Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni “Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.

Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Who is doing interesting work on children and crises - disaster, war, famine, climate, familial, personal, gender, etc? Tell me about them!

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2

History in the news - from my colleague Leigh Boucher www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG

@RoutledgeBooks.bsky.social are having a 25% off Black Friday sale and my latest book is included! 🙌 Loneliness has taken many forms and knowing that helps us understand our emotions today and how, when, and why we should address it. invt.io/1bxbimw48tm

‘Wider humanities & social science fields are underrepresented; communities… are often not centred; and these perspectives are often only included after key research decisions have already been made.’ Excellent ‘genomics in context’ call from @wellcometrust.bsky.social wellcome.org/research-fun...

Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury

Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det...

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Free access until 31 Oct to our article on 'intergenerational emotions & family history' & more on 'cold intimacies', 'mythic love', 'grudge' on "Emotions and Society" student reading list @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso...

Prospective employers don’t want me… but you might: Experienced researcher, academic writer, oral history interviewer, public history journalist, seeks freelance and ad-hoc work…

1 yr on, we use 1983 8th Amendment Irish Constitution & 2018 Repeal the 8th to examine how feminists transformed “the Irish family” from coldness/despair to hope/happiness...free to read - awesome co-au @katieebarclay.bsky.social & fab co-eds @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jimmywintermute.bsky.social

New book review published in @jich.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social reviews 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism' by Catherine Hall @universitypress.cambridge.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article on neo-emotions as a concept for historical research! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new article out now on women and academic promotion over the last 50 years. A history of patriarchal equilibrium? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emotions & Society have created a student reading list. Available open access until October: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso...

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network amigrationhn.wordpress.com/about/

New book out later this year! Courtship, marriage, divorce, Scotland! All the best topics!

1 yr ago @katieebarclay.bsky.social & I pub'd (freely avail): “She is finally home”: feminist storytelling, family imaginaries and transnational solidarity in Irish abortion activism in issue on transnational Ire by me, @evansmithhist.bsky.social & J Wintermute. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...

Anybody got suggestions for 18thC novels with child protagonists that aren’t ‘children’s books’? The novels we read and don’t really think about the children. TIA for recommendations!

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

A gift in the post!

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

NLI Fellowships available: deadline for applications 16 May www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...

Proofs are in!

Registration for the Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions symposium is now open! This event will take place at the University of Western Australia, Perth on 16th-17th June 2025 Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emotions-i...

The history of the family as a liberatory knowledge? Me at Psyche. psyche.co/ideas/the-hi...

Finally got a hold of my new book. Loneliness in World History. Learn about loneliness but also how we do comparative emotions research.

We have a great programme of emotions events kicking off at Warwick today with a conversation on Teaching Emotions History with @katieebarclay.bsky.social and Sasha Turner. Lots more to come this week! @naomipullin.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Might be a nice little FOI project for someone @theguardian.com Australia.

Very good on The Great University Disaster. Note it's *not* attacking administrators: indeed unis may be *under*-managed. The point is that extreme, inappropriate corporatization and bureaucratization has destroyed their very purpose, like a virus from within. (1/2) academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

#BlueSkyStorians on the eve of #IWD2025 see films of our authors in Histoire Sociale on suffrage memory. Visit our StoryMap by awesome @clemloz.bsky.social on our ARC DP website ~ @dranastevenson.bsky.social @veramackie.bsky.social & Andrea Witcomb www.archivingsocialmovements.com/sites-of-fem...

I read this one sentence in an article that said that the custom of cheek kissing in France was rejuvenated after 1968 (having declined in the 19thC), as part of a commitment to equity. No reference!! Anybody know of this true or what I can read on it?

I have to write 1500 words on why the history of the family is important. Thoughts??

@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you

The internet says Europeans gave up their kiss as greetings (think cheek kisses on meeting) in the 19thC only to revive them in the 20th. Anyone got some academic sources on this? TIA

If you are still in a #ValentinesDay mood & want to read/listen to some #hairyarchive stories, do check out my work on the Tennent collection that is held in PRONI. This #hairy collection contains 14 locks of hair belonging to 10 different women. What does it tell us about love & sex? ❤️💋 See below!