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Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫

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How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....

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And returning attempted migrants picked up in the Med to secret EU-funded jails in Libya and Tunisia where they're tortured and raped. Or simply throwing them back in the sea to drown.

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Except for Palestine, where Harvard fired their own center directors. But you're a good centrist who believes in the Palestine carve out for acceptable fascism, so what should anyone expect.

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This is a really important point — when we point out that governments are crippling HE by attacking visas, we also need to a) talk about international students as people not £££ and also b) point out why overseas tuition fees have become an apparent panacea for UK universities

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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed

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I am often asked how to get boys into reading. I honestly don't think boys are different to anyone else. If you want them to love reading - JUST LET THEM READ THINGS THEY LOVE! Whatever those things might be, they are the things that make us all into readers. #literacy (Art: Bill Watterson)

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Katherine Heiny’s Early Morning Riser is currently 99p for kindle! This is not a drill!!!

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An impassioned argument against activist and politically motivated history from checks notes founder editor of culture war website History Reclaimed, Professor Robert Tombs

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Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

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the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

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Apparently this was the breaking point for Harvard: cluster hires for conservatives.

submitted 15 hours ago • 63 comments

This makes me incredibly sad. The museum had an opportunity to do something important with Kate in charge, but instead caved to people who fetishize othered bodies under the guide of "quirkiness."

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I'm glad they did this and better late than never. But it would have been nice is this spine evolved when a racist mob came for the university's first Black woman president.

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No guys, leftist infighting is a huge problem. I was just told to "shut the fuck up" for saying we should strategically sacrifice minorities. It's like we're not even on the same page

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Feels a bit of a Stevie Smith day. (Her poem To An American Publisher) You say I must write another book? But I’ve just written this one. You liked it so much that’s the reason? Read it again then.

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“All I wanted for the rest of my days was to smugly walk around Harvard in my lifted-heel cowboy boots while owning the libs and raking in speaker fees from the rubes and it was just lovely and such fun and now you’ve gone and ruined it, absolutely ruined it”

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In 1999, in his speech to Labour Conference, Tony Blair described the Tories as "The only Party that spent two years in hibernation in search of a new image and came back as the Addams family. Under John Major, it was weak, weak, weak. Under William Hague, it's weird, weird, weird."

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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at so many conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

submitted 23 hours ago • 39 comments

so uh who else assumed Morgan McSweeney was a woman

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