@jgfreeman

Political History & Digital Humanities. Personal Capacity. Retweets ≠ endorsement

Joined May 2011
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Out today! 'A neoliberal revolution? Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions' by @aled_r_davies @jgfreeman & @hugh_pemberton 📘tinyurl.com/dckwecs9 This new book examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. @LSEpoliticsblog @JSP_Journal @EconObservatory @PSAConsStudies @ECPR @PSAPolHist @PolStudiesRev #pensions #Thatcherism
Book cover image for 'A neoliberal revolution?: Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions' by Aled Davies, James Freeman and Hugh Pemberton, published by Manchester University Press.

ALT Book cover image for 'A neoliberal revolution?: Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions' by Aled Davies, James Freeman and Hugh Pemberton, published by Manchester University Press.

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We are appealing to you to gather up general election leaflets & post them to us. We collect election-related materials for all the candidates in all the UK constituencies. Image: Leaflets from previous elections. See our blog: tinyurl.com/yeys5k93 #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024
Leaflets from previous elections on display.

ALT Leaflets from previous elections on display.

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NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years
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The creativity and originality of the teaching in the English department is 🔥 - wish I could take this course...
Natalie Ferris@n_l_ferris28 Sep 2023
This week it’s #collage! Today is the first seminar in new creative-critical unit by @rowena_k_e and I on Gender & Experimentation in 20/21 Century 🌀 Getting our hands dirty today with Hope Mirrlees, Mina Loy, Ann Quin, Kara Walker, @amyEelkins, and with our own cut & pasting 🌀
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My latest article has been published in @JHistSex ! "How Far Should We Go?": Adolescent Sexual Activity and Understandings of the Sexual Life Cycle in Postwar Britain #histsex #histyouth @histchild muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/…
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Sarah Crook@SarahRoseCrook6 Sep 2023
The deadline for the @TCBHJournal Duncan Tanner prize is just a month away. Please do encourage postgraduate research students to submit their excellent work for consideration! Article word limit is 10,000 (inc. footnotes) academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/…

The Duncan Tanner Prize

The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

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More than 200 staff at #USS, the UK's largest pension plan, earn more than £100,000 per annum, according to the scheme's annual report, published today. The scheme's chief executive, Bill Galvin, was awarded a £262,000 bonus.
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Today we celebrate the exceptional staff of the Faculty of Humanities at UEA and their invaluable contributions to the study of the Americas. Explore some of the titles that have enriched the British Library’s collection, which are currently #OnMyDesk 📚 blogs.bl.uk/americas/2023/06…
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An exciting change is coming @TCBHJournal ! From January, the journal will be renamed Modern British History. We're currently planning the first issue and hope to use this moment to reflect on the field and the journal's place within it.
TCBH Journal@TCBHJournal21 Jun 2023
Beginning 1 January 2024, Twentieth Century British History will become Modern British History to reflect the journal’s expanding scope and vital position within the field. (1/3)
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Simon Schama
@simon_schama21 Jun 2023
Almost all UEA academic job cuts to be made in the same faculty edp24.co.uk/news/23600418.ue… this should be in the crime section of the newspaper

Almost all UEA academic job cuts to be made in the same faculty

Almost all of the academic job cuts at the University of East Anglia are set to be made in just one faculty.

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.@royahistsoc is shocked, angered and incredulous at @uniofeastanglia's targeting of compulsory redundancies in @HUM_ResearchUEA, including @UEA_History, which was announced yesterday bit.ly/3CAQdZZ 1/4 🧵 #twitterstorians

Arts ‘in firing line’ as crisis-hit UEA axes more than 100 jobs

University says 77 professional staff and 36 academics will go, on top of those taking voluntary severance

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Sorry to say that the new UKRI policy allowing a range of OA licences for 'long-form' publication still does not apply to journal articles. You have to apply for an 'exemption' in order to publish a journal article funded by UKRI under a 'non-derivative' licence. (1/)
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Regular reminder that the sector which sees some of the highest rewards market liberalism has to offer is not actually subject to the ultimate market disciplines. bbc.co.uk/news/business-6491…

Silicon Valley Bank: Regulators take over as failure raises fears

Regulators take over Silicon Valley Bank as the collapse raises wider fears about the banking sector.

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Which isn’t to say that it’s not better to intervene and promote stability (it is in the short run). But the justification for high profits, salaries, and bonuses is undermined when the confidence key to banking is a product not of the sector but the taxpayer-funded state.
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Interesting requirement on this job advert for a Project Curator at the @britishmuseum: 'good working relationships with Franks House [a BM Store] and other BM Staff.' So if you don't already have friends in the organisation, you cannot apply?
Screenshot of Job Advert for post of Project Curator: Digital Technologies, Acheulean Handaxes and the Social Landscapes of the Lower Palaeolithic, at the British Museum

ALT Screenshot of Job Advert for post of Project Curator: Digital Technologies, Acheulean Handaxes and the Social Landscapes of the Lower Palaeolithic, at the British Museum

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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the utterly marvellous & very knowledgeable @HannahLC88 about her research on teen sex in the 50s and 60s. What were teens up too before Sex Ed & pornhub?? 👇👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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I think the last time three ex-PMs remained in the Commons was the early 1980s when Callaghan, Wilson and Heath were still MPs (before first two went to the Lords). #truss
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One tweet biography of all 56 (+1) British Prime Ministers, in chronological order:
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Sounds like a recipe for trouble to me…
Robert Peston
@Peston20 Oct 2022
I missed one really important change in the procedure for polling Tory MPs. This time there will be an "indicative" vote once the candidates are down just to two, so that Tory members will know - which they didn't in the last election - which candidate commands...
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Anand Menon@anandMenon123 Sep 2022
‘An interest rate of just 3% today results in mortgages that absorb the same share of income as a rate of 14% did in 1980, after adjusting for the fact that mortgages are bigger and mortgage interest is no longer tax-deductible’ economist.com/britain/2022/0… economist.com/britain/2022/0…
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