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Pierre Purseigle

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Historian of cities, wars, and disasters at the University of Warwick
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Histoire de France, salutaire et nécessaire en ces temps troublés.
#FrontPopulaire

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Nicolas Postel et Richard Sobel, économistes : « Nous assistons, en France et ailleurs, à la clôture chaotique du cycle néolibéral »

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#frontpopulaire

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Working in #highereducation is often hard. Precarity, long hours, little recognition, poor compensation.

Then a card surprises you in the morning; a student thanking you for two years of classes, for helping them grow intellectually.

And that, friends, is all it's all about!

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… et de rappeler que l'émancipation du peuple palestinien ne se construira pas plus sur la violence antisémite que la sécurité d'Israël sur les crimes de Tsahal à Gaza et des colons en Cisjordanie. 2/2

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L'urgence électorale ne doit pas faire oublier que la lutte contre l'antisémitisme reste une priorité de la gauche démocratique. Le programme du #frontpopulaire est heureusement sans ambiguïté là dessus. Au-delà du scrutin, c'est une opportunité pour faire le ménage ….

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Faire face à l'urgence ne doit pas empêcher de penser l'avenir.
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La gauche française peut-elle retrouver l’avant-garde mondiale ? aoc.media?p=169391

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À celles et ceux qui, comme moi, n’avaient pas renouvelé leur adhésion partisane, c’est le moment de reprendre vos cartes ! Des partis sans militant ni pognon, ça gagne rarement les élections, même au sein d’un #NouveauFrontPopulaire

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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one

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Wishing a happy Pride month to all in the LGBTQW+ community.

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Saskatchewan Grain Production 1898-1940.
There is a lot of history in this chart from the environmental transformation of the rapid increase and the forced removal of Indigenous people form their land, to the drought in 1937 and the widespread economic failure for already struggling farms. #envhist

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“Why are people so obsessed with this club? Because it is basically England, a deathbed empire, gloriously decayed, copper wire still intact, brand power still operational for all the mould and the leaks.”

www.theguardian.com/football/art...

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😎I do have the advantage of being a French native with terrible handwriting. That helps!

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du laboratoire [could also be du laborantin], de l'expérimentation, et du traitement des malades.

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Bit of academic mentoring the other day. I ask three questions: 1. What do you want to have achieved in the next 3-5 years? 2. What do you realistically expect to achieve in the next year? 3. How is your answer to (2) going to move you closer to your answer to (1)?

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Le football est un jeu simple. Qui met Bruno Lemaire en tribune ne peut prétendre à la victoire. Voilà.
#PSGDOR

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Congressional Republicans can’t believe there are so many antisemites in Tel Aviv

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No, billionaires. Rawls’ Difference Principle says that society should make the WORST OFF as well off as possible. I know it’s not an easy read but if you put the effort in most people get it eventually.

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Following up on some of the questions from this well-organised and excellent event last week, re how to compose and submit strong applications for UK History Lectureships. Six suggestions for ECRs plus a preliminary post designed to explicate the context in which applications are typically read. 1/8

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Darrell Z. Grizzle's avatar Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social
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Happy Transgender Day of Visibility and Happy Easter

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John Dewey said it best in 1917: "The most powerful apologetics for any arrangement is the conception that it is an inevitable result of fixed conditions of human nature."

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I am probably the only local disaster but I do contain multitudes!

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Tom Hamilton's avatar Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social
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Do get in touch! The idea for this special issue came out of a fascinating discussion about the messy side of quantitative history – decisions about what and when to count, what is gained and lost, and where next when we have complex tools and misgivings

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Where I play with Agamben in the company of fantastic scholars 👇
Exceptional Pragmatism: The French State at War, 1914–1918: First World War Studies: Vol 14 , No 1 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Real nice to see this piece and this special issue out and about. @fwwsoc.bsky.social 🗃️

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My mother is a deeply religious boomer. She doesn't understand queer theory. And you know what? She doesn't need to. About trans people, she says, "They are not hurting anyone, so who are we to stand in the way of their happiness?" That's literally all it takes not to be asshole!

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Dr Milica Prokic's avatar Dr Milica Prokic @milicaprokic.bsky.social
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Our book is out! The brilliant Pavla Šimková and I have had an immense pleasure to work on this book with researchers (and their islands), across the globe. The book is now available in print, and online Open Access: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12...
Thank you, The White Horse press!

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Prof Ksenia Chmutina's avatar Prof Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social
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Come spend a month with us at the Institute of Advanced Studies!We are now accepting applications for Residential Fellowships: you'll get to work on your own research, chat with amazing our colleagues & hang out with me over coffee & cake at the International House 🤓
www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

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Alexei Sayle: 'Austerity is the idea that the global financial crash of 2008 was caused by there being too many libraries in Wolverhampton.' Many a true word spoken in jest, etc ...

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Cordelia Beattie's avatar Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
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Sharing a job ad: the Faculty of History and St John’s College, University of Oxford seek to appoint to the Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship of Women’s History. Any aspect of women’s history from any period and region after 250 CE. Deadline 4 March. 🗃️

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Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months. One day they painted it grey. The next day:

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We are hiring 3 University Assistants (predoc)
📚 become a histkult:doc fellow
🎓 do your PhD in one of these fields: archaeology, art history, Jewish Studies, ethnography, Byzanzine Studies, Egyptology, or history
🎡 work @univie.ac.at & live in Vienna
#phdsky
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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Conference report: celebrating the author of The Making of the English Working Class sslh.org.uk/2024/02/13/e...

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A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future."

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