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Stuart Jones

@stuartjones.bsky.social
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Researching lost time, Manchester UK 🏳️‍⚧️ New book: tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change. Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚 bit.ly/4yCLe5T
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When they discover they need a visa to go to Bicester Village there will be uproar
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Born #OTD 200 years ago ... a neglected figure in 19c Manchester, co-founder of @manhighgirls.bsky.social, Whitworth Art Gallery and much else
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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@britishlibrary.bsky.social were grateful to receive a large allocation of studentships as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Award scheme. We have 4 exciting new studentships starting in Oct 2027 - 3 are now open for prospective HEI supervisor proposals! www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'extrême droite' being the French for 'centre right', of course
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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is still time to submit a chapter proposal for the book that @livsmitch.bsky.social and I are editing on the aesthetics of modern monarchies. Full details in the post here, but happy to answer informal questions too. Proposals due in by 1 Oct to aestheticsmonarchy@gmail.com Please share!
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
But not necessarily to each other... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Couples with children should be married, Reform UK’s deputy leader says
Richard Tice also said ‘British-born children’ are a ‘good thing’ and should be encouraged
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I can't help wondering how one goes about impersonating Trump's Chief of Staff
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Binface would never refuse to attend his own count
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Showing remorse for inciting anti-Jewish hatred by becoming an adviser to Badenoch is rather like showing remorse for wife-beating by beating someone else's wife
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
These days, you get cancelled for being an ex Nazi
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Will be spending more time with his yachts
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 04/08/2026
Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
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Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If it goes to round 2 we'll be back on Monday
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Things that used to be done well in the UK: counting votes
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
rain
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026
The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We could have a PM North ... Lord North?
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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.
cumulative line chart showing that UK newspapers have published 251 editorials criticising Ed Miliband since the start of 2024
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Viral picture of the police restraining drunk people
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Healey as Chancellor really would be a return to the '70s ....
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What sort of country can't have the world cup final start on time?
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Isn't jam best spread?
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
'Sorry, there's currently no vacancy in the Chiltern Hundreds or the manor of Northstead'
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just a thought, but did the BBC consider axeing the Today programme?
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A lovely review article in PSQ doi.org/10.1093/psqu... @princetonupress.bsky.social
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James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect: A Review Article
Abstract. Most scholars who study the history of American politics are so taken with the rich nature of Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) that they
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New review (paywalled, TLS) www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
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In revolt against the masses
If James Bryce is remembered today, it is as the elderly author of a report into German treatment of Belgian civilians in the First World War. In my
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
www.liberalcurrents.com/smug-delusio...
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Smug Delusions Won't Save Us
Adrian Wooldridge's "The Revolutionary Center" purports to diagnose liberalism's failings but instead merely embodies them.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wonderful to see Liberal Worlds by @stuartjones.bsky.social reviewed by @jonparryhis.bsky.social in the latest issue of @lrb.co.uk! Read more here (£):
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Jonathan Parry · Certain Kinds of Carpet: James Bryce’s Liberalism
If historians​ are remembered posthumously, it tends to be for their book titles, while the books themselves gather...
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@jonparryhis.bsky.social was the ideal reviewer...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/05/2026
... Susannah Clapp on the queen’s clothes @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 Malcolm Petrie on Ramsay MacDonald Jon Day on Benjamin Myers Ardis Butterfield on the Psalms Jonathan Parry on the historian James Bryce and a story by Diane Williams. Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
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London Review of Books
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
He really is desperate to stop Burnham www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Starmer says he will campaign for Burnham in Makerfield
The prime minister says Labour needs to "all pull together and fight", after a revolt against his leadership.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Was the headline-writer having a joke? Not necessarily a good one www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Suspended Tory councillor hits out over 'hanging' threat
Worcestershire County Council has passed it onto the police.
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Sedbergh: in Yorkshire until 1974; Cumbria from 1974; 'close to Lancashire' in 2026 www.lancs.live/whats-on/cha...
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Charming town close to Lancashire full of independent bookshops and cosy cafes
When exploring all that Yorkshire has to offer, if you're a bookworm or a coffee lover, without a doubt you need to make a stop here
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Job Details
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It's 'chaos with Ed Miliband' all over again
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Things we used to do well in (most of) the UK: count votes
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Impressive for @uomsalc.bsky.social to win 3 out of 11 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships Awards 2025-26
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Perfect job for a dissenting archivist ...
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I do hope the King has insured his ears
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Half-price offer, time-limited blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Liberal Worlds
James Bryce (1838-1922) was a leading figure in Britain's Liberal Party and a distinguished historian, a versatile scholar-politician who moved seamlessly betwe
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Being reviewed by Stefan Collini is not for the faint-hearted, but I can hardly complain about this one drb.ie/article/havi...
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Having a Reputation - Dublin Review of Books
A new biography of James Bryce, one time Chief Secretary of Ireland and supporter of Irish Home Rule, reveals the astonishingly varied and accomplished life of a long forgotten ‘greatest living Englis...
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
'We apologise for this delay, which is due to the wrong kind of driver'
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Good. They should stay away more often
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Manchester on Tuesday: please sign up if you can come events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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Liberalism, Democracy and Public Opinion: Intellectual Histories | Events at The University of Manchester
Discussant: Emily Jones (History, University of Manchester) – author of the forthcoming The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
At @trinityoxford.bsky.social yesterday evening for the official launch of tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j. Generously hosted by @eparpillee.bsky.social. Unusually, there were far fewer copies left at the end @princetonupress.bsky.social
Copies of a new book on a table, with portait of the subject of the book
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Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Also tagging @leverhulme.ac.uk, which funded the research
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Head to @trinityoxford.bsky.social next week, 12 Mar at 5:00pm GMT to celebrate the launch of @stuartjones.bsky.social's new book, Liberal Worlds! Grab a drink and learn more about this incredible work—plus use code P327 to get 30% off your copy! RSVP for this free, in-person event: buff.ly/KAVSCf2
Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect by H. S. JonesH. S. Jones
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