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'Knowledge is Power': on 11 November 1823, 200 years ago today, 'above 1500 mechanics' assembled to demand the institution of the London Mechanics' Institute outside the Crown and Anchor Tavern, a key site of extra-parliamentary debate on the Strand #RadicalLearning @BirkbeckUoL
Formateurs, il est encore temps de prendre une bonne résolution pour cette #rentrée2023 en suivant notre #MOOC co-créé avec le @poledevinci ! 🎓
Dans la 2ème séquence découvrez différentes approches : par compétences, par #projet, #radicallearning...
👉 https://t.co/Gx29c8uWGL
It's a week of #RadicalLearning at @Unimelb: lots of 🔥 teachouts, soft pickets, & solidarity gatherings led by striking members as well as @students4staff + @UMSUunimelb showing us fierce support! Look for details of our packed Tue-Fri schedule at
https://t.co/XBCMTI1scX 1/2
It's a good day for industrial action 😎
#ICYMI: University-wide half-day strike starting at 12pm today at @UniMelb, the start of a weeklong strike for @ArtsUnimelb, @MelbLawSchool, @unilibrary, Stop 1 & @vca_mcm.
We'll see you at 1pm rally @ Raymond Priestly!
#UnimelbStrikes
Exciting findings in #MAVictorianStudies Summer Project: citizen #Thelwall's lectures, honorary membership, & anniversary speech to conclude the London Mechanics' Institute's 8th anniversary day, 2 Dec 1831. #radicallearning
#MAVictorianStudies
#centenary
1823-2023 🧵
Even pedagogical meetings for the Engineer and Designer Creative Technology Curriculums @DVIC_fr are brainstorming workshop @ESILVparis @IIMparis @EMLVparis #RadicalLearning
✊We are @BirkbeckUoL ✊Great gathering #ucurising
📣Listen up!✋Stop cuts ✋
🦉We are out to protect our culture of teaching, critical thinking & research excellence
🦉200 years of #RadicalLearning
Birkbeck made it possible for me to do an MA part-time, & then do my PhD in an inspiring environment with wonderful supervisors. Birkbeck was life-changing for me and many others. These cuts would be disastrous for staff & students #EnglishWorks @Birkbeck_ETC #RadicalLearning
Today @BirkbeckUoL celebrates its 199 anniversary. The first to teach #English in the UK. #RadicalLearning #BBK200 @BbkETCWResists
@BirkbeckUoL was first to teach #English in the UK within a vision of knowledge in which literature, art & sciences were seen as essential constituents of happiness and progress - we need this breadth of invention #RadicalLearning #bbk200 (Thanks: Ian Newman, Judith Thompson)
@BirkbeckUoL was first to teach #English in the UK within a vision of knowledge in which literature, art & sciences were seen as essential constituents of happiness and progress - we need this breadth of invention #RadicalLearning #bbk200 (Thanks: Ian Newman, Judith Thompson)
“In this spot..., the charms of #Literature shall be displayed, & the powers of #Science shall be unfolded to the most humble inquirers; for to the ‘Feast of Reason’... the invitation shall be as unbounded as the region of intellect” 1824 speech on a new lecture room, LMI #bbk200
Literature, Composition & Elocution have been at the heart of invention at the core of the #MechanicsInstitute mission right from the start. We look forward to the next 200 years of English @BirkbeckUoL #EnglishWorks #RadicalLearning #bbk200 (Thank you Ian Newman via @lcale2)
“In this spot..., the charms of #Literature shall be displayed, & the powers of #Science shall be unfolded to the most humble inquirers; for to the ‘Feast of Reason’... the invitation shall be as unbounded as the region of intellect” 1824 speech on a new lecture room, LMI #bbk200
...‘the first [Mechanic Institute] was that of Glasgow; and may be said to have arisen out of Anderton's Institution there, under the auspices of Dr. Birkbeck, who was the founder, also, of the first Mechanics' Institution in London" (#Thelwall, 1826) #RadicalLearning #bbk200
![birkbeck_ETC's tweet photo. ...‘the first [Mechanic Institute] was that of Glasgow; and may be said to have arisen out of Anderton's Institution there, under the auspices of Dr. Birkbeck, who was the founder, also, of the first Mechanics' Institution in London" (#Thelwall, 1826) #RadicalLearning #bbk200 https://t.co/Ozox6keVMX](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhSD6X1X0AAgJdN.png)
“more than 50 MECHANICS INSTITUTIONS: almost all ...established within the last 2 years ... effective engines for the extension of human happiness and comfort” (#Thelwall, ‘Progress of Public Societies’, 1826) #RadicalLearning #bbk200
199 years ago about 1500 people assembled at the Crown & Anchor Tavern to form the London Mechanics Institution, 'to advance the arts & sciences, & to add largely to the power, resources, and prosperity of the country' (Minutes, 8xi23, @bourke_joanna 15). #RadicalLearning #bbk200
"The education of a free people ...will always be directed most beneficially for them when it is in their own hands. When government interferes, it directs its efforts more to make people obedient & docile, than wise & happy" LMI Proposals, Mechanics Magazine (1823) #bbk200 1/3
This was the core of my #PassengersofModernity. The Victorians were Passengers. Fabulous images.#RadicalLearning #EnglishWorks
Fun class about steam, speed, & railway times #MAVictorianStudies @birkbeck_ETC. Among our fabulous students' contributions to the course's lightbox: the train as an iron serpent, the March of the Intellect tracing iron spider's web geographies of Britain in irons @aipv2010
In my Vics&World class @ETCW we read King Solomon's Mines with Pointon's 2018 article 'De Beers’s Diamond Mine in the 1880s' on body searches #DeBeers workers underwent. She showed these photographs first at @birkbeck_arts #BBKArtsWeek in 2017.#EnglishWorks #RadicalLearning
ETCW @BirkbeckUoL is a special place - my utter privilege to work with beloved colleagues & brilliant students for 20 yrs. But every Dept, every colleague at Birkbeck matters & we find ourselves at a critical juncture.
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This year 3 students received School of Arts grants to do the degree. #RadicalLearning #TheVictoriansAndUs #WeAreDecadence @birkbeck_ETC
And a follow-up question. How much did it cost to travel London to Paris same year, ie. 1862? #RadicalLearning #BAEnglish @birkbeck_ETC @birkbeck_arts @BirkbeckUnion @BirkbeckC19 @lucy_brewer #PassengersOfModernity @EurostarUK
Trying to write about Brexit, I've ended up considering Charles Johnson's 1724 book 'A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates' is probably the key text to understand 'buccaneer' rhetoric #RadicalLearning #ResearchLikeAPirateDay
Looking forward tonight to teaching Darwin to my Victorian MA students. #radicallearning #TheWorldNeedsMoreBirkbeck
Welcome to the new term!
Today: 1st in London, 2nd in UK for research environment & impact
1823-2023: 200 years of radical learning for working people. Read our history by @bourke_joanna @OUPHistory
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