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Hi @kemibadenoch, I saw that your government has followed the courageous lead of President Trump and banned critical race theory. I know you must be busy but could you let

Four hundred years ago today the Mayflower left England for America, carrying the “Pilgrims” who founded Plymouth Plantation. A century ago this anniversary was a huge deal; now it’s…complicated (thread)

Have been reading John Chester Miller's 1977 book on Jefferson and slavery and it is _fascinating_ to think about Miller's liberal anxieties and red-lines through the prism of the current

John Fea's interview with Daniel Feller repeats many of the dynamics of the #SHEAR2020 panel that started this whole mess: softball questions from Prof Fea, very little remorse from Prof

Many Twitter users stunned this morning about the use of the N-word in Lucy Worsley's "American History's Biggest Fibs", which has been replaying on the BBC after its original transmission

Not going to link to it but the Daily Mail’s second attack in a month on one of the BBC’s most prominent young Black journalists ought to be a wake-up

A thread on the outrage (and worse) directed against my colleague Priya Gopal yesterday. First, the context: during a football match on Monday in which the players agreed to take

Wow, this story about Cambridge moving lectures online for next year really blew up, didn’t it? A thread on what it means and what it doesn’t.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52732814 Disclaimer 1: I teach

Short commemorative/self-promotional thread. Today marks the 205th anniversary of the last time Britons killed Americans (intentionally) in a war: 6 April 1815, the so-called Dartmoor Massacre. More than 5000 US