Gareth Millward
@millieqed.bsky.social
Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
Hey, @footballindenmark.bsky.social - when are we getting the Christmas jumper thread?
Here's Odense's offering.
Here's Odense's offering.
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hey, @footballindenmark.bsky.social - when are we getting the Christmas jumper thread?
Here's Odense's offering.
Here's Odense's offering.
This is the disability angle to go with.
Have seen the idea that the UK is *causing* mental health and developmental conditions because it's so shit, and that's not the progressive take the people making it think it is.
Have seen the idea that the UK is *causing* mental health and developmental conditions because it's so shit, and that's not the progressive take the people making it think it is.
This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.
I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is the disability angle to go with.
Have seen the idea that the UK is *causing* mental health and developmental conditions because it's so shit, and that's not the progressive take the people making it think it is.
Have seen the idea that the UK is *causing* mental health and developmental conditions because it's so shit, and that's not the progressive take the people making it think it is.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
Some pseudointellectual dipshit says something transphobic, and as I'm blocking them I'm always disappointed to see that people I respect follow them.
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Some pseudointellectual dipshit says something transphobic, and as I'm blocking them I'm always disappointed to see that people I respect follow them.
I appreciate this is peak blueskyjokeunderstanding on my part but...
... this what Christmas telly always is. The most inoffensive light entertainment to not scare away normies. It's not for us. And that's fine.
... this what Christmas telly always is. The most inoffensive light entertainment to not scare away normies. It's not for us. And that's fine.
And now, Christmas Day 2025 on BBC One:
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I appreciate this is peak blueskyjokeunderstanding on my part but...
... this what Christmas telly always is. The most inoffensive light entertainment to not scare away normies. It's not for us. And that's fine.
... this what Christmas telly always is. The most inoffensive light entertainment to not scare away normies. It's not for us. And that's fine.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢
What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums?
- Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue
- Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026
- Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #GLAM
What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums?
- Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue
- Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026
- Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #GLAM
Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢
What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums?
- Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue
- Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026
- Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #GLAM
What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums?
- Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue
- Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026
- Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...
🗃️ #GLAM
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Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
Speaking of Coventry politics...
(Sultana is MP for Cov South - the Modern Records Centre's home!)
(Sultana is MP for Cov South - the Modern Records Centre's home!)
For an "alternative" take on carol singers and #FestiveLights (or lanterns)
'Coventry News', a political newspaper from the 1980s, had a slightly different take on festivities.
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/ANC/...
'Coventry News', a political newspaper from the 1980s, had a slightly different take on festivities.
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/ANC/...
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Speaking of Coventry politics...
(Sultana is MP for Cov South - the Modern Records Centre's home!)
(Sultana is MP for Cov South - the Modern Records Centre's home!)
OK, the details appear to be that she refused to vote for Tory candidates for the Select Committee, making a show on Twitter of never voting for a Tory. Despite the fact the seats are allocated to a party in advance, so only Tories could stand for that particular seat.
This has reminded me, isn't she the MP that refused to vote for Select Committee members because there were Tories on them?
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
Sultana says she wants to ‘nationalise the entire economy’ - Stalin left the collective farms in nominal peasant ownership so she’s going beyond that. Or, just guessing, she employs empty platitudes and has never thought about any of this in any detail.
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
OK, the details appear to be that she refused to vote for Tory candidates for the Select Committee, making a show on Twitter of never voting for a Tory. Despite the fact the seats are allocated to a party in advance, so only Tories could stand for that particular seat.
This has reminded me, isn't she the MP that refused to vote for Select Committee members because there were Tories on them?
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
Sultana says she wants to ‘nationalise the entire economy’ - Stalin left the collective farms in nominal peasant ownership so she’s going beyond that. Or, just guessing, she employs empty platitudes and has never thought about any of this in any detail.
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has reminded me, isn't she the MP that refused to vote for Select Committee members because there were Tories on them?
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
Refusing to read beyond the first four lines of the New Statesman paywalled article from 2020 suggests "maybe?"
I am a professional researcher.
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To be clear, there’s a big difference between criticizing the anti-vaccine movement & discrediting their influencers/leaders vs shaming vax-hesitant or quietly vax-refusing parents. The latter backfires; the former is essential. But SciComm folks often conflate them. Cc @ryanmarino.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
To be clear, there’s a big difference between criticizing the anti-vaccine movement & discrediting their influencers/leaders vs shaming vax-hesitant or quietly vax-refusing parents. The latter backfires; the former is essential. But SciComm folks often conflate them. Cc @ryanmarino.bsky.social
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He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later
Luk Drømmene Ind
YouTube video by Anders Matthesen - Topic
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December 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
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have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
have written that piece before but there's a whole lot of "oh wow this generation of kids are fucked" and nowhere near enough "huh what exactly have that generation of parents been doing and how can we not do that, going forward"
English colleague just listened to Swedish and decided Danish is better. I have never been prouder. I hope this comes up on the residency test.
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
English colleague just listened to Swedish and decided Danish is better. I have never been prouder. I hope this comes up on the residency test.
There's zero point countering this with evidence. But, I beg, please speak to a (ONE) historian.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
There's zero point countering this with evidence. But, I beg, please speak to a (ONE) historian.
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If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
sshm.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
If anyone wants to form a panel where any of the following fit, please get in touch...
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
~in/out classifications (intelligence testing&its impacts)
~in/out of 'trauma' (reparative archiving around birth 'trauma' v. 'experience')
~in/out of the academy (expertise/engagement)
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
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Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
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@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
#history #envhistory #earlymodern
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My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
My book Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums came out this month!
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I’m so happy with how gorgeous it is in full color with 90 photos.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...