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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

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Envelopes fascinate me. So much can be read in the dates, stamps, addresses and postmarks. This envelope (which I found in a private archive on Friday) was sent from Sverdlovsk to London in 1937. It contained a single photograph 🧵 /1

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London! A reminder: this event in Pushkin House is coming up on 12 March. FEATURING: myself and @simonparkin.bsky.social in discussion with Julia Wheeler. And ALSO (I have learned) multiple descendants of people featured in Hotel Lux will be in the audience. www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

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After making a holy show of myself in Galway on multiple occasions during my early 20s, the city will graciously welcome me back for this year's Cúirt festival. Become part of my Galway redemption arc and see the full incredible lineup here: www.cuirt.ie/whats-on/

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I love this thread, which points towards a way of talking with our students about how AI essay writing devalues their own education. The journey to the destination is the magic of humanities work. Why would you want to deprive yourself of that?

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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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For Valentine's Day: the final lines from American radical Joseph Freeman's 1928 poem "To a Lady Who Rejected a Poem about Spring as a Petit-Bourgeois Deviation" So here's my hat into the air Three cheers for your amazing hair! For coal mines and for turbines, too For steel, the Comintern and you.

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Was just absent-mindedly photoshopping an image of attendees at the 1907 congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party when someone asked me what I was up to so I panicked and just said "uh, catching up on emails"

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For a brief period in the early 1920s, one London building housed the family of a stage actor, the Irish literary couple Robert and Sylvia Lynd and the consulate of the Georgian Menshevik government-in-exile.

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This was a lot of fun to record. Thanks to Andrew and the team for having me on!

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Latest Daily for Monocle Radio. @olgatokariuk.bsky.social and John Everard on the day's stuff, plus @mauricejcasey.com on his fine book "Hotel Lux", recalling the 1920s-30s heyday of Moscow's preferred abode of foreign revolutionaries. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

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Later this month, I'll be doing an American book tour for Citizen Marx: - Tuesday 25 Feb - New School with Corey Robin - Wednesday 26 Feb - Princeton with Alan Patten - Thursday 27 Feb - Yale with Lucia Rubinelli and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social

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hello is this the gender police? yes I need to report a lego

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Some of the material that will feature in my talk in Cambridge this evening: Party membership cards and an Aeroflot luggage tag belonging to a radical Irish librarian in London.

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My latest post tells the story of how a British sculptor's 1920 snapshot revealed new dimensions to a defaced image of a purged commissar. Shout out to @publicdomainrev.bsky.social who made this discovery possible. archiverats.substack.com/p/the-sculpt...

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Today is the day I become some version of an Independent Scholar. I'm thinking of rebranding as a "Highly Dependent Scholar". I wish the job market was in a better way but I am nonetheless determined to find a way to keep History as my day job.

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I LOVED this opportunity to speak about love and revolutionary politics for the Washington History Seminar. Thank you to Eric Arnesen and Lisa Kirschenbaum (@lakirsch.bsky.social) for their generous and thought-provoking responses.

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NEW POST: Annie ‘Nan’ Stewart- “a remarkable sidelight on the intensity of the Communist instruction of the young.” Bob Stewart’s daughter- child revolutionary, courier for underground cells and much later a fervent anti-communist. breakingthefetters.com/2025/02/04/c...

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This is today! If you are in America and want an easy end to the workday or elsewhere and looking for a "Big Comintern night-in", register at the link below:

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Obsessed with the concept of a combined Harry Potter + Vape store.

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'The rare occasion when an event gains structural significance constitutes a historical inflection point.' Really enjoyed this by @davidmotadel.bsky.social on the importance of investigating the deeper structural causes of historical inflection points. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Oh wow, and another wonderful review, this time from Huw Lemmey for Tribune: "Hotel Lux is an unexpected treasure, unveiling the power of the archive to reanimate history and its complexities." tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/comm...

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Oh wow, and another wonderful review, this time from Huw Lemmey for Tribune: "Hotel Lux is an unexpected treasure, unveiling the power of the archive to reanimate history and its complexities." tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/comm...

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"We live in a time when darkness seems the dominant fact of our world. By telling the tale in this book, Maurice Casey reminds us that there is a bit of light in everything." What more can a historian in 2025 ask for? Thank you to Ron Jacobs for this review 🙏 www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/31/a...

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I'll be giving this talk at 17:30 next Friday, 7 Feb, at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. It's about an archival journey that took me from the archives of the Comintern to twenty-seven uncatalogued boxes in LSE and a single, extraordinary letter that sat, unopened, in the back room of a legal firm.

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Founding Cara-Friend. Exhibition celebrating 50 years of one N.Ireland’s oldest LGBT+ charities, with photography of veteran activists by Tim O’Connell, accompanied by heritage display. Linenhall, Belfast, Feb 3-28.

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