Post-Christmas sadness has biological and psychological roots. Understanding them can help protect your wellbeing.

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

out of office about to be switched on, and i've sent my lil book off into the world AT LAST!! i swear nobody has ever taken this long to write 30,000 words but there we are 🤣 HAPPY HOLIDAYS Y'ALL #earlymodern 🗃️

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Bank of America is nostalgic for the time when it didn't have to issue a credit card to women without her husband's permission.

“The entire Epstein story is hellish from top to bottom, an almost-Gothic tale of the appalling deference society pays to the rich and powerful,” Elizabeth Bruenig argues:

Donald Trump’s televised speech this week was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/ZwUx7dcZ

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

It's not a thing I talk about a lot, but last year I went through the *whole* process one can go through when it comes to being made redundant. I am still in post. I have no idea if my experiences are useful to others going through the same now, but if they might be, and you want to talk, reach out.

Out now: Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History, edited by Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social and Yushu Geng, Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social #histchild #histed doi.org/10.4324/9781003321859

Truly honoured to receive these endorsements for my forthcoming book from historians who I so admire & whose work has inspired my research @lauragowing.bsky.social @juliehardwick.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social To read more & pre-order @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social see the links in my bio!

This is very good and goes in front of my MA students next term for sure. It's a lot better than the various medium posts I've written but it's reassuring to see so many people arrive at the same answer after checking. No, AI is not capable of "replacing" historians. Not even close, wrong timezone.

Read the full interview with @lucydelap.bsky.social, Chair of the Cambridge Faculty of History, Professor in Modern British and Gender History, and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College @cam.ac.uk: 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/leading...

So pleased to see this new volume, Shopping in Eighteenth-Century Europe published in our Routledge series. Congratulations to My Hellsing and Johanna Ilmakunnas for putting together such an interesting collection of essays! #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

Combining diplomacy with deals has long been a feature of US foreign policy, but Donald Trump seems to have taken that to a new level.

I am very excited for this workshop: please do submit an EOI or get in touch if you have any queries. Publishing a journal article doesn’t have to be a daunting experience, and we are very proud of our support for ECRs.

MAKE AMERICA GARAMOND AGAIN.

I have a new book coming out on 1st March: Five Evil Women Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Karla Homolka, Aileen Wuornos, Karla Faye Tucker. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/five-ev.... I ask this challenging question: how should a non-carceral feminist respond to women who have acted in such atrocious ways?

Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’. Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?

If you didn't have the luxury of workshops and support, how did you decide what to do with it?

Many Ukrainians “want, even now, to have a government that’s accountable to the public”—while American and Russian kleptocrats are looking to benefit only themselves, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes.

Latest article in the imminent @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI ed. @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself now out! Rob Heffron on Christianity & women's segregation in Rome and Constantinople (300–600 CE)📄https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70015

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

We are delighted to announce that the preliminary program for our 2026 Annual Meeting is available to view and registration is open. We hope you will join us February 19–21, 2026, at our 72nd Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. www.rsa.org/news/715597/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #RenSA26

📣 #CfP Reminder 📣 Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence? 📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇 ⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025 📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies

This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.

I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo. 85%

Available now 😀

Congratulations to Philip Schofield! His #OpenAccess book Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3K1HSWt #Philosophy #Law #Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social @laws.ucl.ac.uk

📢 Prof Renaud Morieux will give the 2026 Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social "Dislocated Families: Women, War & Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions" 📅 12 Jan 2026 ⏲️ 5:30-7pm 🏢 Institut français, London Register below ⬇️

'Dr Annalisa Nicholson, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, reveals how the concept of the salon was translated to the capital in A Salon-in-Exile: Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London.' 1/2

Ah, two men 'conversing', is it? 😘 (Deux hommes vus en buste, conversant, by Saint-Aubin, 1775)

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

📣 Latest Content in English 'Death at Sea in the #Mediterranean: Intestate #Succession and Movables Inheritance on Venetian Ships in the Seventeenth Century' by Maria Fusaro (@exeter.ac.uk) #Venice #Succession #earlymodern #skystorians dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome! folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...

🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝

Basically, come and get the preview of exciting future publications! We can be time travellers together!

theconversation.com/how-catholic... Just out! A timely conversation on how the past still speaks to us. Thank you for the oppurtunity @france.theconversation.com

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402

📝 Aujourd’hui, 25 novembre, Journée internationale de lutte contre les violences à l'égard des femmes, nous partageons une notice co-éditée avec @ehne.fr sur les causes et modes d’action féministes en Europe de l’Ouest (1970-1980). Lisez l’article de Marie Cabadi 👇 ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...

Women in public life often experience gendered behaviour but are punished for pointing it out.

Donald Trump is clearly willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power, regardless of what the Constitution says. He “has always told us exactly who he is,” J. Michael Luttig argues. “We have just not wanted to believe him. But we must believe him now.”

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

International Day to End Violence Against Women march & vigil in #Bristol tomorrow Thursday 27th

Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Congratulations to @maudannebracke.bsky.social on her new book "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950–1980" global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Only a few days until registration closes: Nov 30th #18c #BSECS2026 Make sure you get registered. When it is closed, it is closed!