Richard Toye
@richardtoye.bsky.social
Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
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Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.
Zanzibar coral: How Mnemba islanders are restoring their reef
Conservationists have found a way to restore a reef off one of Zanzibar's islands.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.
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Today I had a good 30-minute chat with Michael Weatherburn from Project Hindsight, covering what historical lessons the incoming Labour government might learn on economic policy... The recording is here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IcWC...
youtube.com/watch?v=IcWC...
Prof. Glen O'Hara - economic and industrial policy: history for an incoming government
Interview with Prof. Glen O'Hara about his thoughts on historical insights for an incoming UK government. Find out more about his work: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/glen-o-hara This is part of an event series aimed at addressing real-world issues using history and historical evidence. Find out more at: https://www.projecthindsight.co.uk/labs
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June 24, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Today I had a good 30-minute chat with Michael Weatherburn from Project Hindsight, covering what historical lessons the incoming Labour government might learn on economic policy... The recording is here:
youtube.com/watch?v=IcWC...
youtube.com/watch?v=IcWC...
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Just finished watching Pompeii: The New Dig, it was fantastic! A great archaeological documentary with no presenter, just the archaeologists and specialists explaining the astonishing archaeology themselves: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig
Following the biggest archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Just finished watching Pompeii: The New Dig, it was fantastic! A great archaeological documentary with no presenter, just the archaeologists and specialists explaining the astonishing archaeology themselves: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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It's 9 days until polling day and we’re continuing our countdown of Victorian election facts. 9. The secret ballot was not used at parliamentary elections until 1872. Before this, voting took place in public. This blog explains how the system worked: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/e...
Elections before the secret ballot
This month marks the 141st anniversary of the first use of the secret ballot to elect an MP, at a by-election in the Yorkshire borough of Pontefract. Before the 1872 Ballot Act, and throughout the per...
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June 25, 2024 at 7:54 AM
It's 9 days until polling day and we’re continuing our countdown of Victorian election facts. 9. The secret ballot was not used at parliamentary elections until 1872. Before this, voting took place in public. This blog explains how the system worked: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/e...
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I understand why so many critical studies academics are rushing to pivot their research toward using AI to do digital humanities work, but I really REALLY wish more of them would double down on critical analysis, argumentation, ethics, and discernment in the age of AI instead.
February 23, 2024 at 4:36 AM
I understand why so many critical studies academics are rushing to pivot their research toward using AI to do digital humanities work, but I really REALLY wish more of them would double down on critical analysis, argumentation, ethics, and discernment in the age of AI instead.
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It's the latest new and free writing from me! Our university Arts and Humanities are being torn apart by a lack of planning and care. We must act now, or we're going to waste all the decades and billions we've invested in them: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Saving humanities - Research Professional News
Glen O’Hara argues that arts and humanities subjects are victims of a chaotic system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
It's the latest new and free writing from me! Our university Arts and Humanities are being torn apart by a lack of planning and care. We must act now, or we're going to waste all the decades and billions we've invested in them: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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January 27, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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More **NEW** and **FREE** writing from our 'All Our Footsteps' project on Rights of Way... This time Gareth Roddy of Northumbria University writes about what the many pasts of Hadrian's Wall tell us about landscape and the experience of space. Take a look! 👇 www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/s...
Seeing like a quarryman: an unfamiliar ‘archive of the feet’ along Hadrian’s Wall — In All O...
Last year I walked along the middle section of Hadrian’s Wall Path, a
National Trail that opened in 2003 and follows the line of the Roman Wall
for 84 miles coast to coast, between Wallsend in the...
www.allourfootsteps.uk
November 15, 2023 at 12:34 PM
More **NEW** and **FREE** writing from our 'All Our Footsteps' project on Rights of Way... This time Gareth Roddy of Northumbria University writes about what the many pasts of Hadrian's Wall tell us about landscape and the experience of space. Take a look! 👇 www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/s...
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Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief - 'Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often highly problematic colonial role “[has] to be part of the mainstream narrative about British history” '
Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief
Nick Merriman says inclusion of difficult stories of slavery and empire is not wokery, but ‘simply good history’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief - 'Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often highly problematic colonial role “[has] to be part of the mainstream narrative about British history” '
I don't like Stoicism, but I've got to put up with it.
November 24, 2023 at 3:34 PM
I don't like Stoicism, but I've got to put up with it.
