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· Oct 31
New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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I am buzzed, chuffed, thrilled, made up, over the moon. Pellicle is the beer publisher of the year. Now would be a perfect time to support our all-independent, extremely award-winning work.
Www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
Www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I am buzzed, chuffed, thrilled, made up, over the moon. Pellicle is the beer publisher of the year. Now would be a perfect time to support our all-independent, extremely award-winning work.
Www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
Www.patreon.com/pelliclemag
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
The racial politics of police warfare by Jas Nijjar for @manchesterup.bsky.social with a foreword from David Theo Goldberg will be must read/must teach for anyone interested in race, racism and/or policing!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
Manchester University Press - The racial politics of police warfare
The racial politics of police warfare - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The racial politics of police warfare by Jasbinder S. Nijjar
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The racial politics of police warfare by Jas Nijjar for @manchesterup.bsky.social with a foreword from David Theo Goldberg will be must read/must teach for anyone interested in race, racism and/or policing!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174420/
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She’ll be asking universities next…
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid on.ft.com/3KjmNae
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid
Chancellor is under pressure from some Labour MPs to raise levies on business this week
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
She’ll be asking universities next…
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Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS
pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS
pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Into week 2 of our strike action @sheffielducu.bsky.social as we fight for no compulsory redundancies and a pause to the programme of unjustified reviews and restructure. Donations from branches/orgs/individuals very welcome as we financially support members to stay out: tinyurl.com/yxrz3p5d
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Into week 2 of our strike action @sheffielducu.bsky.social as we fight for no compulsory redundancies and a pause to the programme of unjustified reviews and restructure. Donations from branches/orgs/individuals very welcome as we financially support members to stay out: tinyurl.com/yxrz3p5d
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New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6
Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain
This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6
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My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016.
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press!
Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma… | ...
Out in April 2026, published by Manchester University Press!
Surplus lives is a pioneering study of racial capitalism in East Central Europe. Drawing the link between political economy, anti-Roma rac...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My book *Surplus lives under racial capitalism: Roma in post-socialist Czechia* will be out in April 2016.
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
Drawing on a long-term ethnography, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/y33k947p
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My Manchester beer and pub guide is currently on sale in the @camraofficial.bsky.social webshop, so if you're looking for a good value stocking filler, I've got you sorted:
shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...
shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...
Manchester's Best Beer Pubs and Bars - CAMRA shop
Manchester serves as the gateway to the North-West for most of us in the UK, and is where the region’s enthusiasm for great beer is at its most concentrated. The city acts as a lightning rod, channell...
shop1.camra.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My Manchester beer and pub guide is currently on sale in the @camraofficial.bsky.social webshop, so if you're looking for a good value stocking filler, I've got you sorted:
shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...
shop1.camra.org.uk/product/manc...
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Out today (ebook version)! jameskneale.com/2025/11/13/t...
Temperance Lives – published today
My book – Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine 1840-1918 – is published by Bloomsbury Academic today, as an ebook anyway. Think of it as a soft launch – the hardba…
jameskneale.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Out today (ebook version)! jameskneale.com/2025/11/13/t...
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This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print!
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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This is appalling, devastating for the staff and students involved (and their families & communities) and shocking in its extent. This is jobs and lives - and a whole sub-discipline (and I know other disciplines are also at risk).
We can not just stand by.
Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.
We can not just stand by.
Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is appalling, devastating for the staff and students involved (and their families & communities) and shocking in its extent. This is jobs and lives - and a whole sub-discipline (and I know other disciplines are also at risk).
We can not just stand by.
Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.
We can not just stand by.
Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.
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New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
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Join us for an exciting panel event - Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing
📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm
📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH
Book your spot now:
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social
📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm
📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH
Book your spot now:
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Join us for an exciting panel event - Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing
📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm
📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH
Book your spot now:
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social
📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm
📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH
Book your spot now:
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social
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Looking to build back up my group of PhD students. Primarily interested in supervising in the area of drug policy but open to other areas, too. Drop me an email if you have an idea. For more information about me and my work, take a look here: tobyseddon.com
Toby Seddon
Critical thinking on drugs, drug policy & drug law reform
tobyseddon.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Looking to build back up my group of PhD students. Primarily interested in supervising in the area of drug policy but open to other areas, too. Drop me an email if you have an idea. For more information about me and my work, take a look here: tobyseddon.com
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Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How the European convention on human rights became a battleground between the centre and the right | Daniel Trilling
For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrants, says author Daniel Trilling
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
Some old photos of Glassy Junction from the 1990s, including a snap featuring Saeed Jaffrey pouring a pint
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Some old photos of Glassy Junction from the 1990s, including a snap featuring Saeed Jaffrey pouring a pint
This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
Places to come together: Rebuilding local solidarities against the far right | IPPR
In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two different, violent events in succ
www.ippr.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
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Are you a high-school or college student working part-time while studying in Manchester? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session
📍 Manchester Central Library
🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did...
#ESRCFestival
📍 Manchester Central Library
🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did...
#ESRCFestival
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Are you a high-school or college student working part-time while studying in Manchester? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session
📍 Manchester Central Library
🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did...
#ESRCFestival
📍 Manchester Central Library
🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did...
#ESRCFestival
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TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564