Stuart Jones
@stuartjones.bsky.social
Historian, Manchester UK 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
The price of peerages is clearly soaring
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The price of peerages is clearly soaring
Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
press.princeton.edu
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Happy early morning discovery at Altrincham @waterstones.bsky.social - signed copies are now in store! ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Happy early morning discovery at Altrincham @waterstones.bsky.social - signed copies are now in store! ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory
MUP sale, 40% off my entire 2024 oeuvre. Discount at checkout manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
MUP sale, 40% off my entire 2024 oeuvre. Discount at checkout manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
Next up: Liz Truss
Man fined for dressing as fake admiral at Remembrance Sunday event
Man fined for dressing as fake admiral at Remembrance Sunday event
Jonathan Carley, 65, ordered to pay nearly £800 after pleading guilty to attending ceremony in Royal Navy uniform without permission
A man has been fined after he admitted dressing as an admiral without permission at a Remembrance Sunday event.
Jonathan Carley, 65, pleaded guilty to wearing uniform bearing the mark of his majesty’s forces without permission and was fined £500, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £200 surcharge, at Llandudno magistrates court on Monday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Next up: Liz Truss
'Long before he wrote Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes was a 13 yr-old boy'
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
'Long before he wrote Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes was a 13 yr-old boy'
The final nail in the coffin
Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job | Simon Jenkins
Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job | Simon Jenkins
Rumours of the prime minister’s demise are premature. Yes, the polls look bad – but these days they reflect little more than voters’ passing whims, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The final nail in the coffin
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Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
joanneedge.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - University of Manchester
EOI deadline: 26 January 2026
More information: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
EOI deadline: 26 January 2026
More information: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - University of Manchester
EOI deadline: 26 January 2026
More information: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
EOI deadline: 26 January 2026
More information: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...
'I won my court case and so am now appealing against the verdict.'
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
'I won my court case and so am now appealing against the verdict.'
2026 World Cup = 1936 Olympics. No excuse for participation
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
2026 World Cup = 1936 Olympics. No excuse for participation
This year's Christmas presents sorted, thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This year's Christmas presents sorted, thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social
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📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
I'm speaking about my new book in Oxford at 12 today talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f6...
'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
talks.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I'm speaking about my new book in Oxford at 12 today talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f6...
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'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees
Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3
Out today (in USA)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Out today (in USA)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
An ideal Christmas present
📢 Ed. with @capandgown.bsky.social A Cultural History of Higher Learning in the Age of Industry was published by Bloomsbury today! Many thanks to the series eds & all contributors
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#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social
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#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ische-news.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
An ideal Christmas present
Third World War imminent
In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists' greatest ally. That deserves our backing | Simon Jenkins
In Gaza, and now Ukraine, Donald Trump may be peace activists' greatest ally. That deserves our backing | Simon Jenkins
It’s a fool’s game trying to understand the president’s true motives, but do our misgivings matter if the outcome is a speedy end to war, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Third World War imminent
A rare piece of good news for the Royal Family: Simon Jenkins forecasts its demise www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The latest Prince Andrew abuse claims are a new low for the Royal Family brand. In this form, it can’t survive | Simon Jenkins
‘The Firm’ as a modernising strategy was already falling apart, but with the shocking allegations so fully in the public domain, it has now collapsed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A rare piece of good news for the Royal Family: Simon Jenkins forecasts its demise www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...
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This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Thrilled to have another piece out on the history of economic republicanism! In the 19th century, republican ideas were mobilised to argue for popular economic self-government, ideas that still have much to offer in our own age of oligarchy.
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
October 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thrilled to have another piece out on the history of economic republicanism! In the 19th century, republican ideas were mobilised to argue for popular economic self-government, ideas that still have much to offer in our own age of oligarchy.
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Higher Learning
How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…
www.bloomsbury.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about whether voting should be required by law and what might change if non-participation was no longer an option. Why have some countries made voting compulsory?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.