Christian Allgore 💀🩸🖤🎃

"Higher education is not a neutral space. It is built on longstanding histories of classism, elitism and exclusion." #edusky #HigherEducation #HigherEd #AcademicSky theconversation.com/working-clas...

Operation De-Bobble begins in earnest …

“whether they win 10-0 or lose by the same scoreline, they currently exist like a turd that can’t be flushed.” 🎯 A blight on everything football means - hugely damaging.

What storm, my man?!

This is so sad but heartening at the same time. Free Lebanon 🇱🇧

In the last 20 months...

The new Code of Practice on trade union workplace access rights comes into force a week today The Code provides guidance to employers, unions, workers etc on how to implement unions' new legal right to access workplaces for organising. Massive development for unions, & they'll be rushing to use it.

These companies are sociopathic. They are showing us who they are. Believe them.

Very cool fore-edge painting! 🌊

Behind a paywall. Apt accessibility. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

History 101 and why history is a revisionist discipline. The letter below is why archives are selective. It’s survived because somebody decided to keep the evidence. Even as late as the 1970s, it was seen as too incendiary. A deliberate murder by Police of Aboriginal prisoners in the 1890s.

‘Basic historical literacy’, not anti-knowledge, is something that should be insisted upon for comprehension of the national story and its enduring legacies - especially in connection to racism. This term will be very apt and useful for culture and heritage workers.

Here's a question worth asking (no songs are involved) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Always in my head & heart: I’m sending a huge High five to all #bookhistory #rarebooks #specialcollections #gallery #library #archive #museum sister & brother workers operating under current circumstance in the #unitedstatesofamerica - your work, endurance, and resistance are beacons for our futures

'This is not a time to mince words. So, let me begin by saying that I speak here, today, as a woman who is proud to define herself as a dissident Jew.' Jacqueline Rose's #PENPinterPrize 2026 speech is now available to read in #PENTransmissions. www.englishpen.org/pen-transmis...

Take inspiration from cutting edge facilities in London’s Knowledge Centre … It’s a big dollar, showing the way …

Opinion: The Annals of Inisfallen are part of Irish history. They don’t belong in a British library

‘Defending’ Saudi Arabia by sending military aircraft while ‘taking on’ people with loud headphones on public transport. Great new leader of ‘Labour’ in the UK. Nobs. ‘But he’s Northern!’ Nobs.

During a debate held to discuss giving the RNLI the Freedom of the City, Portsmouth city councillors heard about the abuse that crew members had received in the city, including being confronted in pubs, yacht clubs & shops + two said their children had been bullied at school Reform UK opposed it.

So much for the curfew in #Lyon, France tonight. The Far Right have just staged a march through the city centre. Not a police goon squad in sight. (They only come out to attack students and lefties.) Vichy France is alive and kicking. 📹 ImpactMediaFR

Even if Farage was not leader of that political entity, the media would still centre him and his agenda. The only way to counter his monopoliticalmegalomania is to see off the socio-economic circumstances that populist, fascists prey on and exploit - through racism and persecution. Spread the riches

Exit, pursued by a riot (pursued by the cops) … 😀

Nothing quite sums up the abhorrent violence inherent in the state (anywhere, everywhere in the world) than a video of the cops tear gassing an orchestra playing music at the Place de la Republique in France yesterday

If Macron, a multi-millionaire investment banker, denounced his rich mates for creating the conditions that drive people to civil unrest and criminality, then that would be a start. But no, he's never going to shit on the elite that he is part of.

In reverence to the Walnut tree a couple gardens up: Fesenjan! A Persian stew with chicken. A warming, muddy, sweet and sour dish with walnuts toasted and mushed up, pomegranate molasses, cinnamon, saffron, and turmeric going on. Cooking soothes my head and heart. #fesenjan #walnuts #persian

Socioeconomic inequalities = riots. It’s not rocket science. Spread the riches.

Opening Day! Congratulations to Folger Institute Dr. Patricia Akhimie on her first exhibition here @folger.edu

Sometimes I get painfully homesick for the cliffs of the westcountry peninsula. Silly, perhaps, but I feel like I’ve been extracted ‘by life’; it’s where I viscerally feel to be. It’s such a strong longing. 🫨

"I feel myself ashamed and degraded at the brutal curiosity which took me to that brutal sight; and that I pray to Almighty God to cause this disgraceful sin to pass from among us, and to cleanse our land of blood".

Plenty of opinion pieces have been and will be written about Hegseth's depraved plans to have a man killed in front of cameras. I doubt that any will be as eloquent and distressing as Thackeray's account of his witnessing the hanging of François-Benjamin Courvoisier on 6 July 1840.

“ … and several other signs of dog-earring” Made me smile to see this in a library catalogue field 🙂

We are pleased to announce that booking is now open for our event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the 27th November! You can book to attend in-person (limited space) or virtually and all information can be found on the Eventbrite: #DisHist www.eventbrite.com/e/collection...

Incitement to violence, persecution, and murder by people with a daily national platform should be considered and dealt with as crime.

More than 300,000 public sector workers including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, will engage in a 24-hour strike over delays in agreeing a new public sector pay deal. Solidarity to Irish public sector workers 🖤 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schools so unsupportive and inflexible around their young women and menstruation. 🥹😡

I wonder if there is a missing piece here - that in France and elsewhere monastic trophies which stayed local went into public collections, especially Paris. The equivalent books which went to Britain went to aristocratic libraries, typically entering institutional collections in GB and US later.

Excellent piece on a really important project and worth saying: manuscripts follow the same path as early print in this period in England--Ottley was overseas himself and Celotti arrived w/his own dubious books.

this (from the book referenced in the article, Portrait of an Obsession) articulates why that work is needed, I think - we've been addressing difficult histories from the pov of individual collections, but when they are systemic and fragmented, you also need to take a step back

the book that I am writing is (in part) an attempt to formulate a framework to think critically through these issues, by understanding provenance as an active, manipulatable, literary, and political force rather than just a history of ownership dates