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£50m in surpluse over the last couple of years, but they’d rather cut £23m in staff than entirely cancel a £85m lab.

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Today's the deadline to submit your abstracts for #UHG2025 #Skystorians #UrbanHistory Details 👇

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If you want to hear more about David Strain - star of Hidden Belfast, Forbidden Love - I will be giving a public lecture at PRONI this coming Thursday! Info and (free) tickets here: www.niwarmemorial.org/events/confi...

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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We're honoured to share a special collection of articles on Bob Morris' contributions to historical research 🧵 #UrbanHistory #Skystorians

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Re universities' AI policies and student work: allowing essays to be "structured" with Chat GPT help and also writing "edits" is abdicating the very value of university-level education itself. these two elements are the hardest parts honing critical thinking and the difficult work of writing

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🚨 Less than one week to go to submit your abstracts for #UHG2025 🚨 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern New Researchers' sessions on any #UrbanHistory topic 4-5 Sep 2025 Leicester Deadline: 24 Feb 2025

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Anyone who uses the term 'DEI' in British politics is clearly importing their culture war labels from America. 'EDI' is the much more common version here in my experience. Going to start my campaign for British language for British culture wars.

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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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R.J. Morris and public history My Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social article on the late, great Bob Morris' approach to documenting, demystifying and disseminating the history and heritage of cities and industrial places. Bob was a great historian and is sadly missed. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

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Hey, everyone, London’s first and phenomenal gay bookstore @gaystheword.bsky.social is now on BlueSky. Give em a follow.

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Based on 22/23 published stats, there were c34000 steel jobs* & c240000 academic alone in HEUKGov rushing £2.5bn investment in steel...* * www.makeuk.org/docs/uk-stee... Seems 2014 ONS stat www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econ... www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-2... * www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

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Missed this last week, Mid & East Antrim Pride have also banned political parties who agreed to ban puberty blockers for trans kids. So, that's MEA, Foyle, and Causeway Prides. Come on Belfast Pride...what are you waiting for?

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An update regarding #MEAPride 2025.

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still regularly cursing myself BUT it’s a joy to read stuff that I’ve never been introduced to before cos I came to queer history late. this week it is Michael Rocke on sodomy in Renaissance Florence… SO DAMN GOOD!

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Labour seem to have forgot that the point of forming a government is not to just have a chance of forming another in 5 years time, but to try & actually do something in the present. Maybe if they worried more about that, instead of trying to court Reform voters, life could get better for everyone…

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This is always a lovely conference. perfect for PhD researchers - fundamental for my own entry into the field - and anyone else who wants generous feedback in a welcoming environment.

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There's still plenty of time to submit your abstracts for our conference on 'The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern' PGRs and ECRs can also submit papers on any topic for the New Researchers' sessions urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS Conference | 6 – 7 June 2025 | University College London Legacies of Section 28: a two-day event exploring the history and legacy of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988. DEADLINE EXTENDED to the end of February royalhistsoc.org/calendar/leg...

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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

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Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

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In the lead-up to this year's Urban History Group Conference, Emily Chung reflects on the state of urban history and the implications of digital developments for the field. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/n... @emvchung.bsky.social @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social #skystorians

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The NMI are developing an LGBTQ+ tour for National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks & are seeking a researcher to work on drafting a script for the tour. Deadline for applications Fri 14th Feb - #speirgorm #queerhistory #irishhistory #history www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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For LGBT+ History Month. Secrets, Lies and the Cambridge Spies: Anglo-Irish queer social connections of Sir Anthony Blunt. (1.) 🧵

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