The Waterstones promotion ends later today so it’s your last chance to get 25% off preorders of Songs of Seven Dials. Preorders make such a difference to new books: if you can order or share I would be very grateful. #20s30s #history #sevendials #london

It was a real pleasure to speak to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my new book Growing Up and Going Out, which was published with @manchesterup.bsky.social recently! if you're so inclined, you can listen to us talk about youth culture, cities, and identity below.

10 minutes!

Tomorrow lunchtime! We'll be talking histories of childhood and youth, and our three new books: Gifted Children - global.oup.com/academic/pro... Teenage Intimacies - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173157/ Growing Up and Going Out - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Today!

This week - all welcome!

This week - all welcome!

See the latest additions to our Modern History list ⬇️ From youth culture in post-war Britain and sex in England 1950-80, to Smallpox and Nepal - new titles out now! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social @hannahcharnock.bsky.social @historicalmeredith.bsky.social #ModernHistory #NewinHistory #MUP

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

It was a pleasure to be joined by @vawright10.bsky.social earlier this week. Valerie's paper explored the experiences of children and teenagers in Scotland's new towns, and reflected on what these places came to mean for families and their children.

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Slowly taking shape into a book. Over the moon with the 🐧 colour scheme which just happens to be 🐯 themed too for proofs. More info here, including links to preorder. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254... In two weeks, there will be fewer than 100 days to go. Launch event TBC, but more ASAP.

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Tomorrow is release day for Growing Up and Going Out, and I was just delivered a celebratory balloon and doughnuts from some of my incredibly lovely and thoughtful students. Off to eat sugar and be emotional for a while!

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Arrived home to the most wonderful surprise. Growing Up and Going Out is here!

"In all these processes of contractions and closures, one common denominator is that arts and humanities subjects are too often first in line." New letter to the Secretary of State for Education, from @artsandhums.bsky.social, on the impact and implications of current losses in UK HE #skystorians

Last October I gave my inaugural lecture as a professor. I talked about mushrooms, and latent commons, and what they might help us to see and manifest as historians and people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2r...

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

If you're in Birmingham on Tuesday, you should definitely come to "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," to hear from an amazing line-up of colleagues! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

My book, Growing Up and Going Out: Youth culture, commerce, and leisure space in post-war Britain comes out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in less than two weeks! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

If 1000 job losses were announced in one day for another industry, it would make the top headlines. This one is going to take people by surprise with huge impacts on other sectors, cities, regions, life plans...

Our final event of the semester is this Wednesday, 4-6pm and it promises to be fantastic. Mo Moulton will be in conversation with Matt Cook on the topic of 'New Directions in Queer and Trans History'. The event is hybrid, and you can sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

I am very, very excited for this!

Our autumn series begins this week. Dates and details are available through the link below, and sign-up options for our hybrid session in December are forthcoming. www.canva.com/design/DAGT6...

#jobfairy - alert VERY TIGHT DEADLINE of 8th Sept - assoc prof (senior lecturer) in history & heritate at University of Birmingham, pref for geog. spec in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, or North America. Permanent position www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJG439/a... (not my dept so I've no inside info) 🗃️

Sending my book off in the spring so I had space for other things over the summer was all well and good... until I found out my proofs will be arriving with a one week turnaround during Welcome Week 😬

Deep in teaching prep for next year, and so delighted to see this Special Issue on women's activisms in Women's History Review. Perfect timing for mine and @zoethomas.bsky.social's feminisms module, and the articles look ace. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So many new #Skystorians for the list 🗃️

The horror of, well... everything, has mostly driven me offline for the last year or so, but I miss hearing what everybody is up to. Hoping to make a more permanent home for myself - personally and professionally - here.

@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social now has an account on bluesky for those who would like to follow what we are up to.

I recently reviewed Mary Grover's wonderful new book, Steel City Readers, for Northern History. Lots here for those interested in #histchild and reading cultures more widely. A really fantastic example of urban social history. You can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

The British Library outage is wreaking absolute havoc with my teaching this week - I wasn't aware quite how often I drew on its resources!

I am reliably informed it's publication day for this collection! I've written about teenage magazines, sexuality, and the 'new morality' of 1960s Britain, but you should read everybody else's excellent chapters.

I am delirious with a cold, but so delighted to have received the readers report for my manuscript back from MUP. Very positive, and my relief is palpable!

Fellow #c20th historians - do we have something similar set up? I miss knowing what everyone is up to!

New paper w @evemworth.bsky.social: we interviewed occupationally elite women who attended top girls schools and explore how the trajectories into the elite of those born before 1960 were quite different from those born afterwards  www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very certain my sudden desire to move to the new place is driven by the paperwork that I have been avoiding all week and that absolutely needs finishing today. In any case - pleased to see so many have already made the transition!