We were utterly delighted to be invited to this year's Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social Summer Party. Our exhibition, displayed as new Fellows were being inducted, also features the RSL's president, Elif Shafak, whose entry you can read here: 📖 tinyurl.com/5xwxmaw8

At the UCL European Institute we also develop - and deliver - teaching, much of it outside the classroom. Have a look:

Uta Staiger@ukstaiger.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just finished teaching an experiential, site-specific & practice-informed module on & in Barcelona, for a cohort of fab UCL @artshumsucl.bsky.social students. Part of a Turing-funded suite of European city modules, it's a truly special study format. @uclnews.bsky.social

Brilliant archive and project. Close to our heart with @uclei.bsky.social‘s #BlackEurope initiative. @artshumsucl.bsky.social

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'In these 2-hour workshops, we will be working with photographs from the Image of the Black (IB) Archive. Created between the 1960s and 1990s, the archive contains over 30,000 photographs documenting representations of people of African descent in (primarily) Western art.' 13 July, Warburg Institute

Anyone @uclei.bsky.social notice the reference to the German Basic Law: www.youtube.com/live/y6k5LcH...

Andy Burnham delivers speech to set out economic vision – watch live

YouTube video by Guardian News

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“benefits under discussion include access to some EU funding programs, preferential trade arrangements, and partial access to the single market before accession, with the exact package to be tailored to each candidate country’s progress” www.politico.eu/article/insi...

Inside the EU’s latest plan to keep would-be members close

The scheme would offer candidate countries EU perks before membership — without the political rights that doomed earlier proposals.

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*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference at the Warburg. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interwoven process that transcends the geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Learn more ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

NEW: EU nationals in the UK are increasingly alarmed at Reform UK’s plan to target their rights to accommodation and employment, saying this is a betrayal of promises made in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform UK plan to target EU nationals based in Britain ‘absolutely outrageous’

Exclusive: Rights group says Nigel Farage’s party is reneging on promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign

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Today marks 10 years since the EU referendum. Our Director, @alanrenwick.bsky.social, has written for @uclei.bsky.social about how Brexit deeply affected attitudes towards referendums in the UK, and how future referendums might be conducted to avoid the shortcomings of the 2016 vote. Read it 👇️

REFERENDUM+10: The Brexit effect on perceptions of referendums | Alan Renwick

Brexit has deeply affected attitudes to referendums in the UK. In the two decades before June 2016, referendums had been held on multiple questions, including devolution, electoral reform, and Scot…

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Some rather pessimistic thoughts alas about the UK rejoining the EU @uclei.bsky.social But even the best cause is not well served by wishful thinking: ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: No Great Leap in Reverse | Albert Weale

The Brexit referendum in 2016 was a one-time event with long-lasting and damaging consequences for the UK. It is tempting to think that another one-time event in the form of a return referendum on …

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REFERENDUM+10: The run-up to the Brexit referendum displayed some similarities to oratory in ancient Rome. Gesine Manuwald @artshumsucl.bsky.social asks if, ten years later, a comparison with political rhetoric in the Roman Republic is still instructive. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: The referendum, Brexit – and the Roman Republic | Gesine Manuwald

The run-up to the Brexit referendum could be seen to display some similarities to oratorical campaigns in ancient Rome, especially during the first century BCE, as discussed in a blog in 2016.…

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REFERENDUM+10: Unlike earlier referendums, the Brexit vote was not ‘self-executing.’, argues Leah Trueblood (Surrey). Its legal significance - and the legal relationship with the EU - were heavily contested. Arguably, these disagreements remain relevant today. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: The Many Meanings of Brexit | Leah Trueblood

The phrase ‘Brexit means Brexit’ dominated British politics in the early years following the referendum. The tautological structure of this statement reflected a deeper problem: the meaning of the …

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REFERENDUM+10: The referendum campaigns did not stand out for their truth standards. Nor for a good grasp of institutional cost. But most enduring may be the damage done to a spirit of hopefulness, writes Jan Kubik of Rutgers (formerly) @uclssees.bsky.social. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: Incessant lies, institutional illiteracy, and a broken dream | Jan Kubik

On 19 June 2026, the front page of the Daily Express pronounced authoritatively: “10 years on, the majority of Britons back Brexit and oppose attempts to reverse it.” This is eminently fa…

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REFERENDUM+10: Ten years after the referendum, one lesson stands out: economic arguments alone rarely win high-stakes political contests. Nor do facts speak for themselves. Read Özlem Atikcan @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on persuasion & the politics of meaning. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: Brexit and the Politics of Meaning | Ece Özlem Atikcan

Ten years after the Brexit referendum, one lesson stands out from my research on referendum campaigns: economic arguments alone rarely win high-stakes political contests. The prevailing wisdom amon…

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REFERENDUM+10: The departure of the UK altered the arithmetic of power in the European Union, argues Javier Arregui @upf.edu. Today’s landscape of fragmented alliances and contested leadership is the clear legacy of a Union today, ten years after the referendum. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: The Repercussions of Brexit on EU Decision Making | Javier Arregui Moreno

