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Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
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Last few spaces for Roads to Rome w @cathfletcher.bsky.social. Friday 6pm - free. Some @porticolibrary.bsky.social old books on Rome on display too. @workingclassicists.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @classicsforall.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social Not Greece but: @alexpodyssey.bsky.social

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Fascinated to learn how this will actually be checking the citations. Presumably not by popping into the Warburg Institute, taking the relevant book off the shelf, and checking the page as I once recall doing as peer-reviewer for an OUP journal.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW on Wonkhe: The Strategic Defence Review: Military Keynesianism and the fallout for universities bit.ly/4jHhL3a

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

oops

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So exciting to receive my bound proof of #Heiresses, out in September!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is a brilliant book, superbly evocative of sixteenth-century London, and you should all go out and buy it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is very much an open call - if you have related interests please get in touch.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In a moment of wild optimism I'm trying to do some marking using Turnitin and Avanti wifi. How many essays can I get through before it crashes?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Higher Education plays a vital role in local, regional & national economies & in people’s lives in ways that cannot be counted or reduced to a narrow financial calculus. But our work is not valued at all. Just another big pay cut for all of us alongside the irreparable damage of cuts & job losses

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Because the former very obviously and suddenly disrupts the lives of a few upper middle class Brits, while the latter has had a large but incremental impact on lower middle and working class British students.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

No, "International SOS Travel Security", Manchester is not Liverpool, go away with your emergency alerts.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This decision means a large swathe of Northern England from Liverpool to Leeds still has no viable daytrip option to consult this material.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

well I guess AI bots attacking British history makes a change from Telegraph columnists

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment