Patricia Owens

Thanks Boyd!!

Thanks Brad!

This is so lovely. 🤓 Thanks to the @hist-isanet.bsky.social for showcasing historical work and to the committee for recognising Erased with this prize. 🥂 Congratulations to Yan Long for their honourable mention.

Accidents Don't Just Happen: The Liberal Politics of High-Technology `Humanitarian' War - Patricia Owens, 2003 From the bombing of Serb residential neighbourhoods to the destruction of Afghan refugee convoys, a series of dramatic events in recent military campaigns have ...

From the vaults. Accidents don't just happen.
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'Elsevier made £1.04 billion in profit in 2025, according to its parent company’s latest annual report, up 7 per cent on 2024.' 1/2

congratulations Rebecca!

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Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

📢 APPLY NOW!: DPIR seeks to appoint two full-time fixed-term Departmental Lecturers in International Relations - one with expertise in international political economy and one in historical and interpretive approaches and methods.

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The Women’s Library at 100 – seven recommended reads for a new LSE exhibition - LSE Review of Books Heather Dawson's reading list for Women’s History Month 2026 & a new exhibition at LSE Library, The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections.

LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social

@fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

This was a lot of fun to do. Thanks so much to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social and @lselibrary.bsky.social for letting me co-curate this new exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Women's Library collection. Such an important resource

💚⚽💚 Let's go Ireland 💚⚽💚

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the excellence and contributions of women across DPIR.

Explore our collection of student–supervisor collaborations — told in their own words: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Podcast: James Butler, Sam Jones and Anna Stavrianakis · On Politics: The Rearmament Consensus

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@greenpartyhan.bsky.social

“Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life. What does working hard get you now?”

The killer Q from  Hannah Spencer which will resonate with everyone under 40 & chill the blood of Keir Starmer & Kemi Badenoch

The Q for #GE2029

#GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer #r4today #LVIPolitics

"Muslim sectarianism" is when the majority of a diverse community vote for a working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish guy 💚🌱

Far-right authoritarian tactics to socially marginalize, intimidate, and disenfranchise a group. The oppression of one group signals to others you could be next. This goes far beyond bigotry. The authoritarian playbook enabled and empowered by anti-trans and anti-woke actors.

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

outraged over here

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

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Sexual misconduct at Oxford ‘fuelled by emeritus immunity’ Complex governance arrangements and lack of regulation of emeritus titles putting female colleagues at risk, says UCU report

'In an emergency briefing sent to all members, the University and College Union (UCU) branch at Oxford has warned that the university’s college-based system and use of emeritus professorships may be putting female colleagues at risk.' 1/2

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973.

During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment

The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪

Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

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‘The perfect place for people like me’: how one couple started UK’s first women’s sports bar Lucy and Pippa Tallant have opened the Crossbar, in Brighton, to create a place for women to feel comfortable watching all sport

www.theguardian.com/football/202... 😍