Andrew Perchard
@andrewperchard.bsky.social
Parent, husband and historian 🏴 🇪🇺 🇳🇿
Prof @universityofotago.bsky.social
VProf @Birkbeck, U of London
CI @deindustrial.bsky.social
Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk
Editor, Business and Industrial History
Views my own
Prof @universityofotago.bsky.social
VProf @Birkbeck, U of London
CI @deindustrial.bsky.social
Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk
Editor, Business and Industrial History
Views my own
Pinned
Non‐Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity
This study examines deglobalization through the lens of non-market strategy (NMS), focusing on the antecedents and microfoundations of corporate political activity (CPA) in the global aluminium indus....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
New out in Journal of Management Studies: Non-Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity
An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
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Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
academic.oup.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
An excellent read; Keith Gildart’s review essay in The English Historical Review focusing on a collection of recent historical works on aspects of the 1984/5 British Miners Strike and remembering that 40years on. Incl.
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social
FYI @ewangibbs.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
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At a time when humanities and social science courses are facing severe cutbacks I’ll be mounting a defence of them and their role in shaping a better future at this lecture at De Montfort University on 27 November. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
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November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
At a time when humanities and social science courses are facing severe cutbacks I’ll be mounting a defence of them and their role in shaping a better future at this lecture at De Montfort University on 27 November. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
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March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project
After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
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Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday!
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
Virtual Event - Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
7 November 2025 - This session brings together eight scholars whose research examines the intersections of industrial decline, environmental activism and remediation, and policy responses by a variety...
niche-canada.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday!
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time
Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time
niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v...
#envhist #envstudies
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Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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Very important article: Elon Musk’s attempts to hijack the world’s knowledge base and make us all think like fascists.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Very important article: Elon Musk’s attempts to hijack the world’s knowledge base and make us all think like fascists.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This’ll be what Farage and Reform serve up in the UK as well. In return for a presidential pardon of Changpeng Zhao, two of Trump’s cryptocurrencies floated on Binance. The kleptocracy unabashed and at large!
Binance Boosted Trump Family’s Crypto Company Ahead of Pardon for Its Billionaire Founder
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
This’ll be what Farage and Reform serve up in the UK as well. In return for a presidential pardon of Changpeng Zhao, two of Trump’s cryptocurrencies floated on Binance. The kleptocracy unabashed and at large!
It’s also yet another example of politicians not adequately thinking through the consequences of their actions. In a former life as an official, albeit in a different policy area, I witnessed all too often the damaging effects of endemic short-termism reacting to headlines and political expediency.
A dreadful idea. Not satisfied with doing everything else in their power to undermine a vital sector, they’re proposing imposing further ill-conceived metrics. This micromanagement is precisely what you’d expect from a government devoid of big thinking, flip-flopping like a freshly landed catch!
'Proposals to reform assessment and the way teaching quality is measured risk standardising university curricula and treating institutions like big schools, critics have warned.'
'Big schools' does rather appear to sum up DfS's conception of universities, sadly. 1/3
'Big schools' does rather appear to sum up DfS's conception of universities, sadly. 1/3
October 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It’s also yet another example of politicians not adequately thinking through the consequences of their actions. In a former life as an official, albeit in a different policy area, I witnessed all too often the damaging effects of endemic short-termism reacting to headlines and political expediency.
A dreadful idea. Not satisfied with doing everything else in their power to undermine a vital sector, they’re proposing imposing further ill-conceived metrics. This micromanagement is precisely what you’d expect from a government devoid of big thinking, flip-flopping like a freshly landed catch!
'Proposals to reform assessment and the way teaching quality is measured risk standardising university curricula and treating institutions like big schools, critics have warned.'
'Big schools' does rather appear to sum up DfS's conception of universities, sadly. 1/3
'Big schools' does rather appear to sum up DfS's conception of universities, sadly. 1/3
Risk of ‘standardisation’ as ministers mull progression measures
Universities would look to ‘game’ new metric for testing learning gain, critics warn, with external examination defended as ‘best we’ve got’
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A dreadful idea. Not satisfied with doing everything else in their power to undermine a vital sector, they’re proposing imposing further ill-conceived metrics. This micromanagement is precisely what you’d expect from a government devoid of big thinking, flip-flopping like a freshly landed catch!
