Dr Catherine Bateson
@catbateson.bsky.social
American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
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Happy 3rd #pubday birthday to my @lsupress.bsky.social book “Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood”! Available from the press & all good bookstores. If any Civil War era/Irish Studies folk want me to talk about it/review it, get in touch!
lsupress.org/978080717793...
lsupress.org/978080717793...
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If you enjoy “Death by Lightning” on @Netflix.com, you should read @candicemillard.bsky.social’s “Destiny of the Republic,” C.W. Goodyear’s “President Garfield,” Kenneth Ackerman’s “Dark Horse,” and, if I may be so bold…my own “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.”
The Last Lincoln Republican
Of all the great “what if” scenarios in American history, the aftermath of the presidential election of 1880 stands out as one of the most tantal...
kansaspress.ku.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If you enjoy “Death by Lightning” on @Netflix.com, you should read @candicemillard.bsky.social’s “Destiny of the Republic,” C.W. Goodyear’s “President Garfield,” Kenneth Ackerman’s “Dark Horse,” and, if I may be so bold…my own “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.”
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Lovely to see “The Republican House Divided” get a shoutout again by @americanstudier.bsky.social’s #ScholarSunday
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Lovely to see “The Republican House Divided” get a shoutout again by @americanstudier.bsky.social’s #ScholarSunday
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I can’t believe it’s been a week since my book “The Republican House Divided” was published.
I am eager to chat about all things Civil War memory and the Republican Party. So I am open to any and all talks, media, podcasts, etc. about the book. Please just get in touch! 📚🇺🇸🗃️
I am eager to chat about all things Civil War memory and the Republican Party. So I am open to any and all talks, media, podcasts, etc. about the book. Please just get in touch! 📚🇺🇸🗃️
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I can’t believe it’s been a week since my book “The Republican House Divided” was published.
I am eager to chat about all things Civil War memory and the Republican Party. So I am open to any and all talks, media, podcasts, etc. about the book. Please just get in touch! 📚🇺🇸🗃️
I am eager to chat about all things Civil War memory and the Republican Party. So I am open to any and all talks, media, podcasts, etc. about the book. Please just get in touch! 📚🇺🇸🗃️
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“Garlic bread?! Garlic and bread?!”
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Garlic bread?! Garlic and bread?!”
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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This isn’t just the BBC censoring an opinion, as objectionable as that would be. This is the BBC censoring an historical fact. There is a mountain of evidence to back up this claim.
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
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This isn’t just the BBC censoring an opinion, as objectionable as that would be. This is the BBC censoring an historical fact. There is a mountain of evidence to back up this claim.
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It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)
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'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
Just finished “Death By Lightening” - absolutely brilliant, could easily have a longer series to absorb more 1880s US history. And more of Josh from “The West Wing” as a Senator! Perfect Thanksgiving viewing.
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Just finished “Death By Lightening” - absolutely brilliant, could easily have a longer series to absorb more 1880s US history. And more of Josh from “The West Wing” as a Senator! Perfect Thanksgiving viewing.
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Thanksgiving was made an American holiday in the 19th century, but the 17th century history on which much mythologizing rests is awfully important. Reminded of impt work for 2020 & the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, inc terrific special issue of Early American Literature w this great essay. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thanksgiving was made an American holiday in the 19th century, but the 17th century history on which much mythologizing rests is awfully important. Reminded of impt work for 2020 & the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, inc terrific special issue of Early American Literature w this great essay. 1/
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I once went to a debate between Bourdieu and Hobsbawm. Audience question about the difference between a French and a British intellectual. Bourdieu wittered on for ages. Then Hobsbawm stood up and said “There is no such thing as a British intellectual” and sat down again to much applause.
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I once went to a debate between Bourdieu and Hobsbawm. Audience question about the difference between a French and a British intellectual. Bourdieu wittered on for ages. Then Hobsbawm stood up and said “There is no such thing as a British intellectual” and sat down again to much applause.
