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PhD. Lecturer. Historian of Modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
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My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book!
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
about 1 month ago
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Sarah Crook
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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
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Voices of Motherhood
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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
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voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/20...
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‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
https://voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/2025/12/10/the-politics-of-motherhood-maternalism-maternity-and-mothering-conference-programme/
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn
7 days ago
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.
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WeRateDogs
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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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Hadas Weiss
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Voices of Motherhood
17 days ago
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 📩
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Someone's happy I'm home 💜
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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood
28 days ago
📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...
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Liesbeth Corens
about 1 month ago
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is
#UKHE
finance & governance neatly laid out. This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue. 💡
www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
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My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book!
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
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My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book!
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
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Snowy pup
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Hogmanay ready 🎊
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Bertie loves* his Christmas present from my nephew's dog *he hates it but has to pose for stupid photos.
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Job rejections the day before Christmas Eve suck.
about 2 months ago
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Tom Cox
about 2 months ago
"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are getting lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely fucking ready.
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Looking forward to speaking at this conference on the 'non-mothers' of the London Foundling Hospital.
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Most of the time, Bertie is a little shit. But today, when life is falling apart, he decides he needs baby cuddles 💜
2 months ago
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Laura Tisdall
2 months ago
Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous
@histchild.bsky.social
conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!*
#histchild
#histyouth
#skystorians
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
https://www.histchild.org/pages/sheffield-26
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My next module with Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning is now available to book! The Weaker Vessel examines the lives of women in seventeenth-century Britain
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
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The Weaker Vessel? The role of Women in 17th Century Britain (XE19810) : Lifelong Learning , Aberystwyth University
https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-learning/genealogy/courses/the-weaker-vessel--xe19810/
2 months ago
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Ever get the feeling you're being watched?!
3 months ago
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Laura Tisdall
4 months ago
The call for papers for the
@histchild.bsky.social
2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
#histchild
#skystorians
#histyouth
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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
https://www.histchild.org/pages/sheffield-26
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Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.
8 months ago
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Kate Brooks
9 months ago
#Londonfoundlingmuseum
Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
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Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it!
#histchild
9 months ago
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When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
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Women's History Network
11 months ago
Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted.
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
#GenderHist
#WomensHistory
#WHM2025
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Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips
In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute…
https://womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the-workhouse-a-question-of-morality-c-1880-1920-claire-phillips/
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I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world
about 1 year ago
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My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know
#histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
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Project MUSE - “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
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My latest article is out in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. If you want a copy but don't have access, let me know
#histchild
“There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
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Project MUSE - “There Was no Goodnight Hug or Kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/938247
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I wrote this last year for my Women's History Network fellowship
#womenshistorymonth
womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the...
almost 2 years ago
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Municipal Dreams
over 2 years ago
Bobbie Charlton and his mum Cissie photographed in Ashington in 1953.
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