Miri Rubin
@mirierubin.bsky.social
Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
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Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
If Labour want a fairer society, they must argue for it
Labour must make the political argument: taxes are the critical downpayment we all pay to live in a fairer society.
It now seems all but certain that direct taxes will rise in the forthcoming Budget...
renewal.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society.
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇
renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...
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Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier
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Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier
Le dominicain et inquisiteur Etienne de Bourbon (Belleville-sur-Saône, v. 1190/1195 – Lyon, v. 1261) compose à la fin de sa vie dans son couvent de Lyon le Traité des diverses matières à prêcher, l…
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November 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier
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If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
binghamton.interviewexchange.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....
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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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For anyone who is interested in an extensive discussion of what “social democracy” means, we asked the current & former editors of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to proffer their definitions & thoughts:
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Renewal editors reflect on the meaning of social democracy
Renewal is a journal of social democracy, but social democracy has always been a contested concept - and one understood variously as an ideology, a movement, a historical phenomenon, or even a desired...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
For anyone who is interested in an extensive discussion of what “social democracy” means, we asked the current & former editors of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to proffer their definitions & thoughts:
renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...
renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...
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Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.
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Short-term Fellowships | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore.…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026.
www.folger.edu/research/the...
www.folger.edu/research/the...
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TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
Hamilton_Book award - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
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Currently bed bound so to have this wonderful book by @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social turn up in the post is a double joy. Accessible, erudite and insightful as you would expect, but also gloriously entertaining and engaging.
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Currently bed bound so to have this wonderful book by @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social turn up in the post is a double joy. Accessible, erudite and insightful as you would expect, but also gloriously entertaining and engaging.
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Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University)
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Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University)
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. …
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November 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University)
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#Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese #Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino... hybrid: www.youtube.com/live/xcCPgcu... #EspañaJudía
Ladino Day 2025 | Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today - UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
In Ladino Day 2025, speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti and Devin E. Naar will discuss the significance of the Spanish and Portuguese governments' decision in 2015 to offer citizenship to descenda...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese #Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino... hybrid: www.youtube.com/live/xcCPgcu... #EspañaJudía
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Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026)
University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...
University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...
Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) at University of East Anglia
Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026)
University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...
University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...
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What David said.
I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet.
These three pieces alone worth the sub.
I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet.
These three pieces alone worth the sub.
Patrick is absolutely right that Labour lacks a sufficient intellectual culture - but instead of reading race-war Whatsapp essays from anonymous crackheads, Labour MPs should subscribe to @renewaljournal.bsky.social for serious and informed strategic analysis and argument
Come for the really good essay by Patrick Maguire, stay for the really bad one being shared (approvingly!!) by some Labour MPs: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What David said.
I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet.
These three pieces alone worth the sub.
I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet.
These three pieces alone worth the sub.
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Yes, my guess is that while it would not be a perfect fit, the Main Panel PCE solution would work better at many places, and would also make it easier for many disciplines/subjects that have been restructured and/or had redundancies one or more times in this REF cycle to make a good submission.
October 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, my guess is that while it would not be a perfect fit, the Main Panel PCE solution would work better at many places, and would also make it easier for many disciplines/subjects that have been restructured and/or had redundancies one or more times in this REF cycle to make a good submission.
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A Vermont state senator has resigned over his involvement in a Young Republican group chat after racist and antisemitic chat messages shared among its members were made public.
Vermont state senator resigns over racist Young Republican chat messages
Samuel Douglass was reportedly the only elected official to take part in the Young Republican group chat that included racist and antisemitic messages.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A Vermont state senator has resigned over his involvement in a Young Republican group chat after racist and antisemitic chat messages shared among its members were made public.
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It was a pleasure, nay, an HONOUR to celebrate the launch of @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's monograph from @universitypress.cambridge.org , Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.
October 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It was a pleasure, nay, an HONOUR to celebrate the launch of @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's monograph from @universitypress.cambridge.org , Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.
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See full review by Dr. Juanita Cox via this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Iris De Freitas Brazao: legal luminary and trailblazer, Caribbean, Canada, Wales, England, 1896-1989
Published in Black Histories: Dialogues (Vol. 2, No. 1-2, 2024)
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October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
See full review by Dr. Juanita Cox via this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jobs For Medievalists
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Jobs For Medievalists
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
(Full-time)
The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...
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Shana Tova everyone. Off to Rosh Hashanah dinner.
September 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Shana Tova everyone. Off to Rosh Hashanah dinner.
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Interesting job opportunity at my alma mater Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
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September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Interesting job opportunity at my alma mater Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...
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this is a quite excellent episode of BBCRadio4 The Long View, where @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & guests explore the parallels between the current #Flags debate & what is in imv a seriously neglected moment in British history: the Gordon Riots
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Flags
Jonathan Freedland looks at the flying of flags now and opposite parliament in 1780.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this is a quite excellent episode of BBCRadio4 The Long View, where @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & guests explore the parallels between the current #Flags debate & what is in imv a seriously neglected moment in British history: the Gordon Riots
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
He has done an extraordinary job. Has left a remarkable legacy.
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He has done an extraordinary job. Has left a remarkable legacy.
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***Please Note***
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.
The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
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Prize Research Grants
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August 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
***Please Note***
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.
The application submission deadline for the Prize Research Grants at the Cambridge Centre for History and Economics has been extended to Monday 15 September 2025, 23.59 UK time.