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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“Has Mr. Casaubon a great soul?” Celia was not without a touch of naive malice. “Yes, I believe he has,” said Dorothea, with the full voice of decision. “Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology.”

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, what is wrong with these people? Have they not got enough to do or something?

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘Not that long ago, history really was an important part of the way we argued and thought about who we were politically.’ Emily Jones on Britain’s presentist political culture. 🎧The EI Podcast: Reinventing Disraeli engelsbergideas.com/podcast/rein...

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I spoke about my new book and my many thoughts on the relationship between history and politics with the lovely Richard Johnson and Lee David Evans! open.spotify.com/episode/5P88...

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Summer Book Club: The Disraeli Myth

Since Attlee & Churchill · Episode

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Andy Burnham is the Prime Minister humanities admissions tutors need.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At last, it's UK publication day! The beauties have landed.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

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Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh well, don't forget that it's already come home twice in the past five years.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Obviously, there are other big stories around today. But, as far as I can make out, the Indy is the only paper that splashes this morning on the Covid Inquiry's tale of billions wasted. Can only imagine the field-day the right-wing press would have had had it happened under a different government.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In The Disraeli Myth, @jonesemily.bsky.social traces the mythologising that made Benjamin Disraeli a touchstone for Conservative (and conservative) politics. Out now (28 July UK/EU pub). Read a free preview of this compelling study: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci #History

The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition by Emily Jones

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Hot day, hot book 🔥 It's here, in the flesh! my new book, The Disraeli Myth, in all its glory. Princeton have done such an amazing job on this.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📢📢📢 It's US publication day!! Here is a 30% discount code for the Princeton University Press site (P329) for when copies cross the Atlantic! A bargain at less than £25 and the perfect beach read for summer.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📢📢 Why listen to two blokes banging on about liberalism on a podcast when you can read me doing it in the new issue of History Today!

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SO excited to share this at last! WHAT IS HISTORY FOR? is taking place at JRRIL, 6 June, 10-4, as part of Manchester Histories Festival. There will be talks, workshops, and lots more. All ages, and completely free! For more information and to sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-hi...

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What is History For?

What is the purpose of history today? This all-day event features talks, workshops, and more on the uses and abuses of Manchester's past.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

As another Primrose Day comes to a close, I thought I'd share the promo code for a lovely 30% off The Disraeli Myth: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Woohoo! My article, 'Conservative Crossings: Constructing Anglo-American Conservatism in the C20th' has been accepted by @jbritishstudies.bsky.social It shows how Conservative ideas and people moved between Britain and the US, contributing to the Cold War invention of 'American conservatism'.

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Alt: a large ship is floating in the ocean with a british flag

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

On this post and the one on Black conservatives - historians can help! We are experts on context, contingency, the (re)creation of identities/meaning, and longer duree analysis that you can't see through opinion polls or fixed conceptions of ideology.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If you’re a student who’d love to see the You’re Dead To Me tour show in either Cardiff, Edinburgh or Manchester — and you don’t *already* have a ticket — DM me on here or on Instagram for a sneaky student discount code

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Lads, I'm going to Venice! So excited!

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Out of curiosity I popped "special relationship" into Ngram. Of course a Churchill family legend (Jennie C launched the Anglo-Saxon Review in 1899 long before the term was coined by her son) but really a Thatcherite one? Or just a surge of social science publications now using the term reflexively?

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History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

#Skystorians great new book klaxon! Out this summer! Highly recommended!

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am ill and so comfort-listing to Harry Potter (#6). Despite History of Magic being constantly pilloried I do love Dumbledore's historicism: 'Sir … is it important to know all this about Voldemort's past?” “Very important, I think,” said Dumbledore.

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nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This is terrible, and made worse by fact that SHU has also historically been an institution which employs a lot of teaching only staff. My dad worked there for 25 years and him and his entire department (maths) were teaching only! (That might have changed since, but was case in 2015 when he retired)

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Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only

Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ooh... Will this horrible-sounding drink produce something morally good, or morally evil? ☕️👹

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Mmm (historian incoming), I mean what is happening to the Conservative Party is without analogy so in fact historically very interesting. The best analogy for Labour I think is the Liberals c.1906.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Literally (as Europe remilitarises)!

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Yep, Lib-Lab pact and all of the Irish Parliamentary Party MPs.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Not that anyone asks historians anymore, but I think my sense that the last GE was Labour's 1906 (they are the Liberals in this analogy) still might stand. What remains unique (and so without historical analogy) is that the Conservatives are being *successfully* challenged by a party to the right.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

What do you do when you have no ideas? Steal some. Politics for the AI age.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is in fact a very good illustration of what Paul Sagar was talking about on Past, Present, Future when he said that we need to bring together historical, philosophical, and psychological approaches in politics.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

When these actions are connected to a sense of trust or 'authenticity' as we say now, they do matter because they are interpreted through that lens (not policy). One of mine is how you treat very junior front line service staff, having been on the receiving end of a lot of entitled people's ranting.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“Purely cognitive” is it? Surely they’re not stupid enough to believe that word-juggling software actually thinks? The whole point of word-juggling software is to produce the illusion of thinking. And that is all it is.

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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“With modern digital communication, and with ChatGPT, people are reading more for information... They’re trying to get the core idea out of something quickly, as opposed to valuing the process of immersing themselves in the text.” bit.ly/49KkcAb

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How Humanities professors are adapting to decline in student literacy amidst AI - The Pitt News

Pitt humanities professors are reckoning with a potential decrease in students' ability to read and are adapting their curriculums to the age of AI text summarization.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The dodo (an actual ideas-based political argument) lives!

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

'Reform to Conserve' has acquired an entirely new meaning.

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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The Tories broke Britain, says Tory 🤣

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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Watching the Jenrick Press Conference: Really hoping a journalist asks him in the manner of Mrs Merton: "What was it about losing the Tory leadership contest that helped you realise that the Tories had broken Britain?"

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a woman with glasses is sitting in a crowd and says " what first attracted you to the millionaire paul daniels "

ALT: a woman with glasses is sitting in a crowd and says " what first attracted you to the millionaire paul daniels "

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