Enjoyed teaching my first seminars this week and last – surprisingly on protest against the Cold War arms race in the 1980s. Didn't expect to be getting students to read Thompson's Protest and Survive before The Making when I started my PhD!
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If you haven't already done so, pls take 5mins to email using the link on the ministry website 👇 The consultation documents suggest 9 questions, but a firm 'no' to the principle of digitize and destroy is the key issue IMO www.gov.uk/government/c...williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/t...
Finally got around to looking at some great local history publications that I got for free at Hampshire Record Office in November. They were all published by the county or city councils. Can't imagine that happening now unfortunately, especially with the county council almost bankrupt
This looks like a really interesting radio essay about E. P. Thompson's time in adult education and how it might have shaped his ideas about history
Historian Geoff Andrews explores EP Thompson's experience of adult education.
British Library data now apparently up for sale to the highest bidder. This screenshot now circulating in the other place.
Update: there is now an open letter to UKRI here, calling on them to reject this attack on academic freedom and political interference in the decision-making and governance of UKRI. I would invite academic colleagues to sign and share docs.google.com/document/d/e...
If in the UK, please sign this petition. At 100,000 signatures it will be debated in the Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...
We want the Government to seek a ceasefire and also seek to address the root cause of the current conflict by promoting dialogue and advocating for the end of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and G...