Robert Pyrah

#Poland, #Hungary and beyond: an unmissable overview by global expert @fromTGA of the big issues: #illiberalism, #history & #politics in #centraleurope. Listen now: shows.acast.com/pseudoscience/…

Love it.

Thought: this is a new ‘end of history’, but not as #fukuyama defined it. Rather, the end of history as a warning or lesson from after two World Wars.

Truly newsworthy: where is the coverage?

-- This article examines the role of websites as historical sources, using a comparative case study of Germany and Poland’s respective lost territories after WWII, suggesting ways historians can better assess their material function in the wider taxonomy of source material.

Websites are key agents of public history - but underexamined for their role as sources. #twitterstorians, let's get our heads together on this... meanwhile, a thought starter: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.

Post-‘putsch’ Wagner as de facto Trojan horse to a NATO attack, now with (supposedly) plausible deniability has the awful ring of truth. #PL #LT Close the borders! theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

@LOTPLAirlines yesterday I purchased a ticket from your site advertised at GBP 366 with ‘one seat left’. Today the same routing is GBP 324 again with ‘one seat left’. Please refund the difference or explain why you are cheating customers

@UKLabour @AngelaRayner @Keir_Starmer @YvetteCooperMP @RachelReevesMP @JonAshworth @LabourSJ @DannyBeales @lisanandy Tories dropped a clever unbranded note the night before the election, again all about ULEZ. Nothing from Labour for weeks. Appreciate everyone is an ‘expert’ and that people worked hard - but could have heard much more from candidate than one leaflet many weeks back…

Polls have now closed in Uxbridge, Selby and Somerton and Frome. To the thousands of Labour campaigners who have knocked on doors, phoned up voters and supported our brilliant by-election candidates; thank you. Together, we can build a better Britain.

@aga_tumilowicz Just wonderful. All of it!

#CentralEurope today = divided east on imperial not Cold War faultlines - pithy review essay of Rady / others by Krastev in FT (paywall but limited free access on signup) on.ft.com/3JaxjwH

Było nas dziś 500 000🇵🇱 Dziękuję!

Poland protest: Hundreds of thousands demand change in Warsaw bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Disappointed by @ucu passing StopTheWar motion! It accepts 🇺🇦 subjugation to 🇷🇺 imperialism & war crimes. It is shocking 4 an academic union to not understand this & it is highly anti-intellectual. @DrJoGrady how can UCU say it defends rights when it sanctions this?! @ellieknott

Ahead of our event with Olena Stiazhkina this Friday @UCLSSEES (tickets: tinyurl.com/ywcmc5ua) read some of her amazing work in translation! 1. An extract from her novel In God's Language, about occupied Donetsk, in my translation at @apofenie. apofenie.com/fiction/2021/1…

@aga_tumilowicz If you put it into google translate it comes out with ‘zasłaniać’ ;-)

I'm honoured by the presence of Miriam Asnes, Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State. Miriam will be joining me for this talk at @cfd_center on April 7th. eventbrite.com/e/on-eugenics-…

DAVID v GOLIATH has made the Sunday Times today! thetimes.co.uk/article/a7f7ab…

@aga_tumilowicz UPVC is a fail, whatever the context!

@SaveOurSpen Congratulations. Superb work. Still slightly concerned that the win was so slight: how in heaven’s name did nearly half vote for the proposal? And, while we should savour the moment, do we think Amazon might come back to challenge the decision - or is that it?

WE’VE WON!!! REFUSED!!!