Today, Vladimir Putin returned the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky to the FSB Academy, for his “outstanding contribution to ensuring state security.” Dzerzhinsky was the first head of Bolshevik’s secret police in 1918-1926 and the architect of the Red Terror
When Thomas Ellwood repeatedly flouted his father’s command in 1659 to stay away from the Quakers, his behaviour provoked bitter family quarrels and a beating, until his father eventually found a surprising solution: he confiscated all his son’s hats. Thomas became in effect a prisoner in the house, accepting that it would be unthinkable to go outside without a hat. However strange to us today, this made perfect sense to contemporaries, and such episodes remind us that the multifaceted conventions surrounding dress played an important role in early modern culture. When, where, and how hats were worn, and the gestures in which they featured, conveyed signals about identity and status, could sustain, display, or defy social hierarchies and relationships, and asserted political or religious loyalties.
📣Out now on #firstview
Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England'
#Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia"
by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
One of the victims, a seven-year-old boy, was blind and had special needs. Shot in the head and face.
Exactly!
A book cover with a poster at center showing a woman in a purple skirt, orange top, and black boots waving to a distant crowd, opposite a taller looming woman in white. At bottom is the book title, Circulating Subjects, in black and at top is the author's name, Philippa Hetherington, in orange type.
An incredible cover has landed for an incredible book - Philippa Hetherington's "Circulating Subjects: Sex Work and Migration in Russia, 1885–1935."
More on how to pre-order a copy of her "riveting" and "radical" @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
'The real question is whose vision of the world is being built into the systems our students increasingly rely on.'
This is my first article on Soviet history relied exclusively on declassified American and British archives. It is also my first piece to be reviewed by five peer reviewers. The story of the Cold War, the KGB, and same-sex entrapment that no one has ever written about.
direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
The directorship of SSEES has been advertised. Closing date 15th February. Spread the word!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
My article in @fwwsjournal.bsky.social ! Open access! #FWW #WWI
In it: social revenge as a key cause of soldiers’ unrest in 1917 and struggles for dignity and equality against paternalistic orders during #RussianRevolution
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Meanwhile, one of the key front lines in any geopolitical confrontation - the university sector - is busy (1) hollowing itself out and (2) making itself dependent on US tech. Okay guys! Let's see where that gets you. 😬
Congratulations, Anna! Looking forward to this.
Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
“Universities can and must adapt…However…when the values and behaviours that are made salient are those that undermine curiosity, critical thought and public service, the term ‘university’ begins to lose its substance.”
📣Out now on #firstview!
Keir Waddington (Cardiff University) on 'Living with Drought in the Long Nineteenth Century'
#Water #Environment #Climate #Rural #Weather
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).
Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians
When's the last time you heard a VC whose university has financial woes speak openly & eloquently about why what his/her/their institution does really matters & merits investment? Why can't/won't university leaders work to change the conversation? With this profile, this VC should be able to. 2/2
New skills White Paper proposes radical changes to UK research that ‘could tear up long-held notions of what a British university is, rolling back the Humboldtian model of research-informed higher education’. Jack Grove reports #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/YuQy50Xov5F
Looks great, Esther. Congrats!
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Complete shutdown in archive access since invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian studies, say historians finding ways to keep discipline going www.timeshighereducation.com/news/locked-out-archives...
'If the ceasefire holds, this language is an augur of the future. One where there is no reckoning, no addressing of root causes. Only a hurtling into the imperatives of cleanings-up and workings-out. All the while illegal occupation continues'.
“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)
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Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This looks superb, Mark, and intriguing.
Super news Mark!
