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Ross Balzaretti

@rossbalzaretti.bsky.social
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Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah, our students are amazing. Honoured to have them fight along with us!
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Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very long day supporting @uonucu.bsky.social strike action but great collective energy from colleagues and students and lovely UCU Vice-president @markpendleton.bsky.social (huge props too @dyfrigjones.bsky.social for fitting in busy schedule to come and speak in support).
Lisa and Mark in front of one of our Nottingham UCU bannersLisa at home modelling UCU Education tee and #MeMadeCrochet skirt
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our VC claiming that c.600 FTE redundancies will allow the university to invest in its staff. Outrageous and offensive.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fantastic, hugely eloquent and heartwarming support from our students who blame management for sabotaging their studies and all of our futures.
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a gorgeous day to stand in solidarity with your community. Thank you all for standing with us and showing this university what courage and determination looks like. Here's to our strength as the fight continues. But more importantly, here's to us winning. Solidarity, UoNUCU
A photo of the crowd at today's rally
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our strike action began today. The management at our university has seemingly shackled itself to course closures and compulsory redundancies, despite neither being financially necessary. So we fight for our members, our students, and our community until they change their minds.
A photo of a UoN UCU rally
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.
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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Forthcoming online talk at Nottingham by Riccardo Rao as part of our medieval environmental history series organised and hosted by Marco Panato. All welcome.
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Giulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
when the only reason you agree to do reviews is the financial incentive of getting your friends’ books
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, ma! We made the news! Again! Find us handing flyers out on Wednesday and on the picket line on Thursday. Let's show this university what strength means! 💪✊
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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looks very interesting and Open access too.
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Alex Bryne @alex-bryne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was checking some of my teaching material from last year in advance of a Cold War module that I am about to teach and noticed that I had assigned my students several primary sources from the Wilson Center last year. None of these sources are available digitally anymore. Thanks Trump.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This University has just shut down all undergraduate Humanities degrees, including History, where we had some amazing modules on Black and African History for first years. 🤡
Email subject: Development at Herts: Support through change | Career growth | Black History Month
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our massive strike action for the fall begins on Wednesday, but we will be facing some intense financial hardship to do so. Please consider supporting our members by donating to our solidarity fund. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10000 to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Nottingham UCU hardship fund. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Does anyone have a (successful) British Academy Early Career Seed Fund application they'd be prepared to share with me? #academicsky
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can't wait to get stuck into this!
Social elites in medieval France, by Niall O'Súilleabháin
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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've just signed "IKEA, stop advertising on Rupert Murdoch's Talk Radio" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... @StopFundingHate
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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Apparently I'm giving an inaugural lecture - all very welcome! Thurs October 8th, 5pm, drinks to follow.
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 23/09/2026
Someone should do a long read on the politics of migrant boats in Italy because a lot of what we’re seeing in the UK echoes what‘s gone on there for years. This was over twenty years ago (and the successors of this guy are still in government): www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/6/...
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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attn Dutch historians: the Nationaal Archief plans to close all public functions and fire half its staff. Sign a petition against this here: deel.degoedezaak.org/s/0TNL44WM
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Minister moet van Tweede Kamer advies inwinnen over veelbesproken koerswijziging Nationaal Archief
Publiekstaken Nationaal Archief: De plannen van het Nationaal Archief om publiekstaken te staken moeten worden voorgelegd aan onder meer de Raad voor Cultuur. Een motie daarover van Pro-Kamerlid Mohan...
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Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Starting a new academic year while being pooled for #redundancy is a strange and painful thing. UK higher education is in a terrible place at the moment. Like so many of my colleagues at the University of Nottingham, I’m facing the possibility of losing the career I’ve spent years building 🙃
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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Codice Diplomatico Longobardo I, ed. von L. Schiaparelli (1929) now has a digital edition!! werkstatt.formulae.uni-hamburg.de/corpus/urn:c...
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Formulae - Litterae - Chartae: Codice Diplomatico Longobardo I, ed. von L. Schiaparelli (1929) Inhalt
Medieval Latin Formulae and their German translations in the Capitains Format
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“If you can’t take significant action when there are 750 [people’s] jobs on the line in this job market, then I don’t really know when you can.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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UK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes planned
Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say
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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent alcohol free Belgian beer brewed to a medieval recipe with bog myrtle (Myrica gale)
A bottle of Belgian 0% alcohol beer, Gageleer, with bog myrtle
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James T Palmer @jtpmedieval.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Author copies for Charlemagne's Dream... and new History Today magazine with an essay on the rise and fall of the Carolingians!
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Utter disgrace. Shame on the Turkish state.
