Elspeth Van Veeren@evanveeren.bsky.social · 3w ago

Another excellent example of just how incurious and limited the UK press has been about this crisis. Not one mention of the cuts to humanities that Bristol’s own VC is trying to push through at the moment in this article about her position on the cuts 🤔🙄. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

Over the next two weeks, we feature the 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book Prize. Today: 'To Detain or to Punish. Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840' (McGill-Queens University Press)', by Kiran Mehta bit.ly/4ox6Z3t 1/2 #Skystorians

Recently had cause (bragging at a conference dinner) to dig out a photo of a prized possession: Stuart Hall's copy of The World Turned Upside Down