Geoff Crossick
@geoffcrossick.bsky.social
Based in London, social historian now working on photographs of early-20thC shopkeepers in Britain & France, interested in difference arts and culture make, on boards in higher education and cultural sector, passionate about Tottenham Hotspur.
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Join us for a special live-streamed event with Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, on Monday 7 July at 2.30pm. She'll discuss the value of the humanities and social sciences in policymaking.
Join live: vimeo.com/event/5202389
Join live: vimeo.com/event/5202389
In Conversation with Professor Dame Angela McLean: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Policymaking
Hear from Dame Angela on the value of the humanities and social sciences in delivery of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser’s (GCSA) priorities in putting…
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July 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Join us for a special live-streamed event with Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, on Monday 7 July at 2.30pm. She'll discuss the value of the humanities and social sciences in policymaking.
Join live: vimeo.com/event/5202389
Join live: vimeo.com/event/5202389
It wasn't a dream then. I no longer feel I have to apologise to my kids and grandkids for having made them Tottenham supporters - this is what it's for! But then my father never apologised to me.
May 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It wasn't a dream then. I no longer feel I have to apologise to my kids and grandkids for having made them Tottenham supporters - this is what it's for! But then my father never apologised to me.
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Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to come and work with us in Leeds. Deadlines coming up shortly!
Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science
The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…
The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…
Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science
The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative Doctoral Awards from the Arts & Humanities Research Council – will offer supervision through project partners including the Royal Society and Cambridge University Library…
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April 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to come and work with us in Leeds. Deadlines coming up shortly!
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“Some airlines and hotel groups have warned of waning demand for transatlantic travel and a “bad buzz” about visiting the US”
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
April 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“Some airlines and hotel groups have warned of waning demand for transatlantic travel and a “bad buzz” about visiting the US”
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I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...
April 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...
Congratulations! I can't wait to read it.
It was very satisfying to hit send on this, especially on a sunny Friday afternoon. 🥳 If only we could celebrate together, but we are geographically dispersed-- bit anticlimactic in that respect 😆
Book Manuscript submitted! 🎉
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
April 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Congratulations! I can't wait to read it.
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Lectureship in Digital History. A new, permanent post on a teaching & research contract. Any period from ancient to contemporary. Specialism in history of any region of the world. Friendly, committed, diverse department in the heart of Bloomsbury.
Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...
Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...
April 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Lectureship in Digital History. A new, permanent post on a teaching & research contract. Any period from ancient to contemporary. Specialism in history of any region of the world. Friendly, committed, diverse department in the heart of Bloomsbury.
Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...
Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...
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At the end of the financial year, and the last government's comprehensive spending review, what did AHRC do with our £300m share of the nearly £27bn of UKRI funding?
Over £350m of coinvestment
6000 jobs
Reached over 1 million people
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...
Over £350m of coinvestment
6000 jobs
Reached over 1 million people
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...
Stocktaking
It’s the end of the financial year – but it’s also the end of the Comprehensive Spending Review launched by the previous government in 2021 in the wake of COVID. Of the nearly £27bn which UKRI rec…
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March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
At the end of the financial year, and the last government's comprehensive spending review, what did AHRC do with our £300m share of the nearly £27bn of UKRI funding?
Over £350m of coinvestment
6000 jobs
Reached over 1 million people
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...
Over £350m of coinvestment
6000 jobs
Reached over 1 million people
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/s...
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on.ft.com/4aLgR2y Ephemeral messages remove scrutiny from government (unless you inadvertently bring the editor of @theatlantic.com into your group chat). I did warn about the use of these messaging systems in transacting government business in @ft.com.web.brid.gy some years ago!
Ephemeral messages remove scrutiny from government
The lack of record in affairs of state is a concern both for now and future historians
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March 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
on.ft.com/4aLgR2y Ephemeral messages remove scrutiny from government (unless you inadvertently bring the editor of @theatlantic.com into your group chat). I did warn about the use of these messaging systems in transacting government business in @ft.com.web.brid.gy some years ago!
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... The Paiamentary question asks about government support for the arts and humanities. The answer is only about the creative arts - important as they are - with nothing to say on the humanities.
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... The Paiamentary question asks about government support for the arts and humanities. The answer is only about the creative arts - important as they are - with nothing to say on the humanities.
So no more arts activities in French prisons. Even though there is so much evidence of their positive impact.
Prison : 31 organisations font part de leur indignation après l’arrêt annoncé des « activités ludiques »
Prison : 31 organisations font part de leur indignation après l’arrêt annoncé des « activités ludiques »
Le ministre de la justice, Gérald Darmanin, a annoncé, lundi, avoir ordonné l’arrêt de toutes les « activités ludiques » en prison qui ne concernent pas l’éducation, la langue française ou le sport.
www.lemonde.fr
February 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
So no more arts activities in French prisons. Even though there is so much evidence of their positive impact.
So many leading Chartists ended up running mutual benefit societies as Wheeler did. Shows us how the scale and variety of Chartism meant real management skills were learned by men who would otherwise have had little access to them.
#C19th #Chartism
Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
Thomas Martin Wheeler, 1811 - 1862 - chartist ancestors
A Chartist journalist, author and organiser, Thomas Martin Wheeler was at the heart of the Chartist movement throughout the 1840s, and went on to build one of Britain's biggest mutual societies. This ...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
So many leading Chartists ended up running mutual benefit societies as Wheeler did. Shows us how the scale and variety of Chartism meant real management skills were learned by men who would otherwise have had little access to them.
Wheeler had a brief walk-on part in my doctoral thesis, so many years ago, through the Chartists' take-over of an Anti-Corn Law meeting in Deptford in 1842. So the latest in these fascinating Chartist biographies was particularly welcome!
#C19th #Chartism
Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
Owenite and Northern Star journalist Thomas Martin Wheeler died #OTD 16 February 1862. After Chartism’s decline, he built up the Friend in Need Life and Sick Assurance Society, turning it into one of the country’s largest mutual societies.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/thomas-marti...
Thomas Martin Wheeler, 1811 - 1862 - chartist ancestors
A Chartist journalist, author and organiser, Thomas Martin Wheeler was at the heart of the Chartist movement throughout the 1840s, and went on to build one of Britain's biggest mutual societies. This ...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wheeler had a brief walk-on part in my doctoral thesis, so many years ago, through the Chartists' take-over of an Anti-Corn Law meeting in Deptford in 1842. So the latest in these fascinating Chartist biographies was particularly welcome!
Creative Lives has launched its Monitor to gather information from as many local voluntary arts organisations and groups as possible. To help it plan its own activities and to help it influence local and national policy. www.creative-lives.org/creative-liv... Circulate as widely as possible!
Creative Lives Monitor 2025
Tell us about your creative group - and you could win a £250/€300 grant!
www.creative-lives.org
February 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Creative Lives has launched its Monitor to gather information from as many local voluntary arts organisations and groups as possible. To help it plan its own activities and to help it influence local and national policy. www.creative-lives.org/creative-liv... Circulate as widely as possible!
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A pleasure to join with both Imperial colleagues and representatives of the wider library community to honour @chrisabanks.bsky.social as she steps away from her Imperial role. But we’re reassured that we won’t be losing her drive and expertise…
February 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A pleasure to join with both Imperial colleagues and representatives of the wider library community to honour @chrisabanks.bsky.social as she steps away from her Imperial role. But we’re reassured that we won’t be losing her drive and expertise…
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Wonderful drawings by Charles Darwin’s children. I love that some were on the manuscript of Origin of the Species. Very suggestive of the family culture
#childhist
#childhist
Darwin's birthday is always a good excuse to share these delightful drawings by his children, some of them on the back of the manuscript of On the Origin of Species.
February 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wonderful drawings by Charles Darwin’s children. I love that some were on the manuscript of Origin of the Species. Very suggestive of the family culture
#childhist
#childhist
Like many I did this long ago. The real challenge is cultural and academic organisations who say they stay on X because of its 'reach'. Principles have to prevail over pragmatism here, so good that the Royal Historical Society has closed its X account. And being good historians they've archived it!
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Like many I did this long ago. The real challenge is cultural and academic organisations who say they stay on X because of its 'reach'. Principles have to prevail over pragmatism here, so good that the Royal Historical Society has closed its X account. And being good historians they've archived it!
Paule Constable richly merits her retirement after remarkable career as theatre lighting designer. We gave her an honorary degree while I was at Goldsmiths and I learned how central lighting design was to the creative process in theatre. Something I've never forgotten when watching performances.
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Paule Constable richly merits her retirement after remarkable career as theatre lighting designer. We gave her an honorary degree while I was at Goldsmiths and I learned how central lighting design was to the creative process in theatre. Something I've never forgotten when watching performances.
The USA's NEA has cut its scheme to extend the arts to 'underserved groups/communities', and prioritised projects to mark 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Which read 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...'. Trump in 1776 would have banned it.
February 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The USA's NEA has cut its scheme to extend the arts to 'underserved groups/communities', and prioritised projects to mark 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Which read 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...'. Trump in 1776 would have banned it.
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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890 | Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) aims to be a key part of a thriving community of scholars sharing humanities data. The journal features peer reviewed publications describing humanities rese...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social)
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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Fantastic opportunity here! Not only is Dr Oman a sector-changing scholar overflowing with integrity and clever, she is one of the most compassionate and lovely people I know. Like I said, fantastic opportunity
Come do a funded PhD with me! Difference and power in the time of responsible AI: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Difference and power in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Difference and power in the time of responsible AI at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Fantastic opportunity here! Not only is Dr Oman a sector-changing scholar overflowing with integrity and clever, she is one of the most compassionate and lovely people I know. Like I said, fantastic opportunity
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New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.
January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New and new-ish PhD students working on British history in the 'long' 18th century: come tell our friendly seminar about your research in our 14 March 2025 Lightening Talks. Our seminar is hybrid so you don't need to be in London (or indeed the UK) to participate. Details below and in the Alt text.
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Opinion: Modern #arts and #humanities demand modern policy approaches.
As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says @christophersmith.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says @christophersmith.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Modern arts and humanities demand modern policy approaches - Research Professional News
As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says Christopher Smith
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Opinion: Modern #arts and #humanities demand modern policy approaches.
As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says @christophersmith.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
As disciplines’ scale and methods transform, we must ensure ambition keeps pace, says @christophersmith.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
BBC headline tells us "Art fans from UK to be charged more to visit Louvre than those from EU". Well, all citizens from countries outside the EU are to be charged the higher ticket price. Far from being singled out for punishment the UK is being enabled to enjoy its Brexit freedom.
January 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
BBC headline tells us "Art fans from UK to be charged more to visit Louvre than those from EU". Well, all citizens from countries outside the EU are to be charged the higher ticket price. Far from being singled out for punishment the UK is being enabled to enjoy its Brexit freedom.
University of Newcastle's plans to cut 'unfunded research time' defines funded as through external research grants. If they're excluding QR funding then arts and humanities will be very disproportionately hit.
January 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
University of Newcastle's plans to cut 'unfunded research time' defines funded as through external research grants. If they're excluding QR funding then arts and humanities will be very disproportionately hit.