Can any #fashionhistory colleagues recommend a comprehensive history of British/Irish/European menswear? I'm trying to date some early 20thC election imagery and the shirt collars seem to be the garments with the most variation.
Dr Vic Clarke
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
The most enlightened man you know can still get man flu: a story from my house right now
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d agoArchive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
The @lulgalleries.bsky.social podcast series on John Nicholson the Bingley Byron is pick of the week in the Guardian! Listen to lots of brilliant people make very interesting points* exploring Nicholson's tempestuous poetry, life, and social context: www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Aditya Chakrabortty and Yanis Varoufakis dissect democracy: best podcasts of the week
The Guardian columnist and former Greek finance minister tackle big political questions in a hugely entertaining chat. Plus, why was actor Nkechi Simms placed in foster care?
theguardian.com
'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
timeshighereducation.com
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
After a string of desk rejections and unsuccessful interviews, I am still looking for work in West Yorkshire/remotely. I have experience in HE teaching and administration, editing and copyediting, research and writing, and customer service! If you know of any roles going please send them my way 🙏
The new Sense and Sensibility adaptation (speaking as someone who started reading it many years ago and didn't finish) was lovely. Fiona Shaw absolutely stole every scene she was in!
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
Every day that I clock into the transcription of Victorian records factory I resolve to make my own record-keeping neater and more organised for future scholars. The clerks at Chambers's Journals did not have such forethought.
I spent the weekend removing the wall from under my stairs and have never felt so powerful.
Missed this year's Chartism Day, or wish to revisit the highlights? Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social reports on a memorable day at the Friends Meeting House in Warwick. Read his report on the latest research on Chartism here: sslh.org.uk/2026/09/22/c...
Chartism Day 2026: conference report
Some fifty delegates crowded into the seventeenth-century Friends Meeting House at Warwick on Saturday 19 September for Chartism Day 2026 to hear speakers range across the history and historiograph…
sslh.org.uk
Six years ago a mate I really fancied was supposed to move to Scotland and, when his rental flat fell through, I asked him out for a pint. By the time he actually got on the train to move a few weeks later we had both individually decided we were an item.
I am grateful that there is a documentary film about the 1980s/90s post-hardcore band Fugazi. I am grateful it was shown in an arts and events space near Central Leeds. I am beyond grateful that this screening marked ten years of Leeds' Cineforum film club 💖
We’ve lived through the nearly complete systematic unwinding of the postwar public university, which for all its faults, was premised on the idea that not only aristocrats could be intellectuals, & that having non-aristocratic intellectuals was better for knowledge & therefore better for everyone
Marta Zboralska@martazb.bsky.social · 3w agoWe are getting dangerously close to a point when the only people who are able to stay in academia are those who have enough independent wealth to keep going indefinitely as independent scholars.
Finally watching #HouseofGuinness and unfortunately what I have learned is that if a product is repeatedly mentioned in the context of a gritty (yet funny!) drama set in the nineteenth century I will definitely buy it.
Please spread the word to graduate students about this professional development workshop on Friday. We (the program organizers for this past year's RSVP conference) will share advice on "How to Conference Effectively." rs4vp.org/how-to-confe...
How to Conference Effectively – RSVP
Get ready for the 2027 conference season by learning tips and tricks from the pros! Our 2026 conference committee are ready to share their expertise.
rs4vp.org
After a string of desk rejections and unsuccessful interviews, I am still looking for work in West Yorkshire/remotely. I have experience in HE teaching and administration, editing and copyediting, research and writing, and customer service! If you know of any roles going please send them my way 🙏
The saga of trying to repaint the kitchen/garden door continues. We've managed to get to what we can only describe as lead whitewash on the garden side of the door. Now to sugar soap and scour the bits that are stuck, including the fact that THE HINGES WERE PAINTED.
Ep. II Life is wasting, death is hasting Grief pulls The Bingley Byron back to his family’s devout Methodism, for now, as Nicholson turns the loss of his young bride into art with power to console the bereaved. Who was The Bingley Byron? Find out through our new podcast series, Death of a Poet. 🎧️
The Radar Key grants access to public toilets and is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
historyworkshop.org.uk
On 7 June 1934, the British Union of Fascists held a rally at Olympia, which saw violence meted out against anti-fascist hecklers who infiltrated the crowd. This began a summer of anti-fascists activity, which also highlighted the violent tactics of the BUF. hatfulofhistory.com/2018/09/09/f...
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
Ultra-right party gain large majority in Germany. Speaking as a historian, this is NOT fine.
If you had asked me last year why I hated landlords, I would have said because ours put out rent up by 40% with no warning. If you ask me now why I hate landlords, it's because I'm taking years off my life stripping layers upon layers of cream gloss paint from our house now.
Workforces stop investing in LLMs and start investing in office chairs that can be folded out in different configurations for the hyper mobile and stretchy desk worker.
Gloria Steinem didn't always get it right (see: working for the dang CIA in the '60s) but she was my introduction to feminism through a reference in Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries. Reading about her and her work as a teenager helped me put into words what I saw and felt about gender. RIP.
So excited that this is out in the world - you may hear a familiar voice popping in and out to drop some of the social history background of Nicholson's life and work...
Leeds University Library Galleries@lulgalleries.bsky.social · last mo.Ep. I Birth of a Poet Follow John Nicholson’s poetry back to the crags and heather of Rombald’s Moor, an ancient site of ritual and magic that persists today, and visit the barn where he wrote his first poem. Who was The Bingley Byron? Find out through our new podcast series, Death of a Poet. 🎧️