Christine Grandy

Very much looking forward to reading this!

Thanks Zoë! That sounds like such a great angle-happy to chat if useful and hope alls well!

The 3-month consultation is open to everyone with a view: parents carers young people those who work with children civil society organisations academics industry

The social media consultation is live www.gov.uk/government/n... Not read the whole thing yet, but I'm *very interested* in the fact that it is positioned as a public consultation, not just a policy one

Oooh that sounds like a great piece!

Spies in Arabia by Priya Satia!

Race on Screen | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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

Thankd Laura! It took a while! Hope you're well!

Thank you Matt! Xx

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

Research Volunteers Needed for a project on the history of young people and democracy in modern Britain. We would like to hear from people who took part in a mock election at their UK school between 1983 and 2001. Write to us about your experiences here: https://forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?

Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!

Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

That dark roast really levelled the field.

Devonshire Collections Research Fellow at Chatsworth House Trust Searching for an academic job? Explore this Devonshire Collections Research Fellow opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

Goals.

Did I mention the article was open access?!

Love it.

A sigh?

And we're back! Staff at the BL are great, minimal grumbling amongst academics, very much enjoyed going out of a different door in HUM1 and seeing the back stairs ((FUN!), nobody slipped on the treacherous courtyard, and the rain pretty much stopped. Long live the BL.

Controversial queue rearranging going on but lo, it is to keep us dry!

Also I did not know the BL has an unofficial cat named Daisy. She's lovely and obviously immediately exited with loud noises. Or the en masse petting collective that are academics.

Alarm off and we can go back in (yay!). Security guards asking vainly for an ordered queue. All the Brits rush to the back.

Men with skills have arrived.

Someone researching SO HARD sparks fly.

Is it synergy? I don't know.

There's gotta be a name for this many academics outside in the pouring rain during a fire alarm at the BL.

Nostalgic Patriarchies Hannah Skoda shows that there is a historically persistent connection between abuse of animals and abuse of intimate partners, and through the ages abusers have often expressed nostalgia for the 'good...

'If modern-day abusers of both animals and women seek inspiration in a nostalgic longing [...] they might be reminded that those men to whom they look were themselves looking backwards'.

Hannah Skoda on depictions of domestic abuse through history.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/gender/nosta...

HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants Since March of 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services has been using tools from Palantir and the startup Credal AI to weed out perceived alignment with “DEI” or “gender ideology.”

Pre-compliance with a regime that is watching you anyway and will punish you no matter what.

"In the private sector, more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations rewrote their mission statements last year to remove any language believed to be adjacent to DEI..."
www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

A new role at the IHR, supporting the 2027 NACBS conference to be held in Senate House. It looks like a great position. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.

Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

#envhist #envhum

New visualization of Joseph Banks network focused on his work to use Indian resources to solve the oak bark crisis in England. jburnford.github.io/JosephBanksK...

Open Letter to the UK Government - Prioritising AI Literacy for All Citizens On 9th June the Prime Minister announced a skills drive on AI focussed technical/functional skills for students and workers, with the announcement centred on industry collaborations, and economic…

Just now on R4 Today @lizforleicester.bsky.social re-announcing the AI Skills programme ( www.gov.uk/government/n... ) that led to a 70 signature open letter back in July on developing a more inclusive, independent and collective approach to AI literacy: connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/07...