Woo hoo! I'm also going to be revealing some of the research I've been doing this year on the 1980s, unpublished work in progress, to get feedback from you contemporary historians out there.

Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks

#skystorians British/London Historians - Back in the late 1950s, The Center for Urban Studies put together a symposium "London People & Places" covering Irish, Jewish, Polish and West Indian migration. I've the book Ruth Glass wrote on West Indian - Can't find rest or symposium o/p - any pointers?

Corporate moves to area. Fails to employ locals. Erects barbed wire/ gates/walls. Releases toxic fumes. Provokes TU dispute that distrupts, endangers & criminalises locals (who are no part of the dispute). Refuses to engage with locals. Wins dispute. Donates £3.5m to local charity 4 years later...

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

Club swim at 7am, knee surgeon at 9.00am. London train 10.40. archives at 11.20. I'm cooking on gas this morning.

Screw trips to mars - why has no-one invented self cleaning rugby and football boots? I'd buy 5 in each colour for both my boys. My back garden grows an inch deeper every winter the amount of turf I have to batter off the stinking wet expensive boots.

...I can't imagine how I would feel if some academic emailed me about my great grandparents, but they were so generous and kind, so open and everything he said was so important. I love history (sometimes. I am still not keen on the writing up snizz)

Today I met a chap whose family I have written about. I found him as a descendant & I was so worried about how the family felt about a stranger researching their "ordinary" family. It was incredible. 3 hours chatting together. His family were so happy to be part of it & we are working together now

This dog lives down my road. A special breed created when the first greyhound mated with a Victorian ghost child, it now pops up regularly in my drive. The dog's owners have also purchased it a wardrobe of spacesuits constructed by NASA. Meaning it is now lead singer of a David Bowie tribute band.

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist! @mbhjournal.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Reading a leaflet from 1993, Newham South Conservative Association, "Ethnic cleansing in South Newham Labour's plan for our local community" - depressingly familiar. I will no doubt find one similar in 1983 and 1973 in this file.

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

oooh yes gurl! you work that tarmac

And today's annihilation of self confidence has been expertly delivered by the 9 year old (isnt it always) when asked if I am likely to get through another clum swimming trial on Thursday, happily declared "No. No Way. No Chance. No Way. I am not being mean, but no. Just No". Alrightythen.

My Garmin died on my bike ride. I have been so dependant on the radar it was a hairy ride home. And an expensive weekend. I hate we have to be scared just riding a bike in this country

This is going to seem very random but I miss how the old bird app would have worked brilliantly for this: I’m looking for someone who can help me find information about how, and in what - if any - capacity, the Salvation Army might have been involved in adoption processes in London in the 1910s.

Spending the day with sociology research (and google translate) and had a little laugh when a reviewer stated "It is a matter of regret that in our visual world, many social scientists appear increasingly unable to express the simple, simply." Amen brother. Amen.

Today I have already learnt of high couture activities physically linked and located in the upstream London Docks peripheral factories and I am suprised I was suprised given the fur and materials trade. Lachasse links the docks of my timeframe to Galliano.

Daft question for the #skyhistorians but if a person had been to jail or had a disqualifing characteristic (mental health/non commonwealth citizen) in the mid 20C and they weren't on the electrol rolls, where would you find them? Is there any reading on this at all? I am guessing rent books

The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time

Decided to go for a swim before work. Nothing like an underwater punch up with some lane hogging slow men to brighten the spirits.

Son back to school - first time in long trousers - after a 9.5 week summer holiday and yes, I'm a ball of tears. God this is horrible.

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

...I asked the woman to tell the man who will be phoning around 7pm to ask about returns to say Bennie was about to be fed to the rescue snakes. I fully plan to be out the house when he comes home. Give them time to bond.

My son has been freaking out about going back to school. Took him to get adoption pet rescue donation place to donate puppy stuff. Big mistake. We now have a geriatric hamster and every bit expensive kit known to man. He is in love with her though. Bennie. (I've no idea where that came from).

Hi everyone! I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

Just finished reading Finn Gleeson's thesis, "Heritage, Politics and Identity in East London, 1973-2008: A New History of Imperial Memory" and a closer reading of @samwetherell.bsky.social Liverpool, the Unmaking of Britain. Both have me thinking much more deeply about Wapping. Very grateful.

