Ross Balzaretti
@rossbalzaretti.bsky.social
Historian, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham. He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Nottingham University spent £80m on Castle Meadow Campus & now decides to sell it
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Struggling university selling £80m 'vanity project' campus
Unions criticised the 'vanity project' as being partly to blame for hundreds of job cuts
www.nottinghampost.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nottingham University spent £80m on Castle Meadow Campus & now decides to sell it
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Only 2 buildings were ever used
No one is taking blame for huge fiasco
University blithely calls it “strategic realignment” -- while sacking staff & closing courses
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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After 1997 the watering down of the New Labour Employment Rights Bill was described as 'practical'. In 2025 the watering down of the Newer Labour Employment Rights Bill is described as 'pragmatic'. Its the same old song...
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Labour & Employment Rights 1997-2025. The same old song…
Labour & Employment Rights 1997-2025. The same old song Labour’s Employment Bill is back in the Lords. In some cases it won’t be until the autumn of 2026 before some measures become law. There …
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November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
After 1997 the watering down of the New Labour Employment Rights Bill was described as 'practical'. In 2025 the watering down of the Newer Labour Employment Rights Bill is described as 'pragmatic'. Its the same old song...
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.
'Bols and Maguire trace the current financial problems higher education institutions are facing back to the government’s decision to remove the limit on student numbers in 2015-16 and deregulate student recruitment, while maintaining caps on tuition fees, thus limiting universities’ income.' 2/3
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The removal of individual institutions’ student number caps was a disaster.
These are really useful questions for workers fighting useless university senior management across the sector.
As mgmt at UoN continue to gaslight staff at town halls over reckless changes and cuts, Phil has put together some FUQs (frequently unanswered questions)
How many jobs will go? Have the modellied the risks associated with such a high SSR?
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How many jobs will go? Have the modellied the risks associated with such a high SSR?
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Frequently Unanswered Questions (FUQs)
The following questions have all been submitted during (or before) various senior management “Town Hall” meetings in recent weeks. It may not come as a complete surprise to hear that re…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
These are really useful questions for workers fighting useless university senior management across the sector.
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The last person I want to hear from on employment rights is the woman overseeing the destruction of one of the UK’s most valuable sectors.
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights
Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the climbdown would enable wider benefits to be delivered quickly.
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The last person I want to hear from on employment rights is the woman overseeing the destruction of one of the UK’s most valuable sectors.
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Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
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Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Not only is it at risk of closure, the current plan is to gut human geography at Leicester by merging Geosciences and Chemistry - please sign this!
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I'm a member of the Green Party, and I've just donated.
If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well.
Either way, please repost.
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If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well.
Either way, please repost.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I'm a member of the Green Party, and I've just donated.
If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well.
Either way, please repost.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
If you can afford to and you want to see decent, humane local and national government policies that support the poor, migrants and the environment, please donate as well.
Either way, please repost.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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It's on Linguist List so I guess it's official....Language & LGBTQ+ Youth is out now!! 🎉 📚
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
It's on Linguist List so I guess it's official....Language & LGBTQ+ Youth is out now!! 🎉 📚
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Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In the late twentieth century, Geraldine L. Wilson emerged as one of the leading voices in early Black childhood education, grounding her pedagogy in Black history and culture. This article traces th...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts.
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
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Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts.
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
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Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…
University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning
MPs called for the University of Nottingham to immediately pause the suspension of certain courses
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November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
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Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
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Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
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Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
Rally against course closures at University of Nottingham this afternoon. Round 2 tomorrow @ 10am
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rally against course closures at University of Nottingham this afternoon. Round 2 tomorrow @ 10am
University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
Staff, students and high-profile musicians have decried the proposals
www.nottinghampost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
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Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop share.google/yQWWFlkhfbqI...
Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop share.google/yQWWFlkhfbqI...
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Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
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It's worth noting that this is NOT a protest about the genocide in Palestine.
This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.
This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.
I'll just leave this here without comment...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
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Activists led away as police swarm Palestine Action protest
The demonstration is organised by activist group Defend Our Juries near Central Library
www.nottinghampost.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's worth noting that this is NOT a protest about the genocide in Palestine.
This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.
This is a protest about the British government overreaching and using the law to ban peaceful protest by citizens.
I'll just leave this here without comment...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Activists led away as police swarm Palestine Action protest
The demonstration is organised by activist group Defend Our Juries near Central Library
www.nottinghampost.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'll just leave this here without comment...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
Nottingham live updates as activists led away by police at Palestine Action protest
www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...