Very happy to be co-organizing the SHCY conference in Montreal. Please send us your proposals by Sept 15! @shcy.bsky.social @histchild.bsky.social @histchildoxford.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social #coenars

Question for history of emotions folks: Who said that pre-modern people felt things differently? And is this is common sentiment? I gots questions…

That's a wrap for the CHS Sheffield Conference 2026! We've had a great few days hosting each panel and delegate, sharing our research, catching up with old friends, and making new connections. Thank you to every attendee for making our Fifth Biennial Conference a success!

Great first day at #histchild26. Looking forward to presenting on siblings in Welsh Workhouses tomorrow. The panel is part of our forthcoming special issue on siblings in institutional care.

🎉 We are delighted to announce the recipient of our 2026 Research Bursary: Dr Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social Claire’s research explores childhood, family life, and motherhood in the Edinburgh Orphan Hospital. The bursary will support her archival research. Well done Claire! 👏

My nephew came second in the Kafka Undergraduate Essay prize. I'm so very proud of him 💜💜 He's on his way there now for the awards ceremony tonight....trains and weather permitting. www.kafka-research.ox.ac.uk/kafka-underg...

Our washing machine started burning last week so we had to get a new one. Husband is *so excited* to use the new one. So now, laundry is his job and he's thrilled. If I knew it was that easy, i'da broken the damn thing years ago 🙄

This time next week! @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social

📣CFPs 📣London Foundling Hospital Conference 16 October 2026 @ihr.bsky.social Hidden Identities in the London Foundling Hospital Archives, New Questions and Discoveries Deadline for proposals 1 August #histmed

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.

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.

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)

“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...

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

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 ❤️

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-...

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/

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 📜 🗃️

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 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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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-...

Looking forward to speaking at this conference on the 'non-mothers' of the London Foundling Hospital.

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-...

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.

#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.

Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild

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.

Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted.  womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025