if I ran research funding, applicants would write a one-page summary of their idea and post it to a central pool from which different funders could then invite more developed proposals

Onekligen intressanta resultat från Tyskland. docs.iza.org/dp18374.pdf

Swedish researchers are desperately looking for Johnson's Baby Oil Gel with Chamomile in order to continue their research into biting midges - the product has been discontinued and so will the research unless fresh bottles (new and opened!) are found. I can't help them - can you?

every single weird right-winger who says london is such a hostile city just needs to travel with a small child. and london isn’t even very child friendly! (although it is more so than much of England, honestly).

Where is the lie?
But also, people like to think they are special, and what they are going through is special, and if there is anything historians can establish with tedious frequency it is that no, none of us are special and historical precedent echoes and coughs its way through the decades.

I don't mind this *in that* the idea that we (with jobs) are paid by our institutions does mean we (with jobs) don't necessarily need a fee.

But this is why "The Conversation" should be a co-operative of universities and scholars, not a for-profit business. And should pay freelancers.

no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of”

historians are all like “well actually”

and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say
“in these slightly precedented times”

I got to talk about sport boycotts in this BBC World Service program on Eurovision! #sporthistory #skystorians 🗃️ #eurovision

Helen Glew Historical Research and Writing

If you're in need of historical research (in archives or more generally), indexing, editing or copyediting, I have some capacity for freelance work over the coming months. Do take a look at my website and be in touch - I'm happy to chat about how I might be able to help.

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NEW POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY will work on the history of Ghanaian postcolonial film and efforts to support its digital restitution. Postdoc is part of a team of scholars, filmmakers, and archivists from Egypt, Ghana, Sudan, UK, and US (including me!). Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

2014: why did we fire all Slavists? Russian empire’s back

2026: why did we fire all medievalists? Crusades and church schisms are back

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Please share and/or consider applying to the Cambridge Amplifying Grant for underrepresented scholars. Applications are due next Monday, April 13. www.cambridge.org/us/universit.... This is a great opportunity!

A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘It’s just a bomb’ The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage

As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...

In preparation for the former class, the students and myself put together a playlist of songs related to Postcolonial London. Here’s a thread of the selections we listened to today... 🧵

A screengrab from Google Maps, showing the location of the Crystal Palace in Crystal Palace Park in South London. It reads "Temporarily Closed", which it has been for 90 years this year.

Should someone tell Google that the likelihood of The Crystal Palace reopening in Crystal Palace Park are - 90 years after it burned down - slim?

The hack of the British Library, from which it has still not fully recovered, should have been a warning that we cannot rely on digital books alone, but that would require the people making decisions on these topics to be even mildly informed on the subject.

‘Women’s Section, Do Not Make Me Feel Like a Motherless Child!’ Politics, Care, and Welfare in ANC Women’s Experiences of Sweden This article uses oral history and auto/biographical sources to sketch a social history of exile in Sweden from the early 1960s until the early 1990s. Using voices belonging to women of the African...

🚨New article alert: What happened to the South African activists who lived in Sweden during the struggle against apartheid? I spoke to some of them, searched through archives in South Africa and Sweden, and wrote an article for South African Historical Journal. Open acess: doi.org/10.1080/0258...

Jaha. Har ni sett den här dårskapen från Parisa Liljestrand då?

Hon frågar alltså ChatGPT om hur det står till med kvinnovården på Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Malmö.

On that note, I’d very happily make them a list of decent human English language copy editors who can deal with academic prose. Please give me all of your recommendations (and please recommend yourself if you fit the bill)!

a drawing of a person pushing a large rock up a hill . Alt: a drawing of a person (Sisyphus) pushing a large rock up a hill .

Telling colleagues not to use Co-Pilot for translation and copy editing.

People in Brisbane, make yourselves known! I’ve got an excellent student who will be working on her dissertation in Brisbane in April-May, and would like to give her some points of contact.

The animated titles for Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993), Picture Partnership Productions

Sequence directed by Derek W. Hayes of Animation City

Born in Sweden, baby Emanuel to be deported to Iran - Radio Sweden After a ruling by the Migration Agency, eight month old baby Emanuel, who was born in Sweden, is facing a deportation order to his family's homeland of ...

Sweden deports eight month old baby to Iran without his parents, national public radio reports. The ruling is a consequence of the harsh immigration laws initiated by the success of the nazi-originated party that is now crucial to the government’s mandate, but most parties are behind these laws.

A photo taken at a bookshop: a kid too young to read Heated Rivalry, but into all things sport holds a copy in their hands (it’s got two ice hockey players on the cover after all). The design is very simple - flat, even.

For comparison: Heated Rivalry on another shelf in another country. A person more knowledgeable than me has just informed me this is “flat character design”, and yes, totally.

A photo of a bookshelf at a bookshop at Copenhagen Airport. Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity and About A Boy have colourful possibly AI-generated minimalistic drawings on their covers - much like Heated Rivalry’s.

I see Nick Hornby’s books have been given the Heated Rivalry treatment by his Danish publisher.

Laura Royer: "Scholarly Institutions and the Post-Colonial World of Knowledge: The International Congress of Africanists (1962-1991)", Halftime seminar – Department of History of Science and Ideas – U...

On my way to Uppsala for tomorrow's Higher Seminar in the History of Science and Ideas, where I will be the opponent discussing Laura Royer's 50% PhD draft on the International Congress of Africanists. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

There is a spectre haunting Malmö university, the spectre of Gramsci (the door opened silently in the middle of my lecture on cultural and gender hegemony, but no one was there).

A photo of a print-out of a PowerPoint slide showing UNHCR’s statistics on forcibly displaced worldwide. The number of displaced rises continuously from 60 million in 2014 to 123.2 million in 2024.

Back at work to teach a seminar on migration with the help of UNHCR statistics.

A few weeks ago, I was teaching a class on the consequences of war during the 20th century; today I’m wondering whether SpongeBob SquarePants would have existed had the First World War not happened.