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https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
"Labour was formed to win the franchise of and represent working-class men, that was its purpose and that was its ethos. The experience of women in Labour paints an overwhelming and undeniable image of a political party which has struggled to move on from an early absence of women."
Can Burnham’s Labour resolve its gender problem?
Days into Andy Burnham's premiership, key figures in the Labour Party (including Deputy Leader Lucy Powell) came out to promise that he would end the ‘boys club’ within Number 10 and within the Labour...
renewal.org.uk
Just realised I can today literally say 'ah, but can they do it on a Tuesday night in Stoke?'
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
heraldscotland.com
the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!
Daniel C. Blight@danielcblight.bsky.social · last mo.Pay scales Weekly working hours Annual working hours Annual leave Grades (job descriptions) Contract types Occupational Maternity Pay Occupational Paternity Pay Parental Leave Occupational Sick Pay
‘The controversy over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s very public fertility journey gets to the heart of the question of what it means for a society to support childbirth and motherhood.’ New on the blog: Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social) on AOC and Egg Freezing. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
Laura Beers | On AOC and Egg Freezing
Last month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez published a series of Instagram posts documenting the process of freezing her eggs...
lrb.co.uk
Reform voters, and to a lesser extent Tories, are much likelier to think they hold the most common public view across several topics that our survey suggests is not the case, most notably: -2024 rioters -Trans ID -Bregret -Business reg -Lockdowns -Israel-Palestine -Trump yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
There was just a question about Labour leader William Adamson on a TV quiz show on ITV.
Daphne Du Maurier's 1972 Brexit novel - satire, activism, Cornish nationalism... prophetic or pathetic? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_Br...
Rule Britannia (novel) - Wikipedia
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I'm all about the old school tie... Labour chancellor Healey (John not Denis) went to the same school as Starmer. Tho' also to the frightfully posh St Peter's in York.
I've been critical of Keir's term as PM, but I was still secretly hoping for a Peerage for his old 'Pabloist' comrades in his leaving list... damn.
A bit of York labour history: sslh.org.uk/2025/12/10/c...
Coney Street, York: a place in labour history
Continuing our series on places of significance in labour history, Kathy Davies introduces Coney Street in York. As a resident of York, I frequently walk down Coney Street, one of the city’s oldest…
sslh.org.uk
England were quite good, until they scored. Should learn from that…
'In the past year, the University of Sussex shed 528 members of staff, with plans to increase that figure by 200.' 'In May, the University of Hertfordshire said it would suspend multiple undergraduate humanities courses.' 1/4
How to kill a university's reputation
After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education?
newstatesman.com
a propos of nothing in particular, but this is definitely one of the best things I've ever read.
Keen to hear from any British-based historians looking for freelance research work. Happy to hear from all backgrounds and experiences.
Missing TAA much? I have mixed feelings about this game since I have Congo in the sweepstake
Book review for AHR. Open access license price, $4851. I feel valued.
I'm confident this has already been thought / written, but are we allowed to refer to Burnham as the Mancunian Candidate?
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
