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Tom Lawson

@tgplawson.bsky.social
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Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull

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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@sathnam.bsky.social’s ‘Tonight the Music seems so loud’ is a magnificent book. It is life affirming in parts, troubling throughout - and a reminder of the joy that George Michael’s music still brings. Like the author I too ‘am grateful that George Michael has been the soundtrack to my life’.
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Very excited to read @sathnam.bsky.social book about George Michael which arrived yesterday.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A compromise we can all get behind surely
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
theguardian.com
Imperial War Museum rejects criticism of caption in Holocaust display
Visitor to museum and two eminent historians say wording of information board on Nuremberg race laws is incorrect
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.
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Nicky Bandini @nickybandini.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This sounds like a fascinating discussion
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
3 days to go...
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…
foreignaffairs.com
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...
timeshighereducation.com
Post-92s ‘may quit collective pay bargaining without TPS opt-out’
Northumbria leaders say modern universities will be forced to rein in pay rises if they are compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics
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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
hepi.ac.uk
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.
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Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
hepi.ac.uk
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
hepi.ac.uk
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
How very sad. What an extraordinary author.
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
For some of us Christmas is just too much…
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. buff.ly/402xYcg
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Me too.
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
a lot can happen in 5 years
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...
chester.ac.uk
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Commemoration and International Relations | University of Chester
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I smell winter
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📍 Have you discovered the stories revealed by our online Refugee Map? An interactive window into our unique family papers collections... bit.ly/3qnEskI
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
We are on @bsky.app. Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz. Repost please.
The main gate of the former Auschwitz I camp with the 'Arbeit macht frei inscription.
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