Chris Moores
@mooresci.bsky.social
Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
From what I've seen, I'd say coursework and online exams have made ChatGPT look pointless. It's basically shit at these things.
May 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
From what I've seen, I'd say coursework and online exams have made ChatGPT look pointless. It's basically shit at these things.
Feels like a timely moment to be thinking about 'economic nationalism' (again), so I am looking forward to my splendid colleague Klaus Richter's lecture next week: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
I imagine registration is still open!
I imagine registration is still open!
Does Economic Nationalism Empower People? Evidence from East Central Europe
Professor Klaus Richter Inaugural lecture - Does Economic Nationalism Empower People?
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Feels like a timely moment to be thinking about 'economic nationalism' (again), so I am looking forward to my splendid colleague Klaus Richter's lecture next week: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
I imagine registration is still open!
I imagine registration is still open!
Cant help but think four films on Yoko, Linda, Mo, and Pattie would be way more interesting than the Beatles films. Ideally, keep Sofia Coppola away.
May 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Cant help but think four films on Yoko, Linda, Mo, and Pattie would be way more interesting than the Beatles films. Ideally, keep Sofia Coppola away.
Some madness well updates. Seeing as I know some of my department enjoyed seeing these.
May 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Some madness well updates. Seeing as I know some of my department enjoyed seeing these.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday 7th May 2025, Unison and UCU will be hosting a Solidarity Picnic for Trans Rights on the Green Heart outside the Main Library from 12:30–2pm. Please come along, bringing your own lunch, to this relaxed and casual event to show solidarity and allyship to trans+ staff and students.
May 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Tomorrow, Wednesday 7th May 2025, Unison and UCU will be hosting a Solidarity Picnic for Trans Rights on the Green Heart outside the Main Library from 12:30–2pm. Please come along, bringing your own lunch, to this relaxed and casual event to show solidarity and allyship to trans+ staff and students.
My town is having it's annual 'normal one' and I'm absolutely into it.
May 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My town is having it's annual 'normal one' and I'm absolutely into it.
This is worth reflecting on for anyone less directly impacted by the supreme court verdict last week. It's already clear that harm is being done here.
Rainbows in the storm: Navigating hostility and hope in LGBTQ+ lives
Following last week's Supreme Court ruling & new data on suicide deaths, @davidwoodhead.bsky.social explores how mental health inequalities are impacting LGBTQ+ people, and how we can tackle these injustices👇 tinyurl.com/mpu2a7px
Following last week's Supreme Court ruling & new data on suicide deaths, @davidwoodhead.bsky.social explores how mental health inequalities are impacting LGBTQ+ people, and how we can tackle these injustices👇 tinyurl.com/mpu2a7px
April 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is worth reflecting on for anyone less directly impacted by the supreme court verdict last week. It's already clear that harm is being done here.
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Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
One more round. Despite the various responses the CCCS feels really significant in terms of books. I'd add bham centres more generally feel distinct. Been thinking about John Stewarts work on local govt as a non glamorous massive contribution from bham www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
April 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One more round. Despite the various responses the CCCS feels really significant in terms of books. I'd add bham centres more generally feel distinct. Been thinking about John Stewarts work on local govt as a non glamorous massive contribution from bham www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
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There's lots of events around my University's 125 anniversary. I was chatting with a colleague about the most well-known books written at/within the University. What would folk suggest? We started with the following (which reflected our own areas of research as much as anything):
April 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There's lots of events around my University's 125 anniversary. I was chatting with a colleague about the most well-known books written at/within the University. What would folk suggest? We started with the following (which reflected our own areas of research as much as anything):
Reposting this in case anyone has other suggestions. Economics? Sciences?
There's lots of events around my University's 125 anniversary. I was chatting with a colleague about the most well-known books written at/within the University. What would folk suggest? We started with the following (which reflected our own areas of research as much as anything):
April 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reposting this in case anyone has other suggestions. Economics? Sciences?
There's lots of events around my University's 125 anniversary. I was chatting with a colleague about the most well-known books written at/within the University. What would folk suggest? We started with the following (which reflected our own areas of research as much as anything):
April 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There's lots of events around my University's 125 anniversary. I was chatting with a colleague about the most well-known books written at/within the University. What would folk suggest? We started with the following (which reflected our own areas of research as much as anything):
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I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
April 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Took a little local trip today to check on King John and Stanley Baldwin. All remain in place.
April 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Took a little local trip today to check on King John and Stanley Baldwin. All remain in place.
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'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
Was great to have @samwetherell.bsky.social here @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social today. Great paper and chats. Thanks all.
April 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Was great to have @samwetherell.bsky.social here @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social today. Great paper and chats. Thanks all.
This Wednesday (2 April).
I am looking forward to hearing @samwetherell.bsky.social speak at Birmingham next week. Can't find an event link but the title is ‘Liverpool, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Britain’ at Uni of Bham - Arts LR2 (126), 3-4.30pm. Share with those interested!
March 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This Wednesday (2 April).
I am looking forward to hearing @samwetherell.bsky.social speak at Birmingham next week. Can't find an event link but the title is ‘Liverpool, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Britain’ at Uni of Bham - Arts LR2 (126), 3-4.30pm. Share with those interested!
March 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I am looking forward to hearing @samwetherell.bsky.social speak at Birmingham next week. Can't find an event link but the title is ‘Liverpool, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Britain’ at Uni of Bham - Arts LR2 (126), 3-4.30pm. Share with those interested!
Perks of work. Taking the young uns to some actoring
March 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Perks of work. Taking the young uns to some actoring
Malvern's cloud inversions this morning were lovely stuff.
January 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Malvern's cloud inversions this morning were lovely stuff.
Several years late, but doing pre-term pondering of a semantic shift from 'Reading List' to 'Resource List'. A defence of 'reading' as a 'resource' with power (!?), and/or indication of the economization of basic institutional language (?), and/or sign too long staring at Resource Lists?
January 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Several years late, but doing pre-term pondering of a semantic shift from 'Reading List' to 'Resource List'. A defence of 'reading' as a 'resource' with power (!?), and/or indication of the economization of basic institutional language (?), and/or sign too long staring at Resource Lists?
It would have been a bolder artistic choice - and for me a more compelling idea - to make a film about Timothee Chalamet's life with Bob Dylan in the lead role.
January 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It would have been a bolder artistic choice - and for me a more compelling idea - to make a film about Timothee Chalamet's life with Bob Dylan in the lead role.