Interested in followers' views on this. Another thing that worries me is that if the vocational courses are based on the needs of local employers - that's just asking for a postcode lottery. In places like Cornwall what will they offer? Pure hospitality courses? There is v little industry...

There is a real prospect these reforms mean working-class kids struggling with English, maths and science are just told "you'll be good with your hands instead, then" - rather than being given more support for those subjects. And therefore risks *reducing* social mobility, rather than boosting it.

"The electrical installation course requires knowledge of algebra and trigonometry, plus mastery of a wiring regs handbook that is twice as long as Pride and Prejudice" Important read on vocational ed from 14. You need a really solid foundation in English, maths & science for many jobs in trades.

The problem with "parity of esteem"

Vocational education at age 14 is not the answer

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FOLK ART MADE AT SEA! Reviving my bsky account for some shameless self-promotion. Please come hear me talk about my beloved sailors’ craftwork and see some examples at our amazing museum store (and tell your friends about it)!

Delve Deeper Curator Tour: A Closer Look at Sailors' Craftwork

This behind-the-scenes tour of the stores will explore the history of sailors' craftwork, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

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Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

hard to firmly distinguish in some ways, but this might also consider those forced out by never having had secure employment, and those who chose to leave more voluntarily

does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

Dark-mirrored drama, Bamburgh Castle, painting by Northumbrian artist Ruth Bond.

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

This is the inevitable result of politicians and the media licensing gutter racism as ‘reasonable opinions’ Relatedly, if you cannot be treated by a non-white medical professional, then you should be deemed to have refused treatment news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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You can also support the creation of the permanent Migration Museum by shopping in its online shop. Search by maker or by item type. At a time when many migrants and their organisations face abuse, migrant makers are helping make the new, permanent Migration Museum a reality. You can too. 3/3

Migration Museum Shop

Beautiful, inspiring and thought-provoking products that explore migration. Support the Migration Museum with every purchase.

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You can find out more about what's going on while the permanent Migration Museum is being built and fitted out here. The team is still actively working with communities and schools, and there are many ways to take part in shaping the vision for the future. 2/3

What's On and Take Part - Migration Museum

The story of movement into and out of the UK

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This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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I have been muttering for literal decades that the sexy narrative on vibratory devices was not taking into account the development of physiotherapy + massage and technical aids thereunto (or electrotherapy) www.lesleyahall.net/factoids.htm... and article herein has done the necessary work

Coreen McGuire@coreenanne.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good god this months technology and culture feels like a special issue just for me muse.jhu.edu/journal/194

New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.

I am writing a blog post on Samora Machel to coincide with the 40th anniversary of his fatal plane crash on October 19, 1986. What are your favourite facts, etc about him?

folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d ago

"There is no humane colonialism. There is no democratic colonialism There is no non-exploitative colonialism." - Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician, revolutionary... President (1933-1986)

"Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it." Hell yes. Great piece, it's going straight into the kit for advanced students and when doing writing training.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 6d ago

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

People need to stop saying at least Andy Burnham will stem the rise of fascism even if he's very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher education. You know how you hollow out institutions to prime them for fascism? Be very bad on race and immigration, civil liberties, and higher ed

Good to see science and universities bundled into the same analysis rather than treated as separate entities (as they are by their dismemberment in separate government departments). But it would be QUITE NICE if 'science' could be construed in the European sense of science. It's not STEM alone.

Time for Andy Burnham to smile on UK science

Waning support for basic research threatens Britain’s technology ambitions

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'A survey of 381 members of the Society of Radiographers revealed a “noticeable” rise in instances of overt racism experienced and witnessed by radiographers across the health service over the past 18 months.' This has been actively enabled by politicians and media. That's a choice being made.

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on recording community histories through the Bengali Photo Archive and the extraordinary work of Lloyd Gee.

Activism, Identity, and the Bengali Photo Archive

What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

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The Kiss has landed on my doorstep at least! It’s gorgeous! @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.

John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · 2d ago

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

Curiosities. A neo-impressionist painting of bourgeois Bretons consumed at a fair or religious festival by a sideshow of magic lantern still and moving images. Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau (1864-1930), La Lanterne magique, huile sur toile, signée en bas à droite, 50 x 65 cm.

Can this really be true? Astonishing if so. If this lasts it's a very bad sign indeed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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3 August 1902 | German Jewish woman Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the 1st woman ordained as a rabbi by the liberal rabbi Max Dienemann. Arrested in Nov 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt & in mid-October 1944 deported to #Auschwitz where she perished.

I do think fundamentally if your impulse a decade ago was "no, they're just racists" you would have had a better read, and practical response than anyone trying to understand "economic anxiety" and "hygiene factors."

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d ago

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

Please consider pledging your support (no $ required) for the purchase and restoration of the old Chinese Misdion Hall in Wellington, NZ. This humble but significant building is one of the few remnants of Wellington’s historical Chinese quarter. tungjung.nz/projects/abo...

I don't think I make enough noise about the fact that one of my brothers wrote a children's book "Yoruba Phonics". It's currently 51 in Children's Early Learning Books on Language on Amazon and has 5 stars! Proud sis here! www.amazon.co.uk/Yoruba-Phoni...

Back from holiday to some lovely news - a new #HistNursing book Eva Luckes was matron of The London Hospital Whitechapel 1880-1919 where she was hugely influential in the creation of modern nursing - not least in training 470+ matrons! www.amazon.it/Matron-Maker...