Sarah Crook
@sarahcrook.bsky.social
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
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Britain has lost over 75% of its informal meeting spaces since 1980, pushing people into isolation, more time spent online, and towards the far right.
Can new policy 'Pride In Place' turn it around?
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-is...
By Sam Taylor Hill
Can new policy 'Pride In Place' turn it around?
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-is...
By Sam Taylor Hill
What is Labour’s Pride In Place Programme, and will it be Enough to Build a Good Society?
Why Labour must also connect local efforts under the Pride In Place programme to a national story of renewal.
politicalquarterly.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Britain has lost over 75% of its informal meeting spaces since 1980, pushing people into isolation, more time spent online, and towards the far right.
Can new policy 'Pride In Place' turn it around?
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-is...
By Sam Taylor Hill
Can new policy 'Pride In Place' turn it around?
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-is...
By Sam Taylor Hill
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DEADLINE APPROACHING
The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
DEADLINE APPROACHING
The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
The first position with the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods at the University of Oxford has a deadline this Friday at noon UK time. Come be the first member of the team who are going to revolutionise methods training at Oxford!
www.politics.ox.ac.uk/opportunity/...
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This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Ok, so we’ve come to the end of the first season of The Diplomat and it’s… variable. But I’ve heard it gets great! When does that happen?
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Ok, so we’ve come to the end of the first season of The Diplomat and it’s… variable. But I’ve heard it gets great! When does that happen?
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This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
OBR PDFgate investigation is out. obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
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Any author with a first degree is eligible (exceptions below); submitted essay must be unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Not open to current employees or Fellows of the British Academy, employees of CUP, or current editors/staff staff of the British Journal of Political Science
Not open to current employees or Fellows of the British Academy, employees of CUP, or current editors/staff staff of the British Journal of Political Science
Entries are now open for the 2026 Brian Barry Prize ✍️
The prize is awarded annually for excellence in political science. The winner receives £1,500 and will be published in @bjpols.bsky.social.
Follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/3XUKdG1
The prize is awarded annually for excellence in political science. The winner receives £1,500 and will be published in @bjpols.bsky.social.
Follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/3XUKdG1
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Any author with a first degree is eligible (exceptions below); submitted essay must be unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Not open to current employees or Fellows of the British Academy, employees of CUP, or current editors/staff staff of the British Journal of Political Science
Not open to current employees or Fellows of the British Academy, employees of CUP, or current editors/staff staff of the British Journal of Political Science
In the year of 2025 I really should not be joining meetings on Zoom only to realise that my laptop is fully muted and turn myself up without clocking that everyone in the meeting will be blasted with 10 seconds of late-2000s indie rock as I've merrily left Spotify blasting in the background
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
In the year of 2025 I really should not be joining meetings on Zoom only to realise that my laptop is fully muted and turn myself up without clocking that everyone in the meeting will be blasted with 10 seconds of late-2000s indie rock as I've merrily left Spotify blasting in the background
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We’re looking for a brilliant producer to lead my @LBC Sunday show
Come and help make news, provide the best insight, digital content and prove Sunday political shows aren’t boring
Link below. Any Qs get in touch 👇
careers.global.com/jobs/R0009023
We’re looking for a brilliant producer to lead my @LBC Sunday show
Come and help make news, provide the best insight, digital content and prove Sunday political shows aren’t boring
Link below. Any Qs get in touch 👇
careers.global.com/jobs/R0009023
Producer
Find your next move. Join our talented and passionate Globallers doing the best work of their career.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
We’re looking for a brilliant producer to lead my @LBC Sunday show
Come and help make news, provide the best insight, digital content and prove Sunday political shows aren’t boring
Link below. Any Qs get in touch 👇
careers.global.com/jobs/R0009023
We’re looking for a brilliant producer to lead my @LBC Sunday show
Come and help make news, provide the best insight, digital content and prove Sunday political shows aren’t boring
Link below. Any Qs get in touch 👇
careers.global.com/jobs/R0009023
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This is very clear on the UK's growth strategy. Explaining how it fits together and what they are doing and why.
All seems very sensible to me.
All seems very sensible to me.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is very clear on the UK's growth strategy. Explaining how it fits together and what they are doing and why.
All seems very sensible to me.
All seems very sensible to me.
In a museum and my oldest has found a documentary about women in politics and my youngest is watching a video about the history of unions and friendly societies. I’ve peaked!
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In a museum and my oldest has found a documentary about women in politics and my youngest is watching a video about the history of unions and friendly societies. I’ve peaked!
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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The late 1950s through children's imagination - pop culture, aspirations, tea and sudden death
The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild
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The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/LAH/...
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The late 1950s through children's imagination - pop culture, aspirations, tea and sudden death
The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/LAH/...
The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild
mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/LAH/...
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It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Honestly, the press framing of tax is just so gross. These headlines could be: thousands of kids lifted out of poverty; £2m houses taxed more fairly; taxes raised to support hospitals and schools and other good things
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Honestly, the press framing of tax is just so gross. These headlines could be: thousands of kids lifted out of poverty; £2m houses taxed more fairly; taxes raised to support hospitals and schools and other good things
Me, a journal editor: these things take TIME, we are just PEOPLE, doing our BEST, everyone understands
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Me, a journal editor: these things take TIME, we are just PEOPLE, doing our BEST, everyone understands
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Senior Editor, Local Reporting Network
Remote, United States
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
On my three hour return train with my (sleeping) baby and the GWR refreshments trolley staff just gave me a coffee for free. Even if it was a sympathy coffee for how tired I look I’ll still chalk them up as heroes and this journey as the best ever
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On my three hour return train with my (sleeping) baby and the GWR refreshments trolley staff just gave me a coffee for free. Even if it was a sympathy coffee for how tired I look I’ll still chalk them up as heroes and this journey as the best ever
Pimlott lecture here we come
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pimlott lecture here we come
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Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
Getting Emotional About History? A Panel Discussion | King's College London
Want to learn more about what studying emotions in the past entails? Interested in how historians manage their own emotional relationships with their source material?
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
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Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Two years into waking up every two hours with my youngest, I’ve found that playing London Thunder by Foals immediately and reliably stops her crying and - miraculously! - puts her back to sleep. Off to 2014 to buy her skinny jeans and a stripy top and converse
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Two years into waking up every two hours with my youngest, I’ve found that playing London Thunder by Foals immediately and reliably stops her crying and - miraculously! - puts her back to sleep. Off to 2014 to buy her skinny jeans and a stripy top and converse
We're so looking forward to @historianhelen.bsky.social's @mbhjournal.bsky.social lecture at KCL next week. Attendees should have just received an email from me, but can I please ask anyone who knows they can't come to cancel their booking? It's fully booked and we have 30 people on the wait list!
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We're so looking forward to @historianhelen.bsky.social's @mbhjournal.bsky.social lecture at KCL next week. Attendees should have just received an email from me, but can I please ask anyone who knows they can't come to cancel their booking? It's fully booked and we have 30 people on the wait list!
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
royalhistsoc.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...