Starting Storytelling for Family Historians open.substack.com/pub/saralrea...

Earlier we were treated to a fantastic @healthhumslboro.bsky.social talk by @saralread.bsky.social where she discussed her novels ‘The Gossips’ Choice' (2020) & 'The Midwife’s Truth' (2023), and how case notes and midwifery practices in historical medical treatises are transformed into fiction.

On Tuesday 25 March 12-5pm, @saralread.bsky.social will be speaking at 'Literature, Engaged Research and the Wider Humanities At the Mid-Career' @keeleuniversity.bsky.social More details here:

Quick show and tell this afternoon for the VC @lborouniversity.bsky.social and the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities of some of the materials we use to explore early modern health @lboroenglish.bsky.social

Here are two photos taken by Prof Clare Hutton who has made the journey to Canterbury today to attend this historic unveiling and to support Prof Hobby.

Loughborough English professor Elaine Hobby has been with Her Majesty the Queen today at the unveiling of a statue of Aphra Behn - the first professional woman writer. The event took place in Behn's home city of Canterbury. Read more: 👇 bit.ly/4bdmmaD

Hello Bluesky! We are the English Department at Loughborough University. You can find out more about us at this link: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng.... Below is a photo taken on a glorious day in May 2024 of some our faculty and finalists.

Wonderful afternoon yesterday celebrating another PhD success as Rai passed her viva. Her creative critical thesis has been a pleasure to supervise for Catie Gill and me over the last 3 years. @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Five years ago we went to the National Civil War Museum in Newark to bring you a tale of Old Father Christmas and his brush with the law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDe...

Universities are in a shocking state & the new government has barely begun the herculean task of stabilising the sector.It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic & intellectual tools provided by literature. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Last evening we said goodbye to two phenomenal colleagues in Loughborough English. Deirdre O'Byrne and Catie Gill have been teaching in our department for over 20 years and next week will leave us for pastures new. The department will feel very strange next term without their presence.

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I've made a starter pack of my wonderful colleagues in English @lborouniversity.bsky.social go.bsky.app/83SfwnK

Very festive student accommodation @lborouniversity.bsky.social

At the launch of this new volume! 🎉 To all involved.

Six years ago @historianjen.bsky.social and I went to the very cold 1620s house in Leicestershire to make mince pies with cow's tongues from a historical recipe. See how we got on here: www.lboro.ac.uk/media-centre...

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Lots of good people to follow here for those interested in health /medical humanities.

👀 @wsguk.bsky.social is now amongst us in this place. Do follow!

Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87 www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

And the Loughborough English Oscar Wilde written by our colleague Sarah Parker is now completed 🎉 @lborouni.bsky.social @jenniferacooke.bsky.social @sadiseshiah.bsky.social

A slightly snowy view from my office window in Loughborough today.

Hello, friends! We've made a starter pack. Please give us a nudge if you're a WSG member, colleague, book contributor, or a speaker past or present. We're keen to put our lovely community in touch with each other here. We've started small, so come back and check as we grow! go.bsky.app/88zFAoB

Hello, we're new here 👋 We're looking forward to meeting friends, old and new. Please say hello in the comments so we can follow you!

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

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Over 60? Writer? This is for you

Not gonna lie: I'm a historian and I had no idea there was a second person on that plane. His name was Fred Noonan. We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂

The Women's Studies Group's annual ECR/DR and Independent scholar bursary is now open for applications. Worth £750. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

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Last couple of days to see this. The exhibition closes on Tuesday.

The Loughborough English Health Humanities exhibition is all installed and we can't wait to show it off next week. www.lboro.ac.uk/arts/whats-o...

Exhibition alert! ‼️🔔 All are welcome to 'Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch' - an exhibition curated by our wonderful Health Hums researchers. Open 27 March - 23 April 2024. More details below 👇 www.lboro.ac.uk/arts/whats-o...

I love contributing to Discover Your Ancestors annual bookazine. Especially sweet this year following its post COVID hiatus. So if you're interested in #genealogy #lanuguagechange #tudors #stuarts #vowelsounds #familyhistory #catholic #belfast #celebrities there's something you in issue 11.

Quite the week, but the highlight was a new granddaughter on Tuesday 😍 Lots of baby snuggles have been had.

A pile of sleeping pets.

Lovely to see this volume is out in the world now. My chapter is in part three The Birthing Room. (Priced to appeal to university libraries only, sadly). www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

After along week back teaching, I've earned this. Cheers.

Happy New Year and happy birthday to me. 🥂

Merry Christmas 🎁

Flashback to the time @historianjen.bsky.social and I made seventeenth-century style mince pies in a seventeenth-century manor house. www.facebook.com/share/v/TaL6...

Look what's just arrived in today's post. The paperback edition of my 2015 Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540-1740.

Home with the last teaching of term done.

Fantasy Lego made by @daphnao.bsky.social How much would I love it this was manufactured!

If these walls could speak, indeed. A lovely little cafe at Middleton Hall. #Bake180

Today! Author and Art Critic @LauraCummingArt will be joining us for a reading of her book 'On Chapel Sands' and taking questions. 📅 23rd November 🕒 5-6.30pm 📍 Stanley Evernden Studio, Loughborough University. Drinks and nibbles included, all are welcome!

Look what's just arrived! This brilliant new study from my very clever friend @historianjen.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

This Saturday now.

Great visit to Southwell Workhouse with our MA students today. Really helps contextualise our reading for the Writing History and Heritage module.

Six days left to bid on hundreds of books in this year's Children in Read appeal. The link to my lot below. www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...