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Peter Mandler
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Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
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christinegrandy.bsky.social
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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ucflangs.bsky.social
The University of Nottingham has announced the suspension of all Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC) programmes from September 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
petermandler.bsky.social
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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robhedge.bsky.social
A new comic: A brief history of History at the University of Leicester.
You can download the originals and find links to further reading on my blog: incurablearchaeologist.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/l... #skystorians 🏛️🏺🗃️
Individual panels are threaded below:
An 8-panel comic illustrating the history of teaching and research in History at the University of Leicester since the university's foundation in 1921
October 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.

As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!

#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩‍🔬🗃️📜
The squares for Curium and Meitnerium from periodictable.com, featuring portraits of their respective namesakes, are presented above a caption "Only two women have chemical elements named after them. Both were born on November 7th." (I'm aware that there was some ambiguity surrounding Lise Meitner's birthday, but Ruth Lewin Sime's biography notes that Meitner celebrated the occasion on November 7.)
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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thevicsoc.bsky.social
📣 Object now to stop the demolition of Clive Lodge, one of the earliest homes in this leafy part of Ealing! 🧵
Object here to planning application Ref: 253085FUL
bit.ly/3Lo8EZH
November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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emilybaughan.bsky.social
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
Duncan Tanner Prize 2025
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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jackru.bsky.social
Defections since Local Elections in May this year (to 31st Oct):

LAB: 153↘ ↗11 (-142)
CON: 147↘ ↗17 (-130)
IND: 61↘ ↗278 (+217)
LOC: 38↘ ↗21 (-17)
RFM: 27↘ ↗94 (+67)
LDM: 20↘ ↗14 (-6)
GRN: 8↘ ↗22 (+14)
SNP: 3↘ ↗0 (-3)
A sankey diagram showing the flow of defections since the local elections in May 2025.
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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stevekornacki.bluesky.bot
New Jersey municipalities that are 60%+ Hispanic where we currently have results:
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Sheffield Hallam apologises after halting academic’s China research.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I’m at the British Textile Biennial, with exhibits and events in Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn etc.

Theme this time is invention and innovation, so plenty of #histsci and #histech among the new fibres and Lancashire looms.

Some of the things I’ve seen…
jonagar.bsky.social Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 9d
Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley

By my calculation about 120kb of data
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight.

Use the Quick Vote option.

Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them

Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand

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October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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There is a legal case for King Charles III to resume his status as monarch of the Americas—but it is strewn with obstacles
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There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
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There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
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October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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mattpolprof.bsky.social
If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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cjmckinney.bsky.social
Over 40% of international students who arrived in the UK in 2022 had switched to a work visa by 2024 (mostly the Graduate visa designed for that purpose), Migration Observatory analysis shows migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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petermandler.bsky.social
Join us for a roundtable on 'The Modern British City' in January at Senate House, London, with Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna, Owen Hatherley, Peter Mandler, Otto Saumarez Smith and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, followed by wine! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Roundtable: 'The Modern British City'
www.history.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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In 2024, the UK had the lowest taxes on an average employee of any G7 country.

UK taxes for lower earners were also the lowest in the G7.

But the UK's position might change in 2025.

Read more 👉 buff.ly/4ppe7Q8
Chart showing tax wedge for a single employee on that country's average pay: OECD, 2024 In OECD comparisons, which look at the equivalents of Income Tax and employee NI paid by a full-time employee on mean pay (around £50,000 in the UK), our effective tax rate was the lowest in the G7 last year, with the UK on 21 per cent – compared to 24 per cent in the US and 37 per cent in Germany. But this is not a complete measure: if we add in employer NI, then the total tax wedge for this employee rises to 29 per cent (as a share of total labour cost). But this was, again, the lowest in the G7, and among the lowest in the OECD, as Figure 1 shows, with an OECD average of 35 per cent.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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holsmith.bsky.social
My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Govt should withdraw its guidance which prevents civil servants from speaking at public or stakeholder events as this will reduce the quality of policymaking. I’m a co-signatory of this letter in The Times coordinated by @instituteforgovernment.org.uk a
asking for this guidance to be reconsidered
Let officials speak Sir, The government's new guidance that prevents public officials from participating properly in public or stakeholder events is a mistake. Effective government relies on public servants, whose salaries are paid by the taxpayer, hearing directly from businesses, charities, academics and citizens to help them make better policy. They should be able to explain government activity to those same groups. Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking for the government about the guidance, recognised this when she said that there was a "a responsibility on our civil servants to engage every day". The unpublished guidance contradicts this, saying that "officials speaking at a sector-facing event with Q&A and/or media expected to be in the audience... should not go ahead". It is causing confusion and a chilling effect on public discussion. It should be withdrawn. Dr Hannah White Institute for Government; Theo Bertram Social Market Foundation; Jess Bowie and Suzannah Brecknell Civil Service World; Alastair Campbell former Downing Street director of communications; Sarah Chaytor Universities Policy Engagement Network; Mike Clancy Prospect; Sir Simon Clarke Onward; Polly Curtis Demos; Professor Bobby Duffy Policy Institute, King's College London; David Durant TransformGov Talks; Gavin Freeguard Public Digital Data Bites; Kevin Keith UK Open Government Network; Professor Michael Kenny Bennett Institute of Public Policy; Sir John Kingman former second permanent secretary, HM Treasury; Maxwell Marlow Adam Smith Institute; Daniel Bruce Transparency International; Professor Anand Menon UK in a Changing Europe; Dave Penman FDA; Charlotte Pickles Re:State; Professor Meg Russell Constitution Unit, University College London; Hetan Shah British Academy; Ryan Shorthouse Bright Blue; Baroness Spielman former chief inspector of education, children's services and skills; Matt Stanley Think Digital Partners; Thea Stein Nuffield Trust; Matt Tee former CEO, IPSO, and former permanent secretary for government communications; Jeni Tennison Connected by Data
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM