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Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
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Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
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Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
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Eye-catching art for this piece on the warping of history by AI.
This article was illustrated by Jas Martin, a student at Nottingham Trent University.
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Eye-catching art for this piece on the warping of history by AI.
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To write about history, you need to have a soul.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
To write about history, you need to have a soul.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
History is just about facts; humans live through trials and tribulations, they make mistakes, they overreact, they tell lies.
AI might give you a simple sentence about general facts, but historians make the past relatable, seeing between the facts.
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Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Something from me on the dangers of A.I for historians and the neverending cycle of job cuts www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his...
This article was illustrated by Jas Martin, a student at Nottingham Trent University.
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
This article was illustrated by Jas Martin, a student at Nottingham Trent University.
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
You can find more of her brilliant work here: jasminemartinillustration.weebly.com
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for the his...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past?
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.
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Betsy Whyte was born in Blairgowrie - she's one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia
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November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Betsy Whyte was born in Blairgowrie - she's one of our #PerthWomenOnWikipedia
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"Any bairn that is taken away to they Homes is never right. When he [Hendry] was about nine he was gotten standing at the door of an inn. His mother and father were in the inn. The woman wasn’t drunk, but the authorities took the bairn anyway." #genealogy #FamilyHistory 📚🗃️
OTD in 1919, the Scots Traveller author Betsy Whyte was born. Her memoir, The Yellow on the Broom, speaks to how punitive laws and 'reform schools' caused lasting harm to her community.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
Hendry and The Scottish ‘Tinker Experiment’
Becky Taylor explores how ideas of sedentarism affected the lives of Gypsy/Traveller children and families in Scotland.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"Any bairn that is taken away to they Homes is never right. When he [Hendry] was about nine he was gotten standing at the door of an inn. His mother and father were in the inn. The woman wasn’t drunk, but the authorities took the bairn anyway." #genealogy #FamilyHistory 📚🗃️
OTD in 1919, the Scots Traveller author Betsy Whyte was born. Her memoir, The Yellow on the Broom, speaks to how punitive laws and 'reform schools' caused lasting harm to her community.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
Hendry and The Scottish ‘Tinker Experiment’
Becky Taylor explores how ideas of sedentarism affected the lives of Gypsy/Traveller children and families in Scotland.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OTD in 1919, the Scots Traveller author Betsy Whyte was born. Her memoir, The Yellow on the Broom, speaks to how punitive laws and 'reform schools' caused lasting harm to her community.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
From the archives, Becky Taylor on how sedentarism affected Scots Traveller children.
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A useful discussion on friendship.
What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A useful discussion on friendship.
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'Poets like Udasi furnished the Naxalbari movement with a distinct poetics that both invited and celebrated militant resistance, with imagery and oral poetic forms embedded in the regional vernacular.'
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
'Poets like Udasi furnished the Naxalbari movement with a distinct poetics that both invited and celebrated militant resistance, with imagery and oral poetic forms embedded in the regional vernacular.'
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
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'Protest verses, produced by political workers and organic intellectuals of the anticolonial struggle, emerged as the definitive form of anticolonial performance in India.'
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'Protest verses, produced by political workers and organic intellectuals of the anticolonial struggle, emerged as the definitive form of anticolonial performance in India.'
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
'Poets like Udasi furnished the Naxalbari movement with a distinct poetics that both invited and celebrated militant resistance, with imagery and oral poetic forms embedded in the regional vernacular.'
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
'Poets like Udasi furnished the Naxalbari movement with a distinct poetics that both invited and celebrated militant resistance, with imagery and oral poetic forms embedded in the regional vernacular.'
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
Sara Kazmi on revolutionary poetry in South Asia.
'Protest verses, produced by political workers and organic intellectuals of the anticolonial struggle, emerged as the definitive form of anticolonial performance in India.'
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'Protest verses, produced by political workers and organic intellectuals of the anticolonial struggle, emerged as the definitive form of anticolonial performance in India.'
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
Sara Kazmi on the role of poetry and performance in the Indian anticolonial struggle.
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In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
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This is such a wonderful piece by Sara Kazmi. I loved working on it with her.
In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is such a wonderful piece by Sara Kazmi. I loved working on it with her.
In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
Rebel Verses
Sara Kazmi curates two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.
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Highly recommend this gripping, beautifully written article on Valerie Solanas, the ownership of ideas, art, madness, and feminist praxis + memory in @historyworkshop.org.uk
By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social
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By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social
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Feminism, Artistry, Madness, and the Ghost of Valerie Solanas
Abstract. Valerie Solanas holds an unsettled place in feminist history, notorious for both her incendiary 1967 diatribe the SCUM Manifesto and her near-fat
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November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Highly recommend this gripping, beautifully written article on Valerie Solanas, the ownership of ideas, art, madness, and feminist praxis + memory in @historyworkshop.org.uk
By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
By @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social
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OTD in 1956, British and French forces invaded Egypt as Soviet tanks rolled through Hungary. The two crises helped to inspire international movements that rejected the binaries of the Cold War.
From the archives, Swapna Kona Nayudu on the lasting legacy of non-alignment:
From the archives, Swapna Kona Nayudu on the lasting legacy of non-alignment:
The Non-Aligned Manifesto
What is non-alignment? The history of this political project calls for the imagination of radical international futures.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OTD in 1956, British and French forces invaded Egypt as Soviet tanks rolled through Hungary. The two crises helped to inspire international movements that rejected the binaries of the Cold War.
From the archives, Swapna Kona Nayudu on the lasting legacy of non-alignment:
From the archives, Swapna Kona Nayudu on the lasting legacy of non-alignment:
Some very kind words, from an excellent thread on activism and the work of the historian:
The field wouldn‘t be what it is today if marginalised people hadn’t fought for their history, and in fighting developed new methods, knowledge, perspectives. There is a reason one of our best journals is called @historyworkshop.org.uk (in German @werkstattgeschichte.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy)
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Some very kind words, from an excellent thread on activism and the work of the historian:
OTD in 1928, the Carreras Cigarette Factory opened in London. Built for speed and precision, it subjected workers to strict fines and constant oversight.
From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:
From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:
Dr Thomas Garland and the Dream Life of Factory Girls
A long-forgotten medical thesis from 1938 uncovers the physical and psychic distress of London factory girls.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
OTD in 1928, the Carreras Cigarette Factory opened in London. Built for speed and precision, it subjected workers to strict fines and constant oversight.
From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:
From the archives, Sally Alexander explores Thomas Garland's groundbreaking work on the mental health of factory girls:
OTD in 1620, the diarist John Evelyn was born. His 1664 book, Sylva, was a defining work for early modern English forestry and later environmentalism.
In this piece from the archive, Keith Pluymers explores fears of wood scarcity in the Atlantic world.
In this piece from the archive, Keith Pluymers explores fears of wood scarcity in the Atlantic world.
Wood Scarcity and Empire
How far did wood scarcity in England trigger deforestation in its colonies at the dawn of empire? Keith Pluymers traces a complex story of conservation, commerce, and colonisation in the early modern ...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
OTD in 1620, the diarist John Evelyn was born. His 1664 book, Sylva, was a defining work for early modern English forestry and later environmentalism.
In this piece from the archive, Keith Pluymers explores fears of wood scarcity in the Atlantic world.
In this piece from the archive, Keith Pluymers explores fears of wood scarcity in the Atlantic world.
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What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
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How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️