Benjamin Thomas White

We officially launched Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft, Industry into the world @glasgow.ac.uk on a wet and windy day - perfect for knitwear. You can read it for FREE here www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... or purchase the illustrated hardback at all good vendors.

Agreed

!!! I am a big big fan of @historyworkshop.org.uk so it's a real honour to have them publish this piece on radical history, print culture and walking. With many thanks to brilliant editor @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social and @btwhite.bsky.social for the encouragement 📚

📣 Job! Full-time, open-ended. "Expertise is welcomed in any aspect of Asia’s historic global trajectories, connections, and interactions between c.1500 and c.2000, including those of a specific Asian region, society or culture." Details ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTG789/l...

Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.

📣 We're hiring! An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as a Senior Research Fellow. If you have a substantial background in protection policy, we'd be keen to hear from you. Deadline is 12 October – find out more about the role and apply here → buff.ly/7gaZjL8

Come to this if you're in Glasgow this evening!

One of those articles where my eyebrow is raised so hard and so frequently as I read that it gives me a headache. doi.org/10.1093/wber...

This piece provides a really good bit of sociological and historical context on violence and parts of Glasgow city centre recently sensationalised on tv www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

This means that I will definitely not be taking my six-year-old, and therefore not going myself either. £26 to take him to a park we often visit for free, for something that he might not like? Nope.

📢 We are thrilled to announce the #CfP for the Seventh International Seminar in Historical #Refugee Studies, which will be held at the University of Tübingen, June 28-July 1, 2027! Deadline is November 15, 2026. For more information, see rhs.hypotheses.org and CfP below:

How migration law disadvantages and discriminates against women: On our blog, @catbriddick.bsky.social outlines the key themes of her book Violence against Women and Regimes of Exception. Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/mupz7hfau6

“I think it’s a shame that students are the only bargaining chip they really have. But I understand it. I would obviously rather it didn’t happen but I do get it." (Final year Geography student, University of Edinburgh, displaying a good understanding of how institutional systems work)

We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: https://bit.ly/47fu2b0

"So much of AI research now is simply using the products of a handful of companies to claim they can do something. [...] The research is investigating the applications of capital, not expanding our understanding of the world."

Old ladies immediately arrested and imprisoned for holding up signs to protest the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Far right thug uses what looks like an illegal knife to slash a boat, endangering a life. And here I am many hours later waiting for any kind of police action.

'Published on 22 September in the journal Research Policy, the study explores public attitudes to AI-assisted research, based on a nationally representative survey of nearly 1,500 UK citizens. The government has made a strong push to expand the use of AI in the research process.'

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

21,627 applications for the Marie Curie early career fellowships.

i hate it @wileyonlinelibrary.bsky.social, please kill this

Celtic (UG), Chinese & Russian (UG), Contemporary History, Economics & Statistics (joint degree), Inclusive Education (MSc), Intellectual History, Italian & Classics (joint), Law & Social Policy (joint), Medieval History, Persian Studies (UG), Portuguese (UG), Psychology & Economics (joint)....

Our first post of the autumn semester on Refugee History is from the UNHCR Records & Archives Section, where they're making the best of a bad situation: refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/9/...

Three courses in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, are among the 90 programmes to be axed as Edinburgh University seeks to save £140m at the cost of as many as 1800 jobs. Edinburgh UCU has announced a five week programme of strike action in protest. #BonfireOfTheHumanities

No change, however, at the #WolfsonHistoryPrize. My annual thread returns ⬇️

One more addition to this list (thanks to @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social for the tip):

Four weeks later, I've found one more institution that has announced its award (the British Library, linked at end of thread). Still no announcement from AHRC itself about these large grants as far as I can tell.

Our first post of the autumn semester on Refugee History is from the UNHCR Records & Archives Section, where they're making the best of a bad situation: refugeehistory.org/blog/2026/9/...

A good thread on a thought-provoking article, which offers questions rather than answers.

Like publicly announcing they are vulnerable to kryptonite, and also that they've been doing a lot of kryptonite recently.