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This underlines the need for a coalition or pact between progressive parties at the next election
Humphry Clinker!
Interesting that the word most used to describe Andrew M-W is "entitled". He was literally a royal, so had entitlements (and titles). Don't just look at him, look at the institution.
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
As part of LGBTQ+ History Month we are resharing Dr Paul Hunneyball's 2018 #HistParl article on James I, his favourite courtiers, his sexuality, and its political effects:
And Northampton too!
Four years ago I went viral for photographing one of these robots. People used to love them and now apparently they don't
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
A poster advertising Mr Ingleby the conjuror and his tricks, including a pancake trick
'He will take a pint of water, a pint of flour & 2 new-laid eggs, without any deception whatever, & pour them, in the face of the company, into any Gentleman's Hat, & holding them over a candle for the space of 1min, he will introduce a quantity of well-made PANCAKES, fit for any Gentleman's table'
CALLING ALL MILITARY HISTORY PGRs!
SAHR seeks to appoint a Postgraduate Fellow for a term of two years beginning in April 2026, to represent the PGR community and help advance our research agenda. Details at www.sahr.org.uk/event-report...
You're the invigorating squid of being aggressively okay
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Our next HA talk is tomorrow, 6pm on Tuesday 10 Feb:
Mark Rothery will be talking about ‘“A Source of the Greatest Anxiety”: Visions of a Channel Tunnel between England and France in the Late Nineteenth Century’
All welcome! @histassoc.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visions-of...
My article about eighteenth-century coffee houses is in the latest Modern History Review. It's featured on the cover!
@hachettelearning.bsky.social
HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2026 — Call for Papers Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience 17th July 2026 | Hybrid Conference, in-person at University of Birmingham, Staff House, Grand Central Room The human body is both a biological reality and a cultural construct. It is a site of meaning, experience, and power. From rituals of health and healing to practices of regulation, discipline, and display, bodies have both shaped and been shaped by their historical contexts. We invite papers that place the body and lived experience at the centre of historical inquiry, engaging with themes such as medicine, disability, gender, the senses, and the emotions. We welcome contributions that explore how bodies and experiences have been represented, regulated, or performed, and how these processes intersect with broader questions of identity, power, culture, and society across periods and regions. This conference also marks the 20th anniversary of HistoryLab. Since its founding, HistoryLab has provided a national platform for postgraduate and early career historians to share ideas, foster collaboration, and build community. We invite participants to join us in celebrating this milestone year.
Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham!
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🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Essex University, Southend campus closure:
800 students and staff afected.
"but it will also have a huge impact on a city that has come to depend on the university in many ways."
#HigherEd #AcademicSky
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could" etc.
The National Archives are hiring a Poor Law Research Assistant (39k for 2 years) working on Paul Carter's AHRC project on poverty/welfare in Wales, 1834-1930. Deadline 16 Dec.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Really interesting read by @joecozens.bsky.social.
Particularly for me, as I wrote my undergrad dissertation about Weymouth elections!
Paine and Franklin are sharing a scotch (they wouldn't) in 1980s petrol station tumblers
Here is the programme of talks for the Northampton-Leicester branch of the Historical Association. These are online and free to attend - all welcome!
The next talk is 6pm on 10 Feb and is about anxieties about the channel tunnel.
@histassoc.bsky.social
www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
At the IHR @long18thsem.bsky.social for a special event, an appreciation of the work of Penny Corfield
Which histories are meaningful to you?
Ten illustration students from Nottingham Trent University consider their personal connections to the past and what it means to practice history from below.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…
The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The prettiest railway line in the UK. Feels like you are taking a train across the sea, which you almost are. Hope they get it open again soon
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you're in the UK, bluesky is quite varied in the morning. In the evening it is 100% the horror unfolding in the US
The biggest shock of this series of #Traitors is how a visualised podcast gets to be in BBC1's biggest slot
So there *is* honour among thieves. #Traitors