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I am incredibly honoured to be delivering the Annual History Lecture at @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social on 11th December.
If you would like to hear more about my research into the Republican Party and Civil War memory, do come along! 🗃️
If you would like to hear more about my research into the Republican Party and Civil War memory, do come along! 🗃️
Just two weeks to go until our Annual History Lecture! @timgalsworthy.bsky.social, Lecturer in History and Military History at @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social, will discuss his new book "The Republican House Divided."
This event is free and open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
This event is free and open to students, staff, and the public 🗃️
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I am incredibly honoured to be delivering the Annual History Lecture at @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social on 11th December.
If you would like to hear more about my research into the Republican Party and Civil War memory, do come along! 🗃️
If you would like to hear more about my research into the Republican Party and Civil War memory, do come along! 🗃️
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Here is your annual #Thanksgiving reminder that "Over the River and Through the Wood" was written by Lydia Maria Child, a fierce abolitionist who waged a lifelong struggle for racial justice in the US. She loved her country; she recognized its faults; she fought to fix it. 🙏 🙏for her example!
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Here is your annual #Thanksgiving reminder that "Over the River and Through the Wood" was written by Lydia Maria Child, a fierce abolitionist who waged a lifelong struggle for racial justice in the US. She loved her country; she recognized its faults; she fought to fix it. 🙏 🙏for her example!
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🚨 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 🗃️
📣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…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🚨 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 🗃️
📣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 🗃️
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Why not first go to the "The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250" Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Winter Symposium
27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, UK
hotcus.org.uk/events/winte...
27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, UK
hotcus.org.uk/events/winte...
Winter Symposium
hotcus.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Why not first go to the "The American Nation in the Twentieth Century: The Declaration of Independence at 250" Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Winter Symposium
27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, UK
hotcus.org.uk/events/winte...
27 February 2026
University of Liverpool, UK
hotcus.org.uk/events/winte...
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And then come up north for the annual conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America
March 7, 2026
University of the Highlands and Islands, UHI House
March 7, 2026
Inverness, Scotland, UK
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
March 7, 2026
University of the Highlands and Islands, UHI House
March 7, 2026
Inverness, Scotland, UK
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
SASA 2026 | SASA
www.scotamstudies.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
And then come up north for the annual conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America
March 7, 2026
University of the Highlands and Islands, UHI House
March 7, 2026
Inverness, Scotland, UK
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
March 7, 2026
University of the Highlands and Islands, UHI House
March 7, 2026
Inverness, Scotland, UK
www.scotamstudies.org/sasa-2023-re...
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There are two great conferences happening here in the UK back-to-back! Both SASA and
@hotcus.bsky.social have two amazing events coming up in 2026 🧵
@hotcus.bsky.social have two amazing events coming up in 2026 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There are two great conferences happening here in the UK back-to-back! Both SASA and
@hotcus.bsky.social have two amazing events coming up in 2026 🧵
@hotcus.bsky.social have two amazing events coming up in 2026 🧵
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THIS IS MY BOOK! IT CAME OUT LAST WEEK! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL WAR MEMORY, IT’S THE BOOK FOR YOU! 🗃️
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
THIS IS MY BOOK! IT CAME OUT LAST WEEK! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL WAR MEMORY, IT’S THE BOOK FOR YOU! 🗃️
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
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New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…
blog.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
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Maybe one for the @vch-home.bsky.social. Can you help @adamchapman.bsky.social?
A question for the #Genealogy #HiveMind. I’m trying to identify parishes (England) within a certain distance of a place. The new FamilySearch jurisdictions map doesn’t do this yet and the old parish finder no longer works. Any other tools to do this quickly? Or do I need a pen and paper approach… ☹️
a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper
ALT: a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Maybe one for the @vch-home.bsky.social. Can you help @adamchapman.bsky.social?
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
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If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society