Such a joy to be back with history teachers today talking about my research and translating it for the classroom. I owe so much to this community.

On my way to #Soane25 Cannot wait to see everyone again!

I've had sneak peak at @hughrichards.bsky.social slides and ... ...it will be EPIC! It's also FREE! 4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away) You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later. 252 have already registered already! Short 🧵 on why you should join us... #ChangingHistoriesKS3

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

At the Hew Locke exhibition at the British Museum and obsessed with how many of these colonial artefacts were donated by women to the BM: widows, goddaughters, great nieces.

So in my current job (curatorial fellow- only a 1 year contract) people have taken to emailing me about historical things I generally know about, I go away, do a bit of research, come back with an answer, some sources etc. I love it. Is this a job that exists on a permanent basis anywhere?

Sorry but baby’s first snow was incredibly cute. The pure joy and wonder ✨✨✨✨✨

The power of curriculum. Changing perceptions of the past through beautiful story telling based on rigorous historical research

Any tips for coming to terms with almost constant illness. I ADORE the toddler but wow, this is hard. Currently enjoying a bout of Norovirus after RSV. Feel like I keep dropping the ball on work stuff and saying “this isn’t like me” but actually maybe it just is now… 🫠

Looking for recent work on gender and consumption in the long 18th century. Got lots of beautiful work from late 1990s to early 2000s such as Vickery but looking to see where the field is at now and drawing blanks! Pls help 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

This was absolutely great last year, and the line-up for 2025 looks amazing!

Bursary for Caribbean-based student presenters now even better thanks to Eccles Institute @britishlibrary.bsky.social: -conference registration fee, -return flights to UK -accommodation & food in Bristol -travel Bristol to London -£750 for research at Eccles see link below & please share widely!

This is going to be so exciting. If you like the idea that the pastis an imagined world to your students, come and think/discuss to how other people do it! Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.

Guys, do we know what Speedie Didi’s position on the genocide in Gaza?

Doing some reinterpretation related to a portrait of Emma Hamilton and I get that she was once a maid but that’s very much not what I would have led with? Anyway, if anyone has any tips on how to fit her wild life into circa 150 words, I’d really appreciate it 🤪

I’m in a book! (More accurately) a version of the article I wrote on the ethics of writing about the emotions of the enslaved has been published. Thanks again to @bethrwilson.bsky.social & Emily West for inviting me to publish & their editorial support www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Started my new job today as a curatorial fellow at Queens House in Greenwich. Here it is on a much sunnier day ☀️

Being a toddler parent is hilarious to me because one minute you are trying to have original thoughts about the link between Victorian photographers, the legends of Arthur & the empire. The next you’re ordering Sing & Signs ‘Jessie Cat needs the potty’ lift the flap book for Christmas presents 🤪

What a way to start the week. Final day of writing briefing notes for the next You’re Dead to Me episode I’m working on.

Went to Belgium, ate lots of good food. Avoided buying my husband a Zwarte Pete chocolate (mostly because didn’t want the woman behind the counter to think I endorsed it) so bought him a white chocolate that looks like an archbishop that is apparently sinterklaas. All in all, good times.

Also, hello history teachers 👋🏾 thanks for following, it’s make me thinking maybe I should post some sort of history content soon 😂

Honestly makes me so happy that I get to do this sort of thing at the weekend now

Today I’m working on a cool project & reminding myself all about the bits of Atlantic history that we often leave out of the usual narrative we tell in Britain. Very grateful for this great article by Issac Samuel: newlinesmag.com/writers/isaa...

Thought I might start up this account properly now I’m back to work. Last week, I started as the new Interpretation Manager at Chelsea Physic Garden. It’s been very cold but stunning in the winter sunshine and nice & warm in the glasshouses.