I'm looking forward to this! The Women's Library collections are amazing, so it will be a fascinating day.

So true ... but no excuse for lateness!

Lovely article featuring @tinahodgkinson.bsky.social and her forthcoming book, Agatha Christie's London. #AgathaChristie

More fun with calendar time.

Choose a different year to be in! (Fun illustration of linear, calendar time as subjective after all.)

Come on a walk in the backstreets of Holborn this Saturday to find traces of poorer folk's migrations to London. It will be cold, crisp and quiet. Pub at the end. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

Very good point. However, they are not wrongasaurs but the bestosaurs.

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

Can't believe I published 3 books this year. - yes, I'm exhausted! - no, I'll never do that again. - above all, I'm hugely grateful to my co- authors, collaborators, contributors, editors, reviewers... No one creates a book alone!

I took my parents to see Witness for the Prosecution, which was great ... right up until the discussion of the victim as an "old lady" in her mid-50s 😭 #AgathaChristie

No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.

My legal origin story

Handy Bluesky tip: in settings > accessibility, you can switch on a setting to require alt text before posting. This has saved me from forgetting image descriptions more than once!

Just FYI in case anyone's interested, when you put a bunch of emojis after your screen name it makes it unnecessarily challenging for people who use screen readers to read your posts and follow you. The screen reader will read out every single emoji description every time you pop up in their feed.

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

Law! Time! Consent! My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)

Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.

My sister has left me home alone with only a scary bean-to-cup espresso machine to make coffee with! Do I (a) make do with tea, or (b) risk causing an explosion?

So excited to have tickets for this! It was really lovely last year, and the programme this year looks fantastic. #AgathaChristie

Visiting my sister so I can renew my #ProofOfCat (Yes, he's giving me side-eye in his sleep!)

Funded PhDs at QUB: 'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

I had such a good morning yesterday, talking about Deptford's criminal law history to the local history group at Mycenae House. Including the first murder conviction based on fingerprint evidence and the leading case on gross negligence manslaughter.

Still time to book for 1.5 days of legal moments that (didn't) change everything. From property law to criminal, interregnum Scotland to Canadian land rights. Freee, online - full programme at the link below.

This. It's not only cruel, but counterproductive. But mostly cruel.

Less than a week away! Unmissable keynote for historians: Charlotte Smith of @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy will talk about the Denning Committee and the importance of engaging with how archival management shapes our work.

Less than a week away! Unmissable keynote for historians: Charlotte Smith of @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy will talk about the Denning Committee and the importance of engaging with how archival management shapes our work.

Interesting, useful - and welcome confirmation that I'm not alone in hating misuse of 'neurodiverse' to describe an individual!

Man, I was all excited going to read the Hansard report from the day the lesbians abseiled into the House of Lords to protest Section 28, but all it says is "[Interruption]" 😂

Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods. 20-21 November, online, free. Programme and booking at the link.

Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods. 20-21 November, online, free. Programme and booking at the link.

An excellent #LegalHistory initiative from my #Bristol colleagues. Do have a look!

On 11 November, Steven Spencer of Birkbeck, University of London, will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where he will be presenting on 'The campaign to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Bill' Find out more about his paper and how to attend below: buff.ly/OTB2wDo

I had a lovely and very informative time at History Day at @ihr.bsky.social and came home with brochures, books and badges - this one may be my favourite.

Remember guys, @pcsunion.bsky.social staff at the BL are on strike for the next two weeks. Please don't cross the picket line to go to reading rooms, attend exhibitions or anything else. They've endured so much on low pay since the cyberattack in 2023 and the least we can do is have their backs now.

V generous offer, but I think I'll pass!

A little quantum physics on my way to London Month of the Dead, at Guy's Hospital (now a KCL campus).

Super interesting talk by @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social last night complemented by items from Josephine Butler archive. The parallels with what's going on today were striking.

Exciting day - I got to meet @drcisme.bsky.social in person and deliver a workshop with her at @lselibrary.bsky.social

All ready to go for this talk on Thursday. Really looking forward to it. Squeee!

At the Metropolitan Police Museum gallery yesterday, I learned about the Great Pearl Robbery of 1913. The stuff of detective fiction: a fake office! A famous necklace! Wax seals and sugar lumps! The King of Fences! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_P...

🚨 Amelia King, volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943, was rejected by Essex farmers. This week's Substack post on John Scurr House in Stepney looks at the racial discrimination suffered by residents and its later redevelopment. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/john-scurr...

An excellent newsletter, essential for #AgathaChristie fans!

A few tickets left!

#CFP closes tomorrow! It promises to be a fantastic programme - 24 hours to get your submission in and join us. #LegalHistory

I'm looking forward to this!

Two more days to get your abstracts in!

#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀 On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it. #Wales #History

Still one week to submit your abstract!

We always welcome non-legal historians using legal sources/events 😊

Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October! Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster. #LegalHistory #cfp