🗣️ A quick reminder that the online conversation between me and the wonderful Prof. @afroide.bsky.social hosted by @thenacbs.bsky.social starts in 30 mins! Link below 👇

The paperback of 'Deserted Wives & Economic Divorce' is out, and I am delighted to celebrate with an online book event. I'll be in conversation with the fabulous @afroide.bsky.social about the book and how it was written, in an event hosted by @thenacbs.bsky.social. 📅 April 30 ⏰ 12 noon ET / 5pm BST

Yesterday's Broken Bonds conference was everything I hoped it would be. From parliamentary #divorce to the mid-20thC family courts, domestic #abuse & legacies of #coverture, the scholarship was outstanding. Lady Hale's keynote was unforgettable. Watch this space for news of an edited collection...

Our colleague @drjenniferaston.bsky.social (now in Law, but always a historian ✊️) appeared on a recent episode of @shedunnitshow.bsky.social to provide some historical context on divorce in classic detective fiction. Listen below. www.shedunnitshow.com/thedecreeabs...

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

It's Map Commission Thread time! Do you need a map? Or want one? I can help! I make my living drawing custom maps on commission. And I am taking commissions *right now*! There's more info at my website: surprisedeelmaps.com Most of my maps are for history books. Here are some examples! (1/5)

Only 5 weeks until the *free* Broken Bonds: The History of Divorce and Marital Breakdown conference at Northumbria University! Thanks to the ESRC, travel bursaries are available. Details in replies 👇 #LegalHistory #DivorceHistory #FamilyLaw #SocioLegalStudies #WomensHistory #ESRC #ECRHistory

Delighted to have been a keynote speaker at the BMO/LRI Exec Roundtable on Women's Leadership & the Human Infrastructure of AI last week. Feminist business history is essential infrastructure for thinking about equitable innovation #WomensLeadership #FeministBusinessHistory #AI #FinancialInclusion

British Crime Historians Symposium 2026 - Call for Abstracts legalhistorymiscellany.com/british-crim...

🎉 The Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969 programme is live! 📅 20 April '26 | Northumbria Uni 🎤 Keynote: Lady Hale DBE 🗣️ 11 amazing speakers | ESRC-funded 💰 Free registration | Travel bursaries available #LegalHistory #WomensHistory #Divorce

I am so excited about this upcoming 1-day hybrid conference. I can't wait to share findings from the project & hear the amazing papers we have lined up. Most importantly, it's free! In person attendees get cakes, lunch & a drinks reception. Travel bursaries are available for PhDs/ECRs. Join us!

What do Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the 19th-century Divorce Court have in common? Murder, of course. I chatted with @cacrampton.bsky.social on the Shedunnit podcast about how divorce law shaped golden age detective fiction 🔍 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #LegalHistory #DivorceHistory

I've checked into the airport hotel ready for my early flight back to the UK. Thank you to Cath Bishop, Melanie Methot, @kris-inwood.bsky.social, Claire Wright, Alecia Simmonds and everyone at the @asia-pacific-echr.bsky.social for such a brilliant trip (and to the 🐨who kindly posed for a photo!)

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