Next up is this ‘Handbook on Penal Abolition’ I’ve long had an interest in abolitionist thinking, while not being a signed up member of the cause, so will read with interest 500+ pages. Publisher’s price £43.99 for the paperback, which is fairly reasonable for an academic book

On this day in 1896, the U.S Supreme Court delivered its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine and authorizing discrimination by states. This marked the formal beginning of Jim Crow Laws. THREAD

My brilliant friend Rodge Glass has this beautiful book coming out in September - pre-order now! taprootpressuk.co.uk/2024/05/20/som…

Dear Manchester friends, check out Keyside supporting the sensational Alex Spencer Friday 24th may at Manchester Academy. CityLife Manchester XS Manchester - 106.1 FM, DAB+ & App 🐚 Shell Zenner 🐚 Manchester Gigs Manchester Gigs John Kennedy john robb Conrad Murray Luke Temple

If you’re a student or for any reason might find it difficult to vote - get a postal vote. It’s easy to get, and secure. And it’s your future too…

Calling early career #historians 📢 Royal Historical Society is holding an online workshop on publishing your first #History monograph. Join us at 2pm BST on Friday 14 June to learn more about the publishing process from PhD to book. Booking now: bit.ly/4cQD9k1 #twitterstorians

Do you have a story for our audiences? Send us your play! As part of our mission to discover and nurture new writing in Liverpool, we're inviting script submissions from local playwrights throughout June. Find out more at l8r.it/lq9a

🔓🔓My article on 'Sugar' in Victorian Literature and Culture 's 'Keywords Redux' issue is now available Open Access. It outlines how sugar got into Britain's cultural bloodstreams as well as our literal ones in the 19thC. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

How cool is this! About the son of a colleague follow his ambition to be a wheelchair using football coach. x.com/EnglandLearnin…

Iran: Shocking but True! Sharifeh Mohammadi, a labor activist and mother of a nine-year-old child, has been sentenced to death on charges of “rebellion.” The trauma inflicted on her innocent child is a heartbreaking consequence of this injustice. While the whole world is

My book "Convicts: a global history" has won the SocialHistorySociety Book Prize 2024! My first ever big conference was SocialHistorySociety 1999, and here I am 25 years later receiving this massive honour. amazon.co.uk/Convicts-Globa…… History at Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Cambridge University Press European Research Council (ERC)

You deserve love, not pain #endviolenceagainstwomen #stopdomesticabuse #soroptimist #womensupportingwomen #womensaid Women's Aid Belfast & Lisburn #sibelfast #sigbi #sibelfast16days2024

Just attended and gave a paper at the Social History Conference 2014 at Durham Uni. I used to regularly go and left it far to long to get back to it. What a treat and such a positive environment. Thank you to the organisers for all your hard work.

New edition of Prison Service Journal available… lots of interesting articles… including excellent review of @Andibrierley (Ed) book - The Good Prison Officer… a must read! crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeand…

Proud to say I was a consultant and also interviewed for the first of three documentary programmes for Channel 4 - see Rob Rinder's 'Britain Behind Bars' showing on Sunday 21st July at 9pm.

9th Symposium on #Corpus Approaches to #Lexicogrammar (#LxGr2024). The archive (with the programme, abstracts, and links to slides) is now available: academia.edu/121994119. If you have any questions, contact [email protected]. #corpuslinguistics English@EHU Edge Hill Research Office

Privileged to see inside the Panama Hat Company today. Great British manufacturing. Saw example of early Brother manufacturing. Brother UK Cycling

Amazing visit to The Panama Hat Company in Luton today! Fantastic hand made beautiful hats. Using traditional methods, some of their machinery is over a century old.

I feel it is time for me to withdraw from X, recent events and esp comments on that and British policy from Elon Musk are just too much.