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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

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We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is available in paperback 🎉 Now under £30 with @cambridgeup.bsky.social and here’s a 20% discount code to make it more affordable. Will be doing a giveaway once my author copies arrive 😏

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Really looking forward to this conversation with @sulinlewis.bsky.social, @jamesamark.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social & Leslie James about this excellent book. If anyone wants to join online, please let me know. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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The Birkbeck Centre for Internationalism seminars are back! Here are some dates for your diaries: 1. 30 January, 1-2pm: Lunchtime Seminar by @sandrinekott.bsky.social on "A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War" (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 210)

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The Birkbeck Centre for Internationalism seminars are back! Here are some dates for your diaries: 1. 30 January, 1-2pm: Lunchtime Seminar by @sandrinekott.bsky.social on "A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War" (Birkbeck Central Building, Malet St, Room 210)

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Deadline for 1st Central European History Convention (CEH-C, Vienna, July 17-19) is Jan 31. No registration necessary, heavily subsidized housing, + more subsidies available for those who need it. Keynote: Tara Zahra; several panels dedicated to work of Pieter Judson Apply! ceh-c.univie.ac.at

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Call for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...

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A story of parallel universes 1st email I wrote today: Hey, I’m so sorry I’m late with that article for the thing you’re editing. It’s been an awful term & got nothing done 2nd email I wrote today: Hey, I’m editing this thing & would love it if you could write an article. Really hope you’ll do it

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🎓 There's a @cambridgeup.bsky.social Elements on the League of Nations coming, by Joseph Maiolo (@joemaiolo.bsky.social) and Laura Robson www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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Last week, REF released its final policy on Open Access for 2029's assessment exercise. This follows a summer consultation exercise. In this post we look at REF2029's requirements for Open Access: what's in, what's out, and what's coming up for the REF after next bit.ly/4gfuJ6Z #Skystorians 1/2

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It was great fun to write this essay on how I became an intellectual historian for H-Diplo. With shoutouts to @dominiquereill.bsky.social , @samuelmoyn.bsky.social , @orrosenboim.bsky.social , and many others. issforum.org/essays/h-dip...

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Christmas bonus. Who says history doesn't pay?

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In happier news about tractors blocking city roads, here is a 1947 photo of Farmall Tractors, just arrived from the Port of Gdynia as part of an UNRRA shipment, parked for the night in front of the remains of Warsaw's Central Station. [photo from UN Archives] #skystorians

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Released today, final policy on Open Access for REF2029. Headlines, for History and others in Panel D: - no OA mandate for books for REF2029 - mandate for 'long form' publications for next REF, with effect no earlier than Jan 2029 - article embargoes cut from 24 to 12 months from 1 Jan 2026 1/2

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Interesting thread on Google books & the ngrams viewer

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RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

Enjoyed reading these pieces on Julia Irwin's Catastrophic Diplomacy networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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"The number of UK universities forced to cut staff has reached an unprecedented 83 (60 per cent of the sector) amid predictions that 10,000 jobs could be lost by the end of the year as more institutions inevitably join the list." Phil Baty qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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🌏 Greatly looking forward to reading this Ethics & International Affairs collection on international order #HistIR 👇 t.co/K1QB8LYup2

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I wrote a little "newbie" blog post for the Global History and Culture Centre at University of Warwick. Title is self-explanatory. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

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Delighted to announce a new series of online seminars we are hosting in partnership with the FCDO Historians. Over the course of 2024 we'll bring together those who've written, studied and used official history to discuss its value. www.history.ac.uk/seminar/offi...

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The Royal Historical Society has a particular focus on supporting the work of historians in Higher Education, with Fellows and Members in the UK and 71 countries worldwide. Online resources include the Society's 'Toolkit for Historians' bit.ly/3skly1l and 'Data for Historians' bit.ly/3CG6b8g

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The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to be here, from today, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social We look forward to engaging with you to support and promote History and historians together. The Society is led by Prof Lucy Noakes, who began her Presidency of the RHS on 22 November royalhistsoc.org

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Video of the 2024 Annual Lecture of the Yan P. Lin Centre @mcgillu.bsky.social - ‘Is the Disorder of Our Times Unprecedented?’ given by @aysezarakol.bsky.social on March 27, 2024. Thanks to Ayşe Zarakol for her stimulating talk on her latest book and exciting new research on the decline of orders!

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"We haven't had any clear policy statements about what they're going to do about visas." Former UK Border Force chief Tony Smith tells Matt Frei the government needs to explain how it will tackle legal as well as illegal migration. Read and watch here: www.channel4.com/news/latest-...

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Interesting historical data visualization resources: Willard C. Brinton's 1914 and 1939 books on Internet Archive for free. These volumes offer insights that still resonate with contemporary data visualization practices. 🟢 bit.ly/4eSaJWw 🟢 bit.ly/3ZrmKxI #DataViz 📊

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Are you researching sexual abuse or violence? Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in the Arts & Humanities? Our Spring workshops @bbkhistorical.bsky.social will explore creative writing as a tool to process the harms we encounter in our work. #HistMed #VAWG #16DaysofActivism

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Join us for our hybrid seminar of the Socialist Medicine project on December 10, 14:00 CET featuring Guillaume Lachenal! In person in Berlin and online on Zoom. Details: socialistmedicine.com/december-10-... #histmed #histsci #sts

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Usual caveats apply go.bsky.app/Gaka15u

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