Christina de Bellaigue
@cadebellaigue.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
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V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar
For our final session of this term we have Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena, talking about: 'Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy'. Join us 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds 3rd Dec for what promises to be a fascinating session and a great end to the term
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar
V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar
For our final session of this term we have Luisa Levi d'Ancona Modena, talking about: 'Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy'. Join us 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds 3rd Dec for what promises to be a fascinating session and a great end to the term
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar
Oxford friends - beware this hellish cold/flu so many ppl have got; wish I’d worn a mask and brought my hepa filter to seminars last week. In bed since Thursday, high high temps, shivering, body aches, nausea, sore throat, testing neg for Covid but this is v nasty
November 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Oxford friends - beware this hellish cold/flu so many ppl have got; wish I’d worn a mask and brought my hepa filter to seminars last week. In bed since Thursday, high high temps, shivering, body aches, nausea, sore throat, testing neg for Covid but this is v nasty
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Fancy joining us in Oxford?
The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.
Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.
For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...
Image: Valentin_21, Pexels
The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.
Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.
For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...
Image: Valentin_21, Pexels
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fancy joining us in Oxford?
The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.
Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.
For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...
Image: Valentin_21, Pexels
The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.
Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.
For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...
Image: Valentin_21, Pexels
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
@oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social - how about it?
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social - how about it?
What an amazing offer!
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What an amazing offer!
@brepols.net Hello - I'm trying to use BBIH but everytime I click on a title, I just get the blank screen of doom (see screenshot). I've checked my safari settings and don't have any obvious content or popup blockers that would lead to this - any insight? It's making BBIH unusable for me.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
@brepols.net Hello - I'm trying to use BBIH but everytime I click on a title, I just get the blank screen of doom (see screenshot). I've checked my safari settings and don't have any obvious content or popup blockers that would lead to this - any insight? It's making BBIH unusable for me.
Very excited for @sarahknott.bsky.social inaugural lecture this evening
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Very excited for @sarahknott.bsky.social inaugural lecture this evening
Really looking forward to hearing Matilda's paper on Anders Zorn this week
Join us this Wednesday 26th Nov, 11.10am in the Kloppenburg Room at Exeter Cohen Quad - to hear Matilda Eriksson talking about Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage - continuing our lively term-long conversation about art & craft in the 19thC
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Really looking forward to hearing Matilda's paper on Anders Zorn this week
Exciting talk in Oxford this coming Friday!
@profilebooks.bsky.social Looking forward to talking to this audience in Oxford on Friday!
Just a reminder about this Friday’s (28th) event. We are incredibly grateful to have Professor @helenking.bsky.social speaking about “Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies” at 1:30 pm in the Learning Centre (Room 00.018), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. We are looking forward to seeing you!
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Exciting talk in Oxford this coming Friday!
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“Seven women told Bloomberg about alleged rapes or sexual assaults across the university in the past five years, while more than 30 described direct experiences of harassment or bullying over the past 20 years.”
But the truth will always out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Here is the full article from Bloomberg:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Here is the full article from Bloomberg:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“Seven women told Bloomberg about alleged rapes or sexual assaults across the university in the past five years, while more than 30 described direct experiences of harassment or bullying over the past 20 years.”
Pretty pretty pretty good
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pretty pretty pretty good
Come along this week for what promises to be a very interesting discussion
This week, we have Eric Storm presenting his new book: Nationalism: a World History, with comments from Faisal Devji and Abigail Green, Weds 19th Nov, 11.10am, Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad - Join Us!
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Come along this week for what promises to be a very interesting discussion
council offloading maintenance of municipal underpass (currently flooded and unuseable, forcing kids onto road) to school that is the main, but definitely not the only, user by calling it ‘flood preparedness’ is next level shittiness, esp in a city that claims It’s a bike haven
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
council offloading maintenance of municipal underpass (currently flooded and unuseable, forcing kids onto road) to school that is the main, but definitely not the only, user by calling it ‘flood preparedness’ is next level shittiness, esp in a city that claims It’s a bike haven
This was such an important and devastating read and a really interesting conversation; @evemworth.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social lots to think about for downward social mobility too
Tomorrow my new book 'Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State' will land in the dreaming spires of Oxford.
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.
Here's the Rent Cultures Network event:
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...
Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State
torch.ox.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This was such an important and devastating read and a really interesting conversation; @evemworth.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social lots to think about for downward social mobility too
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If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
Charles Parker Prize | Showcase Your Audio Talent — Charles Parker Archive Trust
Discover top student audio features and enter the Charles Parker Prize for a chance to broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
www.cpatrust.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week
After a great discussion on lace workers last week, join us this Wednesday 12 Nov to hear Melissa Percival (Uni of Exeter) on 'Toile de Jouy - French printed textiles in cultural memory', 11.10am Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week
Such a pleasure and privilege to sit and listen to a friend and colleague talking at length and fascinatingly about a subject they are so expert on. David's work is so original in its sources and approach, and so powerful in its commitment to thinking hard about social history
David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Such a pleasure and privilege to sit and listen to a friend and colleague talking at length and fascinatingly about a subject they are so expert on. David's work is so original in its sources and approach, and so powerful in its commitment to thinking hard about social history
David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week
This week - join us to hear our own David Hopkin talk about Flemish lace, craft, gender and religion. 11.10am, Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad on Weds November 5th.
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week
Looking forward to this later today
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking forward to this later today
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This calls to mind Lizabeth Cohen’s MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939, which demonstrates that voluntarism and charity were insufficient when things got tough and that working people turned to the state, which proved far more effective.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
October 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This calls to mind Lizabeth Cohen’s MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939, which demonstrates that voluntarism and charity were insufficient when things got tough and that working people turned to the state, which proved far more effective.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Repost for non-insomniacs. For avoidance of doubt I am 💯 pro-vax & I know that LCers and others can have immune system reactions
#LongCovid ppl - I got a Pfizer booster on Sat & feeling pretty ropey for the first time in a while - insomnia, aches, fatigue, feverish, tight chest ‘thrumming body’ - trusting its just a brief reaction but freaking out slightly, any anecdata on other ppls reactions?
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Repost for non-insomniacs. For avoidance of doubt I am 💯 pro-vax & I know that LCers and others can have immune system reactions
Looking forward to this - join us!
This Wednesday 29 Oct, join us 11.10 in the Kloppenburg room at Exeter Cohen Quad to hear Tricia Zakresi on ‘The Art of Fiction: Victorian women writers and the decorative arts’. All welcome, and join us for reasonably priced informal lunch afterwards
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Looking forward to this - join us!
#LongCovid ppl - I got a Pfizer booster on Sat & feeling pretty ropey for the first time in a while - insomnia, aches, fatigue, feverish, tight chest ‘thrumming body’ - trusting its just a brief reaction but freaking out slightly, any anecdata on other ppls reactions?
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
#LongCovid ppl - I got a Pfizer booster on Sat & feeling pretty ropey for the first time in a while - insomnia, aches, fatigue, feverish, tight chest ‘thrumming body’ - trusting its just a brief reaction but freaking out slightly, any anecdata on other ppls reactions?