum industry hasn’t bilked the United States,” Bill Saporito writes. “America needs aluminum to keep its auto plants running and to keep food and drink prices down, and Canada is just better at making it.”

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Opinion | Wondering How Nuts Trump’s Tariffs Are? Consider Aluminum.

Canada is better at making aluminum than we are. Let’s just import it and make something else.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Further steps in my efforts to disconnect from American tech as much as possible, in support of the Canadian Boycott on US goods. Google Chrome ➡️ Vivaldi browser Google search ➡️ Qwant search engine (Both 🇪🇺)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/09/2026

The Society's events programme resumes this month. Join us at 6pm on Friday 25 September for: ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’, with Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes) bit.ly/4i0YEDS All welcome #Skystorians

Image of footpath signs and text: Professor Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University): ‘In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act’, on Friday 25 September 2026 (in person at the Institute of Historical Research, London, and online)

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think the UK press is failing to capture the scale and seriousness of the US/Canada Trade War. Canada walked away from the latest round of trade negotiations after the US Government added 11th hour demands that would amount to a surrender of Canadian sovereignty In international affairs.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dear Andy Burnham, Things we would like: - no North Sea drilling - fix higher education from freefall collapse - nationalise Thames Water - £ limit political donations - tax corporations who operate here but don’t pay tax, and higher tax on the ultra-rich - Closer ties to EU - Net Zero

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have a raincoat on, an umbrella, my shoes are soaked, and I’m delighted. Welcome back, rain. ☔️

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Simon Marginson in today's @timeshighered.bsky.social : "The wheels are now rapidly falling off the 2012 funding system" in England. Treasury displays "no signs of awareness or concern about the devastation of the nation's capacity in higher education". What would a wheeled UKHE bus look like? 1/7

An old bus (white with orange trim) is parked at an angle in a forest at a slight diagonal. Its engine is exposed, presumably because someone (not featured) is trying to sort it out.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you’re a voting Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, elections to council are now open. I was glad to second the nomination for Rob Waters who is standing as a councillor. He’s not on social media so I’m plugging for him here! We’re lucky to have lots of great candidates across the board.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/08/2026

This Substack post is gloriously written and made me laugh out loud three times

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/08/2026

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@indyhistnetwork.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association is seeking a representative for independent scholars on our Steering Committee - please do consider joining us. Further details via this link: modbritstud.org.uk/join/

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Join the MBSA | Membership from £10

Become a member from just £10. Attend our annual conference, enter prizes & join a growing network of scholars. Join the MBSA today.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Glad to share two bits of news. First, that my role @royalhistsoc.org is being extended and revamped as Advocacy and Academic Engagement Officer. I’m very glad to be contributing to the RHS’s work advocating for the value of history and our profession, with our fantastic team of staff and council.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

See also… water companies, post office and British universities.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

'"We played a part in the transatlantic slave trade. That is clear. Part of the Christian belief in repentance is about action, so we are putting in place action to support those communities that feel the legacy of the slave trade," she added.' 1/2

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Archbishop of Canterbury committed to £100m slavery fund

Dame Sarah Mullally has renewed her commitment to the fund on a visit to Cape Coast Castle in Ghana.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 30/07/2026

The Society's lecture programme resumes in September when we welcome speakers @gsoh31.bsky.social, Meleisa Ono-George and @sathnam.bsky.social, among others. We also hope to welcome you to these public events, in-person or online. Further details of our autumn events bit.ly/3RIOJrQ #Skystorians

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Forthcoming lectures from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

The Society takes a break from public events in August before resuming its lecture programme in September. Booking is now available for the next three lectures in our autumn season, with these events ...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29/07/2026

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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Also the feeling, currently being lived painfully and angrily by hundreds of academic and academic units across the UK including at Exeter, when you've worked sedulously and very effectively for years to attain research and/or teaching excellence, only to be at risk of sweeping redundancy.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

'On Tuesday the government published its response to the Education Committee’s report on higher education funding and the threat of insolvency. It’s 37 pages...read quickly, amount to a department competently batting away an inconvenient select committee.' 1/2

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Ministers are throwing students to the wolves

On Tuesday the government published its response to the Education Committee’s report on higher education funding and the threat of insolvency.

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It was a real missed opportunity by the new government not to appoint a Universities/HE minister who could consider research & teaching together, working on the complexities of the problem to support these engines of growth in every postcode which are beacons of UK soft power & industrial clout

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is the most accurate language for describing the Larry the Cat situation. He doesn’t have a new owner, he’s fostering politicians.

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mainephillyjawn @evolutioninmyveins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more left-wing groups as terrorist organizations.”

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The historian and writer Paula Akpan is facing an overly harsh sentence for participating in a peaceful protest. Over-sentencing and criminalising protest is one of the most disturbing legacies of this Labour government, please donate and support Paula via the Good Law Project.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The decline in staff numbers is far exceeding need or demand.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

'The total benefit of those who began their studies in the 2024-25 academic year has been estimated at £45.1 billion, the data produced by consultancy London Economics show.' 1/3

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Fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’

Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The video of this is just 👌 If, like me, you can’t get enough of this story, the jokes, memes and links on Threads will bring you joy.

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I knew it!

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The important work carried out by DOMA in remembering the life and legacy of David Oluwale in Leeds is truly brilliant. Looking forward to Kennetta Hammond Perry’s forthcoming book!

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/07/2026

"What was once a worrying trend across a small number of disciplines is now an emergency, threatening all subjects. Courses are closing, provision is contracting, and geographical inequalities in access are becoming entrenched. Important skills and capabilities ... are being lost." #Skystorians

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I feel like half the research I’ve done this year has been on documents that haven’t been catalogued. Analogue history: still important.

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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A sorry tale of anti-intellectualism and the absolute black hole that is late stage capitalism.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Delighted to be contributing to the Royal Society’s Summer Science series of talks celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday until 5 July. I’ll be in conversation with Subhadra Das about extinction. Details of the talks, including mine, here. #SummerScience royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Attenborough at 100: a weekend of wildlife | Royal Society

A series of film talks, panels and screenings in celebration of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday

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