Thrilled to say that I passed my viva last week! Thank you to my examiners @tomhulme.bsky.social and Keir Waddington for such an enjoyable and constructive conversation, and to my brilliant supervisors @erikahanna.bsky.social and Tom Allbeson

Really excited to present with the brilliant James Thompson and @michellehenning.bsky.social tomorrow at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference. Details of panel below:

Bluesky architectural historians! Can anyone help? I'm trying to identify some of the modernist buildings in the photographs pinned on the wall in this image. Context: this is the New Homes for Old exhibition held in 1935 by the Housing Centre in London. it's grainy but you can zoom in a bit!

A little insight into my PhD research today: I'm thinking about visual representations of model factory villages in the early 20th-century illustrated press... and how they might operate as a form of visual rhetoric for a quasi-welfare state funded by private capital

My debut article, the outcome of a 3-month research project in Canada, is out! It's about the 1901 royal tour of Canada and the limits of locating 'agency' in colonial photographic collections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm always looking to connect with other historians working on visual culture & urban history - if you're out there get in touch! I look particularly at photography and the picturing of healthy/unhealthy spaces in the city in early 20th-century Britain

CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025 The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c... We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.

CfP#2 for photo album fans 👇👇👇 journals.openedition.org/photographic...

Migrating over from X... I'm a final year PhD student at Cardiff Uni interested in all things to do with urban history, photographic history and the social history of medicine!