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The recent death of a child from measles in Lubbock, Texas marks the first measles death in the US since 2015. Outbreaks and deaths were once common, until widespread vaccinations nearly eradicated the disease in the early 2000s.

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Please come along on Saturday if you’re in the NE - and please share- @petermandler.bsky.social @johntomsett.bsky.social @moremorrow.bsky.social @jonathantummons.bsky.social

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Anyone fancy running the RSA? www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

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Tickets still available for the next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum #SHPYHF at @sheffielduni.bsky.social on March 15th from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Come and join us for a fantastic day of CPD for primary and secondary teachers of History! #historyeducation

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In 1940, historian Emanuel Ringelblum began a clandestine archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, which collected testimonies from women, children, refugees & suspected collaborators. 2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person highlights this archive, which uncovers marginalized voices & untold stories 🗃️.

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There are two mistakes in the first sentence. The first reference I can find to Irving Kristol saying a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality is in 1979. Except he didn't say a conservative - he famously said a neoconservative - which makes a nonsense of the third line too.

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The nordics are starting to take the lead in Europe

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Congratulations to Cambridge historian @marinaini.bsky.social who's been awarded a highly-competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. She'll launch her research project at La Sapienza Università di Roma under the mentorship of Dr @serenadinepi.bsky.social. Read more⬇️

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RIP Roberta Flack www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

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We've created a new Starter Pack of #History institutes and research centres in the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3F3Eo2M Please do share. There will be gaps and recommendations are welcome. We hope this pack helps you keep in touch with work by and for historians in the UK & Ireland #Skystorians.

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I think that was the point of the OP - this is overt imperialism of the 'old-fashioned' kind, rather than something hidden under cover of 'development aid' or similar. To me (an historian) this contemporary political lesson is more important than the history lesson (important though that is).

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NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

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Were any previous authoritarian takeovers this unbearably cringe?

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In the case of archives, I still deplore the tendency towards online catalogues which mimic search-engines, and think that it is not just nostalgia to value old-fashioned handlists to collections. Browsing those could throw up all sorts of possibilities.

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Writing my Eastern Eye column on the new world disorder After the Modi visit Trump & with Starmer heading there from the European, would esp welcome your thoughts on Trump & India (why so popular) & among British Asians of Indian heritage (closer to British views? But with a generation divide)

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It has a cover and a release date so it is official that my first book, 'Teenage Intimacies: Young women, sex and social life in England, 1950-80' will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social on 25 March! 🗃️ #histsex manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173140/

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A new chapter in the history of open access research publishing opens. The author chose to publish in a CDC journal because it was open access, only to see the research purged because it was in a CDC journal.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

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Some good points here, worth reading. Should be said also that a lot of engineering students don’t end up in engineering - aiming for higher returns from finance etc. Also - swing to science started before high fees and also still in minor key after long decline. Not so easy to read.

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A surprise to find that our book “Colonisations: notre histoire” which came out in 2023 is in this week’s @londonreview.bsky.social Especially great because of how seldom books in foreign languages get reviewed in English 👇🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history. We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians

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The passive authoritarian tense

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Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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@htenuk.bsky.social recently wrote to SoS at DfE requesting reinstatement of bursaries for beginning #ITT #historyteacher & #primaryteacher s to remove barriers to access & relieve hardship in training. Join us in raising this issue with your MP - support can be found on our website www.hten.org.uk

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I was told today that the great medieval historian John Prestwich only published three articles in his working career (more afterwards), including one on a comma in Bede: and indeed this is the case www.jstor.org/stable/561764

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The Trump administration is defying the courts. Rule of law in the US is teetering.

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From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

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Re-upping this to note 28 February deadline - please distribute widely.

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USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

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Yes, the tech bros will just walk away after/if they screw things up - they won't pay or suffer in any way. Which is one of the many reasons why we have elected officials run things - they have at least minimal accountability.

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'Dr Edwin Rose, of Darwin College, analysed previously overlooked evidence from Solander and Banks’s field notebooks, index cards and annotated texts for his book Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820, which will be published next month.'

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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.

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