Tom Cutterham
@tomcutterham.bsky.social
Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172668/gentlemen-revolutionaries
"In France, they say, the revolution was so revolutionary that it revolutionised the very concept of revolution." buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...
Just What Was a Revolution Anyway?
1776, 1789, and Dan Edelstein's "The Revolution to Come"
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"In France, they say, the revolution was so revolutionary that it revolutionised the very concept of revolution." buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...
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A huge win for Dutch higher education and the Netherlands as a whole - the new coalition cabinet has announced it wants to reverse all cuts to higher education planned by the previous government.
What targeted activism, electoral politics, and a bit of luck can do...🎉🇳🇱
What targeted activism, electoral politics, and a bit of luck can do...🎉🇳🇱
Eerlijkheid gebiedt te zeggen dat ik dit niet had verwacht. Wel heel blij mee. Alle bezuinigingen op het onderwijs worden teruggedraaid! #WOinActie
www.nu.nl/formatie/638...
www.nu.nl/formatie/638...
Live politiek | Jetten: 'Trots dat we bezuinigingen op onderwijs terugdraaien'
Hallo en welkom in ons liveblog. Hier houden we je op de hoogte van de kabinetsformatie.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:44 PM
A huge win for Dutch higher education and the Netherlands as a whole - the new coalition cabinet has announced it wants to reverse all cuts to higher education planned by the previous government.
What targeted activism, electoral politics, and a bit of luck can do...🎉🇳🇱
What targeted activism, electoral politics, and a bit of luck can do...🎉🇳🇱
Was the French Revolution the first modern revolution? Some scholars say "yes, and in a bad way."
Just What Was a Revolution Anyway?
1776, 1789, and Dan Edelstein's "The Revolution to Come"
buttondown.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Was the French Revolution the first modern revolution? Some scholars say "yes, and in a bad way."
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
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Great thread. Predictably depressing.
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub
aiskillshub.org.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Great thread. Predictably depressing.
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literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine
January 28, 2026 at 9:44 AM
literally thousands of people with unique expert knowledge and skills being made redundant, universities in the brink of closure, but sure, let's publicly fund the bullshit machine
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I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳
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All the things we could have fixed about our society with all those resources. Gone now, on the whims of the rich and their institutions, no possibility of our society deciding on any collective good to put them towards.
The existence of billionaires diminishes our ability to build a society.
The existence of billionaires diminishes our ability to build a society.
January 22, 2026 at 8:02 AM
All the things we could have fixed about our society with all those resources. Gone now, on the whims of the rich and their institutions, no possibility of our society deciding on any collective good to put them towards.
The existence of billionaires diminishes our ability to build a society.
The existence of billionaires diminishes our ability to build a society.
Yes, and, this is the only way regulators *can* function, since their ostensible task is to square the circle of public goods operated for private profit.
Of course, in the UK "regulators" are never really regulators. Their raison d'etre is political: to dress political goals in regulatory clothing, to act as reputational buffer zones, to gaslight outsiders like you and I into thinking regulation exists. But never, god forbid, to regulate.
Ofcom *might* "undertake a swift *assessment* to determine *whether* there are *potential* compliance issues that *warrant investigation*."
Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.
Hard to believe, but we waste almost a quarter of a billion pounds of public money annually on this absolute shower of a regulator.
January 18, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Yes, and, this is the only way regulators *can* function, since their ostensible task is to square the circle of public goods operated for private profit.
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CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2026. With support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals now due 1/24. Please help spread the word! 🙏
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 PM
CFP: "AMERICAN REVOLUTION INTERNATIONAL" - Huntington Library, Nov. 6-7, 2026. With support from the Early Modern Studies Institute at USC, my co-conspirators & I look forward to two days of generative conversation. Travel & lodging included! Proposals now due 1/24. Please help spread the word! 🙏
Common Sense wasn't a hit with British audiences, but that didn't mean no-one here was down for revolution.
Thomas Paine, Englishman
The American Revolution was an event in British history. Remembering the English roots of revolutionaries like Paine helps put the story in its transatlantic frame.
buttondown.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Common Sense wasn't a hit with British audiences, but that didn't mean no-one here was down for revolution.
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Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
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how do you say ¡No pasarán! in Kalaallisut?
January 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
how do you say ¡No pasarán! in Kalaallisut?
Love this characterisation of what consultancies actually do: "selling PowerPoints."
January 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Love this characterisation of what consultancies actually do: "selling PowerPoints."
A familiar phrase, in @rickbell.bsky.social's American Revolution and the Fate of the World!
January 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
A familiar phrase, in @rickbell.bsky.social's American Revolution and the Fate of the World!
Artist's impression of me making my way through Storm Goretti to get from Birmingham to Lewes for @theitps.bsky.social Common Sense at 250...
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Artist's impression of me making my way through Storm Goretti to get from Birmingham to Lewes for @theitps.bsky.social Common Sense at 250...
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📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time.
Join us and join in ⤵️
Join us and join in ⤵️
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time.
Join us and join in ⤵️
Join us and join in ⤵️
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@sethrockman.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social and @sallytuckett.bsky.social are coming to Birmingham next Friday to discuss Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery - everyone welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
Roundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - University of Birmingham
On Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown).
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
@sethrockman.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social and @sallytuckett.bsky.social are coming to Birmingham next Friday to discuss Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery - everyone welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
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@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Modern British Studies Conference 2026 CfP is live. Deadline for proposals 31 January 2026. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Modern British Studies Conference 2026 CfP is live. Deadline for proposals 31 January 2026. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
@theitps.bsky.social has all bases covered by putting this conference across 9th and 10th (I will happily be speaking on the 9th!): theitps.org/event/common...
January 5, 2026 at 8:11 PM
@theitps.bsky.social has all bases covered by putting this conference across 9th and 10th (I will happily be speaking on the 9th!): theitps.org/event/common...
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Its now Q2 of the 21st century
January 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Its now Q2 of the 21st century
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The often terrible consequences of hallucinations are real:
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The often terrible consequences of hallucinations are real:
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Before essay mills were banned in 2022, advertising for essay mills were all like ‘students, get help with your ideas’ and *everyone* knew it was bullshit. EVERYONE!
And now universities themselves are encouraging students to ‘get help with their ideas’ from ChatGPT - and it’s STILL bullshit!
And now universities themselves are encouraging students to ‘get help with their ideas’ from ChatGPT - and it’s STILL bullshit!
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Before essay mills were banned in 2022, advertising for essay mills were all like ‘students, get help with your ideas’ and *everyone* knew it was bullshit. EVERYONE!
And now universities themselves are encouraging students to ‘get help with their ideas’ from ChatGPT - and it’s STILL bullshit!
And now universities themselves are encouraging students to ‘get help with their ideas’ from ChatGPT - and it’s STILL bullshit!