So looking forward to attending #BSECS2026 this week! I’ll be presenting my paper, ‘All histories great and small: The importance of biography as an approach to (women’s) eighteenth-century history’ tomorrow (eek!).

📣We are delighted to announce the results of the Postgraduate Paper Prize 2025! 👇Read all about it below: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/21/w...

Obsessed with this Molly line, blaming drinking tea outdoors for the Earl of Bath’s death: “He threw away his life by a needless piece of complaisance in drinking tea out of doors, after being warmed and heated by a great deal of meat…He was not at an age, nor ours a climate, for those al frescos”.

In my latest instalment of visiting every Norfolk country house I can, I spent my Sunday morning at West Acre Gardens - an absolutely gorgeous walled garden and spectacular polenta cake too 👀

After a fabulous few days at the Black Country Living Museum, I left the #SHSConf2025 feeling inspired and relentlessly cheerful - but a mixture of exceptional panels, fish and chips and a fairground will do that for you. Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for a truly amazing conference. 📚🖋️🎓

I was so over the moon to have won the Postgraduate Paper Prize at the Social History Society Conference this year. What a fab end to a truly wonderful conference! Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social !📚