Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo
@ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social
Historiadora en Cinvestav, Ciudad de México
De sabático en @camhistory.bsky.social
En Comité editorial de @revistacomun.bsky.social
Tuits a título personal
#VivasNosQueremos
https://cinvestav.academia.edu/AriadnaAcevedo/Papers
De sabático en @camhistory.bsky.social
En Comité editorial de @revistacomun.bsky.social
Tuits a título personal
#VivasNosQueremos
https://cinvestav.academia.edu/AriadnaAcevedo/Papers
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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.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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.
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👉 Este proyecto ha sido posible gracias a The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) y a The UCLA Film and television Archive. 'Público' ha contado con el apoyo de la Generalitat de Catalunya y del Comisionado para la Celebración de los 50 años de España @50enlibertad.bsky.social
La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto: noticias y última hora de hoy | Público
Todos los vídeos rescatados por Público y la Corporación Hearst sobre la Guerra Civil que cambian la mirada sobre nuestro pasado
www.publico.es
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
👉 Este proyecto ha sido posible gracias a The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) y a The UCLA Film and television Archive. 'Público' ha contado con el apoyo de la Generalitat de Catalunya y del Comisionado para la Celebración de los 50 años de España @50enlibertad.bsky.social
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🎥 TVE se hace eco de la serie 'La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto', que rescata imágenes inéditas de la Guerra Civil proyectadas en los noticiarios de EEUU.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎥 TVE se hace eco de la serie 'La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto', que rescata imágenes inéditas de la Guerra Civil proyectadas en los noticiarios de EEUU.
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Gorda, la codiciada ajolote que hizo que dejaran de circular 10 millones de billetes de 50 pesos en México dozz.es/l4cth6
Gorda, la codiciada ajolote que hizo que dejaran de circular 10 millones de billetes de 50 pesos en México
Un informe de Banxico detalla que el equivalente a 26 millones de dólares de esta denominación está fuera de circulación. Algunos revendedores cotizan una pieza en más de un millón de pesos
dozz.es
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Gorda, la codiciada ajolote que hizo que dejaran de circular 10 millones de billetes de 50 pesos en México dozz.es/l4cth6
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Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'.
📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
November 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'.
📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
📆 Mon 1 December
🕔 5pm - 6pm
📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.
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En lugar de cuestionar su organización jerárquica y excluyente, adoptamos, como si fuera parte de nuestro ethos, una forma de evaluación que reproduce lo peor del capitalismo y del colonialismo en la academia.
Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...
Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...
SNII: género, desigualdad, mérito y crítica al sistema
Reflexión sobre la desigualdad de género en el SNII, la meritocracia académica y los desafíos estructurales que enfrentan las mujeres en la ciencia mexicana.
revistacomun.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
En lugar de cuestionar su organización jerárquica y excluyente, adoptamos, como si fuera parte de nuestro ethos, una forma de evaluación que reproduce lo peor del capitalismo y del colonialismo en la academia.
Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...
Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...
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c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
c.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
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... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New book from @uncpress.bsky.social:
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
New book from @uncpress.bsky.social:
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’
Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood · Sell Your Children: The Latin American Right
It’s striking how thoroughly Latin America’s contemporary right has absorbed neoliberalism. Earlier cohorts...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’
Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Exciting CfP for historians working on motherhood, gender, work and politics in a global or transnational frame in the early 20th century:
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
Motherhood Without Poverty 2026
Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)
Call for papers
A One-Day Hybrid Workshop at the University of Glasgow
Frid...
sites.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Exciting CfP for historians working on motherhood, gender, work and politics in a global or transnational frame in the early 20th century:
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...
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Hay un gaslighting sistémico que está acabando con el propósito de la academia... un sistema que genera evidencias sobre patrones de diferencia de género para después no hacer nada con ellas.
En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...
En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...
revistacomun.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hay un gaslighting sistémico que está acabando con el propósito de la academia... un sistema que genera evidencias sobre patrones de diferencia de género para después no hacer nada con ellas.
En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...
En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII.
revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...
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If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
History and Politics Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Michaelmas Term Seminars All meetings will take place in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College on Wednesdays at 5:30pm, except for the conference on 13 November, which will be held at Churchill ...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
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Proud to see this report out in the world today. After 10+ years of market experiments in UK HE, the data is clear: leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to the market has left students with less choice, fewer opportunities and more regional inequality. Read the deep dive below 👇
📢 Today the Academy launches a major new report urging action to tackle a growing crisis in our universities. Cuts to courses mean more regions than ever are ‘cold spots’ for access to many SHAPE subjects - with even more at risk. 🧵
📍Read the full report: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
📍Read the full report: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Proud to see this report out in the world today. After 10+ years of market experiments in UK HE, the data is clear: leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to the market has left students with less choice, fewer opportunities and more regional inequality. Read the deep dive below 👇
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I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
patchworkcities.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
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Emotion, agency and identity.
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Emotion, agency and identity.
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'.
Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq
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"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today"
Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today"
Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
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‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’.
University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’ - Research Professional News
University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’.
University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
www.cam.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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Dear Friends of the ITSH,
Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’
Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Dear Friends of the ITSH,
Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’
Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’
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We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools
End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.
endsexisminschools.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
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Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
This session will discuss A Brief History of Violence in Mexico by Pablo Piccato (Columbia University).
www.sas.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
Who’s Afraid of “Settler Colonialism”? - Dissent Magazine
If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.
www.dissentmagazine.org
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...
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Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
September 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170