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Easter holidays means bring your daughter to work day

New level of spite and derangement unlocked

Looking forward to leading a workshop this afternoon Bodleian Libraries for young people on the Target Oxbridge Oxford Residential. #MischiefInTheArchives

calling all The University of Sheffield students! I am recruiting student actors to participate in my practice-as-research workshops, where you'll get to act out interactions between early modern magistrates and the people they tried to govern. paid £50 per half-day workshop! pls RT!

Key things to note about Renters' Reform Bill concessions are:
1. Initial 6-month period for tenants locks ppl into potentially dangerous/unsuitable contracts
2. Assessment of courts before banning Section 21 is an indefinite delay
3. BUT - fixed-term tenancies are still going

The Scottish Government have finally published the new Housing Bill, and along with it their proposal for rent controls. It's been a long time coming, and it is the product of almost a decade of campaigning by Living Rent. Here are some of the key things:

📣 Seems like a good time to make this announcement! A forthcoming volume based on the project's research to be published in the BA Records of Social and Economic History series!

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A new article by me out now

Le mal logement, endémique à Cayenne et à Saint-Laurent du Maroni #Guyane , tue !

Impressions of smoke at the great « Paris 1874 » exhibition Musée d'Orsay

New MIH Issue: Using inheritance as an instrument to diffuse property ownership? Thomas James Holland Thomas Holland offers a comparative account of the concept of democratic inheritance reform across Tocqueville’s and Beaumont’s major works bit.ly/3PD6CE5

“Instead, Macintosh advocates for a tax on land values aimed at severing the link between housing and profit by tempering perpetual price rises and curbing developer speculation”

This is what a lot of suburban France looks like nowadays : a mix of postwar single-family 'pavillonaire' clusters, the 1960-70s ZUP social housing cluster, and a modern developing ZAC made of varied typologies of mid-rises, all along a new tramway line.

*Petitions and Petitioning from the Late Medieval Period to the Present*

Book launch and conversation about the #PowerOfPetitioning , Thursday, May 23rd, 4pm, online!

Register for free here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/petit…

In honour of the international break, looks like Brasenose News have borrowed the Wembley grounds team

Seems churlish to drop back in for a second to tweet about an article, but if anyone is interested in reading something (open access) about Europe, temporality, and the revolutions of 1848... cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Wonderful 1919 diagram from Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan's 'Ideal Homes' showing the increasingly scientific management of the household. 350 feet down to 50 feet for 'the worker' to make afternoon tea.

My greatly missed guitar tech Mike Clement was cared for by the kind people at St Richards Hospice. His son-in-law Ollie Davies will be bravely running the London Marathon to raise money for the charity.

justgiving.com/page/ollie-dav…

- Tony