How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement? Barbara Brayshay (@bbrayshay.bsky.social) and Saskia Papadakis (@sazpaps.bsky.social) introduce the OHEM archive which is now available @britishlibrary.bsky.social

The Archive as Activism

How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement?

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exciting events coming to manchester, oxford and london!

naoise murphy@naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The book is out, it exists in hardback, and I'll be talking about it in three different cities over the next few months! 🧵

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are on strike 12, 13, 17-19 Feb and 2-6 March to stop bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social slashing pay and pensions forever. Please donate to the branch fighting fund here: Unity Trust Bank, UCU Northumbria Univ NE119, Hardship Fund, SC 608301, AN 20295578

getting back into finishing my book on the english north-south divide and delving into the government's plans for AI in the north - my friends, it is a bleak task

There might be good reasons for Britain to build data centres. Job creation isn’t one of them

Estimate*estimate

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📢December Issue of TIBG📢 Our latest issue gathers papers around 3 broad themes: the more-than-human, borders, and working from home. It also features the third collection in our 'Geography in the World' series. 23/24 papers are #OpenAccess ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin... If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing

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#ERSNew 🐣🔓 What links Ugandan Asian refugees, a US multinational corporation that made its money from imperial warfare, a typewriter factory in Leicester, and a group of black revolutionaries? #1974ImperialTypewritersStrike. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2539908

super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com! doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike

In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...

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#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North-South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' by @sazpaps.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Great to be interviewed for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Ask the Geographer podcast series! Toby Butler and I chat to Rachel about oral histories and research. It's a lovely resource for A Level students and anyone interested in how oral history can be used in geography!

Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London@rhulgeography.bsky.social · last yr.

Oral History of the Environmental Movement project researchers Toby Butler & Saskia Papadakis went on the Royal Geographical Society’s 'Ask the Geographer' podcast to talk about Using Oral Histories for Research. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and... #RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #oralhistory

🚨 Lincoln Uni staff vote to strike after nearly 300 redundancies announced. 🔺 86% backed action 🔺 95% no confidence in management 🔺 220 jobs already lost last year Send your support and solidarity to @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

University of Lincoln staff vote for strike action

Staff at the University of Lincoln have voted to take industrial action in a dispute over plans to threaten nearly 300 staff with redundancy, the University and College Union has announced today.

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with reports that the north of england has missed out on £140bn of transport spending over the past 10 years, i've written about how the imagined white working class northern man is linked to infrastructural violence and the north-south divide blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

The myth of the white working-class Northern man

By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…

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new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man! this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃 blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

The myth of the white working-class Northern man

By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…

blog.geographydirections.com

Sign the petition against redundancies at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Totally unnecessary and hugely damaging to staff, students, the uni, and to geography and other affected disciplines. All solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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🎉 New Journal Article Alert rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @sazpaps.bsky.social #RHULGeogResearch #royalholloway #royalhollowayuniversity #rgs_ibg

Please show your solidarity for Disability Studies colleagues at Liverpool Hope, who've recently been informed of plans to cut their team by half. Open letter to sign: docs.google.com/document/d/1... [docs.google.com]

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...

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last week i published a journal article for the first time and i fainted for the first time! a week of firsts. luckily the journal article will have the more lasting impact! read it now on @tibg.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...

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🚨 NEW 🚨 We don't believe the EHRC's 'interim update' on trans people's rights is lawful. So we’re bringing a legal challenge

We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’

A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision

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It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

NEWS!!! If you're in #Glasgow in June and want to hear about the history Scottish environmental movement, we've assembled a 'witness seminar' of activists and policy makers, and the event is public - get your free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework

Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

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Super chill lunch break with colleagues outside the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Glasgow 🥰

Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm.

proud to have signed - thank you to everyone who put this together 💙🤍♥️ look forward to @rgsibg.bsky.social taking a stand to protect trans people

Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️@jaytoddgla.bsky.social · last yr.

This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025

Dear Professor Dame Jane Francis and Professor Joe Smith, Re: The response of the Royal Geographical Society to the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update We are currently witnessing ...

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Almost as if “we have no choice but to slash a stupid amount of jobs” isn’t, as it turns out, the only choice…. Still dreadfully high number though.

New Dundee University plan aims to scale back job cuts - BBC News

Under the proposals, the university would shed around 300 roles through a voluntary programme.

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AND THAT IS THE SECOND MANAGEMENT OF THE DAY THAT HAS TO ADMIT THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE IS ACTUALLY POSSIBLE AFTER ALL, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, LOUDLY WITH STRIKE MANDATES. #UKHE

Cardiff University withdraws compulsory redundancy threat

Martin Shipton Cardiff University has withdrawn its threat to make academic staff compulsorily redundant as part of its cuts programme, signalling the likely end of an industrial dispute involving str...

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If you're interested in the Scottish environmental movement and you're around in Glasgow on 5 June, this is the event for you! www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...