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Gareth Millward
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Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I mean look, this is straightforward reputational damage to this university right? Like, do I need to draw a line from this immensely lazy 'teaching' to the PR and recruitment consequences? I suspect I don't. People hamming it up like AI will change education forever are sellin' snake-oil
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I'm loathed to do PR for the competition (😘), but if anyone is interested in this (excellent-looking!) post and wants to talk to someone about what it's like as a foreigner to work in the Danish system, I'm happy to chat.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Job Klaxon:

Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Once again: Labour produced a spectacularly untalented generation of politicians in New Labour’s slipstream, and everything from Corbyn’s election as leader to the current government’s travails is downstream of and undeniable proof of that.
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Social Democrat defeat in Copenhagen is big and significant, but I do warn people - if Labour completely collapsed in London, would that *in itself* make this Labour leadership change course?
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
lol
lmao, in fact
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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Surefire sign that it's a great Star Trek idea
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Still time to sign up for @garylove.bsky.social's online seminar tomorrow on Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives
Professor Gary Love will present his research on Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91
www.history.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Bins update: the 2nd largest city in the UK hasn't had a domestic recycling service for 11 months. The agency workers brought in to break the strike have themselves balloted for strike action successfully & will also now be going on strike in 2 weeks' time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham agency bin staff to strike over bullying
Unite say the staff are not crossing picket lines, due to intimidation at the council's refuse section.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Historian pals: looking for some reading recommendations on post-1945 sex work in England and, particularly, London — both in terms of its actual conduct as well as campaigns against it, including by police. Particularly late 1950s-early 1960s!
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
OK, but, to be fair, May did try to say one thing to the Telegraph and another to the EU in the hopes that nobody in the German government could read English...
No! Labour is not operating on the basis that you can say something in the Sun, then feint into something more liberal in reality! They’re not that crazy.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Completely wrong info here being reposted by 500+ people. Great.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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For the record, on Radio 4 yesterday Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he had some regrets about having introduced this law whilst Danish PM in 2016. Sounded like he was trying to distance himself from what Labour is doing now
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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could i make it any more obvious
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What I'm gathering from the UK news is that now is a good time for someone to do some comparative historical work on Danish and British asylum law...
November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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At the
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Så er det i dag, Rasmus Glenthøj holder sin tiltrædelsesforelæsning. Det bliver uden tvivl interessant 👇
#1800-tallet #nationalisme #historie #internationalpolitik #forelæsning #historiesdu #politiskhistoriesdu #empiressdu #sdu #sdudk @empiressdu.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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"maybe THIS time spending all day rebutting him point by point on social media will convince everyone else to ignore him, as he so richly deserves"
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM