Showing posts with label The Cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Cuts. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Foching the Tories (more vague musing on how History might help us think about what to do in the present)

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This was originally posted on 8 May 2012.  With the Simon Danczuk/Owen Jones row, followed up by Danczuk writing a piece in the Telegraph (...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Directing Anger

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Today, for a number of reasons, I have been feeling very angry indeed about the rank, class-based prejudice that infests my own little patch...
Thursday, 21 June 2012

More trouble...

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... at the institution to which we at Historian on the Edge like, for legal reasons, to refer as Bourneville Tech.  We've had reason  be...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

A Dark Day for British History

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Here you can read about the University of Birmingham obtaining a court injunction criminalising any occupation or sit-in protest anywhere on...
Sunday, 4 December 2011

Disappointed but not, alas, Surprised. Reflections on The Strike (In which I have a go at the Conservatives, the Labour Party, Jeremy Clarkson and the Unions, so something here for everyone.]

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I went on strike last Wednesday (30 th ) – so let’s get the obvious gags out of the way first, shall we?   Was anyone able to tell the diffe...
Tuesday, 23 August 2011

History and Rioting (The Inevitable 'Riots' Blog Post): Part 2

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Living in Interesting Times "May you live in interesting times" runs the Chinese curse (allegedly). Those of us in the UK (and in...
Thursday, 18 August 2011

Stefan Collini on the Government's HE White Paper

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This is a masterly piece of analysis that exposes the malignant heart of the government's attack on Univerity education.  It shows it f...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

AHRC and the Big Society: An appeal for a big push

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You might have been following my intermittent reports on the campaign to get the AHRC to drop its repeated mention of 'The Big Society...
Monday, 16 May 2011

Where is the RHS? Humanities learned societies take a stand against the AHRC and The Big Society (with one rather notable exception...).

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I reproduce, below, an e-mail sent around by James Ladyman, one of those spearheading the attack on the AHRC's craven peddling of Camero...
Monday, 9 May 2011

The State We're In (Part 2)

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I’m acutely conscious that these observations on the state of British Higher Education, ‘as it appears to me’ from my not-very-exalted posit...