Tom Cutterham

Historian of class and capitalism in the era of the American Revolution. *Gentlemen Revolutionaries*

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

You can now register for our twentieth anniversary conference! https://t.co/D4zdwmpmRE

[npj @TiltingatM3]

I love medieval history. You can make so much progress with ideas like “what if we stopped relying on books that don’t have any citations or footnotes.”

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@BruceHistorian My institution: "The scheme is generous compared with similar schemes at other universities. It provides double the statutory requirement, with no cap on weekly pay and up to a maximum of 60 weeks salary depending on age and length of service."

[ellensho.bsky.social @ellenshobrook]

THIS👇🏻 And the resistance to the damage is also a shared collective endeavour - there has never been more urgency to join #UCU (despite - or perhaps because of its problems - since we are the union?) and organise against the decimation of #UKHE #HigherEducation @AcademicDiary

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

Sometimes something pops off on the primary school parents' WhatsApp group [a petition to oppose a modal filter, keeping traffic off the road the school is on] and my beloved partner has to hold me back from posting, like, "don't you people want a planet left for your children?"

[The JER Pano @TheJERPano]

As a reminder, the #JERWinter2024 special issue on "The Revolution at 250" is freely available from @UNC_Press and @ProjectMUSE through April: https://t.co/AWUJd1xqbp

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@ProSocAcademics Hi friend: like most UK universities, the one I work at has never had shared governance in all its 125 years. It has always been governed by a self-selecting "Council" with no democratic accountability to staff or students.

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

My institution currently has nine deputy pro-vice-chancellors. They advertised for another new one last week.

[21group @21percentgroup]

Numbers of managers in Universities are not just increasing, they are accelerating (gradient is increasing)

Data for @Cambridge_Uni (£53m deficit) below

Rampant unchecked growth of management in Unis is much of the deficit, much of the crisis

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@DMLangshaw It's the third rung of senior management at the university -- Vice Chancellor is at the top (Chancellor is a ceremonial role only), pro-vice-chancellor is second (kind of like "vice president of x" in corporate speak), then DPVC.

[Becca Palmer @BeccaPalmer99]

If you’re a PhD student working on anything related to “States and Spaces” in HPT broadly conceived, please consider applying to this conference I’m co-organising! 19th-20th June 2025, LSE. Deadline 14th March.

CfP linked here: https://t.co/WnfPoyrZdY

[Jessie Serfilippi @Utterly_Jessie]

I’m back on here to do the least I can for my country: share and tell the history of Early America as fully and truly as possible because I refuse to let fascists rewrite US history.

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@amwilson_opera @BruceHistorian It's completely horrible, destructive, and anti-intellectual, not to mention the harm to individuals--I agree! Unfortunately, the people who make these decisions work by a different set of priorities.

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@amwilson_opera @BruceHistorian I don't think the management logic is hard to reconstruct here. To teach out the courses slated for closure, keep on the staff who have mainly been doing teaching and who are less likely to be able to jump ship.

[Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham]

@amwilson_opera @BruceHistorian I wonder if the specific type of grant -- fellowships that buy one person out to actually spend time on research, not huge science-style project pots from which the uni can cream off a big cut -- was also a factor here.

[Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre BECC @beccbham]

Our first event of the new year is a big one! @AnnaFranJam @knott_sarah @naomipullin and @KHarveyHistory on "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," 4-6pm Tuesday 4 Feb (on campus in Birmingham, or on Zoom) https://t.co/JdoIa6MxOE

[Nathan Brown @redwithoutwhy]

New "AI" note for this semester's syllabus.

[D Waldstreicher @DWaldstreicher]

Francois Furstenberg sees it all clearly:

Universities and the Coming Storm https://t.co/QvoCsUbNYT

[Marc Mulholland @katheder]

It's been a solid year of your government sustaining serial-murder in Gaza. 2024 is the year of infant ghosts.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

A new Birmingham City Council scrutiny report has highlighted the enormous financial burden of road harm, with road casualties costing around £205 million in Birmingham EVERY year.

The current status quo is not only unacceptable on a human level but also economically ruinous.