Historian of class and capitalism in the era of the American Revolution. *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* https://xitter.cf/t.co/KrvUkIrE4Z…
Birmingham, England
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You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/…
ALT Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26-27 June 2025, Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre
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THIS👇🏻 And the resistance to the damage is also a shared collective endeavour - there has never been more urgency to join #UCU (despite - or perhaps because of its problems - since we are the union?) and organise against the decimation of #UKHE #HigherEducation @AcademicDiary
"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing...Unprecedented damage is being experienced everywhere in UK higher education.. & we must find ways to repair it"
@AcademicDiary timeshighereducation.com/dep…
Sometimes something pops off on the primary school parents' WhatsApp group [a petition to oppose a modal filter, keeping traffic off the road the school is on] and my beloved partner has to hold me back from posting, like, "don't you people want a planet left for your children?"
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As a reminder, the #JERWinter2024 special issue on "The Revolution at 250" is freely available from @UNC_Press and @ProjectMUSE through April: muse.jhu.edu/article/948033
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If you’re a PhD student working on anything related to “States and Spaces” in HPT broadly conceived, please consider applying to this conference I’m co-organising! 19th-20th June 2025, LSE. Deadline 14th March.
CfP linked here: historyofpoliticalthoughtblo…
My institution currently has nine deputy pro-vice-chancellors. They advertised for another new one last week.
Numbers of managers in Universities are not just increasing, they are accelerating (gradient is increasing)
Data for @Cambridge_Uni (£53m deficit) below
Rampant unchecked growth of management in Unis is much of the deficit, much of the crisis
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I’m back on here to do the least I can for my country: share and tell the history of Early America as fully and truly as possible because I refuse to let fascists rewrite US history.
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Our first event of the new year is a big one! @AnnaFranJam @knott_sarah @naomipullin and @KHarveyHistory on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) birmingham.ac.uk/schools/his…
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Francois Furstenberg sees it all clearly:
Universities and the Coming Storm prospect.org/education/2025-…
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It's been a solid year of your government sustaining serial-murder in Gaza. 2024 is the year of infant ghosts.
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A new Birmingham City Council scrutiny report has highlighted the enormous financial burden of road harm, with road casualties costing around £205 million in Birmingham EVERY year.
The current status quo is not only unacceptable on a human level but also economically ruinous.
ALT When someone dies or is injured on the city’s roads, survivors and bereaved families are the ones most directly affected. However, it indirectly affects everyone within the city too. The total societal cost of killed and seriously injured casualties in the West Midlands for 2023 was £444 million. Road deaths and serious injuries in Birmingham during 2023 account for approximately £205 million of the regional costs (almost 50%). The costs are calculated annually based on estimated real costs for lost output, medical and ambulance, police, insurance and damage to property. Currently every fatality is estimated to cost £2.4 million, and when a person is seriously injured, £271,0001.
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Another crash on one of Birmingham's busiest high streets. One car smashed into two that were parked. Pedestrian crossing destroyed; three recovery trucks needed. What's the cost to the "bankrupt" city in ££s & perception of public safety?
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There is a crisis in UK HE. The immediate causes of this are mostly financial, and high workloads are principally a result of institutions "sweating the assets". You are the asset. You are being sweated. The reason you are doing so much is because they are asking so much. 2/
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Makes sense. If there's one gang of entitled freeloaders who've been living off the fat of the land and are well overdue a good rinsing, it's bus passengers.
*Gentlemen Revolutionaries* is part of the @PrincetonUPress Fall Sale: $16.50 in hardcover to readers in the Americas, Asia, and Australia! press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Very Pleased to announce 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 @WarwickHistory and @WarwickshireCRO
– "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives", supervised by me & @BeatKumin. Feel free to get in touch. Full info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/histo…
Really nice little project from the @StuartHallAP, "Walking with Stuart Hall." Sad that the Noble Room, our staff canteen (pictured here), was closed down this summer after so many decades of service. uploads.knightlab.com/storym…
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Two more weeks to send a proposal for our big 20th anniversary conference, taking place 26-27 June 2025. If you've got a take on the eighteenth century, we'd love to hear from you!
"Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies." Here's the full call for papers; deadline for proposals is Friday 1 November. blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2024/09/…