Reminder that this is coming up in a couple of weeks!

A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.

mrs dalloway said she would create the art & write the books herself

Our next seminar is next week! 🗃️ Prof. Cait Beaumont (London South Bank University) will discuss Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, from 1918 onwards. 18 May 2026. 6pm. Online via Zoom. As ever it's free & all welcome. Sign-up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Hello, I'm on the academic lit search again - is there any writing out there on trans lives* in Northern Ireland? Thank you! * specifically trans people, I've found tons of great sources on LGB people. @hleehurley.com

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us.

Tomorrow at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Lukas Herde for a paper on ageing, sexuality and gender on British television from the 1970s to 1990s. It will be on Zoom at 17.30, all welcome. Register below. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

If you're in need of historical research (in archives or more generally), indexing, editing or copyediting, I have some capacity for freelance work over the coming months. Do take a look at my website and be in touch - I'm happy to chat about how I might be able to help. helenglew.com

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

That’s the University of Hertfordshire. Another excellent department doing amazing things with not a lot. Vandalism.

Okay but who in previous generations would have fallen hook line and sinker for AI nonsense? I think Shelley but not Wordsworth (on BSky, being tiresome about why not); Byron would say he's using it ironically while getting into increasingly long conversations about his own brilliance.

We welcome Ben Braber to the IHR next Wednesday evening to discuss his research on depictions of migrants in the British press across 180 years, 1841-2021. Please sign up if you’re interested. Details below! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Whether I'm there or not next year, here are the things that have been replaced by a generic skills module including 3 weeks on Using AI: 1. My linguistics colleagues on accent and dialect change, and atittudes towards the local accent. Led by the accents in the room.

Word.

📢Online book event! Join us next week to hear more about Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th Century England and Wales. @drjenniferaston.bsky.social in conversation with @afroide.bsky.social 📅April 30 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Re-upping this for the evening crowd. I need peer-reviewed sources (articles, book chapters) for a student project

We are thrilled to announce the programme for our Summer Seminar Series and hope you will join us for this wonderful line up of seminars and roundtables. The sign-up link for each session will be publicised here and on our website 1-2 weeks before each session is due to take place.

We are now allowed to create tutorial plans and other teaching materials with GenAI … if you can’t plan a tutorial what are you doing with your time and your career

My chapter 'The end of the typing pool: New technologies, old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media' is out this week and open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.

Those familiar with my work might spot this is (somewhat) a departure for me chronology-wise. Thanks to all who offered feedback or read drafts etc, esp. @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social and @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social. Any remaining inadequacies of course mine!

My chapter 'The end of the typing pool: New technologies, old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media' is out this week and open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

New and #OpenAccess, check out 'Black Essential Workers, Racialised Citizenship and Community ‘Friendliness’: The British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941–1943' by Jim Phillips & Theo Williams: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Super happy to announce that the first book in our series, Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures, will be coming out this June. Check out Porscha Fermanis's _Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890_ and please ask your libraries to order?

If you're in need of historical research (in archives or more generally), indexing, editing or copyediting, I have some capacity for freelance work over the coming months. Do take a look at my website and be in touch - I'm happy to chat about how I might be able to help. helenglew.com

Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

"By week one, I was already tired of his anti-rich, pro-Samaritan bullshit. I wanted to take a course in Christianity, not liberalism."

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026). 3-4 September 2026, LSE & Friends House (Euston Road) More information is on our website: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

See also part 2 here, which I had to start when part 1 was full go.bsky.app/QyNEpXX

Sad to learn of the death of Professor Michael Mullett. He didn’t teach me until MA level but he was kind and supportive. Very fond memories of working with him in those years in The County College when he was Vice Principal and then Principal. portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new...

Hello Gymnastics Fans! I'm delighted to announce that Blythe Lawrence and I have started a monthly podcast for European Gymnastics. The first episode launched today, featuring interviews with Max Whitlock, Giulia Steingruber, and Tofig Aliyev. Link below! www.europeangymnastics.com/news/brand-n...

On advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973" by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Still time to book to come along to next @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. Next Weds 11 Feb, 5.30pm, in-person with Margo Rashba on 'Vivienne Westwood's Punk & Britishness' 🧷 🇬🇧. Maybe see you there? #skystorians @d-j-frost.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...