I'm over the moon that Annabel Goldie, former Scottish Tory Leader, has agreed to speak at my @mileendinstitute.bsky.social book launch on 18 November! We've got a fabulous line-up including the voice of Radio 4 and the author of THE book on Scottish nationalism so do join us! shorturl.at/mbkbi

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As more people got access to degrees gradually they weren’t seen as worth as much… fast forward to today where we’re being told machines can & should do our thinking & our work. The oligarchs saying this are descendants (in some cases literally) of the people who tried to keep most of us uneducated.

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Chris Wickham was endlessly curious, he was a life-long learner of languages, methods, problem. An important British interlocutor with _Annales_ history-making and expositor of the Marxist historical tradition. Always humane and engaged. A loss not only to his loved ones, but to all historians.

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This week’s Page by Page is in honour of one of the most wonderful colleagues I ever had the pleasure of working with: Julia Boffey (1953-2026). maryflannery.substack.com/p/for-julia-...

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'Go, litel book'. And as its much missed supporter Björn Weiler said of one of his books, 'If reviewer 2 is mean, sit on them'. Landscapes of the Normans submitted at last. #medievalsky

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