In case you missed it, my latest article has been published in the new issue of Contemporary British History. It documents the links between the Br Conservative Party & Scandi Conservatives, as well as their roles in forming the European Democrat Union with Christian Democrats: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2023.2226061 #histodons #history #conservatism #christiandemocracy

Solidarity with my U.K.-based colleagues who are constantly out on strike just trying to secure basic working rights and conditions that we all take for granted over here in Norway. I hope university managers and the gov’t wake up and smell the coffee. Better late than never! #ucustrike #histodons #academia #highered

I think my Instance was down or compromised the last days, meaning I lost 60 new contacts when things rebooted. But I’m sure I’ll find you all again in time #histodons

Massive strike rally in Cambridge, spanning #ARU, #CambridgeUniversity, #UCU #Unison, #CWU

@lscottspencer I see. But maybe I’ll get an update one day. Patience is probably a virtue here

@lscottspencer I seem to be having difficulty finding that option. Could be because I signed up to hcommons.social and not other instances? I can only log in via hcommons. Or because I use the Metatext App and that also doesn’t have the feature? No idea #followhashtags

@galand2dogs searching hasn’t been great for me (but perhaps more people who I recognise form the other site are slow to move over to here). But the following hashtags element I was not aware of so maybe this will help

@paolomonella My Twitter timeline is full of panic about it possibly ceasing to exist in the days or weeks ahead. I struggle to see it myself but who knows 🤷‍♂️

@lscottspencer thanks!

If the bird site really is about to go down this week I really hope I can find more historians and politics scholars of modern Britain and Europe on here, as well as publishers and journalists with similar interests. Would be a shame to lose that community that I’ve relied on. Hope more sign up #histodons #britishhistory #britishpolitics #historians #history

I have initiated a group for intellectual historians @intellectualhistory - do follow & boost! #intellectualhistory

#historians #histodons research question: is there scholarship on popular perceptions of South Africa and apartheid in Britain? Not the anti-apartheid movement or UK government attitudes, but more like press depictions or mass observations, etc. #SouthAfrica #apartheid #BritishHistory

A ✅ has appeared in my profile. Hurrah for that. I think we have to realise that the learning curve here is steepish, but rather than be anxious about it, shouldn’t we should celebrate the adventure of slowly finding out something that was puzzling at first? Like your first week at school or in a new office building. We’ll get there and soon laugh at how confused me were at first. I hope!

@ryanrandall @fkraeutli could be yes. I got your request in the top of my notifications feed but there’s no option in the menu like you have. I guess I’ll just try Metatext and Toot and play around a bit to see which works well for me

@ryanrandall @fkraeutli ah, that option is not there for me but maybe because I don’t have any follower requests yet 🤷‍♂️

@ryanrandall @fkraeutli I feel like an idiot. Can’t find that menu! 😂

@fkraeutli interesting, thanks

@ryanrandall thanks. Very helpful.

@ryanrandall Cheers. sorry to be so new to this but what does posting ‘unlisted’ mean?

Which is the best app for using Mastodon on iPhone? The one I downloaded named ‘Mastodon for iPhone’ in the App Store appears to be behaving erratically, or maybe it’s a common feature of all apps? #mastodonapp #iPhone