Brilliant new article by the fantastic @saimanasar.bsky.social in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. Going straight on my reading lists for the next academic year!
The fiscal irresponsibility at the top of UK universities is shocking.
Almost every day, the Starmer-era Labour party does something to make me freshly appreciate how impressive it was that Blair and Brown kept these guys anchored in the present day and committed to economic policies that backed our areas of comparative advantage for 13 years.
Bans, moral panics, the shutdown of thousands of third spaces, and now maybe you can't get a student loan to study anything unless you pass the worst subject (for many) at the most chaotic (for many) time of life. Why does England hate its young people so much?
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We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians
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Depressing, though not surprising, that a senior Labour figure would back impunity for British military crimes against civilians in Northern Ireland.
Here's some excellent mid-week listening, with @profkepickett.bsky.social, Gurminder Bhambra, and @academicdiary.bsky.social.
One of the absolute greats.
Rethinking sociology through empire, inequality and global connections.
Associate Professorship in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. The position is linked to the Middle Eastern Studies group, with 12 permanent faculty with expertise in Persian, Turkish and Arabic, politics, anthropology, literature, media, and history.
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Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History on jobs.ac.uk!
I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research.
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Les Back
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
Dominic Dean
Exclusive: Ministers consider national threshold in England that could in effect bar thousands from studying
#8: What is English Culture? Over ten weeks Professor Stuart Hall, the godfather of Cultural Studies, takes us on a trip through the national imagination. Hosted by critic and writer K Biswas, the ser...
Tell me you don’t understand your voter base without telling me you don’t understand your voter base (1)
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Yair Wallach
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline.
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"Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing."
Staff expenditure: Count every last penny or you may lose your job.
Their expenditure: Meh.
Al Carns, buddy, the entire point of the GFA is to ensure there is a political, nonviolent path to what the IRA were trying to achieve. what do you think happens if you take that away?
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Martin Shipton Cardiff University has admitted that it doesn’t know how much it is spending overall on external consultants or hold a central record of what work they are doing. Academic sources have ...
