We’re halfway through the #MBS2026 (3-5 June, University of Birmingham) and celebrating with 30% off a curated reading list of key titles in the field.
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Delighted that @historianhelen.bsky.social 's terrific 2025 Pimlott Memorial Lecture, 'Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s', is now published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
The Salisbury collection is a hugely important Welsh studies resource, if the plan is to remove it from the main relevant library space that's gobsmacking
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Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Rhys Kaminski-Jones
Sarah Crook
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Really feel like those years of research training prepared me for a career of repeatedly entering the wrong subcode and having things sent back to me in order to claim £4.25 for a coffee and muffin at Bridgend railway station
