It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
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It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
'Maintenance support tied to “priority courses” and proposals to withdraw funding from degrees deemed insufficiently lucrative, do more than shape university provision. They send a cultural message about which kinds of thinking are worth public investment — and for whom.'
Final lecture online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/self-v... - on all the concepts stacking up in the late 20th century, not superseded by ‘neoliberal’ or economic ones. Feedback welcome for the book now in progress. And farewell with warm thanks to all in Oxford.
A substantial, thoughtful response to the BBC Charter Review green paper from the BBC WAC Campaign (of which I'm a part), focussed on Written Archives Centre issues but more broadly address to questions of trust and transparency. Do please take a look.
The BBC WAC Campaign's full submission to the Government's Charter Review is now online. We argue that policy changes at the Written Archives Centre fly in the face of the values at the heart of the Green Paper: trust, transparency, and the telling of stories. Read here: tinyurl.com/CharterSubmi...
“Already won” 🧐
Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.
I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.
I'd welcome help building a strong application.
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It’s not just the Epstein files he’s trying to distract from
It also obscures the breakdown within the RCs between applicant-led and strategic funding. Do you have any idea how that balance has shifted (for AHRC and ESRC) over the last 5-10 rather than 2-3 years? I’d want to keep an eye on that, especially as you say when they rebucket.
This depends on what you consider to have been Green baseline vote.
And actually we (the academics) spent a lot of time in the last 25 years at least trying to get them to clarify the shifting division between ‘responsive’ (now ‘curiosity-driven’) and ‘strategic’ modes, which the RCs sometimes sought to obscure.
For those interested in (or with an interest in) UK research, perhaps the clearest visualisation of the infamous UKRI 'buckets' I've seen.
'more UK 18-year-olds have applied by the January equal consideration date this year—338,940 applicants, up 4.8 per cent on last year. Much of this growth reflects demographic change....The 18-year-old application rate as of January now sits at 40.7 per cent, broadly in line with last year'. 1/3
Now it can be revealed that Kirstie Donnelly, the City & Guilds chief executive who later received a £1.74 million bonus, and Abid Ismail, chief financial officer, who received £1.2 million, provided suspect information about the financial health of the charity shortly before the sale.
Never heard of an instance like this of a charity CEO getting a £1.74m bonus. Part of a strange wider story I’ve never heard about of the sale of City & Guilds to a commercial company in Cyprus. The sale is now subject to a Charity Commission inquiry
www.thetimes.com/article/76bb...
Some bot account complaining about pronouns in bio shit. I asked the bot to write a poem about pangolins and it did
It happened again
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Please do.
Vitalis Temu, a Black man with short salt-and-pepper hair, speaks at a podium at an outside press conference.
Virginia State Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process
Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals. https://bit.ly/46ok3jL
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
A wonderful piece of scholarship and picture-painting, useful for the historiography and very evocative for the sketch of the person in her many facets.
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
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From Cambridge History Degree to TV Career: Award-winning producer Nicola Shindler talks to Cambridge History students about storytelling, historical influences and the future of TV. Shown in conversation with Professor Helen McCarthy.
From History @cam.ac.uk to award-winning TV producer, Nicola Shindler inspired our students with her career journey.
She explored the powerful link between historical understanding, storytelling, character development and TV drama & how studying history sharpened her instinct for standout stories ⬇️
We are hiring ....
Because John Nightingale is retiring...
for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Thank you - and for sticking with it.
Fifth lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/self-a... - about self-assertion, identity and rights talk from the '50s to the '70s, and clashes over it from the late '60s. Final lecture on those continuing clashes & whether neoliberalism overrode them this Thursday 5pm Exam Schools Oxford.
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
'You can’t really fix student loans without also changing something structural about higher education – and any structural change to HE requires a comprehensive funding review.'
Ultimately, this is the inescapable bottom line. 1/2
Jason Scott-Warren?
Frank Prochaska (1941-2026) - always amusing, often shrewd, articulate and perceptive historian of philanthropy in modern Britain. www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
Congratulations to @christinegrandy.bsky.social for the publication of Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain, the latest title in our Cambridge Modern British Histories series. Paperback a snip at £28. #Skystorians
'Sarah Chaytor, director of research strategy and policy at University College London, co-authored a report for the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi), released today, on how to maximise the potential of public spending on research.' 1/2