Will Clement

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..

Plus a governing elite who, over the past decades with only a handful of exceptions, have brought their experience of a very distinct, atypical university education to discussions, which does not reflect how the majority of institutions and degrees function

Groups are 3-4 first or second-year students, with one of ten different roles allocated at random. The idea is to get into the material from lecture/reading but also to reflect on how quantitative data/statistics are not 'objective' but reflect the specialisms/aims/prejudices of the surveyors too

Stacks of paper handouts on a big, black book titled 'Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps'. The handouts focus on designing a social survey. There are smaller pieces of paper with Statistician, religious volunteer, police officer, doctor, journalist, philanthropist, teacher written on them

Design a social survey You and your group have been tasked with undertaking a social survey of a neighbourhood to ascertain the level of poverty 1. What year is it? Pick from: 1830; 1860; 1890; 1910 2. Where are you undertaking this survey and how will that influence you? 3. Who are you? What are your backgrounds? What do you bring to the team of surveyors? What is your team missing?

4. What are five areas for investigation that you will focus on? How are you going to collect this data? Draw up any questions you may need to ask. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 5. What conclusions do you imagine you and your team will draw? How do they relate to other surveys in your period?

Lectures 9 & 10 of the semester today and tomorrow, but at least I'm on home turf research-wise as they're on Poverty and Welfare c. 1800-1913.

It also means that I get to roll out this fun role-play exercise on social surveys in the seminars which worked really well last year

Sorry to hear (first half) and extra sorry for piling on silly minor article qs amidst it all. Hope things look up soon.

Happy to hear second part!

Imagine what students see when I leave track change comments on their work

Stealing this for the first slide of some of my three hour MA classes on capitalism

Exciting day as I received some early draft versions of the book cover from @manchesterup.bsky.social Starting to believe this is actually coming out!

Also, @lrbobrien.bsky.social you’ll be happy that I’ve kept the tradition up of using a Daumier print

Indeed!

Have to cut c. 300 words from an article draft.

'Command+F "Indeed,"'

Have to cut c. 100 words from an article draft.

Any authors or image creators who haven't registered their latest work with ALCS need to do so asap. The next payment is being processed and you really don't want to miss out.

New curated collection of @sfhs.bsky.social French Historical Studies, by Avner Ben-Amos, on articles showing the influence of Pierre Nora on French history, commissioned by @jenniferheuer.bsky.social & Christine Haynes. 🗃️ All in open access!

read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Congratulations Dr! Really enjoyed hearing about your research in September

A flyer with a vomit-inducing image of Nigel farage on a bed staring at the viewer and the text “Dont wake up to a reform MP. A vote for the greens let’s Reform in — just like it did in Runcorn

So happy to wake up and see the news. Hope that Labour’s loss means a radical shift in leafleting policy, because this was gross to see on the doormat yesterday

It was the lived of times, it was the laughed of times

Sending all the best for recovery, and hope the book event tomorrow goes ahead & goes well. Lecture-writing means I'm not going to be able to make it over, annoyingly :(

“the actual number of staff leaving their posts is likely to be higher because most institutions did not include in their figures staff who completed fixed-term or temporary contracts.”

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

Last academic year, commuting from Oxford to Manchester, I had *one* train cancellation (when a storm basically cancelled all UK trains). In the four weeks of this semester alone, I’ve had three and it’s grim

Martyrdom, Misrepresentation and the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Why has commemoration tended to deprive the Tolpuddle martyrs of their political acumen and capable militancy? To coincide with the annual Tolpuddle Martyr's Festival, Tom Scriven explores omissions from the 'martyrdom narrative' of the six…

OTD in 1834, six farm workers from Tolpuddle were arrested for forming a union. The story became a founding myth of the labour movement, but it often ignores the radical world in which they lived.

In this article from the archive, Tom Scriven revisits the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

Just curious: is there a book in your field that absolutely blew you away? That changed the way you thought about and approached your subject?

Book cover 'Natalie Zemon Davis. Fiction in the Archives. Pardon tales and their tellers in sixteenth-century France'

Beyond my chronological focus, but no book of history had me feeling as energised and *changed* through reading it than NZD Fiction in the Archives.

Almost as if they could have written the legislation to make this impossible, and yet somehow chose not to.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

Excellent use of alt text here

When it gets too late in the semester to justify using name stickers anymore…

Looking forward to the trial of Andrew Capet

10:20 Analysis Hard to think of any precedent for this arrest Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent This is another extraordinary development in what has been an extraordinary story. It's hard to think of any precedent for the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the King's brother. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing, but this still has the capacity to shock and surprise as breaking news.

Meanwhile, in another lecture I'm giving today (it's a busy one) I'm discussing France 1789-92.

I wonder if I might challenge the idea that it is hard to find precedent of royals being arrested during this period...