Lucy Faire
@drlucyfaire.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life; enthusiast for adult education and cooperation; personal account
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Today's demo in support of colleagues @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there
here's our branch banner at De Montfort Square
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Today's demo in support of colleagues @leicesterucu.bsky.social ✊🩷💜 Great to see so many people there
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Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Sign the Petition
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
www.change.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Petition started by students in Modern Languages at the University of Leicester. The department has been told it will close despite its stellar NSS record and brilliant teaching and research - the same devastating short-term thinking as elsewhere. Please sign and share www.change.org/p/save-moder...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We remind all members that we want to have a large show of solidarity - as large as possible - for our colleagues across the city. Please join us next Wednesday!
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Child poverty is a political choice.
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Child poverty is a political choice.
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Less prominent in the Chemistry reporting (to my knowledge) has been the enormous growth of voluntary severance schemes in UK Universities. Some of them are mentioned in this @qmucu.bsky.social list. 4/ qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.
qmucu.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Less prominent in the Chemistry reporting (to my knowledge) has been the enormous growth of voluntary severance schemes in UK Universities. Some of them are mentioned in this @qmucu.bsky.social list. 4/ qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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I'm speaking about a new book project, The Dissolution of the Universities next Thursday, online c/o DECkNO at Bath. Should be full of lols www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissol...? #ukhe
The Dissolution of the Universities
Join Professor Richard Hall in discussing the crisis of the university with the DECkNO community.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm speaking about a new book project, The Dissolution of the Universities next Thursday, online c/o DECkNO at Bath. Should be full of lols www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dissol...? #ukhe
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Our Exhibition Visitors are gathering this Friday at 1pm in the Phoenix arts cafe to visit this exhibition 👇
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Our Exhibition Visitors are gathering this Friday at 1pm in the Phoenix arts cafe to visit this exhibition 👇
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The Vaughan City Explorers are meeting at 2pm on Sunday 2 November outside the Freemason's Hall on the London Road. We'll be having a tour of the Hall before exploring the road itself between the Station and Victoria Park Gates.
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Vaughan City Explorers are meeting at 2pm on Sunday 2 November outside the Freemason's Hall on the London Road. We'll be having a tour of the Hall before exploring the road itself between the Station and Victoria Park Gates.
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A new report shows the US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%.
Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying.
Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.
Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying.
Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A new report shows the US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%.
Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying.
Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.
Some would have you believe climate action has to cost you money. They're lying.
Tax the polluters. Tax the super-rich.
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'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell
jackrussell.co.uk
jackrussell.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
'Gas Lamp, Goodwin's Court, Bedfordbury End' by Jack Russell
jackrussell.co.uk
jackrussell.co.uk
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Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just in case anyone is listening, please note that UK universities cannot operate successfully on the basis of continuous reduction of academic staff and academic staff pay. No amount of staff wellness sessions will change this.
ooh nice!
📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
ooh nice!
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Another interesting perspective on this week's Post 16+ Skills white paper.
I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Somewhere in the Department for Education, a phone is ringing
On October 20th at a bit after 5pm, the UK government introduced its Education and Skills white paper to Parliament, to absolutely no…
hitchcockian.medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Another interesting perspective on this week's Post 16+ Skills white paper.
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It's UK Black History Month.
Resharing @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's article from Feb!
The stories of Black boxers in 1880s England are missing from every boxing history or Black British history I've read. But there are LOTS! Feel privileged to help find them:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Resharing @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's article from Feb!
The stories of Black boxers in 1880s England are missing from every boxing history or Black British history I've read. But there are LOTS! Feel privileged to help find them:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars
A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishin...
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's UK Black History Month.
Resharing @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's article from Feb!
The stories of Black boxers in 1880s England are missing from every boxing history or Black British history I've read. But there are LOTS! Feel privileged to help find them:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Resharing @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's article from Feb!
The stories of Black boxers in 1880s England are missing from every boxing history or Black British history I've read. But there are LOTS! Feel privileged to help find them:
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Tomorrow - perhaps the last chance to hear Chris William's huge knowledge of police history technology! At Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate at 6.30. Tea and cake at 6.15.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
October 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Tomorrow - perhaps the last chance to hear Chris William's huge knowledge of police history technology! At Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate at 6.30. Tea and cake at 6.15.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
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This is disappointing but not unexpected. Post 24 adult education is continually sidelined.
Adult learning deserves better: a Pre-24 not Post-16 Education White Paper.
In a 38,910 word document, adults are mentioned just 0.13%.
Read WEA CEO @SimonParkinson6 full response here:
bit.ly/4oBgdKV
In a 38,910 word document, adults are mentioned just 0.13%.
Read WEA CEO @SimonParkinson6 full response here:
bit.ly/4oBgdKV
October 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is disappointing but not unexpected. Post 24 adult education is continually sidelined.
Check out @vaughancoop.bsky.social
Maybe British universities should be treated like failing rail franchises, getting gradually nationalised as they go bust one by one, then run cooperatively, democratically, comprehensively, strategically and collectively for the public good.
NEW on Wonkhe: Higher education reform is here – along with a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education and skills. Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan work through the details of the government's agenda for HE buff.ly/D73ayy4
October 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Check out @vaughancoop.bsky.social
This shop frontage in Belmont, near Harrow needs a local listing. It's a precious example of 1930s style.
@c20society.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @modinmetro.bsky.social
@c20society.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @modinmetro.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This shop frontage in Belmont, near Harrow needs a local listing. It's a precious example of 1930s style.
@c20society.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @modinmetro.bsky.social
@c20society.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social @modinmetro.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Should be a good talk - and there'll be cake too!
Coming this Thursday - our #VaughanForum on the history of the 999 telephone system, police control rooms and CCTV with Dr Chris Williams. We'll be in Secular Hall on Humberstone Gate, 6.15-7.45. To find out more and sign up 👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
www.tickettailor.com/events/leice...
Select tickets – October Vaughan Forum: 999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms – (TBC)
October Vaughan Forum: 999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms – (TBC), Thu 23 Oct 2025 - Presented by Dr Chris Williams
Many of us will have dialed ‘999’ and asked for ‘police’. ...
www.tickettailor.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Should be a good talk - and there'll be cake too!
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You are never too old to learn! Everyone deserves a chance to learn, whatever their age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
Londonderry: 90-year-old woman graduates from university
90-year-old Maryette was the oldest of more than 300 graduates at the Open University's ceremony in Belfast on Tuesday.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
You are never too old to learn! Everyone deserves a chance to learn, whatever their age.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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Our Vaughan Forums are back after the summer break!
On October 23 Chris Williams will be talking on '999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Room'.
Tea and cake from 6.15pm and talk from 6.30-7.45.
vaughan.coop/course/octob...
On October 23 Chris Williams will be talking on '999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Room'.
Tea and cake from 6.15pm and talk from 6.30-7.45.
vaughan.coop/course/octob...
October Forum: 999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Rooms - Leicester Vaughan College
Chris Williams explains about the history of police control rooms and the how the 999 emergency telephone system came into operation.
vaughan.coop
October 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Our Vaughan Forums are back after the summer break!
On October 23 Chris Williams will be talking on '999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Room'.
Tea and cake from 6.15pm and talk from 6.30-7.45.
vaughan.coop/course/octob...
On October 23 Chris Williams will be talking on '999, CCTV and Computers: the History of Police Control Room'.
Tea and cake from 6.15pm and talk from 6.30-7.45.
vaughan.coop/course/octob...