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Claire Marie ☠️

@clartyclara.bsky.social

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PhD. Lecturer. Historian of modern British childhood (institutions, adoption, siblings in care), the family, welfare. Former bioarchaeologist.

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · Apr 16

When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.

Piece of striped fabric attached to a petition for admission to the London Foundling Hospital.

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · 1d

Starting my early modern module today with gender and marriage during the Reformation. Good topic to start with.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 2d

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 9d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

www.histchild.org

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 22d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · 22d

I've just sent you a DM. Thanks so much!

Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · 22d

I'll DM you, thanks so much!

Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · 22d

It would still be useful if you don't mind sharing it?

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 28d

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive:

Child hospital care dates from 18th Century:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The study itself is #OpenAccess:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#History #MedicalHistory

Northampton research reveals origins of paediatric hospital care

Research overturns the belief children did not receive hospital treatment until the Victorian era.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · Aug 5

theconversation.com/medieval-ske...

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study

Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.

theconversation.com

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · Jul 2

Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · Jun 23

I feel your pain.

Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · Jun 10

My work laptop is reminding me to update to Windows 11 every 5 minutes. The powers that be decided that the marking period is the perfect time for this rollout. I've got 23 MA dissertations, sure, I'll spend a day updating 🙄

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Kate Brooks @katebrooks.bsky.social · May 16

#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.

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Claire Marie ☠️ @clartyclara.bsky.social · May 15

Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Mar 11

Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025