It’s fantastic to see several Hart titles shortlisted across the 2026 SLSA Prizes! Congratulations to @drjenniferaston.bsky.social, Ngaire Naffine & @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social on this recognition for their outstanding socio-legal scholarship. Read the full shortlists: https://bit.ly/4c3516P

I am delighted that my most recent book 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales' (Hart, 2024) has been nominated for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize AND the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2026... (more below!) slsa.ac.uk/so/45PmDxXBD...

🎓Less than a week to go to submit your abstract for 'Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'. We've had some cracking submissions & (along with a keynote from the inimitable Lady Hale) it is shaping up to be a brilliant event! 💰speaker bursaries available Details below 👇

🎓Less than a week to go to submit your abstract for 'Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'. We've had some cracking submissions & (along with a keynote from the inimitable Lady Hale) it is shaping up to be a brilliant event! 💰speaker bursaries available Details below 👇

📢 #CfP @divorcehistory.bsky.social conference: Marital breakdown in the English common law world 1801-1969 📅 20 April 2026 🎓Northumbria University 🎤 Keynote: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE 💰 Speaker bursaries available! #legalhistory #socialhistory #genderhistory #VictorianHistory #law #humanities.

It's the last day to register for the free & online @divorcehistory.bsky.social one-day workshop 'Archives to Action' where we will be examining the relevance of #humanities and #sociolegal research to contemporary policy issues. All welcome! Sign up here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

How can locating women, children and diversity in the #archives be used in the present? Incl. @jessamycarlson.bsky.social from The National Archives and @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social from @northeastmuseums.bsky.social #Genealogy #genealogists #familyhistory #archivists #museums #divorce #marriage

#History #legalhist #divorce #familylaw #CfP One-day conference on marital breakdown in the English Common Law world 1801-1969' Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social 20 April 2026. Keynote = former President of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale. Bursaries available for PhDs/ECRs/unfunded!

How can stories of Victorian abuse survivors help women today? Join our ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20 Jan 2026, inc. Kate Perry-Jones @welshwomensaid.org.uk , Prof @bettinsonv.bsky.social & Prof Nicola Wake @northumbriauni.bsky.social #charity #survivors #abuse #coercion #women

#History #SkyStorians @hisjournalha.bsky.social is at the @historians.org 8-11 January! For details about meeting the editor, Daniel Laqua, to discuss submissions see flyer!

Our FREE ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 will now be a fully virtual event. Come and join us and our fantastic speakers, all welcome. #Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #ChildCustody #PolicyReform #Policy #England #Wales

I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

A repost for the breakfast crowd ☕🥐 See below for details of a CfP on all aspects of #divorce and #marital breakdown @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Newcastle on 20 April 2026. #PhD #ECR & unfunded bursaries available for speakers. **Abstract deadline 2 Feb 2026** #history #legalhist #law #marriage

A fascinating blog from my brilliant colleague Dr Helen Rutherford on #Victorian #Coroners and a unique source held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Do you research #marriage, #divorce, or anything in between?! Submit an abstract for the @divorcehistory.bsky.social end of project conference. The keynote speaker is Lady Hale & speaker bursaries are available - it will be a fab day, join us! #legalhistory www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity. Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.

If reincarnation is true then I hope to have lived a good enough life to come back as a Maine Coon cat 😻

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)

I'm not saying it's been A. Week. but I am drinking a plastic bottle of M&S pinot grigio from a paper cup on the train. Actually, I am saying that. Roll on the weekend 🫠🫠🫠

Congratulations to Pablo Pryluka, 2025 winner of the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Krooss Prize for best dissertation in business history. Pablo's dissertation summary now published Open Access in @entandsoc.bsky.social. Check it out for the best in new business history research

Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/09/26/v...

Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

William Jenkins was the General Manager of Consett Iron Works c.1860s. His eldest daughter Edith Rosina married Sir Thomas Oliver, a Newcastle-based surgeon who went on to campaign vociferously against disease & illness caused by heavy industry. I often wonder about their Sunday dinner conversation!

The Old Low Light had a great Suffrage exhibition a few years ago with a local focus & amazing research contributions from volunteers. That exhibition & Mary Ann Macham's statue show the value of working with communities. This is just in time to include in my Women & Legal History lecture next week!

I don't work on this but now absolutely wish I did! What a great idea. #legalhistory

I'm just starting my journey to Montreal for my first time @thenacbs.bsky.social I'm so looking forward to visiting a new city (I'm ignoring the weather forecast) and a genuinely amazing academic programme. Me for the next few days ~> 🤓 #history #19thC #divorce #WomensHistory

Calling all #lawyers #policymakers #charityworkers #genealogists #familyhistorians #archivists! This FREE workshop on 20 Jan 2026 will showcase #divorce project findings & welcome speakers from policy, practice & the 3rd sector to highlight the power of #archival research. In person/hybrid. Details👇

Calling all #lawyers #policymakers #charityworkers #genealogists #familyhistorians #archivists! This FREE workshop on 20 Jan 2026 will showcase #divorce project findings & welcome speakers from policy, practice & the 3rd sector to highlight the power of #archival research. In person/hybrid. Details👇

The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...

Maria Jonn #Swedish photographer & businesswoman. 1889 sailed to Argentina to run brother's household. 1891 returned home to help sister in Fotografisk Atelier Lina Jonn, photo studio in Lund. Took over & built business, raised orphaned nephew. d. #OTD 16 Oct 1910 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_J...

I wish the teaching moments would stop coming at such a relentless pace 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tonight at 5pm UK time! The launch of "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2" by Anthony Neal, Simon Buck, Asha Varadharajan, Erika De Vivo and more. Free tickets: essaysondecolonialityvol2.eventbrite.co.uk (online only) The eBook is available free here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House on the Living London History website provides a richly illustrated account of a fascinating property dating back to 1724 and described as “somewhere between a house museum and an immersive experience”. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Essay competition below for UG students with an interest in women & legal history! Please feel free to share with interested persons and contacts.

I've deleted my last post because the tickets have sold. Thank you so much everyone 💗

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

This looks very interesting and useful. Here are the titles of the chapters in this edited collection.

This! 👇 Finding someone who can understand a project's often quirky and slightly niche aims (& embrace them) can make all the difference to the final product. And if you use @greenleejw.bsky.social you not only get beautiful maps but you can also sneak eel pictures into your book 😉 #skystorians

Doing this talk tonight at Guildford Fringe - if you’re interested in suffrage histories and theatre histories then it’ll be the perfect way to spend a blustery evening away from the news… guildfordfringefestival.com/events/deeds...

@greenleejw.bsky.social has written a blog about the amazing maps he created for 'Deserted Wives'! With help from @bhamhistory.bsky.social, we recreated jurisdiction boundary lines & his final maps really underpin the book's thesis. Deserted Wives has 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

Great news! eprints of my review still up for grabs: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQYVV...

I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖 Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!) Deserted Wives currently has 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-... #19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime". Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!

At the World Economic History Congress in Lund? wehc2025.com #WEHC2025 Dr Jennifer Aston will be giving a paper ‘Marital Status and Credit: navigating the legal constraints of being a married woman in England and Wales 1850–1925’ on 29th July 2025 from 9.30-10.30am in Universitetshuset, Room 125.