Want to study a masters in Youth Justice with us at Aberystwyth? Look no further... courses.aber.ac.uk/postgraduate... @theayj.bsky.social @nayouthjustice.bsky.social @youthjusticeagency.bsky.social #youthjustice

The call for papers for SHCY's 2027 conference in Montreal is now live! Submissions are due September 15: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

“I Married a Morning Person,” a new murder drama from Lifetime, coming soon. Inspired by true life events. 🙄🙄🙄

It is wild to me how many people there are who are doing "dream" jobs like being a writer, a lawyer, a professor - vocations that require a lot of luck & personal investment to get into, and which have 100s of would-bes for every actual success - who hate their job & want a machine to do it instead

'Residents of the Homes for Working Girls in London' on a trip out to Dollis Hill in 1887 Wide array of hats on display (plus one particularly vexed looking daytripper with her arms folded) More about the Homes for Working Girls (and 'healthful recreation') at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/HBG

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Children playing in Hulme, Manchester, July 1946 (Daily Herald/Science Museum Group).

I try not to harbor resentment or regret that my academic training did not lead to a faculty position, but I always feel a little twinge when this comes up. Because it reminds me that I really liked teaching, reading, writing, and even service. It can feel like the jobs go to people who don't.

Most women also had to survive childbirth. Other than that, though, this is one thing that I always talk with students about because it’s something they’ve almost all misunderstood (and been taught incorrectly) previously.

Was listening to a talented young #earlymodern scholar talking about their book 📕 yesterday, when they said that the hardest part of the project was not the ambitious archival work but the numerous other scholars constantly telling them ‘it can’t be done.’ Could we not do this anymore please? 🙏

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

I'm a precariously employed academic with 2 teaching only jobs, one a zero hours contract. I publish because I want a better job, but I do so on my own, with no support network. It sucks. But I've just seen my work referenced in a book, and it's almost worth the shitness.

Reading 18th century lecture notes -- Alexander Munro primus -- and can't make out this word in juicy quote. Any help much appreciated! have circled/magnified the word. ?Scots? "if there happens to be any ??? quality att one side..."

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Families move, partners (me) give up chances at their own careers for jobs that give nothing but stress. Families break up.

Cover Reveal! Coming soon, open access, with Taylor & Francis. Edited by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social, Suzanne Trill and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

I've got an MA student who wants to look into early modern surrogacy. Has anything been written on this? Was it even a thing / different name, perhaps? #histmed #histsex #earlymodern

This is Astro. He doesn’t have an underbite or anything. Has just been really good about flossing lately and wants someone to notice. 13/10 (IG: toweronthego)

📢 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025–2026 The Women’s History Network is awarding £250 for the best dissertation in women’s and/or gender history. womenshistorynetwork.org/undergraduat... #WomensHistory #GenderHistory #AcademicTwitter #UndergradResearch #history

“Edinburgh’s Unruly Women” is coming out in paperback this summer 😎 You can preorder here: www.routledge.com/Edinburghs-U... for hundreds of case studies of individual women who navigated their local church courts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩵📜 @routledgebooks.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social

Irregular marriages www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Inventing a new period, the Late Early Modern, 1620-1820 this is where I live now, please use this address for all correspondence

I've got an MA student who wants to look into early modern surrogacy. Has anything been written on this? Was it even a thing / different name, perhaps? #histmed #histsex #earlymodern

Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.

For History Today, I wrote about what happened to ‘illegitimacy’ in mid-twentieth century Scotland, tabloid fuelled moral panic, ‘problem girls’ in Moray and elsewhere, ‘respectable housewives’ and ‘living with Granny.’ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

Lovely day in Pompeii

I waited 8 months for the reviews of an article. It sat with the editor for final decision for 6 weeks. 4 job apps where this was 'under review' rather than 'in press'.

I think students are genuinely shocked/appalled when they occasionally, usually by accident, discover how badly their adjunct professors are paid.

📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

«We call these people “strong” and “independent.” What we’re actually looking at, in many cases, is someone whose nervous system learned very early that help isn’t coming...» «...And it is devastatingly lonely.» siliconcanals.com/sc-a-childre...

My new module, Medieval Women, is available to book via Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

More than 1.5 million girls were sent to maternity homes during the Baby Scoop era, where they were kept in seclusion, told they didn’t deserve to be mothers, and returned to their lives to pretend none of it happened. This is the America the GOP wants to make great again.

My new module, Medieval Women, is available to book via Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

EM hive mind - any ideas what Hannah Wolley means by "Smalbedus" here in this 1672 recipe for a powder to whiten hands? I'm stumped! I'm asking my plant scientist sister as well in case she has any ideas.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of vaccines. THREAD👇 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7 #history #skystorians

The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/

You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.

On the pioneering post-war survey of teenagers and young adults in Birmingham, funded by the Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust in 1950 archive.org/details/b327... Hope the new wave of strategic plans for England will commission similar. @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social

For more examples see our post, thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... Image: Alice Thornton, Book of Remembrances, 137. © Derek Beattie. 2/2 📜 🗃️

Threatening to defund the Welsh university widely perceived to be a bastion of the Welsh language - it has one of the highest proportions of Welsh speaking students - isn’t a great look for a party looking to sweep the Senedd in May

Thank you to everyone who shared their research with us yesterday! We enjoyed a brilliant first day of papers and a fantastic keynote from @sarahcrook.bsky.social. Looking forward to starting Day 2 shortly - look at this wonderful line up: 😊 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/20...

This is good, as far as it goes - but sometimes the only way to avoid burnout and stress is for there to be more staff to do the work. That does not seem something that is of interest to university SMTs at the moment.

This is Zeus. He's 13 and can't howl quite like he used to. But that doesn't stop him from stepping pup when his community needs him. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: zeustheoldiegoldie)

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One week left to sign up for our conference! We will be emailing everyone who has registered early next week with all the details and the Zoom link 📩