this incredible 1907 film, La Grève des Nourrices. wetnurses strike, toddlers counterprotest, "down with nurses, bottles for everyone". a street fight ensues www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiF...

Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)

Very much looking forward to hearing @emilybaughan.bsky.social talk about her current work on the politics of childcare this Thursday. Come if you're in town!

this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining. @emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:

I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike

the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches

—@emilybaughan.bsky.social on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen —@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“ —Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center

“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social. Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...

asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'

So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed

still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??

if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social

writing a book!

went to talk to my 5 year old's class about 'children in the past'. asked for questions at the end and hands shot up. teacher said: now children, sometimes we struggle to remember what's a question and what's a comment. questions start with 'why, how, where or who' panel chairing goals 🎯

obsessed with this campaign, and the rule it opposes: that you can't receive govt funding *as a registered childcare professional* for a child in your care that is related to you. such a tell for the principle that love cancels labour; it's not care-work, if you actually care

our beloved playschool closes for good today. I've spent the last several weeks issuing redundancy notices, battling with the local authority and watching in awe as our treasurer does the most depressing sums www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The full list of authors on this piece is (deep breath!); me, @teadevotee.bsky.social , @emilybaughan.bsky.social, Laura Beers, Jade Burnett, Frankie Chappell, @ruthdav.bsky.social, @emmaelinor.bsky.social, Mary Clare Martin, Anna Muggeridge, Emma Peplow, Priscila Pivatto and Jessica White

It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.

I have lots of feelings about Susan Pedersen's recent review of Tehila Sasson in the LRB. Susan has been a deeply admired mentor, and Tehila is one of my dearest friends who has written - in so many ways - the book I wish I had been brave enough to write. It's whip smart, timely, and persuasive(1/2)

Read this and then read everything else that @emilybaughan.bsky.social has written on her substack, about care and domestic labour and children's lives.

I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔

Goodness me. The FT recommended my book Vanished on the ‘What to read in 2025’ list in December, and I’ve only just found out. What a gift for the new year! Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day. www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)

I wrote about the state of the field in modern British LGBTQ+ history for @histassoc.bsky.social: www.history.org.uk/publications...

once upon a time, this was my job! It was a great way to get to know the field, to get my hands on new books, and to read great review writing. I learned a lot!!

Who has fun ideas for the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference in May? Who is putting together a panel or a roundtable? Are people submitting individual papers? Are people submitting conceptual, 'about the field' stuff, or case studies in their own research? projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/

you can preorder @samwetherell.bsky.social's incredible book here! www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo... imo the most important book in our field rn

back on here after a false start last year -- hi 👋

my teaching next week is on human rights, refugees, and town planning and honestly I don't know how to do this while a genocide is unfolding in real time, a city is being destroyed, a people are being displaced from their displacement

Countries in the world that arm Israel: www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-isr...

I've heard of a group called 'parents for Palestine' but can't find any info anywhere - I'm wondering if anyone is planning on taking young kids to the London demo next weekend, and if there is maybe a contingent doing so. Let me know if you know!

if children in Gaza don't matter then none of us do I wrote about child rights, if they ever existed emilybaughan.substack.com