After two weeks in Herräng Dance Camp, sleeping in a bunk bed and eating in the canteen so I could focus on dancing swing all day, I now somehow have to go back to making my own food and writing my dissertation. Kind of unfair that life is more than enjoying your hobbies

⭐New! You can now use the following form to submit the citation information for any work you found to be missing from any of our past Annual Bibliographies. You can find this link on our submissions page for future use, too! #BookHistory #Bibliography docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SHARP Annual Bibliography books we missed

This form is for collecting citation information for edited collections, monographs, and exhibitions catalogs that were not included in our annual bibliographies. They should be: Any language Any top...

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📢 ATTN BOOK HISTORY PEOPLE 📚 Have you or a friend published an edited collection on a #BookHistory topic in 2026? A monograph? An exhibition catalogue? Yes?! Submit the citation information to have the work included in the SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SHARP 2026 Annual Bibliography

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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

theguardian.com

There's nothing that says women can't work gold. So many people roll their eyes when I talk about 'craftspeople', not 'craftsmen'. But this is why... There's female goldsmiths with their own marks in medieval London FFS so why not earlier??? #Archaeology 🏺 1/2 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male

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The @britishacademy.bsky.social resource also shows significant and v. concerning trends in recruitment of academic historians. The period 2018/19 to 2024/25 has seen a 25% fall (435 FPE) of staff with the contract type 'early career'. This compares to a 4% rise for senior staff #Skystorians 3/3

One in four academic history positions in post-92s are gone since 2019 alone. One in four. We don't have data for 2025-6 and I doubt it magically got better.

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

Post-92s have seen a 25% fall in the number of staff teaching history. 25% since 2018-19.

Every major player in UK HE quoted in this piece is saying the same thing. It is very, very bad and without action from government it will get much worse. Thousands of students will lose out. The uniform response would be encouraging, except it only happens under serious collective stress.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Brazil registered zero direct oil exports to Israel in 2025 in victory for boycott campaign - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/brazil-registered-zero-oil-exports-israel-2025-victory-boycott-campaign

Brazil registered zero direct oil exports to Israel in 2025 in victory for boycott campaign

Campaigners hail new figures on direct oil exports but point out more is needed to prevent third party sales

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"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Tomorrow is the 31st anniversary of the #Srebrenica #Genocide and the beginning of the mass executions of over 8,000 people. Honour them by better understanding what happened. I worked on this resource below and it remains one of the things I am most proud of. srebrenica.sense-agency.com/en/

Collected things in public narratives are either Troves (valuable, glistening wows) or Dusty, moldy, messy hoards (pejorative) Ruthie Block had interesting things to say about formulating “accumulations.” I think more consideration of framing & terminologies like this would be fruitful. #SHARPIES26

Wow! Next year’s @sharpweb.org conference will be in Pretoria, South Africa in early July 2027! 🤩 #SHARPIES26

so you guys know every woman in your life has been sexually harassed or assaulted, right? Your grandma, mom, wife, cousin, aunt, daughter. do men know that?

I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

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Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.

I just searched "SHARPIES" online and found... Links to buy sharpies, not the SHARPIES conference. You truly cannot find anything important on search engines nowadays #sharpies

Welcome to SHARP in the Classroom! Read Anushmita's (our new SHARP in the Classroom section editor) welcome post to get a sense of her vision for the section! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #Pedagogy #SHARP #BookHistory #Teaching #Classroom #Learning

Having social media access made growing up gay 1 million times easier (I don’t think I would even know I was gay as a teen if it weren’t for social media), but it also made growing up progressive and informed possible. Social media was where I learned about abortion rights, for starters

I understand the excitement about technology “rediscovering lost texts.” I do, & I get the media hype. But I wish people knew that there are hundreds of thousands of “lost” texts just sitting in manuscripts in libraries, which have never been published outside of those single manuscripts. 1/n

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last mo.

What I said here about an earlier project still holds. 2/n bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019. Historic is an understatement.

The heatwave is very bad news. We should have listened.

Read the full article at jacobin.com/2026/06/isra.... Thank you to DRUM and Mir Suhail for this comic.

New York Democrats Marched With Israeli Fascists

Democrats say they are a bulwark against rising authoritarianism. Why, then, did some of New York’s most powerful Democratic leaders like Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Chuck Schumer march with war crimin...

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Thanks for publishing my book review! Now available in the CEU Review of Books

CEU Review of Books@ceureviewofbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

In 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑘𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑟 𝑇𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑣𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑖 (@ceu-press.bsky.social, 2025), Geoffrey Hosking gives a balanced account of Tvardovskii's achievements and failures, offering the fullest picture yet available of the editor, poet, and writer. Julia Boechat Machado reviews the book. ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-l...

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

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · last mo.

UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7

Those looking for fellow historians may also be interested in @royalhistsoc.org's new listing of 100+ UK history societies and membership organisations: bit.ly/4b3af0I We are stronger and better historians together #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last mo.

The new Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social offers connections and companionship for the many historians who research and promote #history in arenas other than higher education. They're holding a first meeting on 1 July. Website: bit.ly/4uPzB9u #Skystorians

This is what’s called ‘soft’ climate change denial, which is arguably more damaging that the more classical (‘hard’ denial) kind. People are being actively discouraged to think about reality.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last mo.

Completely unserious country [Times]

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies. (Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 4/n