The six-year-old has informed me that they were learning about kings and queens yesterday and there was a song.
A song, I asked?
Inevitably, some of @gregjenner.bsky.social's best (and certainly catchiest), work.
Podcast time?
Susannah Wilson has appeared on Cornell University Press' 1869 podcast, talking about her book A Most Quiet Murder: tinyurl.com/mvp7er7p
Meanwhile Douglas Morrey has featured on the award winning Every Sci-Fi Film Ever talking about Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville: tinyurl.com/34s5y8nk
Service de presse !
This chart ought to pop up every day when we log on to our work laptops to make us think more carefully about our digital footprint…
IEA projections for slower and faster growth of data centre use shown as relatively small in context of world energy uses
I have been waiting for @hannahritchie.bsky.social to run the numbers on this question:
What’s the impact of artificial intelligence on energy demand?
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
On Wednesday we are hosting the fortnight @long18thsem.bsky.social seminar at Warwick! Imogen Peck (Birmingham) will present on her latest research of family archives in the 18th century.
Join us either in person or online (a link to join via Zoom can be found through registering at the below link)
Alors qu'il y en a eu à toutes les époques, pour quelles raisons sociales, politiques ou culturelles les compositrices n'apparaissent-elles pas dans la grande histoire de la musique ? Brossons leurs portraits et tentons de donner des éléments de réponse ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/6Qf
Cover of Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 by Morgan Golf-French
My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)!
You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
French politicians convicted of crimes, since 1990, a database.
À ne pas manquer!
Heute am #Weltfrauentag erinnern wir an #FrauenImWiderstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Sie bezahlten diesen Kampf oft mit ihrem Leben. Mehr über ihre Biografien erfahren Sie hier: https://www.frauen-im-widerstand-33-45.de
Closure of language courses is 'national catastrophe, warns VC By Fiona Mcintyre Picture of Adam Tickell
There is a “national catastrophe” unfolding as universities close modern languages courses and important “cultural assets” across the humanities more broadly are lost “by stealth”.
Coverage of Adam Tickell’s remarks at our conference yesterday
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Un volume collectif en hommage à Benoît Melançon, professeur émérite de l’Université de Montréal, paraîtra en 2026 aux Presses de l’Université de Montréal et réunira 27 textes écrits par d’anciens étudiants et collègues.
La maison d’édition sollicite des souscriptions.
www.tiing.co/tendre-l-ore...
IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam....
🗞️🌊🍀.
This is the story of slavery at its most traumatic, one predicated not just on physical violence against enslaved people by slave owners, but the all-encompassing terror of slavery as a psychological tool of control and oppression, and the desperate ways enslaved people tried to resist it. A small 🧵
Campaign from @tessadunlop.bsky.social for the introduction of Romanian GCSE.
In the 2021 census in response to the question of what their "main" language was, the second most-listed language in London was Romanian (after English obviously), with 159,000 speakers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good luck - I’m sure you’ll be fine!
The university of Warwick Kone and the Arts Centre with daffodils in the foreground
A great day today with a series of inspirational people - the morning helping to draft a languages policy for the city of Coventry and the afternoon with @warwickengages.bsky.social at a co-lab discussing the advantages of working with communities
Three images: A poster with the caption 'Weimar Cinema: From 1919 to 1933'. A display case with three film programmes: 'Hai-Tang', 'Madchen in Uniform' and 'Vampyr'. A view of the exhibition space, including three of five display cases.
New exhibition at the MRC!
Weimar Cinema from 1919-1933, showcasing items from the Illustrierter Film-Kurier collection.
Illustrated programmes for early cinema classics, international hits and films which reflected social and political ideas of the Weimar era.
A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...
Good advice!
The image shows Alexander Graham Bell demonstrating the first telephone
AHOY-HOY!!!
Thrilled (and quite smug) to say BBC You’re Dead To Me has reached 150 episodes! Even better — we managed to time our anniversary to land within a week of the 150th anniversary of the telephone being patented. So, guess what we did for this week’s episode… ☎️
Faculty of arts building with a host of daffodils in front of it, university of Warwick
It feels as though spring is on its way!
French historian klaxon: enjoy this floating pancake-making story
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
There is a public perception that copyright libraries have copies of everything published in the UK. That's never been the case. But things are rapidly getting desperate. These are among the publishers who now no longer routinely deposit print copies of their books.
Turn on BBC Radio 4 now to hear the shorter edit of our latest episode about the history of the Spice Trade — or listen to the full length podcast on BBC SOUNDS
💬 "Pour moi, c’est écœurant d’entendre dire que tout est faux, que tout est manipulé. C’est le même comportement que celui des accusés que j’ai rencontrés dans la salle d’audience : ils nient. C’était vraiment le procès de la lâcheté et du déni."
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/GVO
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