Q. What do you get if you cross Nye Bevan with Desperate Dan?
A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.
A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.
November 24, 2023 at 3:33 PM
Q. What do you get if you cross Nye Bevan with Desperate Dan?
A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.
A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.
Roger Liddle's generous review of Age of Hope: "Toye’s book is a joy to read, thoroughly researched and intellectually stimulating, compelling analysis laced with amusing anecdote."
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November 20, 2023 at 2:41 PM
Roger Liddle's generous review of Age of Hope: "Toye’s book is a joy to read, thoroughly researched and intellectually stimulating, compelling analysis laced with amusing anecdote."
www.progressivebritain.org/review-richa...
www.progressivebritain.org/review-richa...
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Politicians will discount constituent letters if they disagree with the letters. But providing strong, unambiguous evidence of expertise in the policy area can reduce this discounting, finds Bergan et al.
When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise
doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise
doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
November 13, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Politicians will discount constituent letters if they disagree with the letters. But providing strong, unambiguous evidence of expertise in the policy area can reduce this discounting, finds Bergan et al.
When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise
doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise
doi.org/10.1093/hcr/...
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Am vergangenen Wochenende habe ich in der SZ über meine Geburtsstadt Dresden, über Victor Klemperer und meine Lesungen aus seinem Tagebuch 1933-1945 geschrieben. Habt vielen Dank für die schöne Resonanz!
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...
November 13, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Am vergangenen Wochenende habe ich in der SZ über meine Geburtsstadt Dresden, über Victor Klemperer und meine Lesungen aus seinem Tagebuch 1933-1945 geschrieben. Habt vielen Dank für die schöne Resonanz!
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...
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Hamas murdered Vivian Silver. www.jta.org/2023/11/13/i...
Vivian Silver, veteran Canadian-Israeli peace activist, declared dead in Hamas massacre - Jewish Tel...
Until Monday, Silver, 74, was assumed to be among the more than 200 people held captive by Hamas.
www.jta.org
November 14, 2023 at 6:23 AM
Hamas murdered Vivian Silver. www.jta.org/2023/11/13/i...
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Call for Contributions! Ed. Collection: #Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day. Please share!
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November 12, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Call for Contributions! Ed. Collection: #Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day. Please share!
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We offer bursaries to final year undergraduates, those studying for taught Masters degrees, and postgrad MA/PhD-level researchers. Find out more sslh.org.uk/2023/10/08/s...
SSLH bursaries: financial support for labour history researchers
Are you supervising a student studying a labour history topic for their dissertation in 2023-24? Or do you know a postgraduate researcher (MA and doctoral) or independent scholar engaged in postgradua...
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November 12, 2023 at 3:54 PM
We offer bursaries to final year undergraduates, those studying for taught Masters degrees, and postgrad MA/PhD-level researchers. Find out more sslh.org.uk/2023/10/08/s...
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Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇
PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History at Newcastle University
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 11, 2023 at 9:10 AM
Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇
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gosh there's no pleasing her, is there?
November 11, 2023 at 9:09 AM
gosh there's no pleasing her, is there?
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#jobalert Project Manager: Collections Move, Holburne Museum, Bath
Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/
Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/
Current Vacancies - The Holburne Museum
www.holburne.org
November 10, 2023 at 7:51 PM
#jobalert Project Manager: Collections Move, Holburne Museum, Bath
Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/
Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/
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We don't have any font suggestions, but what an excellent poster. Huzzah for the reform bill!
Can anyone suggest good fonts to use in mocking up a 19th century-look poster? 🗃️ #C19th
November 10, 2023 at 1:36 PM
We don't have any font suggestions, but what an excellent poster. Huzzah for the reform bill!
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Please do join us for the launch of Pet Revolution, with me, Julie-Marie Strange, Helen Cowie and Diana James (Blue Cross) in conversation on histories of animals in British Life. Fri Nov 24th - online at lunchtime. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pet-revolu...
Pet Revolution! Animals and the Making of Modern British Life
Join us for the launch of Pet Revolution - a history of the importance of animals in the making of modern British life.
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November 3, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Please do join us for the launch of Pet Revolution, with me, Julie-Marie Strange, Helen Cowie and Diana James (Blue Cross) in conversation on histories of animals in British Life. Fri Nov 24th - online at lunchtime. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pet-revolu...