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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🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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Together, we can stop Sex Matters spreading hate about trans people. We just need to force the Charity Commission and the government to confront the facts. Email them now👇 https://action.goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-complaint?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=SexMattersCC&utm_medium=social_media

Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate

The anti-trans pressure group Sex Matters are running a campaign of hate, spewing abuse online and in the media – and putting trans people in danger. Sex Matters say they work to “protect everybody’s ...

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If we lose the freedom to speak out today, we lose the power to fight for anything tomorrow 🕊️ So we're standing with those speaking out on Palestine, and refusing to be silenced. Join us 👇 https://goodlaw.social/aiar

Help defend the right to protest on Palestine | Good Law Project

The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt – so we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced

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We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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Two years under Labour. Soon, a fourth Building Safety Minister. An unfit-for-purpose Remediation Bill. Excuses from senior MHCLG officials. Leaseholders still trapped. We'll try to have hope, @andyburnham.bsky.social. But hope only gets you so far.

We need you! We're taking the Trans Unity Quilt to London Trans+ Pride - and we need you to help us carry it! 🏳️‍⚧️ The giant patchwork quilt has been made by and for trans people and allies across the UK. 📅 July 25th 🌟 Sign up below https://goodlawproject.typeform.com/transunityquilt

🚨 The MHCLG remediation programme has been downgraded from AMBER to RED. Successful delivery now "appears to be unachievable". Two years in govt & Labour is going backwards. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in unsafe homes. And they call this change? www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/bu...

Cladding remediation programme 'appears to be unachievable', NISTA says

The National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has downgraded the government's cladding remediation programme to a red rating,

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What is the long-term legacy of foreign excavations in places like Dura-Europos in Syria? Out today and open access in @antiquity.ac.uk with my colleague Adnan Almohamad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria

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EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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Today’s ministerial statement on building safety is a small step forward, but not the fair solution leaseholders need. No more piecemeal schemes, delays or costs for leaseholders. Homes must be safe and sellable for everyone. Our response ⬇️ endourcladdingscandal.org/posts/our-re...

Our response to today's Ministerial Statement on Building Safety - End Our Cladding Scandal

Today’s ministerial statement is a small step forward, but we fear these are more incremental measures that will not enable Labour to put an end to the building safety crisis any time soon.

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Fun new game for archaeologists and anyone who loves ancient artifacts 😍 Anthropeum.com · Jul 8 2026 🟦🟨🟩🟦🟦🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩 84.728 · top 2% of players today! #Archaeology

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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Nine years since Grenfell. Keir Starmer said its legacy would be one of the defining changes of his premiership. That promise has not been kept. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes. We are asking for an urgent meeting. Read our letter ⬇️

9 years since Grenfell. Today, and every day, we remember the 72 lives lost. We stand with the bereaved, survivors and residents in their fight for truth, accountability and lasting change. Join @grenfellunited.bsky.social today at 6pm, Notting Hill Methodist Church to demand justice 💚

🌍 Ever tried translating a highly specific archaeological term and ended up completely stuck? Terms and Translations are available in: Hindi Arabic Japanese Spanish Modern Greek German French Italian ▶️Click here: saveancientstudies.org/archaeological-terms

⏳ It's now nearly 11 months since Labour promised funding for buildings under 11m. The details have still not been published. With every day that passes, more ordinary people face financial ruin. Another broken promise.

End Our Cladding Scandal@eocs-official.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nearly 8 months since Labour promised funding for buildings under 11m. Details due last September. Still missing. ⏳ Meanwhile leaseholders in “low-rise” blocks are getting life-changing bills for problems they didn’t cause. History repeating itself. Change? What change?

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

The Remediation Bill is too little, too late. A piecemeal approach won't help leaseholders trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes - or deliver the change Labour promised. We need decisive action, not more half-measures.

Do you really know what Palantir is doing with your NHS data? 🤔 Take our quiz to uncover the facts ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/61pc

Looking for a dissertation on a particular topic? Curious about which students an adviser has mentored? Check out the AHA’s Directory of History Dissertations, which can be searched by school, adviser, title keywords, and more.

Now online: letters, drawings and documents from the estate of Ludwig Lindenschmit, founder of today’s LEIZA and a pioneer of archaeology as a research discipline. Around 2,600 archival records are now searchable online. 🔎 www.archivportal-d.de/objekte?quer... #Archaeology #History

New by me in @pop-jrnl.bsky.social in which I reflect on the experience of designing & delivering what was *probably* the first module on whiteness in modern British history in a UK university history department. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1080/0031...

Working out whiteness in modern British history

Liburd’s Commentary considers the place of whiteness in the teaching and research of modern British history. It does so through a reflection on the experience of designing and delivering ‘The White...

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📢 FIAS Fellowship Programme 2027/2028 – Call for applications still open There is still just over a month left to apply! ✨For the 2027–2028, the #FIAS Fellowship Programme offers 8 fellowship positions at the Paris IAS. Info and Apply: www.fias-fp.eu #call #applications #fellows #SHS

ConcernedEAA have published a statement addressed to the Executive Board @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social demanding resignations and implementation of the results of the January per roll am vote. Read and sign here, whether you are a (past) EAA member or not drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn... #boycotteaa

Another Keir Starmer reset. But the political chaos continues. Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders remain trapped, desperate for “change”. The long-delayed Remediation Bill will be in Wednesday's King’s Speech. Will Labour finally fix this scandal - or break another promise?

👀 it'll be difficult for universities to apply for this funding once all researchers have been fired...

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UK universities urged to exploit EU programmes while they can. Skills minister and officials push for participation before negotiations on Horizon and Erasmus+ restart. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

🚨🏳️‍⚧️ New Campaign! 🩺 At Good Law Project, we're sick of 'trans broken arm syndrome'. People are being denied access to healthcare which has nothing to do with their gender identity - simply because they're trans. We plan to challenge this. First off: we're writing to the NHS. Will you join us? 👇

Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need | Good Law Project

Across the country, trans people are being denied vital healthcare that has nothing to do with their gender identity – simply because they are trans.

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🗃️🏺Come and say hello if you're at BANEA 2026 at UCL today 👋 Our friendly Project Coordinator (me) will be happy to chat to you about our historians of #archaeology online support group @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @banearch.bsky.social

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Tom Toro.

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press

The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

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