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🚨An Open Letter to the University of Chichester🚨 Professor Hakim Adi’s post is at risk of termination and all recruitment to the unique Masters by Research (MRes) on the History of Africa and the African Diaspora has been suspended. 👇🏾 historymatters.online/post/open-lett…

This boycott is righteous. I wish it every success tho it’ll make my life harder in the short run. ‘Securing’ supervisors for my students is the worst part of my job. It requires a pretence of fairness of compensation which everybody knows isn’t there, as the system is broken.

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V sad about this but The Guardian I really don’t think Seamus Heaney did tweet this today

Please help!!! As a public worker I have had my livelihood taken away. Pursuant to my rights under UK GDPR I'm trying to find ANY communication channel w/ Facebook Meta who have ignored all of my messages since their algorithm inexplicably disabled my account without notice.

They saw the campaign pushing for the reinstating of the MRes History of Africa and the African Diaspora and said let’s fire the professor teaching it too. Shame on the University on Chichester and solidarity with Professor Adi and the students who organised the campaign.

An extraordinary story with chilling implications for any historian who dares to link the injustices of the past with the inequalities of the present bbc.co.uk/news/uk-666487…

Schools are back in full swing, and Dr Max Long is helping history teachers by releasing a free set of #teaching resources based on British natural history and interwar Britain. jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/bring… #EdChat #JesusCollegeCambridge Cambridge History Max Long @[email protected]

On behalf of the entire Justice4CollegeSupervisors campaign (J4CS), thank you Open University UCU, Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social, Bangor UCU and Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social) for generously supporting our fight for fair pay and contracts for all Cambridge college supervisors.

Finally! These fees have always been a scam

It will cost the British Library £7 million – or about 40% of its reserves – to recover from a devastating cyberattack in October. Its services still aren't running properly. I spoke to Max Long @[email protected] and a cybersecurity expert about what it all means open.spotify.com/episode/60YcEK…

‘My Czech family’s house stands on a geopolitical rift: it occupies a place the political storms sweep through, uprooting everything that is settled.’ Anna Parker on the ethnic cleansing of Germans from former Sudetenland. granta.com/what-the-germa…

You might have heard of F. Percy Smith, but have you heard of Kate Smith and Phyllis Bolté? Learn about the two women that were instrumental in Smith’s process of filmmaking in Issue 20 of the SMG Journal. ✍️Max Long @[email protected] journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/tinker… Happy International Women’s Day!

After 22 years we closed up shop on Cambridge's Modern Cultural History seminar last night (maybe to return once the new teaching configuration is worked out in a few years' time): in great style with ambitious talks on 'drag and kink' by Ruby Daily and Jacob Bloomfield... (1/2)

🚨HUGE WIN AT Cambridge UCU College supervisors have won a pay rise worth 15%. It comes after years of campaigning & organising by our members. There is more to do, but we are one step closer to fair pay & conditions for all college supervisors. #JC4S ucu.org.uk/article/13613/…

Save the Children: Up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families.

Historians in Cambridge are all welcome to the public panel discussion tomorrow 12 July with the fab panel Holly Smith sundeep (@historysunny.bsky.social) Max Long @[email protected], on public history among historians of Britain. 2-4pm at Jesus College's Sibilla room.

Some film industry jobs. From Puffin Picture Book ‘Living Pictures’ pub 1950. Illustrations by Phyllis Ladyman

Max Long, PhD (Max Long @[email protected]) looks at historical photographs and films produced by Royal Dutch Shell in “Photography versus the Pest”: Shell Chemicals, Visual Media, and Pesticides in Postwar Britain: mediaenviron.org/article/123796…