How have different radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and move towards alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri, our current managing editor, introduces new History Workshop series called 'Radical Horizons'.

Radical Horizons

This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’.

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My regular reminder that cutting down on meat, eating more vegetables, is good for your health, your wallet, and one of the best things you can do as an individual to help fight climate change. I‘ve collected some of my favourite recipes together in the link below.

Alom Shaha@alomshaha.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been up early cooking lunch for vegan family members - tomato and potato curry, black chickpeas fried with onion, garlic, and chilli, and of course a pot of dal. Will serve with fresh white rice. Cheap, easy, delicious. Recipes here: alomshaha.com/spicy-tomato...

Policy Exchange presents: The Home Secretary Interviews. Exclusive new in-depth interviews with 14 Home Secretaries 1990 - 2024. Read them in their own words on policing, immigration, protest and more from May, Blunkett, Straw, Howard, Braverman, Clarke... Full report ⬇️

Behind the statistics are the students. Those going on to History at university make an important choice. You'll gain perspective, insight and judgement - and how we need these now. You'll learn to analyse and articulate; you'll work with experts; and you'll likely thrive with subject you enjoy.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 4w ago

With A Level results published today, it's very welcome to see a 5% increase in students taking #History in 2026 compared with 2025. At 5%, History sees the 5th highest increase in student numbers, 2025-26, across all subjects. Full details: bit.ly/3RMKL1x #Skystorians 1/2

For anyone who might need this: Contact details for the Samaritans. Options include calling, texting, and online help. Back to being offline. www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-h...

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Also, he hadn’t hurt anyone, but he was treated like he’d done something unspeakable because he was Black, smart, and articulate and that threatens white supremacy

Important point - another resource is Education Support which has a helpline for anyone working in education www.educationsupport.org.uk

Education Support

The only UK charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of teachers and education staff.

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Petra Boynton@petraboynton.bsky.social · 4w ago

All I would ask is if you work or study in a uni, check in with colleagues who may need help. And continue to do so. A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other. Help here www.papyrus-uk.org www.thecalmzone.net anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform... blackbritishacademics.co.uk

he was so clearly vulnerable, and the pleasure people took in bringing him down was palpable. the frenzy was grotesque and cruel. fuck, it’s so fucking sad. fuck the media. fuck racism. He was a person. he deserved better. we need to do better.

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

None of this shit is worth our lives.

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

Something that I'm writing about and thinking about a lot: what do we do with the politically significant number of people who have gone fully postmaterialist to the point that they don't even seem to be thinking? You can't ignore them, you can't placate them, so what can you do?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is worth hearing, in the sense that it’s a perfect example of what the press get when they go to the Reformier parts of the country: a smattering of people who have thought a bit about politics, and *legions* of people repeating whatever horseshit they heard on the radio or read on Facebook.

Not that this will surprise anyone in the sector who is sentient, but the universities recruiting the highest proportion of disadvantaged students and the list of universities facing major financial crises, closing programmes and shedding staff displays rather a lot of overlap. Essential reading.

🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

WHN Annual Conference: Registrations now open!

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Fr…

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Are you studying, researching or teaching indigenous histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers

For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

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Water sources are vital for garden wildlife - but more are needed in hot, dry weather! ☀️ 🥵 🌡️ 📹 Wendy Noblet

BBC website leading with small boats I see, despite numbers down 43%. Just unacceptable.

If you’re thinking of buying a book any time soon, please consider ordering it from @newhambookshop.bsky.social They do so much for their local community and authors like myself

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If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has. Here’s @gsoh31.bsky.social’s recent piece for Arguably on the “slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain’s great triumphs and economic advantages”. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

The quiet collapse of British universities

One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away

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Are you considering career options after a PhD in History or a related subject? Join @historylabplus.bsky.social colleagues for this session with a fantastic panel of History PhD graduates who have all taken their skills into a variety of areas beyond HE. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Finding a Role: Using History PhD Skills Beyond HE

History Lab+ Training

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We’re launching a major new programme on Humanity, Climate and Nature. We wish to commission discussion papers from researchers/policymakers/practitioners to provide fresh insight into these themes. We’ll pay £2,500 for around 4000 words. Apply by 16 Sept www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

Well my kids and I were just asked to leave the Glynn Vivian art gallery, which closes at 4.30, because we arrived at 4.01 not 4, and I am ready to riot

Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4y9wiwJ

🥳 Happy to report our co-ed collection, me + @ruthdav.bsky.social & @evecolpus.bsky.social, now has 40k+ hits & is being cited a lot 🥳. Fully #OA & incl: @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social @chrismillard83.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social @jennycrane.bsky.social ++. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

Final survey opportunity for REF2029 (especially SPRE) launches today. Deadline for responses is 4 pm 4 September 2026. Link to survey information below.

So pleased to say that Higher Education Research and Development has chosen my article, 'Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness' for the Article of the Year Award 2025. Thank you to SMaRteN & the ESRC for funding it! The piece is here doi.org/10.1080/0729...

Using historical approaches to understand contemporary student loneliness

Student loneliness is a global problem, with universities struggling to tackle an issue that has important implications for student success, satisfaction, and mental health. This research uses arch...

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Thing about British Steel being nationalised is there is no argument around nationalising it that doesn't also apply to the universities except "steel is boy coded :) and teaching is girl coded :("

🚨We’re seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. Deadline for applications: 7 August 2026. Please share in your networks!👇

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!