Colloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History đđŸ
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Colloquium on Black and Indigenous Women's History đđŸ
Such a pleasure to sign books at #OscarWildeâs desk in the historic @hatchards.bsky.social - the oldest bookshop in the UK and where the royal family purchase their bedtime reading. Buy your signed copy of #Economica in store now. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social
My lady-garden has been dyed the colours of the St Georgeâs cross, then groomed into a swastika.
Solidarity! I had to sit with Rowan until she went to sleep last night because she was so nervous.
So, September has hit Sheffield like a ton of ice bricks.
It does seem to đ Thanks!
Thanks đ Sheâs very nervous!
It is BIG SCHOOL* DAY for Rowan. Eek. *Weâre not allowed to call it that.
Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain â about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens â are heard too We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL! Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes. www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
AT LAST.
NB If you do buy a new Mac, check whether your work have discount vouchers for the shopping. Our 'Deal' platform means I could get 3% off by buying the vouchers and then using them to buy the iMac.
Such a pleasure to chat with the ever insightful @carolinepennock.bsky.social on the @intelligence2.bsky.social podcast about my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. Listen now online (with thanks to producer Ginny Hooker). podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Often also no speakers (though not always).
Also...
Especially when I realised that most displays donât have a webcamâŠ
Ha! Thanks âșïž I wish I could keep it actually - it works fine, except that the OS is now unsupportedâŠ
This is my record so far. 11 years.
YES. I'm frustrated by that, so I spend ages looking at the Mac Mini and thinking about displays and webcams. And in the end I caved and bought the 24 inch because it was all just so much easier. (Also frustrated to have a replace a functioning iMac because the software is unsupported.)
YES. It's very annoying to have to replace it when it does function perfectly well otherwise! I'm going to wipe it and see if perhaps someone locally (a teenager maybe?) might like it. Mac think it's only worth recycling.
With my 11-year-old iMac having reached the point where the OS refuses to even open Adobe Acrobat, I have finally caved and ordered a SHINY SHINY (blue) new one. (I do not wish to hear about alternatives. I am aware. I have made an informed decision. Celebratory responses only please.)
That's out tomorrow! â€”ïž And I just listened to Victoria talking to @carolinepennock.bsky.social about her book on the Intelligence Squared podcast. Have a listen: www.podchaser.com/podcasts/int...
That sounds very valuable. This is more someone where I think the work is fine, but the person is... ick.
Interesting, thank you!
Thank you!
Thanks so much Catherine. This is all super helpful! Would be really interested to hear about the conspiracy theories example...
Belated thanks, Martin! Much appreciated :-)
Ah, the perennial academic question: do I set this helpful reading for my students, even though it's by someone I profoundly dislike?
Not at all terrifying stuff from the always excellent @davidallengreen.bsky.social.
Given that this is the view from my chin, I think Rosie is glad that weâre home (despite her customary daylight-hours hostility).
Too many âstrikingsâ, but I was very struck ;-)
Iâm obviously well used to seeing these sorts of issues, especially with the BM (with their history of refusing even to repatriate human remains) but so many sacred and stolen objects (eg the first depiction of a human Buddha) was striking enough that even my elderly in-laws commented.
I donât disagree. But this was particularly striking, given the proportion of the objects stolen during empire. And they had really quite a lot of text to play with: long captions for each object, plus discursive sections. Given they mentioned the colonial archaeology, I still think it striking.
It provides the information, but no reflection I could find in the exhibition. For me, the irony lies in the juxtaposition of the quote with the BMâs refusal to reflect/repatriate.
A gobsmacking amount of stolen Indian treasures in the stunning Ancient India exhibit at the British Museum. Many have a caption saying effectively âstolen by the East India Company and transferred to the BM when their museum closed downâ. And yet they feature this quote without ironyâŠ
TODAY ONLY! You can get (and gift) Thomas More on Kindle for *only 99p* ENDS AT MIDNIGHT! www.amazon.co.uk/Thomas-More-...
I was this many days old when I learned @davidbowles.us has a free basic classical Nahuatl course ... don't mind if I do nahuatl.thinkific.com/courses/free...
Yes, both great! And both on the reading list :-) Thanks so much!
Thatâs super interesting - thank you!
Thank you!
An interesting idea - thank you!
Thatâs a cool idea - thank you! đ
Thank you!
Thatâs a really interesting case that I hadnât come across - thank you!
Thatâs all super helpful - thank you SO much!
That looks fascinating - thank you!
Lovely, thank you! Students love audio/video, so thus will be much appreciated!
Thank you! Iâve got de Groot and Jordanova. Iâll look the others up! Much appreciated đđ
Lots of kind reposts, but not many replies (though thanks to those who did!) Help please, historians! đïž
Absolutely shocking to hear that @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social are forcing trans staff to use repurposed disabled toilets, imposing a discriminatory policy which effectively makes trans staff out themselves (and reduces disabled provision). Important reporting from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social.
A great book! Thanks. One challenge in the UK is that we can only set chapters/articles, not whole books⊠Iâll have to think if thereâs a bit you could pull out.
Oh I loved that book! One challenge in the UK is that we can only set chapters/articles, not whole books⊠Iâll have to think if thereâs a bit you could pull out.
