Tom Lawson
@tgplawson.bsky.social
Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull
@sathnam.bsky.social’s ‘Tonight the Music seems so loud’ is a magnificent book. It is life affirming in parts, troubling throughout - and a reminder of the joy that George Michael’s music still brings. Like the author I too ‘am grateful that George Michael has been the soundtrack to my life’.
June 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
@sathnam.bsky.social’s ‘Tonight the Music seems so loud’ is a magnificent book. It is life affirming in parts, troubling throughout - and a reminder of the joy that George Michael’s music still brings. Like the author I too ‘am grateful that George Michael has been the soundtrack to my life’.
Very excited to read @sathnam.bsky.social book about George Michael which arrived yesterday.
June 6, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Very excited to read @sathnam.bsky.social book about George Michael which arrived yesterday.
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A compromise we can all get behind surely
March 11, 2026 at 9:41 PM
A compromise we can all get behind surely
This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Imperial War Museum rejects criticism of caption in Holocaust display
Visitor to museum and two eminent historians say wording of information board on Nuremberg race laws is incorrect
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a slightly odd story - isn't the sentence identified just wrong rather than a question of interpretative nuance? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.
www.bbc.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Wondering what @tgplawson.bsky.social makes of this news? Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.
June 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The truth is brutal and horrible, but we need to be honest. The memory culture of one genocide - the Holocaust - has made it difficult for many to recognize and stop another genocide - the eradication of the Gaza Strip.
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Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done
April 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Arsenal losing at home and needing to go to France and turn things around in a Champions League semi final second leg? We know it can be done
This sounds like a fascinating discussion
What is it like to have Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social, in your family? In this episode, I am joined by Kai Hoess, Rudolf's grandson, to talk about the reverberations of the Holocaust in perpetrator families.
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
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Ep. 47: A Nazi in the Family with Kai Hoess - The Holocaust History Podcast
What is it like to have a Nazi in the family? What if that Nazi was Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz? One of the least studied areas of Holocaust history is the ways in which the famili...
thhp.buzzsprout.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This sounds like a fascinating discussion
This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'.
March 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This might just be straight in at number 1 in the books I wish I had written list... although I would have called it 'did you cover your eyes when they told you' or 'all God's children crept out the back door'.
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1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows
‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Here’s a pretty sobering start to the day…
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Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...
Post-92s ‘may quit collective pay bargaining without TPS opt-out’
Northumbria leaders say modern universities will be forced to rein in pay rises if they are compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Growing numbers of post-92 universities likely to pull out of collective pay bargaining if they remain compelled to offer expensive Teachers’ Pension Scheme to academics, warns @tgplawson.bsky.social in @hepi-news.bsky.social blog www.timeshighereducation.com/news/post-92...
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Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
January 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Read the original blog here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
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New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now.
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.
www.hepi.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New: Leaders at Northumbria University argue the time to reform the Teachers Pension Scheme is now.
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
Universities and the Teachers Pension Scheme: the time for change is now - HEPI
The disparity in pension costs between TPS and USS schemes creates significant financial strain and unfair competition for modern universities.
www.hepi.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I wrote this with my colleague on one of the most pressing issues that some UK universities are facing at the moment: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/01/06/u...
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
How very sad. What an extraordinary author.
January 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
How very sad. What an extraordinary author.
For some of us Christmas is just too much…
December 24, 2024 at 11:14 PM
For some of us Christmas is just too much…
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NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. https://buff.ly/402xYcg
December 19, 2024 at 7:20 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe heads back to Darlington and worries the civic agenda is becoming a bit too distant, a bit too middle class, and a bit too removed from the lives of people in the communities it seeks to impact. https://buff.ly/402xYcg
Me too.
#ShabbatShalom one and all. Why I’m not posting on Twitter anymore… ajr.org.uk/wp-content/u... #NotOneMoreWord
December 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Me too.
a lot can happen in 5 years
#OTD 2019. “Brexit” Election. Johnson and the Conservatives win majority of 80.
It is Tories biggest win since 1987 and their highest share of the popular vote since 1979.
Labour drop to lowest number of MPs since 1935.
It is Tories biggest win since 1987 and their highest share of the popular vote since 1979.
Labour drop to lowest number of MPs since 1935.
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 AM
a lot can happen in 5 years
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
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PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Commemoration and International Relations | University of Chester
www.chester.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 12:48 PM
PhD Fully Funded Scholarship Opportunity! Anyone fancy writing on the history of war graves and commemoration? We have a great collaborative PhD lined up with Chester and @cwgc.bsky.social Full details here or DM me: www.chester.ac.uk/study/resear...
