As a life long Labour voter, think it’s useful that the leadership have been handed a reminder that you can’t leave the left flank unattended. Voters now have somewhere to go
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As a life long Labour voter, think it’s useful that the leadership have been handed a reminder that you can’t leave the left flank unattended. Voters now have somewhere to go
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Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
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A whole JAR full of soldiers...
Picture of a tub labelled "jar full of soldiers". Below is a still of Lydia Bennett looking thirsty.
stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did
This is the real reason Farage dodges the Commons at every opportunity. Unlike his rallies or TV show, it's the one platform where he can't control who is allowed to challenge him back.
Nominations for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History are now open ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... (closing date 31 May). You can submit your own work or recommend a book or article by someone else that you’ve loved reading.
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Doesn’t get better than this @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Banaji's unsparing analysis of Indian capitalism after having talked to all the major family capitalists and bank regulators.
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Anything historical, coffee culture, anything a local would visit !
Visiting #edinburgh this week? Any recommendations?
marta with dyzio the feathered dilophosaurus from 1997
A protoceratops family from the museum of evolution
Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki w Starachowicach
It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵
Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.
The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.
Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.
📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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Why oh why can't I just get in the car and drive there right now. I could be there tomorrow for sunrise...alas the heating bill is beckoning
That tracks 😂
May you have the confidence of all the Very Online Men whose handles are a spoonerized pseudonym of a famous public intellectual.
THE SCREAM I LET OUT, JESUS WEPT
Excited to read the new study by @helengittos.bsky.social on Anglo-Saxons who served in the #Byzantine Army. Not to be missed! Also in OA academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
5/ I do this in two phases, the first looking at the political economy itself, and the second at lived experience of this regime of accumulation. It's clear as a result that, in most ways, "Romania" was reified similarly to contemporary countries like "England", "France" etc.
4/ I think apply the model to the medieval empire of New Rome ("#Byzantium") 9th-13th c., where there's been a lively debate over the extent to which this is a "national" state. I argue that, to the extent that it is, this is a result of its intensive tax-based political economy.
Very excited that this article is finally out! I hope it'll be of interest to anyone who: 1) is interested in the history of #nationhood & #nationalism; 2) is into the debate over Romanness in "#Byzantium"; & 3) wants to develop critical #Marxist frameworks before & after capitalism. A short 🧵/1
Why do certain nationalities have close associations with certain foods? And what does this tell us about early modern English attitudes to foreigners?
Listen to this & much more, in my fascinating interview with @mrssbilton.bsky.social about food & Shakespeare!
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My notes on Trump's claim that to make up for corporate losses after Venezuela nationalised oil in the 70s, the US gets to take all of the oil reserves. Trump doesn't need democratic excuses for regime change anymore. All it takes is for a US corporation to have lost a dime due to nationalisation.
Historians date this image to 1992, when British youths were inspired by Kris Kross to wear their entire lower body backwards.
On this note, I do not give a damn how precious and well-behaved you think your dog is, put them on a lead.
Every field of historical inquiry fades eventually. And it sucks to be the old guy in the room when it happens to yours. But if you take the longer view (and we are historians after all), concerns that seem dead do come back eventually. Or you can decide that everything is shit now. It's a choice.
Very much hoping our colleagues in the sciences not only read this, but take its urgent messages to heart. 🧪
That is actually devastating! I know they say that Christmas is the people you spend it with, but it’s also the food! Not even a local butcher?
While you were partying, we studied the blade...
Without sounding too middle class is Goose an acceptable alternative?
I got through it (just barely) for the 5th(?) year in a row!
Some thoughts:
-it's always a struggle, so I definitely can't do more, BUT
-I'm currently reading papers downloaded in August. There are 77 more papers in my TBR pile, SO
-I need to be more judicious, EXCEPT (1/3)