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Dr Carmen M. Mangion
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historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · Jan 17

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Dan Stewart @drdanstewart1.bsky.social · 6d
The great thing about end of term marking is I get so much cleaning done.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 6d
Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.
Radical Reads 2025
History Workshop editors share their reflections on the radical books and films which have compelled them, fascinated them, and moved them throughout 2025.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 6d
Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 7d
A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d
Thanks Carmen, more details below!
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 8d
This is so awesome! Looking forward to the big event in January!
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Do you recognise anyone in these photographs? We would love to hear your stories in the comments!
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Today we are launching a new series of articles and podcasts to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal 🎉✊🗃️

In this introductory article, Barbara Taylor reflects on a picnic she shared with other editors in 1984, and what it meant to be part of the HWJ collective.

Reposted by Carmen M. Mangion

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 8d
Happy woman reading
Jan Lievens, c. 1630-1674

(Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Peter Schöttler, Carmen M. Mangion

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d
Do you recognise anyone in these photographs? We would love to hear your stories in the comments!
historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 8d
Today we are launching a new series of articles and podcasts to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal 🎉✊🗃️

In this introductory article, Barbara Taylor reflects on a picnic she shared with other editors in 1984, and what it meant to be part of the HWJ collective.
An Editors' Picnic
Barbara Taylor introduces our new series with her memories of a picnic she enjoyed with other History Workshop Journal editors in 1984.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 11d
Congratulations to former PhD student Nick Evans on his first monograph The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919: From Innovation to Stagnation supervised at Birkbeck University of London by Dr Carmen Mangion and Professor @doravargha.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Reposted by Margot C. Finn, Michael H. Whitworth, Carmen M. Mangion , and 4 more

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13d
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."

Reposted by Lynn Abrams, Carmen M. Mangion

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 13d
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?

Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊
A People's Congress
What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?
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Chris Campbell @chriscampbell1.bsky.social · 14d
If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians.

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The Historian in the Age of AI | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
The Historian in the Age of AI
www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Mary Burke, Carmen M. Mangion

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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · 16d
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 16d
Her dissertation was 'Gross Abuse and Bad Poetry: The Tonbridge Miscellanies, what were they, who were they produced for, and what can they reveal about the mentalities and social networks of spa going society in the eighteenth century'. She is enrolled in Birkbeck's MA Historical Research.

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Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 16d
Congratulations to Birkbeck graduate Melanie Dye who received the 2025 Outstanding BA Dissertation Award in History, Classics and Archaeology. She is shown below with supervisor Mike Berlin and Director of Education
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
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Sister Susan Francois, CSJP @susanfrancois.bsky.social · 19d
No I have not ventured into standup comedy!! Instead here I am giving the welcome tonight to guests at the 50th anniversary Gala of Investor Advocates for Social Justice. It is my honor to serve as Chair of the Board of this dynamic organization Here's to the next 50 years!

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 20d
Insane story, great takedown thereof.
Just to add sabzi is also alive and part of the Balkan culinary commons, in words like Gk. ζαρζαβατικό, Bulgarian зарзават, Romanian zarzavat
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B2%...

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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · 20d
Amid the ongoing chaos of my home town having no safe water to drink for almost a week (irony not lost on anyone considering it is a spa town) I have been cracking on with book writing, book reviews and an abstract. Cannot wait to share more information in the future!
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
media.tenor.com

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, Lesley A. Hall, Carmen M. Mangion , and 2 more

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Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 20d
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
www.history.ac.uk

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 22d
Join us live at the IHR and online
Free registration: tinyurl.com/2bln3rdy @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 26d
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”

this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite

www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 27d
Fab poster representing our #livedcitizenship strand of #LSBU Building Future Communities Research Centre & created by my strand co-lead Dr Martha Shaw. #womensgrassrootsactivism

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 27d
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨

📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!

We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.

📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

#CFP 🗃️
SHS Annual Conference 2026
Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · Nov 20
Call for papers #CFP

Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present

18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition

Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present When and where: University of Warwick, Coventry, on Thursday 18 June 2026. Conference summary: This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Held jointly by the University of Warwick's Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, and Modern Records Centre, the event will run alongside an exhibition which will explore some of the themes covered by the speakers through the National Union of Mineworkers' archives. We welcome contributions from new and established researchers, working inside and outside higher education. Confirmed participants include: - Jörg Arnold (University of Augsburg / Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin), author of The British Miner in the Age of DeIndustrialization - Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Principal Investigator on research project On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 and former miner - Quentin Outram (University of Leeds), Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History and co-editor of Coal in Victorian Britain Conference themes: Subjects that could be addressed include but are not limited to: The human cost of coal, including: - Mining disasters, their contemporary impacts and later memorialisation. - Industrial accidents, industrial diseases and workers’ compensation. - Mine safety and the improvement of conditions. - Mining and mental health. Industrial health and welfare, including: - Pre-nationalisation provision in and beyond the colliery. - National Coal Board provision, including the NCB Medical Service, housing and the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation. - Trade union campaigns and benefit schemes. - Sport and social provision as mining welfare. Coal and community, including: - Environmental impact. - Mining families and the intergenerational effects of the mining industry. - Impacts of the industry with particular reference to gender, race and ethnicity. - Coalfield communities after coal: the effects of deindustrialisation. Submission guidelines We wish to make space for dialogue between academic and community-based researchers, and welcome involvement from mining heritage and local history groups / researchers from former coalfield communities. We welcome and encourage alternative presentational styles. Possible formats for contributions could include: - 15-20 minute papers. - 5 minute lightning papers (for example showcasing a particular object or archival source, or highlighting a particular place, event, individual or experience). - Round table discussions. - Posters or displays. Submission deadline: 25 January 2026. Limited funding for travel support will be available, with priority given to early career researchers or participants who cannot draw upon institutional funding. For additional enquiries, please contact the conference organisers at archives@warwick.ac.uk

Reposted by Charles West, Carmen M. Mangion, Renaud Morieux

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · Nov 20
This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Nov 18
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

Reposted by Joanna Bourke, Carmen M. Mangion

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Nov 17
This week Wednesday at Birkbeck, right in the heart of Bloomsbury: join us for thought-provoking talk by the brilliant Julia Laite on the history of Newfoundland, home of one of the British Empire’s most remote settlements where one of its most complete genocides took place. Free but pls register
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Annual Graduate Lecture 2025 - Stories at the Edge of Empire: Newfoundland, 1763-1829
Join us for an exploration of ways of mapping and knowing Newfoundland in the 18th & 19th centuries delivered by Julia Laite
www.bbk.ac.uk

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Liam Temple @liamtemple.bsky.social · Nov 17
So grateful for another pre-publication review of 'Radical Poverty', this time by Susan O'Brien. The book is due out with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in Feb 2026, more info here: bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-p... #cathhist #skystorians #catholicism #capuchins #franciscanstudies #catholichistory