Major funding secured! 🏛️💛 We’re thrilled to share that the @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social has committed £600,000 as a Founding Partner to help make our new permanent home in the City of London a reality. We're one step closer to bringing the UK’s missing museum to life in Spring 2028! 🧵👇 📸 Unknown Works

One thing we talked about here, that is always a big issue for me when bringing our own culture to the game table, is the line between exploring lived realities with intention, and gamifying those lived realities for Others to cosplay in. One person's trauma cannot become another's playground.

EUphoria Actual Play@euphoriaap.bsky.social · 3d ago

TODAY @glitzydemon.itch.io talks with Aida about the joy of storytelling and the importance of remembering and honouring. Streaming on our YouTube and Twitch at 7pm BST/8pm CEST

Research on Romanies in general is under funded & unsupported British Romanies have suffered from a very successful Cultural Genocide that homogenises their ethnic identity with Irish Travellers & other itinerant people. Yet British universities & funders have no interest in this ethnocide.

Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka writes that the Roma Holocaust remains a footnote in mainstream narratives of the Second World War: “Research on the Roma Holocaust is underfunded, while hundreds of its sites across Europe are still unmarked and disrespected.” eriac.org/anna-mirga-k...

Research on Romanies in general is under funded & unsupported British Romanies have suffered from a very successful Cultural Genocide that homogenises their ethnic identity with Irish Travellers & other itinerant people. Yet British universities & funders have no interest in this ethnocide.

Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka writes that the Roma Holocaust remains a footnote in mainstream narratives of the Second World War: “Research on the Roma Holocaust is underfunded, while hundreds of its sites across Europe are still unmarked and disrespected.” eriac.org/anna-mirga-k...

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Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka writes that the Roma Holocaust remains a footnote in mainstream narratives of the Second World War: “Research on the Roma Holocaust is underfunded, while hundreds of its sites across Europe are still unmarked and disrespected.” eriac.org/anna-mirga-k...

Pleasantly surprised with how far the post of Roma Holocaust Day got, thanks to everyone who liked/shared Anti-Romani racism is still such an issue across the UK & Europe These are two of the first comments you see on the EU's X post about Roma Holocaust day. These are common throughout the thread

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

The anti-Roma bigotry and politics in Europe that remains common and accepted is truly shocking. When you realize things like forced sterilization and pogroms still occur even now it makes you realize how little has been done since 1945 to stop it. It must be fought.

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

In our little cottage industry, stereotyping Romani as thieves and witches in TTRPGs continues, sometimes under a thin fantasy veneer, sometimes with full slurs involved. It needs to called out more often than it is.

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

On 2 August 1944, the last 4,300 Roma and Sinti at Auschwitz were gassed to death. More than 500,000 Roma and Sinti were killed in the Pharraijmos - the Roma Holocaust. Holocaust Remembrance Day, August 2nd. A poem from my book, Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection.

I see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

Please share: I am working on the History Lab + & History UK ECR Survey with @kerrymlove.bsky.social . We collating contacts to disseminate the survey to later this year. The survey examines support received by ECRs post-PhD in history or related subjects (such as archaeology and art history). (1/3)

The day I will pay attention to politicians guffing about "parity of esteem" is the day one of their children goes to an FE college.

Reminder that the deadline for Birkbeck's Access to Postgraduate Study Scholarships is 31 July. A great scheme for studying on a master's degree programme at an ace institution. Wide range of eligibility criteria (see next post). Do encourage eligible applicants (or apply yourself). 1/2

Birkbeck Access to Postgraduate Study Scholarship for students with disabilities, refugee status, care leavers, single parents, carers, first generation, from minoritised communities | www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

What's gender go to do with it? Within UK SHAPE disciplines, women are 51% of academic staff (39% of professors). In STEM, that's 45% of all academics (27% of professors). What are the impacts of disproportionate SHAPE redundancies on those stats? Is anyone attending to gender equality? 1/2

Yet another program to reinforce stereotypes that get applied to all British Romani, Roma & Irish Traveller people. Media such as this is so damaging & sets up society to laugh & judge marginalised groups. 4 stars says a lot about the Guardian too www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives review – Trewley Precious and her glorious family are a gift to reality TV

The TikTok star describes them as a broke version of the Kardashians, but they are far too funny and charismatic for that. Channel 4 has hit the TV jackpot!

theguardian.com

Incidently whenever I post about anti-Romani racism in society- its always academics that unfollow me because of it. Conversely its non-academics that follow when I do these posts.

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yet another program to reinforce stereotypes that get applied to all British Romani, Roma & Irish Traveller people. Media such as this is so damaging & sets up society to laugh & judge marginalised groups. 4 stars says a lot about the Guardian too www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Don't watch this fake mockumentary bullshit - please write to channel four and tell them to take this racist, offensive, and harmful content down www.channel4.com/4viewers/con...

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yet another program to reinforce stereotypes that get applied to all British Romani, Roma & Irish Traveller people. Media such as this is so damaging & sets up society to laugh & judge marginalised groups. 4 stars says a lot about the Guardian too www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yet another program to reinforce stereotypes that get applied to all British Romani, Roma & Irish Traveller people. Media such as this is so damaging & sets up society to laugh & judge marginalised groups. 4 stars says a lot about the Guardian too www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives review – Trewley Precious and her glorious family are a gift to reality TV

The TikTok star describes them as a broke version of the Kardashians, but they are far too funny and charismatic for that. Channel 4 has hit the TV jackpot!

theguardian.com

This is what Romanies in the UK have to live with every day I've been told research into British Romani history & dispelling stereotypes like this is less important than Chinese Typeface, Prostitutes in early modern Dijon & why a Roman BLACKsmith god was portrayed as black Humanities isn't serious

Argentines behave poorly at world cup: Romanies cop the strays There is no racism like it that is so acceptable throughout all levels of society without challenge.

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what Romanies in the UK have to live with every day I've been told research into British Romani history & dispelling stereotypes like this is less important than Chinese Typeface, Prostitutes in early modern Dijon & why a Roman BLACKsmith god was portrayed as black Humanities isn't serious

This is what Romanies in the UK have to live with every day I've been told research into British Romani history & dispelling stereotypes like this is less important than Chinese Typeface, Prostitutes in early modern Dijon & why a Roman BLACKsmith god was portrayed as black Humanities isn't serious

Disappointed that Burnham hasn't announced plans for this yet Should be a priority as there's only a couple of months of the season left 🤣

Hey Romani people, you know what this society thinks is more important and original than 1 study of our ethnocide Why was a Roman forge god seen as black in early modern England Here's French monks doing science Niche middle class interests over our lives always rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct...

Hey Romani people, you know what this society thinks is more important and original than 1 study of our ethnocide Why was a Roman forge god seen as black in early modern England Here's French monks doing science Niche middle class interests over our lives always rensoc.org.uk/srs-postdoct...

Call for Chapters!! @historywill.bsky.social and I are looking for chapters on visual displays of monarchy for our edited volume! Please circulate widely!

Just published this co-authored article with my brilliant colleague @kathrynrix.bsky.social on the controversial 1835 election of the Commons Speaker! @histparl.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social historyofparliament.com/2026/07/17/s... 1/4

The Speakership election of 1835 - The History of Parliament

In this article Dr Kathryn Rix and Dr Martin Spychal of our House of Commons, 1832-1868 project discuss a pivotal vote in the early nineteenth-century Commons

historyofparliament.com