Alice Marples

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Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

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Developing and Writing Funding Applications for Early Career Researchers - FREE online training 18 March 2-3pm. Explore some of the pitfalls, opportunities and challenges you can expect to face as you put together your funding application.
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Net zero will cost less than fossil fuel price rise, UK climate adviser says Climate Change Committee report comes after days of turbulence in global energy markets

For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
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Most read articles from International Journal of Heritage Studies Explore the most read and downloaded articles published in International Journal of Heritage Studies

How lovely to see mine & Sharon Macdonald’s article on “degrowing museum collections” in the top 10
most read of all time articles in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. No. 8! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...

A long, rectangular wooden box with an open lid on hinges. Inside is a folded world map. The outside of the box reads Betts patent portable globe.

Explore our modern British collections from 1800–1950 including manuscripts, archives, printed collections and maps at our next open day on Friday 27 March. You’ll also get to pick the brains of our expert curators and reference specialists. link.bl.uk/dod

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies

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Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Puddle, Manchester, 2021, photo by Ruxx Naqvi.

Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social

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Author Phil Harris on his retirement with a view of the Round Reading Room of 1857. Photo: BL Corporate Archive, PH 034/342

We’re delighted to share that A History of the British Museum Library, 1753–1973 by P. R.

Harris is now digitised and freely available to all interested in the history of the Museum and librarianship.

Find out more here: link.bl.uk/vvx

you are not prepared for the soundtrack

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Public libraries set to benefit from cash boost to support National Year of Reading The government has announced up to £150,000 cash boost for public libraries to support the National Year of Reading

Great news - Govt has just announced new public library strategy is coming later this year - we've been campaigning on this for years at #CILIP! Also £150k funding boost for 72 areas of deprivation during National Year of Reading. www.gov.uk/government/n... #NYR2026

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Call for applications!

We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!

£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!

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The mask slips: Oldham result brings out the real Nigel Farage Ukip leader caught making false claims about ethnic minority voters in Oldham

Farage and Nuttall in Oldham a decade ago. UKIP went for an overnight message of voting fraud, then declined to make a complaint when asked to produce the evidence.

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After winning narrowly in Runcorn last year, this time around Reform tasted the bitter wine of narrow defeat.

Greens got 41% of the vote #BBC, Reform got 29%. I wouldn’t call that a narrow defeat.

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

In other news, migration policies look to hurt our public finances
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"traiditonal Labour supporters want to see progressive values robustly defended against the far-right, not gleefully abandoned."

This guy gets it

ik we're all enjoying labour having a terrible day but it's also great bcos hannah spencer is a legit person. a proper, local, working class woman and she beat out all the slick political pricks.

local candidates are just always gonna be better and we need to return to that kind of politics.

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Was going to do a joke post about Chris Mason saying "a historic night for Reform as they finish ahead of Labour, what does this teach us about the white working class in the north? Also, the Greens won" but too many of you would, sensibly, assume it was real.

What we have seen in Gorton and Denton is what we saw in Caerphilly in October.

A lot of people really don’t want the hateful politics of Reform and will work hard and smart to try and keep them out.

Labour must now listen to this and stop the grim attempts to mimic Farage.

Not just a gain, a stonking gain! 💚

History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’
with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela
18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury
More info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Reform UK downgraded in our political scorecard Last year, as the various political parties were heading off for their annual conferences, we launched our political party scorecard.

Reform UK once promised to nationalise utilities 💧💡

But we've just downgraded them on our party scorecard as their position has changed 👇

Reform voters overwhelmingly back public ownership (87% for water, 75% for energy) so they deserve to know

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