So, the modern UK university clearly no longer even cares about its own neoliberal premise: that researchers should obtain multi-year external funding for research projects. Even if you achieve this, it will still put your humanities job at risk.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 8h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Reade to the ende of thys! From Oliver J. Rosten, "On functional representations of the conformal algebra" Theoretical Physics (2017):

6.3 millions pour des assassins. 6.3 millions qui ne vont pas dans la santé, le social, les pompiers, l'éducation, l'ONF...

@patator40000.bsky.social · last wk.

Avant Macron, les subventions aux fédération de chasse : 27 000 euros. www.bfmtv.com/politique/le...

IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks. Please post! @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

IHR Women@ihrwomen.bsky.social · last wk.

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

Applications open: Camargo Fellowship for artists, scholars and thinkers, Cassis, France camargofoundation.org/en/residenci...

Sir John Sinclair later wrote to William Godwin, author of Of Population (1820), asking him to comment on the 1821 draft of his Code of Political Economy. The exchange is published in Volume IV of the OUP Letters of William Godwin, due out in the next few months, Deo volente.

Paul Stephens@paulstephens.bsky.social · last wk.

Sir John Sinclair, ‘Remarks on a Pamphlet Intitled, "The Question […]" by William Huskisson, […] Together with Several Political Maxims regarding Coin and Paper Currency, Intended to Explain the Real Nature, and Advantages, of the Present System’ (London, 1810) #EconomicHistory #Romanticism

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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#OTD 1834: death of English poet and polymath Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the quince which William Godwin longed to engraft upon his apple-tree, 'melting & combining several of your modes of feeling ... into the substance of my mind' (Godwin to Coleridge, 5 September 1800; Letters, ii. 169).

Who would have thunk?

Lena Struwe@drgentian.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

'[...] intellectual history is made not only in libraries, political meetings and lecture halls, but in drawing rooms and private correspondence'. Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

Radical Friendship and Early Feminism: Anna Doyle Wheeler and Charles Fourier

Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

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C'est un drôle de sentiment que de voir exister le livre tiré de ma thèse ! Voir et penser le corps des femmes : Le genre dans le Saint-Empire romain germanique au temps de la confessionnalisation (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) - Stéphanie Chapuis-Després www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/978237...

Voir et penser le corps des femmes : Le genre dans le Saint-Empire romain germanique au temps de la confessionnalisation (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) - Stéphanie Chapuis-Després - Universite De Savoie - Grand...

Virginité, maternité, veuvage, vieillesse... Comment est perçu le corps des femmes du Saint-Empire romain germanique aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles ? Comment est-il façonné et contraint par différentes nor...

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The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

We need a battle of "long centuries". Personally, I'm a huge fan of the c. 1650-1850 version of the long 18th c. (hi @bsecs.bsky.social )

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 3w ago

I go to c18th century conferences all ninja like, 'they don't know I am among them', my seventeenth century lasts about 180 years.

La réaction de la présidente de la région Île-de-France Valérie Pécresse suite aux graves incendies qui touchent actuellement la forêt de Fontainebleau @panettonepazzo.bsky.social

I find it baffling, too, that for the author of this silly piece (a business school person, who'd have thunk?) work that doesn't use "AI" (meaning LLMs) works through "unaided human thought". How on earth is the work we do individually and collectively "unaided" in any sense of that term?

Grumpy Philosopher@stevecooke.org · 3w ago

Spotting the false or unargued-for claims in an AI-booster piece is becoming a depressing hobby. This one is a mess of them: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/ai-era...

Exhibit #1001 why academics (and everyone else) should steer well clear of this automated gibberish:

Will Clement@historywill.bsky.social · 3w ago

Had to double check something in one of my articles, so searched 'clement blasphemous bar crawl' and got this. Fact check: 1. Lol student party 2. It has invented the entry into Jerusalem (it touches on other aspects of the Passion) 3. The article is about Roubaix, with no mention of Auxerre

La responsabilité familiale c'est un vieux truc de l'extreme droite. C'est fascinant de voir comme ce gouvernement s'y précipite.

You can find out more about Viking Connections, and read Christian's chapter #OpenAccess, here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Christian Cooijmans@ccooijmans.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy to have received these chonky bois in the post. Congratulations to @downham.bsky.social and the editorial team for seeing this work to publication. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @makingawarrior.bsky.social for supporting the exploration and development of the ideas in my chapter.

