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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 21h

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Cath - I missed this first time round and I’m so pleased you reposted it. I have a friend who will also want to read it but who doesn’t do social media! Among your own striking way with words I also love the quote from Alison Light. Take care. Peter

Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 1d

For Remembrance Sunday, a short reflection on the life and death of my great grandfather in the twenty years after his return. botheringmiancestors.substack.com/p/the-trench...

The Trenches, the Tram and the Trolley Bus

A twentieth-century story

botheringmiancestors.substack.com

Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 1d

For Remembrance Sunday, a short reflection on the life and death of my great grandfather in the twenty years after his return. botheringmiancestors.substack.com/p/the-trench...

The Trenches, the Tram and the Trolley Bus

A twentieth-century story

botheringmiancestors.substack.com

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · 5d

I can relate to this!

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 5d

Trying a new mantra as I edit down another 14000 word draft article:

Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic

Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic

Every article doesn’t need to include…

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 5d

Trying a new mantra as I edit down another 14000 word draft article:

Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic

Every article doesn’t need to include every archival nugget you have discovered on the topic

Every article doesn’t need to include…

Giuliano Fleri @giulianofleri.bsky.social · 11d

Some of my reflections on and from Lampedusa

Lampedusa's ghosts: A political choice, not a crisis of numbers

Europe's decades-old policies have transformed the Italian island's irregular migration role into an invisible haunting.

www.aretenews.com

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11d

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

The value of public R&D

www.gov.uk

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 12d

Anand Menon has a rare gift: making the hardest political questions feel answerable.

As professor at King’s & director of UK in a Changing Europe, he’s done more than almost anyone to make British-EU relations intelligible.

👉🏽 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

🧵

Etched in Marble: Anand Menon on Clear Thinking, Public Writing, and the Joy of Being Useful

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24d

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social · 24d

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Ian Donnis @iandonnis.bsky.social · 26d

Brown University rejects invite to join federal compact

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27d

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Sep 21

Great stuff but how about some history? Just for starters … Becky Taylor, Louise London, Tony Kushner and Katharine Knox, etc. etc.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · Sep 21

Books I read while writing mine. If you're interested in small boats, migration, refugees, UK immigration and asylum, I'd recommend all of these. Anything to add?

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · Sep 21

Books I read while writing mine. If you're interested in small boats, migration, refugees, UK immigration and asylum, I'd recommend all of these. Anything to add?

Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · Sep 16

We bring together contributions on the European civil wars by Kimberly A. Lowe, @nathan-rousselot.bsky.social, Lia Brazil, Anna Lively, Alba Martínez, Mercedes Yusta, @panoskaragkounis.bsky.social, @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social @pwgatrell.bsky.social and John Horne. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Sep 15

Just catching up with his reminiscences from March 2024 on YouTube - then still going strong at the age of 92. A scholar of enormous range. I’ll always be indebted to Al for his advice and support.

Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · Sep 15

RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.

Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · Sep 15

RIP Al Rieber, professor and teacher extraordinaire at many places but latest at CEU. His biography is worthy of a book. His reputation as an Mensch is legendary among students and colleagues. He will be missed, not least because he represented a time when Russian history was a happier place.

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Sep 14

Joan Wallach Scott saying what needs to be said

Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · Sep 13

Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Joan Scott. It was clear how much the experience of her father -- victim of McCarthyism -- shaped her as a scholar and person. This essay is a powerful testament to that.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · Sep 13

Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Joan Scott. It was clear how much the experience of her father -- victim of McCarthyism -- shaped her as a scholar and person. This essay is a powerful testament to that.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Sep 12

Great topic, great scholar too!

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 12

📢New ESRC project

HCRI's Dr Antoine Burgard will lead “Who is a child? Determining age in British & French border policing, 1918–present” (2025–28).

The project explores how age shapes migration laws, policies & experiences.

Who is a child? Determining age in British and French border policing, 1918 to the present | Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute | The University of Manchester

www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 12

📢New ESRC project

HCRI's Dr Antoine Burgard will lead “Who is a child? Determining age in British & French border policing, 1918–present” (2025–28).

The project explores how age shapes migration laws, policies & experiences.

Who is a child? Determining age in British and French border policing, 1918 to the present | Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute | The University of Manchester

www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Sep 11

From spy planes to satellites, archaeology has long shared a sky with empire. What does that mean for the knowledge it produces?

Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) considers the colonial history of aerial archaeology.

The Bomber's View of the Past

Discover the influence of Antoine Poidebard on aerial archaeology and his complex role in French colonial history.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · Sep 9

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949

www.cambridge.org

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Sep 2

The special section from our 50th anniversary issue, The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide, is now online.

Robin D. G. Kelley revisits Noam Chomsky’s classic argument, with @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social, Jennifer Zacharia, and @martinoneill.bsky.social.

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review

Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

www.bostonreview.net

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31

Gorgeous Navajo rugs on display at the American Museum in Bath

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Aug 31

If only our media talked about the negative effects on society of tax avoidance
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social
@channel4news.bsky.social
@itvnews.bsky.social

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Five (others) were detected and sent back on the vessel, another five were still at large”. A reminder perhaps to question the oft-asserted line about the UK’s “proud tradition of welcome” to refugees…

Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Refugees are pouring into this country in this way” said a prosecutor who secured a conviction for five Dutch seamen “for aiding and abetting a Viennese refugee to land from a motor vessel”. The judge said “it is common knowledge that this practice has become rife”. The Guardian, 24 July 1939.

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 30

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

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