I wrote a blog post for History on my research into humanitarianism in early Soviet Russia. Rather than abandoning humanitarian norms during the civil war, the Bolsheviks adapted and worked within them.
Part of the research was funded by a History Research Bursary, which is an excellent scheme.
So, some reflections prompted by the combination of the launch tonight of the 1926 Irish Census exhibition at the British Academy and Suella Braverman's comments earlier in the Telegraph on the teaching of a 'patriotic curriculum' under a prospective Reform government. 1/6 #Skystorians
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One of the victims, a seven-year-old boy, was blind and had special needs. Shot in the head and face.
Today, Vladimir Putin returned the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky to the FSB Academy, for his “outstanding contribution to ensuring state security.” Dzerzhinsky was the first head of Bolshevik’s secret police in 1918-1926 and the architect of the Red Terror
Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious.
No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns.
Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it.
#skystorians
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM
Peter Whitewood
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."
More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia"
by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
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