I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨ I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!

Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards

British Library staff are on strike from the 8th to the 12th December 2025. Full solidarity with them, please don't cross the physical or digital picket lines. I wrote a little in my latest piece on the Library about how poor senior management has driven the staff to this position.

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library ✍️ @simonxix.com #BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

The world’s dumbest phishing attempt.

Check out Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery by PM Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...

Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery

A beautifully illustrated children's book on the life of Benjamin Lay, a courageous little person who stood tall against oppression.

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Happy May Day to all who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6c...

El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido | 1 mayo 2020

YouTube video by INTI-ILLIMANI

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Time once again to visit with an old friend.

I appreciate the attempt to offer an alternative to the compulsive praise that usually dominates the discourse in the field, but not sure this angry jumble of bad-faith hate-reading, incisive criticism, and reactionary politics is a huge improvement.

Age of Revolutions@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 2y ago

Several new books have come out on the Age of Revolutions. Roberto Breña's review of two books points towards obvious gaps and new directions. Check it out! ageofrevolutions.com/2024/12/16/t...

Following Pitt faculty and staff, grad students just voted 97% in favor of unionizing. www.publicsource.org/pitt-graduat...

Pitt graduate students to unionize with United Steelworkers

University of Pittsburgh graduate student workers successfully voted to unionize. Five years earlier, a similar bid to unionize fell short.

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Very happy to share the call for papers for the inaugural Three Rivers Graduate History Conference, co-organized by Pitt and CMU grad students.

I have just discovered that my new book, The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis, all 573 pages of it, is now available as a FREE pdf download brill.com/downloadpdf/... - despite not yet being available in hard copy. 😀

We're doing a conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Many-Headed Hydra next May! For the full CfP, please go to www.history.pitt.edu/news/many-he...

#OtD 12 May 1797 the crew of the Sandwich ship anchored at Nore in the Thames estuary mutinied. They demanded better conditions and an end to the war with France, then began blockading London.… https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8421/nore-mutiny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

If you are in Pittsburgh on April 9, don't miss this amazing closing lecture of our series on "Slavery and Memorialization in the Atlantic World": Prof. Pepijn Brandon, VU, "After Apologies: The Troubled Road Towards Recognition of Slavery in the Dutch Empire". All welcome.

Come and be the next Amundson Professor of British History at Pitt! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨🚨🚨 The History and Political Economy Project (directed by me & @zeithistoriker.bsky.social) invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, beginning July 1, 2024, to support our public engagement and scholarly programs. Apply here by 2/1: apply.interfolio.com/137868

This is so great. An article about an enslaved brother and sister in Louisiana who escaped their captivity 61 times - some of it as pre-pubescent children. (via Marcus Rediker on the other site)

Baptiste and Marianne's Balbásha': Enslavement, Freedom, and Belonging in Early New Orleans, 1733��...

“Sir, I am sending you back your sauvage [Indigenous man, literally “savage”] once again, he does not deserve any pardon after so many repeated marronages [slav

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Back to one of my happy places!