Any UK-based PhDs working on medieval women interested in giving a lighting talk to this seminar? It'd be good to get some premodern representation.

Just arrived back from holiday and very grateful for people putting the flags out to welcome us home. Bit ott, but thanks for the effort.

I, on the other hand, am still smarting from the very directness of the Danes. I have an awful breaststroke and it is best I never do it again unless I'm prepared to work hard at it. She's not seen my butterfly yet. Neither have I. Roll on Friday. I am paying for this.

My little boy has fallen in love with all the Danish instructors here. All of them. Men and women, he just swoons. I was putting it down to the viking obsession but they are really kind and fun. Bless him. He wants to be a Dane now.

My autumn adult ed Sept-Dec courses are now booking. Here’s what I’m up to: 1/ Borderlines of ‘Madness’ in 19th-Century Fiction, the Mary Ward Centre, East London, starts Tues 23 Sept, 6.30pm, 6 weeks. Includes Charlotte Bronte, Poe, Wilkie Collins and Gogol www.marywardcentre.ac.uk/course-detai...

But first the physio to see if I can get back off my crutches. Tempted to keep them for the plane and lamp a few people at the airport.

...I mean from the packing. Ewwww. That read badly. I was thinking more of them both chaffing for a few weeks.

Going on holidays. I've spent the last month booking, paying, downloading, packing, washing, cleaning, ironing, buying kit, finding kit. Asked OH to download an app twice and apparently I'm 'nagging' - this is the only thing asked of both of them. It's for them. So tempted to remove their underwear

Off to laugh at my OH at the velodrome today. I hated it there back in the day. Absolutely hated indoors cycling. I think I was sick on almost every part of the Manchester velodrome. No doubt he will be a natural.

Meet me on the steps of St Paul's for a ramble across the Square Mile through the narrow alleys and byways towards London Bridge to discover the wonders and the wickedness of the City of London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

I'm giving an online lecture later this month on the eighth-century church in the Moray Firthlands - featuring brand new research on the 'shadowy' St Curetán (fl. 697), among other things. Booking link in the reply.

What is it with the 1970s and stray dogs/dogs out of houses in the inner cities? Is this a thing everywhere or just where I am researching. It's constant in testimony and utterly random. I don't remember that in the tenaments in the 1980s. White dog poo but not loads of feral dogs dust to dawn

I am once again asking for leads on part-time research, editing, and administration jobs - I have some freelance and hourly paid projects on the go and am not able to take on full-time work in order to accommodate them (and my pro-bono talks/research for charity/vol. orgs). DMs/emails welcomed!

Just one month to go until #UHG2025! Lots of fantastic papers, plenaries, and a drinks reception kindly sponsored by @urbanhistory.bsky.social Book your place: www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

Me asking my other half (who was an literal MF'ing trader in a not so distant past life) to read something I wrote about trading. "No. We will argue" I am now on promised absolute best behaviour despite wanting to hit him with a pan at every single tut and sigh as he skims it.

Looking for scholarship that discusses the difficulties of analysing support for extreme/radical/far right political parties, either in terms of party membership or votes. TBH a lot of the pol sci literature seems too confident in their methodologies/findings.

Spent two days writing on Eurodollar, currency controls, secondary markets & underwriting. This morning going through for relevance to the question I am asking. Now reducing it to two paragraphs & tears are welling. If anyone wants to know about Eurodollars in the 1960s London, I'm your gal

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social as a EE specialist, do you know reseource re interracial marriages in the 1950s/1960s between Carribean men (different islands) & Scottish Women in the East End? Thanks so much!

Did an oral history with a man who as a boy sat and watched them drain the dock from his flat. The thing he remembered most was the endless cars they brought out. All stolen cars that criminals had used then hoofed off the docks. Loads of them, all different ages. I was utterly captured by that.

Anyone know where I could find out about interracial marriages in the 1950s/1960s between Carribean men (different islands) and Scottish Women in the East End? From local discussion there is a trend, but I'm not sure how to find out why and more detail of any community. Thanks! #history #20Chistory

Picked up son from his last day at forest camp. "This has been a stab free day" he chirruped. I am terrified to ask for more stabor/stablee details. Terrified.