More Work for Mother, v. 2.0: "The laundress lost her job. The housewife gained a chore. That pattern has been repeating ever since." (Glad to see Ruth Schwartz Cowan referenced in this @nytimes.com op-ed on #AI & domestic labor) #histSTM #histtech #GiftLink 🗃️📜⚙️

Conférence un peu ancienne mais toujours aussi passionnante (et rien que pour entendre R. Darnton chanter une pub pepsi, mais pas que !) #18thc www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Aqua silk was chosen for this #1750s woman’s waistcoat, fitting snugly over the body and lengthening over the hips. There are similar features to their male counterparts including the gilt embellished pocket flaps and buttons #FashionMuseumBath #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

There are 86 pregnant mothers locked up in ICE concentration camps. Pregnant immigrants in detention for months despite rules against it - Los Angeles Times share.google/PQsxrLcoTOWM...

🔵📣 Attic News for tonight. The main points: 🔹 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin criticized Armenia, warning Yerevan about the "unacceptability" of a course towards European integration without coordinating with the Kremlin, and threatened a "Ukrainian scenario".

💛 This writing…! Pine Marten *read the lines aloud: "The old house where star & rose come and go." And suddenly, his eyes smarted with tears…he would think of Old Fox's cottage in that way - the cold winter stars wheeling above the downs, the honey-scented roses furling the door and every window*

#StMark'sEve #OldFox'sCottage

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "To Tyneham" #OldFoxCommunity (Miss Rabbit, the Misses Shrew) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/to-tyn...

Departmental Lectureship in Economic and Social History University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL580/d...

Lecturer Politics, Languages & International Studies University of Bath www.jobs.ac.uk/search/histo...

Lecturer in Modern British History Lancaster University - School of Global Affairs #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL783/l...

Lecturer in Global Environmental History Lancaster University - School of Global Affairs ´skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL786/l...

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft University of York - Department of English and Related Literature #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

One Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Researcher: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: A Scholarly Reappraisal Magdalen College, Oxford - Calleva Research Centre #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM012/o...

Departmental Lectureship in History of Medicine University of Oxford - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM026/d...

Postdoctoral Fellowships Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Naples) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRI695/p...

Teaching Associate in Modern History University of Nottingham - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM192/t...

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology University of Lincoln - Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM232/l...

Associate Lecturer in History of Art, Materials and Technology (Maternity Cover) UCL - History of Art / Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM300/a...

Teaching Associate in Ancient History University of Cambridge - Faculty of Classics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM353/t...

Associate Lecturer in Modern Art and its Critical Histories (Maternity Cover) UCL - History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM385/a...

Associate Lecturer in Contemporary Art UCL - History of Art 🗃️#skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM387/a...

1-Open the strait or we bomb you into the Stone Age. 2-Okay, so we will open the strait ourselves. 3-Seems we can’t. 4-Actually, we’ll blockade it. 5-Well that wasn’t great. 6-We don’t need the strait. Never did. 7-return to 1

"I literally don't know who she is. I'm not being funny or anything, I physically don't know who [Catherine West] is. She could be the leader of the Special Boat Squadron..."

Camera Glasses Guy won for both Essex CC and Basildon council seats, btw bylinetimes.com/2026/04/30/r...

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Nothing says "happy families" like this clause Sir John Blunt, of South Sea Bubble fame put into his will in 1733. Evidently his children did not get on with their stepmother 🗃 @lsangha.bsky.social #C18th #Skystorians

Medal of Elizabeth Sophie Brenner (1659-1730), poet and feminist, in the medal cabinet of the Gustavianum, Uppsala #c18 #c18th #18thc

Lots more on this theme also available over on the @histparl.bsky.social blog (including posts by @georgianlords.bsky.social and @victoriancommons.bsky.social)... historyofparliament.com

As Britain prepares for local elections along with elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd, Dr Charles Littleton reconsiders elections in #Yorkshire in the 18th century, dubbed by one contemporary as "half of all England"... historyofparliament.com/2026/05/06/o...

A good day to get cracking on a new piece: Robert Spencer, 4th earl of Sunderland. He clearly had star quality, with one contemporary noting: 'he was what Shakspear makes Lady Piercy say of her Lord: “… the Glass, the Picture & the Book, in which the Youth of England dresst themselves"'

We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

In the 1690s Gatton had 22 voters; by the 1750s there were just 2. The last contested election took place in 1660, with nomination to the seats shared between the lords of the manor of Gatton and Upper Gatton. The borough was abolished in 1832 and absorbed within Surrey (Eastern division). #HistParl

Next Wednesday (13 May), 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social! All welcome.

How to make sense of what's happening in the UK? Why not join one of the most acute observers of British politics & society, the historian @helenebismarck.bsky.social, who'll be launching her new book "Fantastic Kingdom" at QMUL on 17 June? Free tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantastic-...

This is a very interesting read, and the story of horses and politics continues with our own 19th century take: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/t...

**Symposium News** We have a few spaces available at our symposium in Oxford next Friday (17 April) on the theme 'When there are no sources'. The event is free, but please sign up using the link below. Our speakers are John Arnold, Hannah Murphy, Jonathan Saha, Miranda Spieler and Tess Wingard.

#HistoryJob - our friends @leicsvcht.bsky.social are advertising for a fixed term role as Editor/Volunteer Coordinator for a community-based history project funded by Charnwood Forest Geopark and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Role includes research and writing and might suit an #ECR 🗃️

Our #1832AtoZ is at an end, with Z for Zoo. Nicholas Vigors, an Irish MP, played a leading role in the early development of London Zoo and was the first secretary of the Zoological Society of London. For more on his scientific and political careers, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/m...

Nice little story about the Pagets (earls of Uxbridge): The first Lord Paget (William) was made a knight of the Garter by Henry VIII; Edward VI decided he was not a gentleman, so ordered the Garter stripped off his leg; Queen Mary thought otherwise, so personally reattached it... #skystorians

18th-century newspapers always know how to cut to the chase: "the late earl of Uxbridge had the largest stud of horses of any nobleman in Europe, keeping the amazing number of 720 horses and mares, and never rode one of them" #HistParl

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For sale! The Shell Guide to Life in the Meadow. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton in excellent condition. DM to buy for £65, or go directly to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

My 15-year-old son is really keen to do a creative writing course this summer, which is quite expensive for me, so every sale helps towards that at the moment! 🖊️

Postdocs X 2 in #History Åbo Akademi University. The location of work is in Turku, Finland. abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_... #skystorians 🗃️

Lecturer - History and Politics HRUC ´skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRC698/l...

PhD Studentship: King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) Doctoral Studentships- King's College London - Department of War Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD022/p...

Assistant Professor in Turkish Cultural #History- Yunus Emre Enstitüsü - School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRC705/a...

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Sedimentary DNA - University of Reading #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD389/p...