Reposting today’s blog post so I can tag @tricksterprince.bsky.social: armsandthemedicalman.com/2026/02/17/l...

It has taken a while, but I have finally managed to at least start my review of Songs of Seven Dials:

Niche (but passionate) popular culture take: the recasting of Dalziel and Pascoe as women for the revival is a travesty. Presumably this means Ellie Pascoe will be written out, and the entire dynamic with Wieldy will have to change.

Age verification? I made mix tapes.

Today's writing: 500 words of a now-1000-word+ (and still not completed) review of @tricksterprince.bsky.social 's Songs of Seven Dials, which tells you something of how much I enjoyed engaging with it. I think I'm going to have split this over two blog posts. #writing #amwriting #blog #20s30s

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. ‘It’s a bit more complicated…’

I missed out on these @imperialwarmuseums @libertylondon fabrics at first issue, so am delighted to have managed to get my hands on some this time around. I can’t wait to incorporate them into my next quilting project! 🪡 #quilting #culturalhistory #historyofwar #thehistoriancrafts

#offtheneedles It needs some serious blocking, but otherwise it’s done. 🧶 #knit #knitting #knittedlace #handmade

Having carefully set up an out of office and forward for my Leeds email account, it looks as if the University has simply shut it down. Can friends and followers please get the word out that I am still contactable for history-related messages and queries at jessicameyer1 @ gmail.com. Thank you!

The International Fellowships 2026 scheme, run with the @royalsociety.org, supports international early career researchers to undertake a two-year research career with UK partner organisations. Find out more and apply ahead of 11 March deadline: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Presumably the location of a CWGC cemetery was proving inconvenient to the demands and requirements of an ongoing genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

My team are looking for a new team leader and Modern Britain (post-1782) specialist. Closes 22nd February and do get in touch if you have any questions www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ050/t...

Can anyone explain to me why this volume (subtitled ‘A Canadian disability history reader’) is catalogued in the law section of the library? #history #disabilityhistory #dishist

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

In which I avoid #writing by writing about writing. #procrastination #blog #blogging

@owalpodcast.bsky.social, something for us to discuss at some point?

Great job opportunity, 18 month research fellowship in British Studies, linked to @thenacbs.bsky.social 2027 www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

In which I avoid #writing by writing about writing. #procrastination #blog #blogging

Read the whole thread. You didn’t know you needed #woosterposting, but I’m telling you that you do.

I posted the link to my new blog post fairly late last night, so here it is again for the European daytime crowd: Hello again armsandthemedicalman.com/2026/01/26/h...

One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 Deadline: Sunday 1 February #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Some news on the professional front has prompted yet another attempt to return to regular blogging:

I appear to have been locked out of my @wordpress.com account. Multiple requests for password reset links are not resulting in any emails to my registered address. Still trying to figure out what I do with the post I spent this afternoon writing...

Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man’s a Man for a’ that: For a’ that, and a’ that, Their tinsel show, an’ a’ that; The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men for a’ that. --- Robert Burns #BurnsNight

For those of us here in the UK who are watching with horror what is going on over in the US it is very important to remember that this is exactly what Reform wants for us over here. They've said so. They want 'forced deportations' in the US style. We're not safe here either if they win.

For future reference I will be mentally referring to Trump's 'Board of Peace' as the 'League of Abomi-Nations' for the foreseeable future.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. -W. H. Auden

Our roundtable tribute to Malcolm Chase is now published in Northern History. @northernhistory.bsky.social (Open access version will be available soon).

Nearly 10,000 words into this chapter draft and I still haven't got to the twentieth century. #menandwar #amwriting #history #longueduree

This week sees the release of @netflix.com's new adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'The Seven Dials Mystery'. 🔍 Interested in the context of one of Agatha Christie's first espionage thrillers? Also set in 1920s London, historian @tricksterprince.bsky.social's book is a great companion read. #booksky

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

If @netflix.com new adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials has you curious about Seven Dials & #20s30s Britain, you might like the @manchesterup.bsky.social Jan sale: 40% off Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

Two years ago, my New Year’s view was confined to my hotel room window.

On behalf of the Society's President and Council, we wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our members and online followers. And if your Christmas gifts disappoint, our full booklist is now available online to give you some ideas to treat yourself. www.sahr.org.uk/view-book-li...

Two posts available at UCL’s groundbreaking Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Several hours later than planned thanks to a power cut but our tree is up, and only involved one bout of tears from tge 14-year-old.

Receiving referee reports is emotionally complicated, even when the recommendation is to accept subject to revisions. Today’s (a week before Christmas) arrived with the request that I complete the regions and upload the new version in two weeks, adding outrage to everything else I’m feeling. #aclife

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

We drew on the collection of @historians.org essays analysing the film by Santanu Das, Susan Grayzel, @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social, and Catherine Robson. Students were drawn to the soundscape and narrative but queried the silences and omissions. All agreed it was an impressive piece of cinema!

Can a story about #FWW soldiers carry a warning for the nuclear age? This month Anne Marie Einhaus returns for Robert Graves' short story 'Christmas Truce' where a veteran recounts his wartime experience to his anti-Nuclear Weapons campaigning Grandson. ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/chri...

Good showing of @fwwsoc.bsky.social members at this year’s Society for the History of War conference, both in person and in references. #fww #ww1 #milhist #historyofwar

Days 18-23. Border 1 complete.

Spending International Men's Day writing about how Britain culturally represented men who returned from the First World War across the 20th century. Given there were over 4 million of them, the story is a bit more complicated than 'forgotten heroes' and 'cheerful cripples'. #fww #ww1 #amwriting

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

I spy pumpkin pie.

🕊️November 11, 1918 – The Armistice of Compiègne On November 11th, 1918, at 11 a.m., The fighting of the First World War came to an end. The armistice ended hostilities, and led to a complex post-war era defined by reconstruction, remembrance, and reimagined international relations. 🧵