iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/10/2026

I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of London SE14' (2026) is now out in the wild, 300+ pages, £15. Available from The Word bookshop (314 New Cross Road) and Crofton Books (315 Brockley Road). Pubs, music, radical politics, sport and much, much more. (More stockists to come)

Cover of book showing stylised map of New Cross area

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I remember reading a memoir of a Liverpool stonemason who regularly travelled to the USA for work c. 1900s. I'm not sure I'd appreciated before how mobile and global that sort of labour was

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This article highlights the 'postcode lottery' - uneven impact - of these new transphobic policies. That was the case for S28 also. It's uneven because some are finding the agency to push back. We all have a responsibility to do this in the spheres in which we have leverage and influence.

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"In its ostensible place of origin, the study of sexuality has become—for many elites—not just irrelevant, but an active threat." @aiross.bsky.social reviews the last decade of writing on the history of sexuality in modern France. doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France

Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 10/09/2026

The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!

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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Always keep a file of the nice things that people say about your work: it’s basic self-care in a profession in which everyone is incentivised to find fault.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We're looking for a fabulous person to join us @strathclydehass.bsky.social on a funded PhD with me & Prof Matt Smith. Are you a historian with an interest in activism who wants to design a cool project on unorthodox health movements in Britain after 1948? Apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Apply for a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy to make the queer pilgrimage to Edward Carpenter and George Merrill's old house in Millthorpe. It's surprising there's no plaque

A photo of an old stone house on the left with a road on the right

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

he was so clearly vulnerable, and the pleasure people took in bringing him down was palpable. the frenzy was grotesque and cruel. fuck, it’s so fucking sad. fuck the media. fuck racism. He was a person. he deserved better. we need to do better.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! Deadline Sept 1st. #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

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The Duncan Tanner Prize

The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

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Independent Historians Network

The place for independent and freelance historians to connect

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wes Streeting as defence secretary

A screenshot of a meme that usually says “guys help what country is this and why are all the cute girls from here” with a photo of the trans flag that has been edited to say “guys help what country is this and how do I go to war with it”

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you can sit in a meeting and cry about what you're being told to do to a child, you can also refuse to do it.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What’re you doing on 9th September? Will you join our rescheduled mass lobby? The legal framework for our lives is broken, it’s time to push for change: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/ehrc-co...

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EHRC Code to come into force: what now?

The current Minister for Women and Equalities, in one of this government's last acts before a change of leadership, has made an order to bring the EHRC's harmful Code of Practice into force.The order ...

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Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Book cover for 'A Science for Everyday Life: Mass media, natural history and the environment in Britain, 1900-1945'. Image on the cover shows a class of children watching a film about a frog.

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sent off the final proofs of my, Esme Cleall & Fae Dussart's edited collection, 'Troubling the Island Story: the impact and legacy of Catherine Hall's historical work in and beyond Britain.' Full of joyful, thoughtful & insightful essays on Catherine Hall's work: share.google/LB8ZsycJpXdm...

Book cover Troubling the Island Story: the impact and legacy of Catherine Hall's historical work in and beyond Britain. Cover image by Joy Gregory shows a woman in black at a tea table

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm intrigued by his suggestion that: "The fact of being inverted seems to place one in a rather advantageous position [...] from which relations can be maintained with those on both sides—even in the less frequented fields beyond". (154-55) Maybe we're still seeking those less frequented fields

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Very exciting to see a first edition of this after many years thinking about it.

The cover of The Invert and His Social Adjustment by Anomaly (Harry Baldwin), published in 1927.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Historians! What should I read on demobilised soldiers/sailors in Britain after World War One? I'm mostly interested in their politics, and how the political parties/wider political system thought about, interacted with or tried to reintegrate them.

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

One of my favourite trad pub / ship names. Is this the one in Charlton? Also immortalised in this folk song performed by wonderful trans folk singer Louisa Jo Killen youtu.be/97tGz5kKWog?...

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Louis Killen -[1]- The Anti Gallican Privateer

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Oh yes! I bought this for £1 by chance in a bookshop and it made for a surprisingly pleasant read

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congratulations to Kirstie Stage awarded a Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Award For Applied Research 👏👏 The award recognises outstanding research with real world application - Kirstie explores the Labour and Livelihoods of Deaf and Disabled People, 1970-2010.

Award Presentation Ceremony: Kirstie Stage wins PhD Student Award for outstanding research with real world application

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Decked out like a Christmas tree - a typical Thursday evening! Congratulations xx

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(yes, I know the EHRC is not technically part of the government, but come on)

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For anyone who doesn't know the kind of mindset that fuels state transphobia

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And yet we get told that arts and Humanities don't matter in "the real world" or have no capacity of real income generation

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

in the event, a great audience of lgbt people and allies of all ages turned up at Clones library… and the angry bigots were nowhere to be seen

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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Looks fabulous. If only I were pre-1800, not post!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

UK-based early career historian in need of up to £2,000 to complete a project? Deadline for the Royal Historical Society's scheme is 4 September: royalhistorical.smapply.io/prog/early_c...

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Early Career Fellowship Grants - RHS

The Society's Early Career Fellowship Grant scheme provides grants of £2,000, maximum, for discrete research projects lasting no more than six months. In 2026, two rounds of grants will be awarded by ...

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Graphic design has however deteriorated

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Kevin Morris's letter in the @lrb.co.uk. Couldn't agree more, especially with what he says about teaching in post-92s.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An interesting read about the 1976 heatwave 🌞 The suggestion that “we all had a wonderful summer and survived” is misleading. It was reported that “200 people a day were apparently dying who would not have died if the weather had been normal”. theconversation.com/the-dangers-... #heatwave

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The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave

By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

telling to see UK pundits so befuddled about Keir Starmer's downfall. He went after immigrants, the poor and the elderly, gave a top job to an Epstein acolyte, was complicit in genocide, and lied over and over again. But it's weird that people didn't like him! www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future.

They will ponder a man who won a landslide victory in July 2024 only to be pushed out less than two years later, having started no illegal wars, having triggered no grave economic crises, having been accused of no scandalous act of corruption.

They will scratch their heads at a PM who paid the ultimate political price, even though few could point to the single, obvious political crime he had committed.

So what did for Starmer – and what legacy, if any – does he leave behind? Perhaps most important, what does the fleeting premiership of the outgoing Labour leader portend for whoever takes his place?

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

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Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Important mass lobby update: With a red weather warning in place for the day, it will not go ahead. We are reaching out to participants with further detail and actions, but please do not travel. We are arranging a future date and will update ❤️ www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/weather...

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Weather update: Mass lobby postponed

With a red weather warning now in place for the day of the planned Mass Lobby for Trans Equality on Thursday 25th June 2026, we are cancelling the lobby on the day and advise people do not travel to W...

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Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Much of it is not citeable, but I find Jaye Hudson's work as www.instagram.com/tgirlsonfilm/ a really interesting archive of trans history, and part of a very active film scene in London. Most of it is through ephemeral talks and film programming, but there was a zine a couple of years ago

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm currently trying to assemble as comprehensive as possible an account of extant academic research in post-1700 British & British imperial trans history! I'd welcome suggestions of citeable work that might have escaped my notice - e.g. unpublished PhD theses, recorded talks, ephemeral print/zines.

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Delighted that @historianhelen.bsky.social 's terrific 2025 Pimlott Memorial Lecture, 'Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s', is now published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

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