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Igor Santos Salazar @santlazar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
📚Nuevo libro📚 El 30.09 se publica mi nuevo libro con Athenaica Un viaje italiano de Milán a Urbino pasando por Trento, Verona, Venecia, Padua, Bolonia (entre otras) en compañía de los escritores españoles del Grand Tour (o mejor, de su correr cortes) y de época más reciente: ¿me acompañan?
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Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Edinburgh is annihilating languages and mediæval history: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655944... @gawainsmum.bsky.social
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Full list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university
Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit…
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There can be no “legitimate protests” against our international humanitarian obligations. Unless you want to live in a society that could just decide, one day, it has no obligations toward you.
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Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are delighted to have received a total of 4 UK Theatre Awards nominations! 🎉
A purple background with UK THEATRE AWARDS logo with encore NOMINEE 2026. Best New Play The Last Stand of Mrs Mary Whitehouse. Best Play Revival - Small Island. Best Performance in a Play - Katie Redford and Benedict Salter in Scenes from a Friendship. UK's Most Welcoming Theatre.
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Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These people disgrace the flags they carry and wave.
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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Firma la petizione
Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was just asked by AHR to review an article. I responded so:

Ordinarily this would be so up my street, but given the woeful behaviour of AHA vis-a-vis Israeli genocide in Gaza, I am boycotting everything that has to do with the organisation.
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Don Springer @donspringer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sources Chrétiennes 50% off sale! Nearly all volumes (vols 1-646) are half-priced until the end of 2026. www.editionsducerf.fr/maisons-et-d...
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Sources chrétiennes - Éditions du Cerf
615 résultats affichage en grille affichage en liste Trier par date de parution récente Trier par date de parution ancienne Jérôme SC 653 Contre Helvidius
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m saddened to hear of Bonnie Greer’s death, she was a passionate advocate of the arts, culture, education, and decency in society, and she will be missed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If anyone's in Northampton on Friday... SPOOL // Fri 18 May / Royal & Derngate royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/gen...
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Derecognising unions is an own-goal for university managers. The amount of work union committees & caseworkers do to make policies not just fair & equitable but fundamentally workable is astonishing. Without us there'll be more grievances, more long term sickness & more IA.
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Guardian newspaper launched its series called Enslaving Nation. It's important. Those of us (especially of African descent in Europe) who have been working on that history for decades got discouraged along the way.
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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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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But not in the East Midlands as our operator (EMR) is too bad....!? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Rail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelled
‘Commonsense change’ looks to end current confusion and put ‘passengers first, not shareholders’ when services are disrupted
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Reminder that Erdogan’s Turkey is still an authoritarian regime that represses minorities.
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ll be real with you: the gloss was taken off today’s Great North Run by a very crowded “Raise the Colours” roundabout at around mile 9. My wife and kids had to walk past it to see me. Check this post about the impact those present had on one Black participant: www.instagram.com/reel/DdO3Kt8...
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Emma Kirk-Odunubi 🙋🏽‍♀️ The Voice of Running on Instagram: "Well not how I thought my post would go sharing finishing Great North Run 🙃 As I said aside from being hyper aware of being literally 1 of ...
3,013 likes, 534 comments - emmakirkyo on September 13, 2026: "Well not how I thought my post would go sharing finishing Great North Run 🙃 As I said aside from being hyper aware of being literally 1 ...
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Viktor Orban banned Pride and passed a law to prevent lesbian or gay couples from adopting. Viktor Orban got booted out and his homophobic laws are being scrapped. Good!
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Hungary PM Magyar says to scrap Orban-era restriction on gay adoption
Hungary's government will change legislation passed in 2020 by Viktor Orban's former government that had effectively banned gay adoption, Prime ​Minister Peter Magyar said on Saturday.
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.thenational.scot/news/2654254...
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Queer Scottish bookshop raises £14,000 after window bearing ‘trans’ is smashed
A QUEER bookshop in Scotland has raised more than £14,000 in just 12 hours after a window which has the word "trans" on it was targeted…
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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m (always) looking for freelance work, which could include clerical work, by training I’m a historian and have a background in research, I’ve also freelanced as a journalist, I have co-written a book…
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yes students want a good job after Uni but, as is the case for Humanities students anyway, their main priority during their degrees is TO ENJOY THEIR STUDIES AND LEARN. I’ve held focus groups and have the data. But all Universities care about are workplace skills like it’s the fucking Soviet Union.
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 new #bear paper! Dr Liam Lewis and I gathered the evidence for bears and bear-baiting in #medieval England and northern France. We looked at bones, literature and archival accounts. We found that evidence for live bears increased after the #Norman Conquest 🧵
A sculpture of a muzzled and chained bear lying down with its right front paw crossed over the left. It’s carved as the floor rest on the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, located in the Beauchamp Chapel at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick. Photo by Liam Lewis.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements is the right thing to do, both morally and under international law. It is also supported by a majority of the British public. It must be comprehensive and as robust as possible. [1/3]
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