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Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. More: rachelbherrmann.com
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submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

I am so delighted to share the publication of the first special issue I've managed as an editor at Global Food History! Please welcome "Empires of Disgust," edited and introduced by the excellent @carlacevasco.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Oh no, bad news for my academic career

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Thanks to @raherrmann.bsky.social for inviting me to guest edit this special issue of Global Food History, "Empires of Disgust": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I have created a 'Food Historians UK & Europe' starter pack of food historians and researchers. For anyone interested in food history. (And who wouldn't be?!) If you're in this field and I've missed you, please get in touch #foodhistorian #foodhistory #uk #europe #history #food go.bsky.app/V5dGohn

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

As someone who has lost their grant because of this, I still wholeheartedly support @officialbaas.bsky.social in standing up for the principles of diversity and inclusion in the face of Trump administration attempts to change the approach of academic organisations.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

CFP for the next Clements Center symposium: Indigenous Histories and Crossings in an Age of Global Change

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I visited a country house today. I have also been trying to grow my #conservators network on blue sky. So here is a game! Identify the place from the loggers. It will get easier. Reply with HOW MANY images u saw before u knew. Share so I can find more people who look at loggers. #conservation

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments

“The push to make Canada part of the U.S. reached a fever pitch following passage of the highly protectionist McKinley Tariff in 1890.” For @time.com I discuss the last time the GOP tried to use tariffs to annex Canada. *spoiler: it didn’t go well time.com/7212675/tari...

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

The Learned Society of Wales' statement on proposed cuts at Cardiff University. www.learnedsociety.wales/cardiff-univ...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

One of the words on this list is “historically”.

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

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 😏

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 29 days ago • 245 comments

When covering the potential impacts of a RFK Kr confirmation, pls don’t leave out Indian Health Services (the treaty based federal program that provides millions of Native Americans with healthcare). It’s under HHS.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable on Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is out! 💫 Grateful to @lydiawalker.bsky.social, @vivienlchang.bsky.social, & Ryan Irwin for their thoughtful reviews; Eva-Maria Muschik for her kind introduction; & @emleake.bsky.social for making it happen. issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RJI...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

1) In rather sad news, @officialbaas.bsky.social have had to pull this funding. The current US administration's federal funding freeze also applies to embassies, and so this scheme is on hold and likely permanently cancelled.

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

Emily West reviews 'Old Age and American Slavery', by David Stefan Doddington academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @cambridgeup.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

A US presidential inauguration special, here are this week's top picks in imperial and global history.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

New blog post: Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI. (Does what it says on the tin.) catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

I see that it’s a good morning to wake up and to not be a member of the American Historical Association

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way this sheep should be able to stand

submitted 44 days ago • 61 comments

Wow, I have almost reached the "time to consider sending emails about image permissions" stage of syllabus-writing avoidance. Send help.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If you wait long enough into January, the news cycle will make clear what image your syllabus needs. Benjamin Martyn and James Oglethorpe, map from Martyn’s 2d edition of Reasons for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, available @jcblibrary.bsky.social: jcb.lunaimaging.com/ll/thumbnail...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Look, I know it’s weird for a historian of cannibalism to always have freezer baggies full of bones, but I’m still going to be smug about the game stock that was waiting for me back home in my freezer

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I keep updating these starter packs for #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas! Am usually adding as I see folks joining here but take me if I missed you. 🗃️

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

submitted 62 days ago • 95 comments

Roll up, early rising Skystorians 🗃️. Hope to see you at our Saturday 8:30am AHA panel next week celebrating American Contact with @popcultureamerica.bsky.social, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Abimbola Kai-Lewis, Jessica Linker, Isadora Moura Mota, Daniel Radus, and Corinna Zeltsman

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Saturday, food history folks! Please share this call for the Global Food History Prize for an Emerging Food Historian, with a deadline of January 1: rachelbherrmann.com/global-food-...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments