Bruce Buchan

Bruce Buchan

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Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.

👤 Joined on 21 September 2023

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The Humanities at Risk: A Statement from the Scottish Society for Northern Studies The Society expresses deep concerns about ongoing university cuts to research, teaching, and engagement in Hums and Social Sciences - sounding the alarm about long-term consequences and losses to Scottish and UK HE

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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Banning bookes ys terrible. But cutting entyre fieldes of researche by defunding universityes and closing departments doth also destroye knowledge & freedom. Universityes are the source of bookes on specialized topics. Yf you fighte booke bans, plese consider following news about universitye cuts.

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Tim Lyons
17 October 2026 04:52

The thing (IMHO) Williams was always good at was helping some boffin who may not be *a natural communicator to a general but engaged audience* and getting us to hear about important and interesting stuff.

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The NSW Legislative Council’s final report into university governance, released last month, has delivered a number of damning verdicts on the sector. https://michaelwest.com.au/university-wage-theft-nsw-academics-owed-hundreds-of-millions/

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