PhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship. Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵

Two days of tributes to @petermandler.bsky.social as he moves on from @camhistory.bsky.social to new vistas. We could scarcely cover all his interests, mentorship and provocations if we had two years

A dream team of colleagues with which to spend yesterday discussing labour history, disability and the shape of the twentieth century. My book draft will be SO much better for their input. A huge thanks to all

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Had heaps of fun organising this event, which I'm super excited for. Please join us on Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 4pm UK time to hear our panel of inter-disciplinary experts discuss 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View'.

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

Recording a podcast today with Angela de Souza (Women's Business Club) & @somsproject.bsky.social on disabled women's working lives. I'll be talking about how 'work' spanned paid and unpaid, informal and formal, & included radical commitments to rest & recovery we could learn a lot from today.

In its day, the largest organ in Sweden. Built 1728 in Lövstabruk, it still has its original 1500 pipes.

Can we have a chat about what causes the disruption in Canada & Australia, not ruled by Trump? That volatility of hypermarketised & underfunded HE is also happening here, and the government may want to think about the need to stabilise in order to remain attractive. www.ft.com/content/c074...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

Domestic servant, au pair, char, cleaner, treasure.... Historical change, but similar dynamics of outsourcing dirty work. Good to discuss this with Ros Taylor morejamtomorrow.com/episode/serv...

Does your toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, dish washer products have dangerous PFA levels? Check here. If governments won't ban them, we can at least stop buying these toxic items. www.ewg.org/skindeep/

Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information? Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths? We've got a plan. Please look and share! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Moyne Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 Ireland - Madeline Ffrench-Mullen

Please join us this Tuesday, 3 June, 5-7pm, for the book launch of GLOBALIZING EUROPE: A HISTORY, with Sir Richard J. Evans, Maxine Berg, Richard Drayton, Abigail Green, Jan Rüger, and me, at MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

“While States debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Trump's assault on Harvard has a more polite forebear, in the quiet pressure brought on elite UK institutions to limit Indian student numbers during early twentieth century anti-colonial agitation. Most Cambridge colleges agreed to Lord Morley's request to restrict Indian applicants in 1909

Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) King's College London - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

Our next @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social is on Weds 28 May, 5.30pm (in person only) with brilliant @racheljcollett.bsky.social on grassroots feminisms, resistance & transnational solidarities. Don't miss it, sign up today 👇. #womensgrassrootsactivism @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Interesting positioning of three waves of decolonisation alongside feminist waves by Minna Salami, and countering the ruthless grandiosity of Whiteness.

Our understanding of Braille is often shaped by narratives from Western Europe and the United States. In this new article Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the global significance of inventing Japanese Braille.

Excited to be talking today @ Uni of NSW abt why disability isn't always useful as a category of analysis - a chance to look at alternatives (braves, poor things, handicapped, cripples, shut ins, crooked stalks) across the C20 that do important work in showing how impairment was socially experienced

If you can't make it to the polling station on 1 May, there is still a day left to apply for a proxy vote! It's dead easy. Don't let anything interfere with your precious right to vote. www.gov.uk/apply-proxy-...

The Men's Dress Reform Party (1930s, UK) was extraordinary: they sought to make men 'beautiful' & 'free'. Strongly eugenic & part of the New Health movement. Eccentrics? Early Men's Rights Movement? Certainly part of the colonialist project. See my blog here: www.joannabourke.com/blog.

📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳

“The world around you will try to tell you that your life isn’t worth as much as others – don’t believe them.” For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In previous periods of tariff wars, some countries turned to barter as an alternative. India for ex. had barter agreements with Egypt, China, the USSR and Argentina in the late 1940s, for weapons, grain, cotton.... Some arrangements lasted for decades. Any good histories of this out there?

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

"Eventually, the ideas become so ubiquitous they are adopted by politicians who use them to engage their base..." #disabilityrights #inclusion www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Why does my dictation software insist on 'Gnu Labour' every time? Is there ideological content to this?

‘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

Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

More than two-thirds of the confirmed welfare cuts will fall on the poorest half of the country. The biggest cut is raising the eligibility threshold for PIP, a benefit not related to work status, saving £4.5 billion. 800,000 stand to lose up to £6,300.

UK friends - pleased to see my energy breakdown from Octopus has no coal/gas derived energy at all. 85% renewables. And its got good customer service staffed by humans. Can recommend them as a great ethical choice. octopus.energy

Everyone knows this but hardly anyone does it … why? #Amazon

Thank you so much Lucy for spreading the word! And thanks to everyone who responded! Our small team is gathering up your suggestions and will be adding them gradually to our map. We're now on bluesky so don't hesitate to send more suggestions our way 🤓

Another story of feminist memorial erasure & salvage. The bronze statue of Maria Deraismes, founder of L'Association pour le Droit des Femmes in 1870, was melted down in 1942 on Vichy/German occupier orders, & used for weapons. It was recast in 1983 from the surviving plaster cast & re-erected.

Serious risks here for anyone travelling to the US, especially given the Kafkaesque bureaucratic limbo of immigration detention. Academic conferences might want to consider other locations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Suffrage Oak on Kelvin Way in Glasgow. This tree was planted in 1918 by Louisa Lumsden on behalf of a number of organisations which campaigned for the right for women to be able to vote.

We are deeply saddened to announce that the 2026 Big Berks has been cancelled due to a lack of location. This was an extremely hard decision to make and please know that we explored many options. The biggest difficulty right now in finding a new venue is time.

Maria Remedios del Valle’s 3D resin printed statue in Buenos Aires lasted less than a year before being burned in 2023. www.clarin.com/cultura/quem...

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

Here's an interactive map that details women's suffrage memorials. I'm relieved to discover that there are a few statues of famous Suffragettes (Sojourner Truth (2), and Harriet Tubman) in California. journalpanorama.org/article/roon...

Since my post on mapping women's suffrage memorials, I've been doing some thinking about erasure, prodded by @nicoletranger.bsky.social. Statues, street and buliding names, are all quite vulnerable to revisionism. There are a few examples of removals of feminist memorials...

I didn't see it on the map but here is the Boston Women's Memorial erected on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston, 2003, 3 fabulous statues honoring Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phyllis Wheatley www.boston.gov/departments/...

The Society welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions. Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in museums, heritage, publishing, teaching or public history. For more see bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians