This is the most important thing I've written in a long time. I hope you'll read and I really hope you'll share it. What do we do about the new HBO Harry Potter show? Some thoughts & context for anyone thinking about watching it, covering it or assigning coverage. www.moryan.com/what-do-we-d...

What do we do with the new Harry Potter show?

One thing is clear: We can’t magically erase the issues around the Sun City of television

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Must-See TV was really Must-See TV-ing that night.

Today would have been Michel Foucault's 100th birthday. In honor of his Centennial, and our own, we're offering a wide variety of free content related to the great philosopher on our blog. Books, chapters, & articles will be open access until Dec. 15, 2026. #DUP100 #Foucault buff.ly/H2nyiVZ

Very much looking forward to this evening’s Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture!

Modern British History Journal@mbhjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for the 2026 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture! William Whyte, new general editor of the ODNB, asks: what is the future of national biography? 📅 6 October, 6pm 📍 King’s College London 🎟️ Free and open to all www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

I have a new article in @genderandhistory.bsky.social on efforts for forge a new, popular, mainstream and appealing feminism in the 1990s and its connections to the wider atmosphere of the moment. Read it here - doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural ...

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And a reminder that if you'd like to contribute to our archive applications to be one of our regular writers are now open! More info here: massobs.org.uk/the-archive/...

Write for the archive - Mass Observation Archive

Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

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The wi-fi went down at work this week so thought I’d use the time to tidy my office. This was a mistake. It’s three days later and I’m still surrounded by piles of paper!

‘Now the 90s are far enough away for us to understand them, it’s clear that there was a hidden architecture to those times, one that supported this burst of creativity. It wasn’t just the party venues that were easy to find’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Hard parties, cheap rents and horrible flats: how 90s art and fashion redefined British culture

An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries teamed up with a generation of skint dreamers to bring the decade into vivid colour

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Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

A first-rate resource for anyone who writes on British and Irish (including colonial and postcolonial) history, from the Romans to the present. Also available via national libraries and individual subscriptions (discounted for members of various associations). And it cannot hallucinate citations!

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us and @brepols.net for the free webinar about BBIH’s key features so you can make the most of this valuable resource! Date: October 2, 2026 Time: 14:00 (London, UK) / 09:00 AM (Eastern Time, USA) / 15:00 (Brussels) Duration: 15-20 minutes Register today: buff.ly/QwhXi5R

RSE should allow young people to explore the complexities of sex and relationships and not simply just tell them what to think. Sex, sexuality, relationships, consent, gender are all complex topics and we shouldn’t over simplify them. bishtraining.com/its-simple-s...

It's Simple, Sex and Relationships are Complex

RSE should allow young people to explore the complexities of sex and relationships and not simply just tell them what to think.

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Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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This two part interview with Angela McRobbie is really good pca.st/episode/82f1...

Angela McRobbie: Feminism, Culture, Politics (part 1)

Part one of our long-awaited conversation with Angela McRobbie, pioneer of feminist cultural studies, covering her recent book that looks back to her classic work of the 70s and 80s from the vantage…

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It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A cheery message from the new minister responsible for research funding for the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences (and the subjects that the majority of UK taught undergraduate and Masters students study).

Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

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A European athletics champion and also a BA History graduate. Dina Asher-Smith talked this morning about how her BA History degree has helped to power her running career. One for the graduate outcomes survey! (circa 2:30.00): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @royalhistsoc.org

Today - 01/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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It's that day again #alevels

🫨 This is absolutely shocking. 'Mothers in labour will have to trek to Exeter or Taunton, at least an hour and a half away, but usually more, especially at this time of year when the roads are thick with holiday traffic'. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘Babies will be born in laybys’: maternity cuts leave women with stark choices in Devon

Concerns about feeling pressure to have caesarean section, or paying for hotel in Exeter after hospital in Barnstaple suspends birthing services

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‘For many British children, school is a place of stress, in which exam results are overbearingly important and there is minimal scope for other forms of self-expression or creative transgression.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on what’s wrong with Britain’s youth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?

It appears that Britain’s Neet problem is just one manifestation of wider epidemiological and psychosocial trends that...

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Here briefly to provide the registration link to this super exciting inaugural from Professor Sumita Mukherjee. 28 October in Bristol, with an online option available. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sumita Mukherjee (in person and online)

Please join the School of Humanities, University of Bristol, in celebrating Professor Sumita Mukherjee's inaugural lecture.

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Hot off the press! Our new Open Access article by Joel Mead explores the relationship between food, gender and domesticity in wartime Britain. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #GenderHistory #WWII #Britain

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the....

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Chuffed to see my article on feminist responses to the unemployment crisis of the 1980s out in JBS:

“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65

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Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for sharing @mbhjournal.bsky.social's forthcoming Pimlott memorial lecture, given this year by Prof. William Whyte on 6 October at KCL - join us! royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography - LECTURE - RHS

The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2026 - William Whyte: The Future of National Biography Tuesday 6 October 2026, 6pm The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by the journal Modern British History, Oxford Univ...

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The deadline for our funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain is tomorrow! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

#jobfairy lectureship (permanent post) in Modern (post-1800) British History at the University of Manchester, SHORT deadline 30 June 🗃️cc @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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For further details of 100+ UK subject societies in history, please see our new resource bit.ly/43xhXw6 All are membership groups, offering support for historians from a wide range of backgrounds. If you seek fellow researchers in your field, we hope this guide proves useful #Skystorians.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 5mo ago

This afternoon @royalhistsoc.org hosts its annual meeting of heads of UK #history societies. We'll be joined by representatives of 35 subject societies which support and champion historians and our discipline. They, and other societies, are a vital part of UK scholarly and civic life #Skystorians

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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It is wild to me how many people there are who are doing "dream" jobs like being a writer, a lawyer, a professor - vocations that require a lot of luck & personal investment to get into, and which have 100s of would-bes for every actual success - who hate their job & want a machine to do it instead