Alternatives Economiques@alternatives-economiques.fr · 3w ago

Le Mondial 2026 sera le plus carboné de l’histoire. Et encore, son empreinte est largement sous-évaluée par des estimations qui ignorent l'impact considérable du marketing, explique l’ingénieur Laurent Castaignède. ➡️ Lire l'article : https://www.altereco.media/BeC

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes!

John-Erik Hansson@johnerik-h.bsky.social · last mo.

Si jamais vous avez du temps et de l'envie, je propose un cours sur l'histoire globale de l'anarchisme à l'Université Ouverte à @upcite.bsky.social à partir de la mi-janvier! Inscriptions à partir du 8 juillet! u-paris.fr/universite-o...

📢 Sainte-Soline : "Une défaillance généralisée du maintien de l’ordre du gendarme de base au sommet de la hiérarchie" Blessés graves, tirs tendus et insultes : le Défenseur des droits met en cause l’ensemble de la chaîne de commandement www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Blessés graves, tirs tendus et insultes à Sainte-Soline : le Défenseur des droits met en cause l’ensemble de la chaîne de commandement

Dans une décision de 60 pages publiée ce mercredi, l’autorité indépendante pointe une défaillance généralisée du maintien de l’ordre le 25 mars 2023, du gendarme de base au sommet de la hiérarchie.

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In the final week of my Microhistories module at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, I asked students to imagine a microhistory starting with just one primary source. The results were brilliant, so follow along to hear about a bunch of books that definitely need to be written! 🗃️🧵 #Microhistories 1/?

Call for Papers! Especially welcome are proposals (in French) from doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot. voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Call for Papers: Journées internationales jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs Diderot-Voltaire 2027

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot are warmly encouraged to submit proposals in French (by 30 September 2026) for the next Journées internationales jeunes…

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En solde, au cas où @hmedievaliste.bsky.social ne l'aurait pas déjà... !

Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · last mo.

Louisa Foroughi is one of the contributors to "Historians on Robin Hood" - 50% off and free shipping with code MED26! buff.ly/Uv1y7PD #IMC2026 #Medievalsky

Bon ben voilà, j'ai envie de le voir.

William Blanc@hmedievaliste.bsky.social · last mo.

J’ai vu « The death of Robin Hood » avec Hugh Jackman Pour moi, pas de doute, c’est le meilleur film sur Robin des Bois depuis un demi-siècle . Un fil pour en causer 🏹🏹🏹 1/

🗣️📽️ Nils Renard (associé IHMC) « Progrès agronomique et antiesclavagisme » et Gabriel Darriulat « L’abolitionnisme chrétien de l’abbé Grégoire » Interventions au colloque « L'antiesclavagisme : un idéal cosmopolite ? » @labnf.bsky.social @college-de-france.fr www.bnf.fr/fr/mediatheq...

L’anti-esclavagisme : un idéal cosmopolite ? (1730-1830) – Deuxième partie

BnF - Site institutionnel

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Alex Middleton reviews 'The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871', by Laura C. Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871, by Laura C. Forster

This is an innovative and richly suggestive study of British political culture in international context. Rather than concentrating on Britain’s more heated

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Delighted to find this beast in the post

📣TOMORROW at lovely Caper Books in Oxford. I’ll be reading from some of my most-loved selections from this anthology—Emma Goldman, Anaïs Nin & Edna St. Vincent Millay—& talking about the anarchists & socialists who too often get left out of the story of lNew York, literary or otherwise. @caper.fun

J. Michelle Coghlan@jmcoghlan.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉New York: A Literary Anthology came out in the UK in May & launches in the US in July. To celebrate, I’ll be in conversation with the wonderful Nick Gaskill at Caper Books in East Oxford on Tues, 7 July 7:30-8:30 pm.

🔖 Le dernier numéro des @annales.ehess.fr est désormais en ligne sur @cairninfo.bsky.social Bonne lecture ! 👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-annale...

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales@annales.ehess.fr · 2mo ago

🚨 Le dernier numéro des #Annales est en ligne: Au sommaire, la qualification de violences sexuelles dans les procès d'Inquisition, les lieux d'audience des femmes, intimité, conjugalité, sexualité, emprise et domination. Bonne lecture 📖 ! 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...