Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts Fossil fuel production must be phased out globally to decarbonise human society. Yet some countries should phase out sooner than others. Determining the order in which countries should phase out pr...

📝New publication!

Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate:

1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁

2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲

3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀

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If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events:

18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis...

26 June, Linnean Society, London
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9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge
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A view of the workshop room, with a board showing the current presentation at the back, and participants.

A photo of the programme on a table.

And so we begin: the first panel on friendship and solidarity, with papers on Portugal and Cuba, emotional work in the Zimbabwean anti-apartheid movement and women in the Uzbek Friendship Society during decolonisation.

This is a very human(e) addition about what students are being stripped of in the mad rush towards "AI". The heart of rebuttal is about those crucial things we try to educate towards: a flowering personhood, an adaptive, and curious, type of resilience. AI eats that stuff and leaves nothing behind.

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...

'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.'

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

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UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

#OtD 6 Apr 1981 Operation Swamp 81 was carried out by police in Brixton, rounding up and searching Black residents. In five days, over 900 people were stopped and searched, with 82 arrests. The local area erupted into rioting, which spread nationally stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1058...

Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l

My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#OtD 1 Apr 1998 Christopher Alder died on a police station floor in Hull, UK. While unconscious, police failed to examine him and made monkey noises over his body. A verdict of unlawful killing was made in 2000. No officers were ever found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8041...

I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

‘Fancy calling an election on the day of my History "O" Level’: teenagers write about age and adulthood in late 1980s Britain

Hello everyone going to the British History Today conference at @qmcbs.bsky.social at the start of May! I'm giving a paper on young people, politics & age in late 1980s Britain at the @ihr.bsky.social
the night before! See details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/fancy... #skystorians #histchild 🗃️

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

A tripartite bar graph showing the incidence of LLMs making up citations or links to sources that don't exist. Please navigate through the link to the full report to see all the details (too many to transcribe here).

When I describe "AI" chatbots as plagiarism engines, I'm not exaggerating, I'm simply describing reality:
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War at University of Westminster Find a PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view m...

PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...

International Women's Day poster, cartoon of a group of women with hands on hips

This International Women's Day use the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about women’s history. In our subject tree, ‘women’ offers over 40,000 articles, chapters, and books – why not have a look for yourself? buff.ly/3L7a33B

More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach 26th February 2025

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)".
No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.

Work of professional services staff ‘invisible’ in universities ‘Survival guide’ aims to tackle ‘age-old binary that permeates the sector’

Academia’s “labyrinth of acronyms, endless forms, and confusing hierarchies” can be barriers for professional services staff hoping to enter the sector, according to a new book. @patrickjack.bsky.social writes

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Photo of a yellow Labrador sitting down with dark mud all over his nose and feet

He's very proud of his mudstache

Genuine question - why won't people (journalists, I'm particularly looking at you) just use the past tense when talking about the past?!?

Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive Laura Forster is joined by Ajamu X and E-J Scott to discuss public history, the queer archive, and what it means to queer the museum.

In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month.

In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth

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Intimacy, community and identity: an untold Cambridge story A new book published this January, Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living...

Explore an alternative history of Cambridge 📖🌈

'Queer Cambridge' delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living for many decades in the heart of the University

Discover more about the new @cambridgeup.bsky.social book 👇

Online reading lists from BBIH A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.

Are you studying or researching the histories of sexuality? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) contains a wealth of resources in this area.

You can also explore our LGBTQIA+ history reading list

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM

Manchester University Press - Unhappy mothers Unhappy mothers - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Unhappy mothers by Sarah Crook

And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

We see a photograph of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. Her long dress has a full skirt with a crinoline underneath. She is leaning on a chair, looking straight to camera with a look of serene confidence.

We see a photograph of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century.

#OnThisDay 170 years ago, the first women were granted admission to the University Library as readers.

Constantia Ann Ellicott, pictured here, was one of them.

To find out more, head to the latest
@theulspeccoll.bsky.social
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