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Starmer says the SNP insults Scotland by planning for independence. The only one insulting Scotland is Starmer with his refusal to even say how another referendum will be held. If this continues the SNP should consider withdrawing its MPs from Westminster
My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'It’s not John Swinney insulting Scotland, it’s you Starmer, you flailing buffoon'
If the SNP gets a majority at the next election and London still says No to indyref2, then the party should recall its MPs from Westminster, our…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Starmer says the SNP insults Scotland by planning for independence. The only one insulting Scotland is Starmer with his refusal to even say how another referendum will be held. If this continues the SNP should consider withdrawing its MPs from Westminster
My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Just another example of the UK govt stipulating that Scotland has to mop up the bills for UK policy gaffs - Brexit and alignment with Trump and Netanyahu - without being able to exercise its right to self determination. Enough is enough! @snp.org @scottishgreens.org
£26m to satisfy UK ministers sycophantic placating of Trump. Why should Scotland shoulder the costs of this!
UK and Scottish governments dispute £26m cost of Trump and Vance visits
Finance Secretary Shona Robison is seeking to recoup the costs of policing the summer visits.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Just another example of the UK govt stipulating that Scotland has to mop up the bills for UK policy gaffs - Brexit and alignment with Trump and Netanyahu - without being able to exercise its right to self determination. Enough is enough! @snp.org @scottishgreens.org
£26m to satisfy UK ministers sycophantic placating of Trump. Why should Scotland shoulder the costs of this!
UK and Scottish governments dispute £26m cost of Trump and Vance visits
Finance Secretary Shona Robison is seeking to recoup the costs of policing the summer visits.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
£26m to satisfy UK ministers sycophantic placating of Trump. Why should Scotland shoulder the costs of this!
Crime pays… just ask the Hamburglar!
Breaking NYT:
Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Crime pays… just ask the Hamburglar!
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I wrote this up for RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
October 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I wrote this up for RNZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The greatest economic and geopolitical threat is posed by the US under Trump… and supine leaders like Starmer who will not deviate from a redundant devotion to the mythology of the transatlantic alliance.
Bankers on edge, a gilded cash room and US blaming China - my week at IMF
After five days talking to ministers, bankers and trade negotiators at the IMF, the BBC's Faisal Islam assesses the global outlook.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The greatest economic and geopolitical threat is posed by the US under Trump… and supine leaders like Starmer who will not deviate from a redundant devotion to the mythology of the transatlantic alliance.
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Oh, there's even more. Even more unhinged. Posted on the other place. Now is the worst time to be posting misinformation about immigration and asylum
October 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Oh, there's even more. Even more unhinged. Posted on the other place. Now is the worst time to be posting misinformation about immigration and asylum
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Whatever you think of the SNP in Glasgow, some remarks from Scottish Labour MPs who should know better, have been embarrassing.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Whatever you think of the SNP in Glasgow, some remarks from Scottish Labour MPs who should know better, have been embarrassing.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
This today, incorrectly claiming SNP housing policies have any impact on asylum cases which is reserved to Westminster and dealt with by Home Office contractors, is mince.
New out in Journal of Management Studies: Non-Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity
Non‐Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity
This study examines deglobalization through the lens of non-market strategy (NMS), focusing on the antecedents and microfoundations of corporate political activity (CPA) in the global aluminium indus....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New out in Journal of Management Studies: Non-Market Strategy and Deglobalization: Firm–State Relations and the Historical Microfoundations of Corporate Political Activity
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I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay
As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…
www.heraldscotland.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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Scotland has enormous resources and huge potential, but we are being held back by Westminster governments that treat us like an afterthought.
It’s time for a fresh start. An independent Scotland.
Today I have published our latest paper on what it could look like: www.gov.scot/publications...
It’s time for a fresh start. An independent Scotland.
Today I have published our latest paper on what it could look like: www.gov.scot/publications...
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Scotland has enormous resources and huge potential, but we are being held back by Westminster governments that treat us like an afterthought.
It’s time for a fresh start. An independent Scotland.
Today I have published our latest paper on what it could look like: www.gov.scot/publications...
It’s time for a fresh start. An independent Scotland.
Today I have published our latest paper on what it could look like: www.gov.scot/publications...
Business and Industrial History’s call for papers for its 2026 issue has been extended. We also welcome submissions for subsequent issues of the Journal. Details can be found here below.
@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social
@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social
busarchscot.org.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Business and Industrial History’s call for papers for its 2026 issue has been extended. We also welcome submissions for subsequent issues of the Journal. Details can be found here below.
@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social
@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social
A reminder for early career researchers working in the fields of business and industrial history of the call for the Moss and Richmond prizes. Details can be found by following the attached link.
2026 Issue: Essay Prizes
| Business and Industrial History: A Journal of Archival Research
journals.gla.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A reminder for early career researchers working in the fields of business and industrial history of the call for the Moss and Richmond prizes. Details can be found by following the attached link.