A great time to double-down on the new mantra of UK HE policymakers: universities and university researchers should do less research...

“About 1,400 survivors were staying at community shelters”

The typhoon really brought damage to entire Alaska Native communities in Western Alaska

Climate change is severely impacting land, waters, and Indigenous communities

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Drama on the Isle of Lewis

"Treasure Seekers At Bexhill-On-Sea." The beach below Channel View, postcard c.1910. #Bexhill #Sussex #Seaside #Beach #Holiday #History #1910s

Oh, look!

History in practice ... another design/ tech we've done before, coming back around, here on environmental & economic grounds.

@lr-foundation.bsky.social

The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on - BBC News share.google/4shumvYj8gUQ...

Ship's Papers Used in Court (HCA/32/111C/2 and 3):
Every time a ship was captured by the British, all documents that could be found on board were confiscated to be used as evidence in court (read more below) #earlymodern #history #maritimehistory #skystorians

one of the astonishing things about working in a UK uni in the last decade is complete DISCONNECT between (on one hand) hostile media stories, ill informed govt policy, end of unis as we know them

and (on the other) the joyful work of actually talking w/students and discovering new things together

Alaska Community Foundation is the link. Donate if you can; re-post helps, too. Thank you. #Alaska #AlaskaFlooding

I am giving the opening/keynote lecture at The 2025 Scottish Maritime History Conference in Glasgow next week. 'Virtual Viola: electronically salvaging the career of the world’s oldest steam trawler'.

Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr

This week's North Sea Nexus post explores the rich linguistic inheritance of words for the watery realm between land and sea

This #MapMonday, explore historic maps of #Ireland!

We've added new georeferenced map layers to our Maps Images Website. View first and second edition one-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps in our georeferenced and side-by-side viewers 🗺️

Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Looking forward to talking all things #gloucesterwreck on Wednesday this week in Loddon ... All welcome ⚓⚓⚓

I counted up the number of ways (platforms, accounts, apps) that people in my professional and personal lives plus healthcare systems and kid’s school are contacting me and uhh. This is objectively impossible.

Just 2 days to go on this - time to get reading!

#Railway200 #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory

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'I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history. I think it’s always really important to face your own history honestly ...'

Toppling statues is an act of protest. It's about contesting a collective memory. NEVER about denying history.
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The eastern entrance (common to IA hillforts I believe) of Old Winchester Hill above the South Downs Way in Hampshire. Certainly a place that I wish to spend more time in the future.

Top marks for this diorama from The Fram Museum. it has a theodolite and huskies (two dogs are toppled, which merely hints at their fates).

Something that's so hard with reading history second-hand is to remember that no one knew what was going to come next. Which is archives magic.

Nobody at *this exact moment* knows that Nurse Cavell will become a tragedy and a cause celebre. They just know what she has done, and her family.

1934 aerial view of Anchorage. Note how 5th Avenue ends in the east. And the downtown baseball field. This is from the National Archives. My article posting later today is about even rarer views of Anchorage and a reminder to exploit resources like this. #alaskahistory #alaska

Congratulations, and well deserved!

'Animating the Dead: An #Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in #Orkney' by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards follows decades of research and incorporates new excavation results and radiocarbon dates from sites across the county. Available to pre-order now.
#BronzeAge #Prehistory

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading, watching, and listening to from September!

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#envhist

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values