i'm writing a book!

Things are going great.

Wes Streeting MP Lord Sugar Wes, are there any boots you wouldn’t lick, given the choice?

The one American at a European academic conference

“We would ask the Daily Express to print something”

Blood Meridian-ass headline

Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke. x.com/jjoque/status/…

It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out.

It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!

🚨BREAKING: After destruction of al-Shifa, hundreds of NHS workers are blockading NHS England demanding an end to its contact with surveillance technology firm Palantir, which profits from Israel’s war on hospitals & killing of health workers.

Genocide profiteers #HandsOffOurNHS

Medics do not wear their scrubs outside hospital for fear of murder by Israeli soldiers.

not mere disaster capitalism - genocide capitalism.

Thinking back to when my A Level English teacher spent almost a full year teaching us Othello and then we discovered at the very end that his first name was Iago.

I wrote about Sarah Stoller's brilliant Inventing the Working Parent in the The TLS

Work with Johan! x.com/jhnpries/statu…

David Lynch is known for his work being weird and impenetrable, but he also is able to write lines like this that just cut straight through. One of the most loving, compassionate things he’s ever written, and it feels right that it was him who got to say it. #TransDayOfVisibility

Love to search for things in the library's online catalogue.

Important new History & Policy paper on closing previously open files at Kew - incredibly worrying, & damaging for historians: 'My research also revealed that TNA appear to be undertaking the systematic withdrawal of access to 20th Century court records.' historyandpolicy.org/opinion-articl…

Pan-African Congress, Manchester, 1945