Labour will not be able to wait for a politically convenient three year review to fix university finances. They'll have to move quickly, which could be an early flash point for dissent.

CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS: FUTURE FAMILIES
WHO: I am interested in speaking to UK-based adults (age 18+) based in the UK who have decided not to have (more) children, or are indecisive about having children, for climate change-related reasons. 1/3

Historians! Any idea how to find this information?

I edited a book with two amazing academics from the UoL. Building Children’s Worlds examines what stories are told about modern architecture in picturebooks from around the globe and is available to read now (link in bio).

Great blog from our colleague Richard Marsden on the connections between heritage and identity, and finding those untold stories of the past. OU Arts & Social Sciences

The deadline for The Orwell Prize is midnight tonight.

If you write about or research homelessness, do submit to the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. I'm honoured to be one of the judges this year and look forward to reading

orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…

Introducing… my fourth baby.
It’s my attempt to get to the heart of how around 50,000 UK youngsters were locked away in mental institutions on purely social and ‘moral’ grounds in the early & mid 20th century.
Out on 4 April Oneworld Publications

hive.co.uk/Product/Sarah-…

✨Exciting News✨ A new solo exhibition Nowhere to Go but Anywhere by multidisciplinary artist Tribambuka is opening Migration Museum in Lewisham on 15 March! It invites you to reflect on the meaning of 'home'. #Home #LondonArt

Mae hi'n bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn.

'He [Frank Hester] does business in Jamaica... so he's not a racist' - Lord Marland.

For £10m I'll give him a history lesson...

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Science Queen Mary University of London has announced a Voluntary Severance Scheme.

Despite our requests, management gives no clarity about how much money they intend to save. But the unnecessary urgency is generating unnecessary anxiety.
A little 🧵

Don't forget that the full programme for the IHR #London #SummerSchool 2024 is now available at history.ac.uk/ihr-london-riv…. You can also apply for a #bursary - deadline 30 March!

Raphael Samuel was a tireless advocate for the democratised practice of history.

In our latest podcast Sally Alexander and John Merrick discuss Workshop of the World, a newly published collection of Samuel's essays.
historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/worksh…

Terrifying news from Valencia in Spain tonight, where a 14 storey block of flats is on fire.

Visiting Unravel with AIFS Abroad students today and feeling spurred on by this lucid, brimming intro by Adrian Searle

'Sewing and embroidering and beading and weaving and the quiet focus that goes into the work’s completion...'

theguardian.com/culture/2024/f…

I went to this school and this is dire.

Happening in one of the richest coastal towns in Britain.

NEW POST: On the making of Passport to Pimlico, and the radical political edge at the heart of the film, evident from earlier versions of it. Link to newsletter in my profile. All reposts much appreciated.

I'd rather spoon out my own eyeballs, Sophie.

“It’s like the North Star for the town. So many families’ lives revolve around its axis”

🗣️ michael sheen 💙 on Port Talbot’s steelworks
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