Dr Catherine Bateson
@catbateson.bsky.social
American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
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Happy 3rd #pubday birthday to my @lsupress.bsky.social book “Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood”! Available from the press & all good bookstores. If any Civil War era/Irish Studies folk want me to talk about it/review it, get in touch!
lsupress.org/978080717793...
lsupress.org/978080717793...
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I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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ChatGPT has fallen
millions of students must learn
millions of students must learn
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
ChatGPT has fallen
millions of students must learn
millions of students must learn
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👋 Hi Bluesky!
The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.
Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.
Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
School of Advanced Study
Uniting research institutes and centres at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities.
sas.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
👋 Hi Bluesky!
The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.
Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.
Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/
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In this On History blog, @lucy-mccormick.bsky.social and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of social class buff.ly/ZDbRcur
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In this On History blog, @lucy-mccormick.bsky.social and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the histories of social class buff.ly/ZDbRcur
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Folks in the UK can also order my book "The Republican House Divided" here: mngbookshop.co.uk/978164336508... 🗃️
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Folks in the UK can also order my book "The Republican House Divided" here: mngbookshop.co.uk/978164336508... 🗃️
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Just three days to go until my book is published! 📚📖
I really cannot wait for "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP" to be out in the world 🐘🗳️
Order now (with 20% off): uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
I really cannot wait for "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP" to be out in the world 🐘🗳️
Order now (with 20% off): uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Just three days to go until my book is published! 📚📖
I really cannot wait for "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP" to be out in the world 🐘🗳️
Order now (with 20% off): uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
I really cannot wait for "The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP" to be out in the world 🐘🗳️
Order now (with 20% off): uscpress.com/The-Republic... 🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
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_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
The American Revolution
Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...
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Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Senior Curator, Dr Mary Wills, looks at records revealing conspiracy, plots, and intrigue in BOA’s new collection, Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/dP6oCTz
Read the full article here: buff.ly/dP6oCTz
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Senior Curator, Dr Mary Wills, looks at records revealing conspiracy, plots, and intrigue in BOA’s new collection, Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/dP6oCTz
Read the full article here: buff.ly/dP6oCTz
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Thank you to @americanstudier.bsky.social for featuring my book in #ScholarSunday.
Just a few days to go now until “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is published. I cannot wait for it to be out in world! 📚🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
Just a few days to go now until “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is published. I cannot wait for it to be out in world! 📚🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Thank you to @americanstudier.bsky.social for featuring my book in #ScholarSunday.
Just a few days to go now until “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is published. I cannot wait for it to be out in world! 📚🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
Just a few days to go now until “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is published. I cannot wait for it to be out in world! 📚🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
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This will be one of the iconic photographs of this time in US history.
This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This will be one of the iconic photographs of this time in US history.
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We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers.
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
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This is why we should protect the BBC.
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is why we should protect the BBC.
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I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
Great to see the latest Retrospect Journal publication from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social students - @boapublishing.bsky.social were delighted to sponsor the journal over the last year, and I contributed something in it too! You can read it online here: retrospectjournal.com/home-fronts/ 🗃️
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Great to see the latest Retrospect Journal publication from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social students - @boapublishing.bsky.social were delighted to sponsor the journal over the last year, and I contributed something in it too! You can read it online here: retrospectjournal.com/home-fronts/ 🗃️
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We’ve published a fantastic new primary source collection—"Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832”.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We’ve published a fantastic new primary source collection—"Radicalism and Popular Protest in Georgian Britain, c. 1714–1832”.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
Visit the collection landing page at buff.ly/Mf1q0nH.
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A big thank you to everyone who came to History Day 2025! You can check out the online collections all year round on the Discover Collections site 🌟
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@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A big thank you to everyone who came to History Day 2025! You can check out the online collections all year round on the Discover Collections site 🌟
buff.ly/xNpd7uF
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
buff.ly/xNpd7uF
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage!
Use code FIFTY at checkout at: yalebooks.co.uk/history
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in Nov
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Aus/NZ
#Skystorians #history
Use code FIFTY at checkout at: yalebooks.co.uk/history
Only available from yalebooks.co.uk in Nov
Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25
Not available N/S America & Aus/NZ
#Skystorians #history
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I see that Pete Hegseth is complaing again about soldiers with facial hair, so in response here is General Ambrose Burnside, shown on a bank note from Rhode Island where he served as governor from 1866-1869 and senator from 1875-1881. Blackstone Canal Bank, Providence, RI, $1, Jan 1, 1863. 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I see that Pete Hegseth is complaing again about soldiers with facial hair, so in response here is General Ambrose Burnside, shown on a bank note from Rhode Island where he served as governor from 1866-1869 and senator from 1875-1881. Blackstone Canal Bank, Providence, RI, $1, Jan 1, 1863. 🗃️
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...the results are impressive. There was never a chance that the monument was going to be removed given state law. This at least provides an opportunity to continue to reclaim this space and use it for educational purposes. I look forward to visiting with student groups and other tours that I lead.
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
...the results are impressive. There was never a chance that the monument was going to be removed given state law. This at least provides an opportunity to continue to reclaim this space and use it for educational purposes. I look forward to visiting with student groups and other tours that I lead.
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Folks, this is huge news. The old museum pushed a decidedly Lost Cause narrative. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association has been working on this new museum over the past couple years and a number of companies competed for the contract to create a new interpretive space. From what I've heard...
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Folks, this is huge news. The old museum pushed a decidedly Lost Cause narrative. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association has been working on this new museum over the past couple years and a number of companies competed for the contract to create a new interpretive space. From what I've heard...
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The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...
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Just one month to go until our Annual History Lecture! Join us on 11th December when @timgalsworthy.bsky.social will discuss his new book "The Republican House Divided."
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Just one month to go until our Annual History Lecture! Join us on 11th December when @timgalsworthy.bsky.social will discuss his new book "The Republican House Divided."
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
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Just one month to go until our Annual History Lecture! Join us on 11th December when @timgalsworthy.bsky.social will discuss his new book "The Republican House Divided."
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
This event is open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
@lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA