Nathan Cardon
@ncardon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
"To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades." bit.ly/4gOTZo2 #Skystorians
The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
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Fascinating that our local police are baffled and powerless to catch the uninsured & often unlicensed boy racers who drive at 2-3x the speed limit on residential streets EVERY NIGHT or the quadbikers who rip up our parks and green spaces, but a bicyclist? Oh, *then* they're happy to Do Enforcement.
David Gregory-Kumar@drdavidgk.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is such an extraordinary story. Hopefully this court case will give the police pause. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:
Bicycles are often seen as vehicles of liberation, and for very good reason. But in this essential article, @ncardon.bsky.social shows us how bicycles have also been technologies of imperial identity. Check out this nuanced, deeply researched account while you wait for Nathan's new book!
Modern American History@modamhist.bsky.social · 4w agoOn First View!
On First View!
Nathan Cardon@ncardon.bsky.social · last mo.My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....
We've got a new shiny submission site, too, and we welcome original submissions relating to American history in the (long) 19th C. We welcome standard research articles, roundtables, conversational pieces, historiographical, theoretical, methodological, or pedagogical interventions.
🧵With apologies for the delay, we're delighted that @anchistjournal.bsky.social Volume 27. 1 is out in its entirety, with articles on Jefferson's life and legacies, Malthusian politics in the US South, convict leasing, culture, temptation, and the US Civil War: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/2...
American Nineteenth Century History
Volume 27, Issue 1 of American Nineteenth Century History
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I wrote a book about how Liverpool’s modern history helps us think differently about Britain’s twentieth century - how it demands histories of wagelessness, environment ruin, obsolescence and new forms of resistance. It’s out in paperback today!
"[N]early 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone. In the 12 months to December 2024, just under 3,000 social sciences, 820 humanities and 240 arts jobs went. All but 110 were in non-Russell Group universities, reducing student choice..."
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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If you're out there today ride safe. If you're delivering food by bike and need a N95 mask, we got a ton of free ones, so come by the Biking Lawyer LLP office at 158 Sterling Rd. Suite 703. This applies to all our @thebikebrigade friends out delivering food to our neighbours in need today too!
The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West. #ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
So the one minister with Treasury experience is a no-go because he‘ll spook the markets, while a minister with no treasury experience, who hasn’t expressed a single idea on fiscal policy, and whose main contribution to the economy will be negative won’t be? Sorry, this is just ridiculous.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4w agoShabana Mahmood set to be named UK chancellor by Andy Burnham ft.trib.al/B8BshzA
Every city needs more bike counters. It's a great way to show that bike lanes are busy even when they appear empty. (And they often appear empty because cyclists don't get stuck in traffic.)
@highpoh.bsky.social · last mo.Goodness #CS3 was super busy tonight on the way home. Was like a full Tube Strike day. Also starting to get significant congestion on #CS2... we're going to need bigger bike lanes. @cs3cs6count.bsky.social tonight's counts (very low given how busy things were)
Which is why car owners will fight you tooth and nail when the absolute bare minimum you ask for is for them to pay an acceptable rate to store their private property in public instead of asking residents – many whom don't even own a car – to subsidise their personal choice.
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · last mo.Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....
The bicycle as technology of transimperial mobility. What a perfect preview to @ncardon.bsky.social's incredible forthcoming book, The World Awheel.
Nathan Cardon@ncardon.bsky.social · last mo.My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....
My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....
Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
I wrote this to encourage urbanists to reflect on the ways the history of empires created the conditions for the ascendancy of the automobile. At the same time, I want to draw the problem of automobility to the attention of those already interested in imperialism and its legacies.
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · last mo.Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Help Us Save The Warehouse! Our home @inthewarehouse.bsky.social & Digbeth Community Garden are threatened with demolition in 2030, losing a vital community hub and rare spot of biodiversity in the city centre. Follow the link, respond to the consultation. birminghamfoe.org.uk/help-us-save...
Help us save the Warehouse – Birmingham Friends of The Earth
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Realising I am leaving my house in Birmingham about 10 mins after my train leaves *London* so that I can be sure to catch it when it arrives in Birmingham because our public transit is so unreliable it can take as long to go ~4 miles via foot & bus as ~100miles on a train.
Yes. Thinking about it through this lens illuminated a lot of the weirdness around car brain. I was wondering aloud once why so many car drivers are so vicious and thoughtless to pedestrians who, for whatever reason, get in their way or slow them down...
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · last mo.Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
This series by @johnmunro.bsky.social is officially a must read: "Snake Pass might be located in the countryside, but the mobility politics of commons and enclosure playing out there also speak to municipal, national, and transnational scales in an urbanizing world."
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · last mo.Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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What was it like to teach @nhannahjones.bsky.social's '1619 Project' to British students during the pandemic years. You can read @tomcutterham.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social, Michell Chresfield, and my reflections here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...
CHAPTER 5 CASE STUDY: Teaching The 1619 Project in Boris Johnson’s Britain | JSTOR
Nathan Cardon, Michell Chresfield, Tom Cutterham, John Munro, CASE STUDY:, Teaching American Studies in Britain, 79-86
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