Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.

Hey Bluesky! Just wanted to share that I’ve finally started my substack. I’ve been thinking about it forever. I’ve launched with a reflection on train journeys, London, and being myself. Hope to see you over there! open.substack.com/pub/drhannah...

First dahlia - “golden sceptre” - of 2025. Woo!

DEADLINE: a reminder to anyone hoping to join us at Warwick for our annual conference in August that the early bird rate closes on Sunday (15 June). Please follow this link to book your place: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

My @uonucu.bsky.social ballot has arrived. My husband is also a union rep so no ADHD forgetting allowed. Voted and walked it to the postbox right away. Obie is ready to sit on a picket line and wag his tail at the cars if needs be.

Combining archival research, Black studies and musicology with critical race theories, @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social aims to fundamentally reshape the application of intersectionality in musical theatre studies and training. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

If you are looking for the most soft, straight to DVD rom com but in a book but there happen to be dragons, I can recommend this. I imagine it’s marked as cosy contemporary romantasy but it’s much more like pet cafe owner vibes with pet owner and the pet - a dragon. Light summer blanket of a book.

So, the news is out! I will be delaying my start as Head of Music until Summer 2026 in order to take up a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and finish my second book for @cambridgeup.bsky.social ☀️🎭✊🏽

I love how every few months Gordon Brown pops up to say “child poverty is bad, we should do something about that” and every few months Tony Blair pops up to say “we need a state-issued ID card that will use AI to train drone police officers”

My doom distraction is learning about plants. I’ve been committed to my garden (properly) since February and it’s so striking how many more butterflies, moths and birds we already have in the garden for me turning the soil, weeding, and adding some insect friendly seedlings and veg!

Chaos bears are happy I’m home lol

Tiny bit of research on Whitney Houston unlocked 🩷

Two of my favourites 🩷🙂

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Details of our (online) AGM next Friday have gone out to members via our newsletter. Please contact us if you are a current member and have not received this information. We look forward to seeing you there.

The Lush display was nice... In the words of my friend: "Wild how ten years ago I might have thought it was a bit pandery, but Jesus Christ, these days trans peeps deserve some pandering".

So the EHRC wants to turn the clocks back to 1969, and now I'm blogging like it's 2012: cnlester.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/t... I had too many thoughts on the transphobic direction of travel to fit it into one message. I hope it helps.

The Mo Siewcharran Prize this year is for non fiction. The prize is to help discover unpublished non-fiction writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and minority ethnic backgrounds. Details in link. Please Share :) www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk/landing-page...

Doing some cleaning up of my web resources and reconnected with this blogpost I wrote in 2022. It's about all the things you might not know when applying for a PhD in the Arts and Humanities in the UK. As we are at the start of a new cycle, here it is: hannahmarierobbins.com/2022/05/16/t...

That neurodivergent stomach drop when you realise you’ve somehow added a week to the month in your mental calculations 😭

Just had a doorstep chat with the local Labour team and told them Keir had lost my support before the general election because of the party’s stance on various equalities legislation. And that I couldn’t renew a vote for local Labour given the ongoing attack on trans rights.

Come and join us at #Nottingham! New ArchSci labs and a fabulous heritage science network across the university gives access to all sorts of lovely kit for materials science. If you’re collaborative with exciting research ideas, get in touch!

Extremely proud of me for doing a garden job we planned to do this time last year 🤣😅

We had such a beautiful frolic in the sun yesterday. Hope everyone is having a restful Sunday

Josephine Baker photographed by Boris Lipnitzki in her dressing room at the Casino de Paris, 1930

There should be a job where I just get to sit, hype up my friends, help them with their projects and copy and stuff, and get paid for the pleasure of seeing them thrive. No buy in or credit sharing, just a professional cheerleader. 😂

So happy for Scotland. Furious my husband persuaded me to deselect Blair for Duhan. English fan sabotage messing with my weak mind 🤣 #SCOvsWAL

Gutted I deselected Penaud to be honest,

My fantasy #sixnations squad is having the best time 🤣 #IREvsFRA

I keep meaning to say that I love The Icha Library channel. I came across them on TikTok and they are everything I am looking for in bookish content. They should be celebrities. The vibes are so funny. Is a small channel so check them out. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NF...

A reminder that our annual conference is currently open for submissions. Deadline for applications: 10 March 2025 via the Warwick website linked below. Here's a summary of all the working group themes at a glance! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

My incredible PhD student has co-curated this exhibition in London. Do check it out! OutSavvy - 破链：中国女权主义行动者在伦敦 UNCHAINA: Chinese Feminist Activists in London - Thursday 6th March 2025 ( 2 other dates) at QMUL ArtsOne. Find event and ticket information here - www.outsavvy.com/event/25343/...

How many is too many? Trick question, you can never have too much open sharing! theauditorium.blog/2024/01/11/t...

A neurodivergent story:

Oh it’s so bitter sweet. #ENGvSCO😭

Me, a Welsh rugby fan vindicated in the England group chat

Seven books, Black authored, that I would preorder in the @waterstones.bsky.social sale. Shop strategically if you can. Preorders have SIGNIFICANT impacts for authors.

Old-school romance with ALL the tropes: enemies to lovers, slow burn, forced proximity, etc. Two rival authors are forced to co-write a novel merging their genres and shenanigans ensue. Hallmark/Hazlewood vibes. Cute, funny, predictable. Lovely, safe, genre-positive read. (Read via NetGally)

Good. ✊🏼

Look, Don't Touch, the next Inkling, is published today! What does the command “look, don’t touch” suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society? www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

Had my first meeting about PhDs starting in 2026 so I am (again) flagging the free resources on my website, targeted at PhDs in the Arts and Humanities in the UK. This includes an info sheet about applying for PhDs and a PhD proposal template. hannahmarierobbins.com/blog/resourc...

Nothing more on brand than having a lovely tour with a prospective student, trapping my thumb in a fire door, and then trying to cover the blood running down my hand while we say goodbye. So tired. So dyspraxic.

The Broposal is partly a queer adult romance novel but @sonorareyes.bsky.social does A LOT in this story. Childhood bestfriends and roomates, one undocumented and the other leaving an abusive relationship, explore a marriage of convenience. It's touching, gay, angry, + very bannable. PURCHASE ASAP

Oh so fun. Book maths is Lemony Snicket x The Princess Bride + pirates. It’s whimsical, action packed, funny, goofy, fairy-talesque, and generally rompy. My first Brandon Sanderson, too, Someone should make a musical!

Going to a big research conference can feel overwhelming. This year, we are really thinking about ways to welcome familiar and new faces to #TaPRA2025 at Warwick. Do check out the info or reach out if you are feeling uncertain.

Theatre friends, TaPRA is now on Bluesky! Do circulate, follow, and share!

95. Make the Season Bright - Ashley Herring Blake. Despite “read a queer Christmas romance” being a seasonal tradition of mine, I’ve DNF’d a lot this year. However, this is a good one. Queer musicians, found family Christmas, fake dating, horse riding, skiing. Love and drama.

If you like books, you may be aware that pre-orders go a very long way. These are the eight 2025 releases that I’ve prioritised for a mixture of genres and moods.

Several scholars of color and marginalized academics have said this several times on Twitter and here, but many people remain there because that’s where their communities reside and there are huge exit costs. Not everyone has the PRIVILEGE to leave a community behind.

I'm taking the Museum of Epic Fibs to the Southbank Centre! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ath...