All the cool kids will be reading this one, I hear (the cover alone is 🔥)

My book is out today! It's a history of mass incarceration and deportation told through the stories of migrants in American jails. I am really proud of it and would love to talk about it with students, colleagues, lawyers, activists, anyone! amazon.com/Migrants-Jail-…

'The Value of History in UK Higher Education and Society' - a new briefing from Royal Historical Society bit.ly/4fl6lQD Published today, the Society's briefing assesses the value of #history and the damage being done by cuts and closures to UK departments #twitterstorians

Excellent work by The British Academy revealing cold spots for SHAPE subjects in the UK. English Association wonkhe.com/blogs/there-ar…

Studying humanities and social sciences enables students to deepen their understanding of society's greatest challenges, but access to these disciplines is unequal. We have mapped where in the UK students can access these subjects in higher education: bit.ly/412A90v

And that's a wrap! Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, Joya Chatterji, for her book Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century, and to the brilliant shortlisted authors listed below:

More NEW and FREE writing from me... How can Labour encourage access to the outdoors? They've tried before, in 1949, 1968 and 2000, so should take a close look at those past efforts. Here's what we've learned in our Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded In All Our Footsteps project:historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/…

Today, we launched the latest of our interactive maps tracking changes in SHAPE provision across the UK. The maps show us what and where students can study and how this has changed in a pivotal decade for UK universities. Explore here: bit.ly/4gQBUSE

Our new maps are out today! Now, crucially, with subject data from individual UK universities. I'm off X these days, but over on Bluesky we're digging into what the data means for UK HE... come join! bsky.app/profile/lynton…

'Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future' - Laura Spinney in today's The Guardian : theguardian.com/commentisfree/…