A decade after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, public and scholarly interest remains predominantly focused on what the decision ultimately meant for Britain. However, Brexit h…

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REFERENDUM+10: Young people voted overwhelming to remain in the EU - yet are most hit by disadvantages linked to leaving, particularly in terms of employment and education, argues Joanna Helme @ucleisps.bsky.social & @laws.ucl.ac.uk. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: Ten Years On: Youth and a ‘Lost Generation’? | Joanna Helme

In 2016, young people in the UK voted overwhelming to remain in the EU. Yet many of the hardships linked to leaving are now being felt disproportionately by young people – particularly th…

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REFERENDUM+10: The Brexit referendum was a one-time event. It's tempting to think that a return referendum will easily reverse the damage it caused. But, as per @albertpweale.bsky.social of @uclspp.bsky.social, nothing could be further from the truth. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: No Great Leap in Reverse | Albert Weale

The Brexit referendum in 2016 was a one-time event with long-lasting and damaging consequences for the UK. It is tempting to think that another one-time event in the form of a return referendum on …

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REFERENDUM +10 Brexit deeply affected attitudes to referendums in the UK. Yet they remain part of our constitution. @alanrenwick.bsky.social of @conunitucl.bsky.social looks at how referendums might be conducted to avoid the shortcomings of the 2016 Brexit vote. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: The vote shook the unwritten British constitution to its foundations. Piet Eeckhout @laws.ucl.ac.uk looks at the UK's evolving constitution, from the Miller I case to ever more executive power. ucleuropeblog.com/2026/06/23/r...

REFERENDUM+10: The constitutional consequences of the referendum | Piet Eeckhout

For a lawyer, the constitutional and legal consequences of the referendum are the most interesting ones. The unwritten British constitution was truly shaken to its foundations. This began with the …

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REFERENDUM+10: Ten years ago today, the UK voted to leave the European Union. On the anniversary of the most consequential vote in modern British history, academics from UCL and elsewhere look back: at the referendum itself and its legacies. Read them on ucleuropeblog.com @uclnews.bsky.social

On Manchesterism, the real defence trade-off, and the Makerfield by-election. Read the latest in HopeWorks: A Progressive Reader. open.substack.com/pub/thisisho...

What's at stake in Makerfield?

Makerfield, Manchesterism, and the fight over defence spending

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Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe 18 June 2026, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

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Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online

Wiener Digital Collections - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Based in London, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest collection of original archival material on pre-war Jewish life, the Nazi era and the Holocaust.

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Die deu Berichterstattung über Belfast war größtenteils von Unwissen über die dortige Situation geprägt - oder von bewusst darüber gelegten Narrativen im Gefolge von Musk. Im Tsp analysiert @fotoole die eigentlichen Hintergründe. Hervorragendes Interview mit der klugen @tessaszy.bsky.social 👇

Out today! A new report of the Society from Catharine Barnard and Joel Reland charing the development of UK regulation post-Brexit. You can read it on our website at: consoc.org.uk/publications...

Brexit and Regulation - The Constitution Society

Professor Catharine Barnard and Joël Reland survey changes in regulation in the ten years since the EU referendum.

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This week we have launched Brexit at 10 - a series of comments reflecting on what Brexit has meant for UK government. In our latest comment, @sirjjkc.bsky.social assesses the principal impacts of Brexit on the UK’s courts and legal system www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/brex...

Brexit at 10: The courts and the law | Institute for Government

Brexit was a seismic legal and constitutional change for the UK.

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🏆 UCL has risen to joint eighth place in the QS World University Rankings #QSWUR This marks UCL’s 15th consecutive year in the world’s top 10, reflecting the strength of our community, our pioneering research and the impact of our global partnerships. 🔗 Learn more about our ranking: bit.ly/4vlW4w2

Watching this closely - seems to indicate the youth experience (and that pesky question over fee levels for EU students) just might have a chance of being agreed?

David Phinnemore@dphinnemore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Of course, we will get moments of difficulty, as you always do in the final parts of the negotiations, but I’m very confident of closing this deal” - Thomas-Symonds www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

'Asked by MPs what her department’s priorities are for such an increase in funding, Phillipson said “our priorities are to make sure that, overall, the higher education system is financially sustainable”, and that the department would be “saying more” on the topic shortly.' 1/2

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

DfE to spend extra £230m on bolstering university finances. Education secretary says her department will lay out plans for increased higher education spending “shortly”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The final crowning event of Nino Haratischwili's month-long residence with us, under the @europeanlitlondon.bsky.social banner. Our warmest thanks to the German ambassador for hosting her that evening.

Susanne Baumann@germanambuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On Democracy - Elif Shafak and Nino Haratischwili explored the connection between literature and democratic resilience. Big thanks to two outstanding contemporary authors and literary expert Rosie Goldsmith.

Good to read how @uclei.bsky.social used our Polycrisis toolkit #eupolicylab ucleuropeblog.com/2026/05/17/p...

Polycrises and Uncertainty: Teaching Strategic Foresight

What if good policy design began by planning for what has yet to happen? Students from the UCL Diplomacy society tested strategic foresight toolkits designed by the European Commission.

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