Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

Independent Historians Network

The place for independent and freelance historians to connect

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The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 13h ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Wes Streeting as defence secretary

If you can sit in a meeting and cry about what you're being told to do to a child, you can also refuse to do it.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

What’re you doing on 9th September? Will you join our rescheduled mass lobby? The legal framework for our lives is broken, it’s time to push for change: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/ehrc-co...

EHRC Code to come into force: what now?

The current Minister for Women and Equalities, in one of this government's last acts before a change of leadership, has made an order to bring the EHRC's harmful Code of Practice into force.The order ...

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🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Sent off the final proofs of my, Esme Cleall & Fae Dussart's edited collection, 'Troubling the Island Story: the impact and legacy of Catherine Hall's historical work in and beyond Britain.' Full of joyful, thoughtful & insightful essays on Catherine Hall's work: share.google/LB8ZsycJpXdm...

Very exciting to see a first edition of this after many years thinking about it.

Historians! What should I read on demobilised soldiers/sailors in Britain after World War One? I'm mostly interested in their politics, and how the political parties/wider political system thought about, interacted with or tried to reintegrate them.

Congratulations to Kirstie Stage awarded a Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) PhD Student Award For Applied Research 👏👏 The award recognises outstanding research with real world application - Kirstie explores the Labour and Livelihoods of Deaf and Disabled People, 1970-2010.

For anyone who doesn't know the kind of mindset that fuels state transphobia

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · last mo.

Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

And yet we get told that arts and Humanities don't matter in "the real world" or have no capacity of real income generation

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · last mo.

There's still 80,000 people in The Queue to get tickets.

in the event, a great audience of lgbt people and allies of all ages turned up at Clones library… and the angry bigots were nowhere to be seen

Tom Hulme@tomhulme.bsky.social · last mo.

Not all in Monaghan looking forward to my talk 2nite... Facebook: "Disgusting vile perverts,leave the children alone" "Sick sick sick mentally ill clowns 🤡" "just disgusting. If people are gay that's fine but stop sticking this in our kids faces.Its getting ridiculous at this stage & alarming." 😬

A fully-funded queer history PhD opportunity!

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)

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. 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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UK-based early career historian in need of up to £2,000 to complete a project? Deadline for the Royal Historical Society's scheme is 4 September: royalhistorical.smapply.io/prog/early_c...

Kevin Morris's letter in the @lrb.co.uk. Couldn't agree more, especially with what he says about teaching in post-92s.

An interesting read about the 1976 heatwave 🌞 The suggestion that “we all had a wonderful summer and survived” is misleading. It was reported that “200 people a day were apparently dying who would not have died if the weather had been normal”. theconversation.com/the-dangers-... #heatwave

The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave

By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.

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telling to see UK pundits so befuddled about Keir Starmer's downfall. He went after immigrants, the poor and the elderly, gave a top job to an Epstein acolyte, was complicit in genocide, and lied over and over again. But it's weird that people didn't like him! www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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Important mass lobby update: With a red weather warning in place for the day, it will not go ahead. We are reaching out to participants with further detail and actions, but please do not travel. We are arranging a future date and will update ❤️ www.transsolidarityalliance.com/post/weather...

Weather update: Mass lobby postponed

With a red weather warning now in place for the day of the planned Mass Lobby for Trans Equality on Thursday 25th June 2026, we are cancelling the lobby on the day and advise people do not travel to W...

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I'm currently trying to assemble as comprehensive as possible an account of extant academic research in post-1700 British & British imperial trans history! I'd welcome suggestions of citeable work that might have escaped my notice - e.g. unpublished PhD theses, recorded talks, ephemeral print/zines.

Delighted that @historianhelen.bsky.social 's terrific 2025 Pimlott Memorial Lecture, 'Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s', is now published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘In the eyes of the law I might be a man but what do I look like?’: trans women and sex work in 1980s and 1990s England

This article considers the precarious position of trans sex workers in 1980 s and early 1990 s England by examining the ambiguities of medico-legal interpretations of their identities and labour. D...

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In addition, there will be a nightly curfew on social media for all 16 and 17 year olds. The UK Government thinks you can vote, join the military, smoke, leave school and get married at 16. But not look at Instagram at 8.30pm.

📣Out now on #firstview! Anna Muggeridge @worcesteruni.bsky.social and Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social on 'Revisiting the Politics of Motherhood in Modern British History' #Motherhood #Political #Maternal #History #Identity 20thc 🗃️👩‍🍼 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Welcome to BlueSky Walter Pater! @walterpatersociety.bsky.social

2.This is fed by a political culture that only ever talks of migrants as a problem; never as a gift. Our national discourse on immigration has become obscenely unbalanced. Things will get worse unless progressive politicians find their courage & start telling more positive stories about migration.

I've written to my MP and I encourage you to do the same

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏳️‍⚧️ 120 Members of Parliament Almost 20% of the whole House of Commons, including an increasing backlash from the Labour benches. A number cannot sign EDMs as ministers, whips and PPSs - so the Labour percentage is higher than if compared to the theoretical total of all Labour MPs