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Richard Toye

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Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's 9 days until polling day and we’re continuing our countdown of Victorian election facts. 9. The secret ballot was not used at parliamentary elections until 1872. Before this, voting took place in public. This blog explains how the system worked: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/e...

Elections before the secret ballot

This month marks the 141st anniversary of the first use of the secret ballot to elect an MP, at a by-election in the Yorkshire borough of Pontefract. Before the 1872 Ballot Act, and throughout the per...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Jun 24

Today I had a good 30-minute chat with Michael Weatherburn from Project Hindsight, covering what historical lessons the incoming Labour government might learn on economic policy... The recording is here:
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Prof. Glen O'Hara - economic and industrial policy: history for an incoming government

Interview with Prof. Glen O'Hara about his thoughts on historical insights for an incoming UK government. Find out more about his work: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/glen-o-hara This is part of an event series aimed at addressing real-world issues using history and historical evidence. Find out more at: https://www.projecthindsight.co.uk/labs

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 24

Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.

Zanzibar coral: How Mnemba islanders are restoring their reef

Conservationists have found a way to restore a reef off one of Zanzibar's islands.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jun 23

Just finished watching Pompeii: The New Dig, it was fantastic! A great archaeological documentary with no presenter, just the archaeologists and specialists explaining the astonishing archaeology themselves: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Pompeii: The New Dig

Following the biggest archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 25

It's the latest new and free writing from me! Our university Arts and Humanities are being torn apart by a lack of planning and care. We must act now, or we're going to waste all the decades and billions we've invested in them: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Saving humanities - Research Professional News

Glen O’Hara argues that arts and humanities subjects are victims of a chaotic system

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · Feb 23

I understand why so many critical studies academics are rushing to pivot their research toward using AI to do digital humanities work, but I really REALLY wish more of them would double down on critical analysis, argumentation, ethics, and discernment in the age of AI instead.

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Stephan A. Glienke @glienkestephan.bsky.social · Jan 27

#wirsindmehr

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Nov 24

Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief - 'Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often highly problematic colonial role “[has] to be part of the mainstream narrative about British history” '

Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief

Nick Merriman says inclusion of difficult stories of slavery and empire is not wokery, but ‘simply good history’

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 24

I don't like Stoicism, but I've got to put up with it.

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 24

Q. What do you get if you cross Nye Bevan with Desperate Dan?

A. A cow pie that's free at the point of use.

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 20

Roger Liddle's generous review of Age of Hope: "Toye’s book is a joy to read, thoroughly researched and intellectually stimulating, compelling analysis laced with amusing anecdote."

www.progressivebritain.org/review-richa...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Nov 15

More **NEW** and **FREE** writing from our 'All Our Footsteps' project on Rights of Way... This time Gareth Roddy of Northumbria University writes about what the many pasts of Hadrian's Wall tell us about landscape and the experience of space. Take a look! 👇 www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/s...

Seeing like a quarryman: an unfamiliar ‘archive of the feet’ along Hadrian’s Wall — In All O...

Last year I walked along the middle section of Hadrian’s Wall Path, a National Trail that opened in 2003 and follows the line of the Roman Wall for 84 miles coast to coast, between Wallsend in the...

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Nadia Zaboura @nadiazaboura.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hamas murdered Vivian Silver. www.jta.org/2023/11/13/i...

Vivian Silver, veteran Canadian-Israeli peace activist, declared dead in Hamas massacre - Jewish Tel...

Until Monday, Silver, 74, was assumed to be among the more than 200 people held captive by Hamas.

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · Nov 13

Politicians will discount constituent letters if they disagree with the letters. But providing strong, unambiguous evidence of expertise in the policy area can reduce this discounting, finds Bergan et al.

When writing legislators, provide a link or cite to your expertise

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Discounting constituent attitudes: motivated reasoning, ambiguity, and policymaker perceptions of constituent characteristics

Effects of attitudes and message characteristics on evaluations of constituent communications.

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Effects of prior attitudes and letter characteristics on evaluations of constituent communications

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Renatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · Nov 13

Am vergangenen Wochenende habe ich in der SZ über meine Geburtsstadt Dresden, über Victor Klemperer und meine Lesungen aus seinem Tagebuch 1933-1945 geschrieben. Habt vielen Dank für die schöne Resonanz!
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/victo...

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · Nov 12

Call for Contributions! Ed. Collection: #Bonkbuster! Sex and Popular Romance from the 1950s to the Present Day. Please share!

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · Nov 12

We offer bursaries to final year undergraduates, those studying for taught Masters degrees, and postgrad MA/PhD-level researchers. Find out more sslh.org.uk/2023/10/08/s...

SSLH bursaries: financial support for labour history researchers

Are you supervising a student studying a labour history topic for their dissertation in 2023-24? Or do you know a postgraduate researcher (MA and doctoral) or independent scholar engaged in postgradua...

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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · Nov 11

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...

Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · Nov 11

Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇

PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History at Newcastle University

jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.

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badly-drawn boo! 👻 @soapachu.bsky.social · Nov 11

gosh there's no pleasing her, is there?

Screengrab from Twitter. Professional child-hater and moronic culture war hypocrite Katharine Birbalsingh is commenting on the new John Lewis ad, which doesn't feature a dad. She asks 'Is that just what happens these days? We have got rid of dads'?
Twitter user @caralisette replies: Maybe they could do one with two dad next year to make up for it, bet you'd love that idea, right?'
Birbalsingh: No

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Nov 10

#jobalert Project Manager: Collections Move, Holburne Museum, Bath

Details here: www.holburne.org/job-vacancies/

Current Vacancies - The Holburne Museum

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · Nov 10

Can anyone suggest good fonts to use in mocking up a 19th century-look poster? 🗃️ #C19th

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 5

Thanks!

Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Nov 5

Me too, please!

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Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social · Nov 3

Please do join us for the launch of Pet Revolution, with me, Julie-Marie Strange, Helen Cowie and Diana James (Blue Cross) in conversation on histories of animals in British Life. Fri Nov 24th - online at lunchtime. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pet-revolu...

Pet Revolution! Animals and the Making of Modern British Life

Join us for the launch of Pet Revolution - a history of the importance of animals in the making of modern British life.

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Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social · Nov 3

Thanks to Richard Toye for his excellent book presentation yesterday and to Gareth Millward for his great comments and questions. Get your copy asap!
#AgeOfHope #politiskhistoriesdu #sdu @richardtoye.bsky.social @millieqed.bsky.social @christiandp.bsky.social

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Nov 2

Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist
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Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Duelling in the archive: labour quotas for disabled Britons, 1944-1995 will be given by Lucy Delap on Thursday 12 October 20...

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · Nov 1

📣New BLOG

Ben Jackson (Oxford): 'Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy'

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/poli...

Political Thought and the Welfare State: Jose Harris's History of Social Policy

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Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social · Nov 1

Looking forward to next research seminar today with Richard Toye, “Arguing About Empire: Methods for Studying Imperial Rhetoric”, co-organized by Network for the study of imperialism and SDU Political History Group
@richardtoye.bsky.social @polhistsdu.bsky.social #politiskhistoriesdu

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Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social · Oct 31

It was fun while it lasted.

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