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Jane Winters

@jfwinters.bsky.social

Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.

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Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · 2w ago

Royal Historical Society open meeting (online) for historians working in universities, 4 Aug 2026 - ‘The crisis in UK higher education: the future for history’ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis.... It’s a definite sign of the times that places are almost gone.

The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · 2w ago

New - Toolkit for Legacy (Weird) Media Assets. It offers practical guidance on preserving fragile and outdated media formats, from floppy disks and audio cassettes to MiniDiscs and microfilm. Congratulations @amsichani.bsky.social, @beatricecannelli.bsky.social and Leontien Talboom!

New toolkit offers practical guide to preserving legacy media

A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.

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Hannah Barker@historyhannahb.bsky.social · last mo.

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester

Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · last mo.

I have such strong memories of Jack Charlton throwing water bottles to Ireland players when they were playing in Florida during USA 94, but the hydration breaks regardless of the temperature are nonsense.

Claire Langhamer@clairelanghamer.bsky.social · last mo.

Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.

Advocating for History by Doing History - On History

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

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Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · last mo.

Economists talk about 'scarring' - long-term effects on a cohort of some short-term phenomenon like a bout of unemployment: even if we pull out of this UK HE crisis soon (doubtful), the whole sector will be scarred for life. (1/2)

@gkt-wales.bsky.social · last mo.

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

The Long Wave transmitter at Droitwich in Worcestershire.
Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · last mo.

I know people like to joke about the lack of air conditioning in the UK, but I work in a listed building where we are not allowed to install AC. Some of my colleagues have been teaching on a summer school in minimum 35-degree heat and high humidity all week. It’s utterly miserable for everyone.

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · last mo.

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

Lucy Burke@lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2

Photo of an open hand, with part of 4 fingers showing.
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.
Art UK@artukdotorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All of us at Art UK are sad to hear of the death of David Hockney, one of the nation's most beloved artists. You can find out more about him on Art UK and the works in the national collection: 🔗 https://ow.ly/zfqK50Zb6sQ 'A Bigger Splash' by David Hockney (1937–2026). © David Hockney. 📷 Tate.

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Jane Winters@jfwinters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Five collections of UK documentary heritage have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register: from medieval civic records & the foundation of one of Scotland’s oldest universities to archives of pioneering mental health care, industrial innovation & female anti-slavery campaigning

Five outstanding collections join the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register | UNESCO in the UK

Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical…

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