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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

& @carorusterholz.bsky.social will present in our usual Wednesday slot: Weds 7 October 5.30pm to 7pm (online only). Free event but booking required 👇. @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @helenglew.bsky.social @benmechen.bsky.social @gcgosling.bsky.social @jcrangle.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

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Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I finish typing up today's lecture, which I started my latest draft of at 5:30 this morning, I reflect once again on the person who keeps telling me that "university teaching is easy, it's just three hours a week of work."

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just found myself in the weird position of turning down an academic job offer. I’ve decided not to apply for them before (recently enquiring about a research role I was told the ‘research budget’ came out of your salary) but never encountered t&cs so awful and exploitative that I’ve declined one

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Microsoft Word, I assure you that when I convert footnotes to endnotes (or vice versa), I do not, in fact, want you to convert all my numbers to Roman numerals. Best wishes, Jacki

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Your quarterly - or thereabouts - reminder that I have capacity for some freelance work: historical research, document photography in archives, indexing, copy-editing etc. Feel free to contact me via my website to discuss your ideas or requirements: helenglew.com

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Historical Research and Writing

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“AI chatbots present a problem for the teaching of history not only because they hallucinate, nor simply because they threaten to make even conscientious students’ writing less original, but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place.”

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Also I’ve been here for about half an hour now and it looks like it’s all that Sky News has covered in this time.

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At the gym and listening to Dolly. 😭

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh wow, I remember this show so well!

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*

Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Another piece in the cuts of funding for the humanities is visible in local record offices. The Somerset Archives are only open 3 days a week; Norfolk only 4 days a week. As a US grad student doing research in the UK, that would have made it impossible to write my dissertation.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If it's something I need to read I do not want AI summarising it for me. The point of reading is to be immersive, thoughtful, critical and analytical. It's not to have a few bullets, a bland interpretation, a corporate repackaging, and an entire loss of meaning.

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Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

still looking! please share with your networks ☺️

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

Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Historian colleagues, can you rec a book or article using/about rumors as source material? Theorization of same? There's a few good things in my field (Russia) but I'm looking for stuff from elsewhere. 🗃️ #historiansky

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Well everyone else seems to be doing it & so I will too! @manchesterup.bsky.social big summer half price sale 🥳. You can get my 'Housewives & Citizens' for just £12.50, worth it for the cover alone (in my humble opinion 😀). @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

. @manchesterup.bsky.social are having a site-wide sale, meaning you can get my book for £15, and a whole host of other great titles too. C'mon, you know a heatwave is the perfect time read about the fight for equality by women in public service jobs! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146632/

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Manchester University Press - Gender, rhetoric and regulation

Gender, rhetoric and regulation - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Gender, rhetoric and regulation by Helen Glew

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Manchester University Press - Gender, rhetoric and regulation

Gender, rhetoric and regulation - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Gender, rhetoric and regulation by Helen Glew

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 23/06/2026

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

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Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...

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A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is a great read, not just in terms of the topic at hand but as an explanation of how social science research works (and changes over time).

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Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I am really looking forward to talking about my research and (so very nearly completed) book on women’s welfare activism at the CBH seminar on 24th June at IHR. If you are in London then do come along would be lovely to see you. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Women's welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century Britain

Contemporary British History Seminar

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Had a great time at our virtual launch this morning discussing the book with co-authors and editors, with some very thought-provoking questions from the audience too. Download the whole book for free here (or purchase a print copy): www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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Reworking the Computer Age

A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026

dead funny but also painfully accurate

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UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This Wednesday 17 June at 1-2pm, we are running a special workshop on workloads to help members know their rights and how to stand up for them. There will also be a short cross-branch meeting at 1230 - just before the workshop. See tomorrow’s UCU Westminster email for the Zoom link.

Workshop | Know Your Rights
- what our contract says about workload
- strategies for saying no
- The role of collective action in changing workplace culture

17.06.2026
13:00-1400
via Zoom

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UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happening tomorrow! See you there!

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

a machine that can fill in the gaps in the archives! this is distilled essence of so much of the techno-utopianism around LLMs and research. it fundamentally misunderstands: the *gaps* are the meaning. history is not the past, it is the processes of recording, then interpreting those records

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It was 😊, thanks Katja & next up for last @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar for 2025/26 is the fab @ruthdav.bsky.social speaking about her forthcoming book on women’s welfare activism. Weds 24 June, 5.30pm at the @ihr.bsky.social. Book your spot via the website today. @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Reminder that this is coming up in a couple of weeks!

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

mrs dalloway said she would create the art & write the books herself

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Voluntary Action History Society @vahs.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Our next seminar is next week! 🗃️ Prof. Cait Beaumont (London South Bank University) will discuss Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, from 1918 onwards. 18 May 2026. 6pm. Online via Zoom. As ever it's free & all welcome. Sign-up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Screenshot (white letters on black background) of a post by Leslie Berntsen.
Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?
Me: Yes, but I’m not that kind of…
Flight attendant: It’s 11:52 PM and the passenger in 37F has a conference abstract due in seven minutes. It’s currently 50 words over the limit.
Me: Okay. I’m here.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hello, I'm on the academic lit search again - is there any writing out there on trans lives* in Northern Ireland? Thank you! * specifically trans people, I've found tons of great sources on LGB people. @hleehurley.com

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

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