📣 'Archives to Action' has a programme! If you are a #humanities researcher or #archivist looking to connect your work to #policy. Or if you are in #legal practice or #policy looking for new ways to address old problems, this FREE one-day workshop is for you: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

A repost for the breakfast crowd ☕🥐 See below for details of a CfP on all aspects of #divorce and #marital breakdown @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Newcastle on 20 April 2026. #PhD #ECR & unfunded bursaries available for speakers. **Abstract deadline 2 Feb 2026** #history #legalhist #law #marriage

📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026 See 👇for details. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Calling all #lawyers #policymakers #charityworkers #genealogists #familyhistorians #archivists! This FREE workshop on 20 Jan 2026 will showcase #divorce project findings & welcome speakers from policy, practice & the 3rd sector to highlight the power of #archival research. In person/hybrid. Details👇

See below for details of a FREE one-day workshop 'Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare' held @northumbriauni.bsky.social on Tuesday 20 January 2026. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Great news! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

We've two new titles forthcoming in our New Historical Perspectives book series: > Gareth Roddy's 'Atlantic Isles' is published on 30 October bit.ly/3WFhpRg > Rachael Harkes's 'Forging Fraternity' is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

This week we welcomed 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following a meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV Applications to join the Society are invited at any time: next closing dates 13 Oct & 15 Dec bit.ly/3VQTFcF #Skystorians

At the World Economic History Congress in Lund? wehc2025.com #WEHC2025 Dr Jennifer Aston will be giving a paper ‘Marital Status and Credit: navigating the legal constraints of being a married woman in England and Wales 1850–1925’ on 29th July 2025 from 9.30-10.30am in Universitetshuset, Room 125.

...had deserted him in September 1900 after informing him that ‘she did not intend to live with him again’. If you’d like to find out what happened next, and why we saw Mary Alice and John Burke back in the Divorce Court you can read our latest blog here shorturl.at/F6F80 (16/16)

In case you missed it, here’s out latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed...remarriage and the Divorce Court’ that looks at a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family who used legislation to reconcile their romantic entanglements #Divorce #LegalHistory #Genealogy #Remarriage (1/16)

Our latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed... #remarriage and the #Divorce Court’ focuses on a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family and gives a unique glimpse into their attempts to reconcile their romantic entanglements with legislations #legalhistory #genealogy shorturl.at/F6F80

Thanks to @hartpublishing.bsky.social you can also read the Introduction of the book for free here: tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d #womenshistory #legalhistory Image Credit: London – St Saviours Church, Southwark by Chronicle/ Alamy Stock Photo (11/11)

Find out what happened to Margaret by reading the rest of this blog on our website tinyurl.com/4tz2wb34 This is also the topic of a new book by Dr Jennifer Aston and Professor Olive Anderson, Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th Century England and Wales: For Wives Alone. (10/11)

For #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM we’re reposting our blog on one of the most radical pieces of legislation in 19thC England that women could use, protection orders. The topic of the book Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce by Dr Jennifer Aston and Professor Olive Anderson. #womenshistory #women (1/11)

...you can read our latest blog here: hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... #genealogy #familyhistory #history #marriage #divorce #letters (9/9)

#genealogy #familyhistory #history #marriage #divorce #letters On the 16 June 1885, a 23-year-old Miss Charlotte Jane Bell (the daughter of a local gentleman) married Charles Marshall Dix (a 30-year-old widower) at the Parish Church in the small market town of Louth in Lincolnshire. After... (1/9)

As it’s #InternationalWomensDay you can read a free chapter from @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Professor Olive Anderson’s new book: Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales: For Wives Alone? tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d #history #legalhistory #womenshistory #genealogists

In our latest blog we explore restitution of conjugal rights. A type of matrimonial cause available in the #DivorceCourt to deal with #desertion, #childcustody and #maintenance issues that could also be used as evidence of desertion in a #divorce case hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist...

If you’d like to read more about the J77 files so that you can use them in your own research, or find out more about our trip then read our latest blog post here: hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... (9/9)

In January we got to an exciting point in the project, with a visit to our Project Partners #NationalArchivesUK in Kew. We, the Principal Investigator @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Senior Research Assistant @dianeranyard.bsky.social spent 5 days at the archives. So why were we there? (1/9)

As it’s Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week we’re resharing a blog written in collaboration with our project partner #WelshWomensAid #ITSNOTOK #domesticabuse #LegalHistory tinyurl.com/4y85uy3t

Find out what we've been working on recently in our latest blog 'New Year, New Stage of the Project! Our visit to #TheNationalArchives, Kew' hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... #archives #divorce #Ancestry #legalhistory #genealogy #familyhistory #history

As today (the first Monday of the year) is known as #DivorceDay our latest blog looks at a case from the Victorian Divorce Court that began in early January 1898 tinyurl.com/hcvb49n8 #Divorce #Separation #LegalHistory #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #TheNationalArchivesUK #Ancestry

Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

In case you missed our latest blog, Finding the Words: Descriptions of Domestic Abuse in the Victorian Divorce Court, is written in collaboration with project partner #WelshWomensAid. You can read the blog on our website here: tinyurl.com/4y85uy3t #Divorce #Christmas #DomesticAbuse #History

Our final blog before Christmas is written in collaboration with project partner #WelshWomensAid. Here we explore how different forms of #domesticabuse were described before the #Divorce Court & consider how survivors articulated their experiences in the 19thC system. #Christmas #LegalHistory (1/10)

In our latest blog, what happened when the literary agent who founded the company that represented #AgathaChristie, was brought before the Divorce Court to answer for his adulterous relationship with a married woman? tinyurl.com/bp56jccx #Adultery #Divorce #LegalHistory #History #Genealogy

If you’d like to find out what happened next, you can read the rest of the blog, The Mysterious Affair of Adultery in the Divorce Court, on our website here tinyurl.com/bp56jccx #Adultery #Divorce #LegalHistory #History #Genealogy #AgathaChristie (10/10)

On 16 April 1917, a petition for divorce was filed at the Principal Registry in London by Mr. Edward Jan Hoos, a banker who lived in Eaton Place, London. He was alleging that his wife, Gwyneth Alice Hoos had ‘…frequently committed adultery…’, with a named co-respondent... (1/10)

One last push (I promise!) If anyone is at a loose end in London tonight, or online anywhere then consider coming to hear about the more than 20,000 deserted wives in mid #19thC England & Wales who-for just a few shillings-reclaimed their rights to their children, bodies & property. #history 💙📚 🗃 🌳

Great news, Joe, many thanks 😊

...as someone who was deaf and non-verbal. If you’d like to find out what happened to Mary Ann you can read the rest of the blog on our project’s website which you can find here: shorturl.at/zYtFB #DisabilityHistoryMonth #DeafAwareness #LegalHistory #History (9/9)

As part of #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we thought we’d revisit our blog called Deafness in the Divorce Court, an example of how #deaf litigants navigated their way through the Victorian Divorce Court. #DeafAwarenes #Legalhistory #genealogy On 25 July 1876, a solicitor by the name of Redgrave... (1/9)

On an unseasonably warm Wednesday in May 1825, Miss Margaret Shands travelled to St Saviour’s Church, Southwark, to marry mariner, Alexander Christie. They set up home together on Watling Street in the City of London and were joined by a daughter, Rebecca in 1827, and a son, William, in 1830. (1/11)

Hello blue sky people! About me…. I wrote this book just before I left my job as a history professor last year to retrain as a school teacher. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

i am really hungover is anyone else seeing this #Strictly

I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world

Discover the story behind PI @drjenniferaston.bsky.social's writing partnership with the late Prof. Olive Anderson and their co-authored book, Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce published yesterday @hartpublishing.bsky.social 🗃️ 🌳 🧬 💙📚 #History #19thC #Divorce www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

It's Publication [email protected] & Prof Olive Anderson’s new book Deserted Wives & Economic Divorce is out now @hartpublishing.bsky.social 🥳 Read the Intro for free tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d & check out our latest blog post tinyurl.com/4tz2wb34 🌳🧬📚🗃️ #19thC #history #legalhistory #divorce

🧵I finally have my grubby mitts on my new book! Writing it & discovering 20,000+ women who regained their legal autonomy has been an amazing experience. It has been an incredible privilege to work with Olive Anderson's archive, more on that here: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/67000... 🌳 🧬 🗃 💙📚

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

Thought I’d give this old starter pack thing a go and start gathering those sharing writing tools, tips or their own #FamilyHistory stories go.bsky.app/Jr2tGDA

... the equally fantastic 'Modern British History (1900)' #2 at go.bsky.app/7N8kEUn As ever, if we've missed you off (or you'd like to be removed) let us know. If you've asked us to be included and we haven't replied, give us a nudge again as the notifications have been busy over the past few days.

The start of an Interwar History pack - some fantastic people here! If you research, write or post on anything to do with the interwar period, please do let me know and I can add you Am happy to interpret Interwar liberally; road to WW2, shadow of WWI and everything in between! go.bsky.app/T21gSU

A starting point for #Genealogy on Bluesky! Let me know if you would like to be added to it! If you’re interested & post about genealogy / family history — happy to add you (if I haven’t already) go.bsky.app/GMfGrzr Please repost this to help share with others!

What was the most radical piece of legislation in 19thC England?! @drjenniferaston.bsky.social makes the case for Orders of Protection under Section 21 of the Divorce & Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 in our latest blog post. tinyurl.com/4tz2wb34 @hartpublishing.bsky.social #BookSky #legalhistory 🗃️🧬🌳

Local History (Britain) starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/V4F5xXC #LocalHistory #CommunityHistory #OnePlaceStudies