Iâm teaching not one but TWO core public-history modules next year (one final year and one MA). Give me your best recommendations for essential reading on doing (and thinking critically about) public history, especially for students making & reflecting on their own projects. Recent pubs especially!
Iâm teaching not one but TWO core public-history modules next year (one final year and one MA). Give me your best recommendations for essential reading on doing (and thinking critically about) public history, especially for students making & reflecting on their own projects. Recent pubs especially!
My Twitter thread was very much fuelled by sleep deprivation & exasperation at my at-the-time toddlerâs insistence that we watch it. Pat is the most useless dickhead. I started it 8 years ago & I had to start it again 4 years later when kid 2 also made me watch it đ x.com/amyfullermor...
I see Simon Jenkins has done his annual incoherent jeremiad on the decline of education & how only privileged people (like him obv) should be allowed to go to universities. (NB I actually agree with him about a graduate tax & HE clearly needs reform. But âbring back the two-tier systemâ is not it.)
the thing about incarcerated trans people is that virtually no one will stand up for them & thatâs fucking horrific because i literally cannot think of a worse place to be a trans person in america than prison. if youâre cis you should read this. trans people, keep on scrolling; you already know.
I seem to remember that @amyfuller.bsky.social wrote a very amusing thread about the transformation and marketisation of Postman Pat, back in the Twitter days. Funny/interesting to see it becoming scholarship!
Itâs time for my occasional self-doxxing, since a few academics are following me. My name is Scott Cave. I was/am a historian of colonial Latin America. I published this, and on a long enough time scale I will publish more. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Well, Hellooooooo!!!! www.amazon.com/Pirate-Imper...
It was a pleasure to chat with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on Not Just The Tudors about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, a history of the idea of "human" from antiquity to the present. 𧔠đđ đ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH podfollow.com/not-just-the...
One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Thereâs a big conference where they turn on a red light at one minute and cut the mic off at time. I endorse this approach.
I donât do everything exactly as Sam suggests, but there is tons of helpful advice about delivering a talk (from a script or not) in this post. I especially endorse the idea that people who shamelessly overrun should burn in hellfire for eternity (especially if youâre on a panel).
I see Strong Academic Opinions are being rolled out again on here. Is it that time of year already? Itâll soon be time for âMy A Level Resultsâ & âUsing The Title of Doctor in Daily Lifeâ discourse
Yes!
Speaking as the parent of only one child, I can confirm this is correct. âFamilyâ is almost always assumed to mean 2+ children (@englishheritage.bsky.social being an honourable exception).
As the mother of a young trans person, Alice, who took her life in 2022 aged just 20, and as an ex-NHS doctor, I am struggling to find the words to express my dismay and sadness at this story. Whatever happened to do no harm? đ§”
So sorry, Lindsey. What an awful situation for you. I hope you and Ade are bearing up.
Well, thatâs something I feel like I should have known beforeâŠ
I didnât. I havenât been very online, truthfully!
Eleven now!
In France they have a special exit for folks who left the cat at home.
No, not this time! Weâre home now anyway. A couple of days in St Emilion, a few in ArĂ©s and then a week in Bordeaux đ
Thatâs it exactly. How are you supposed to distinguish red herrings from clues? And the latest one (I think the fourth?) was ludicrously easy.
I want to like the quiz element, but itâs very badly done. All the clues are either blindingly obvious or far too hard.
My family seem to like it. I think itâs quite a good concept poorly executed⊠The âhistorianâ appears after a couple of episodes.
Belated holiday whinge: I appreciate a faux barricade as much as the next historian, but it rather takes the shine off when pseudo-historical filming means you canât visit half of actual-historic BordeauxâŠ
Co-signed. In both senses.
I donât believe in gatekeeping History. I absolutely think public historians are historians. But I donât think that breathlessly âadventurousâ content creators specialising in historical âbrand partnershipsâ are âhistoriansâ. (If you know you know. And youâre more likely to know if you watch BBC1.)
It was on catch-up. Destination X.
âFamily viewingâ when your household includes grandparents and an eleven-year-old makes many demands! ;-)
I donât believe in gatekeeping History. I absolutely think public historians are historians. But I donât think that breathlessly âadventurousâ content creators specialising in historical âbrand partnershipsâ are âhistoriansâ. (If you know you know. And youâre more likely to know if you watch BBC1.)
I can look - though I canât promise to know about every war in history! ;-)
I KNOW
I know! Very matter of fact đ
The French are too fancy for Febreeze.
The French are too fancy for Febreeze.
On Savage Shores spotted in the wild in Bordeaux! Available in French now (and has been for a while obv, but still exciting). www.albin-michel.fr/leurope-ce-c...
This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6
In which I ask a French pharmacist to sell me a childrenâs antihistamine, and when I get home I discover itâs very expensive homeopathic bollocks. Ah, la France.
Simply put, based on Starmer's own policies and rhetoric, he is either massively anti-migrant, anti-disabled and anti-trans/non-binary, or so weak willed to have his whole policy agenda driven by those who are. Either way, he has no defence and shows himself unfit to claim any moral integrity.
Beyond belief. (The parodies write themselves!)