Jennifer Aston
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
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...
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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...
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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
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
📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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
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
A new guest post by Helen Rutherford: 'Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners' Districts'
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/12/11/m...
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Mapping Death: The Atlas of Victorian Coroners’ Districts
In this guest post, Helen Rutherford explores what a unique atlas of Victorian coroners’ districts might tell us about technologies of knowledge and death investigation.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
#legalhistory
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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...
#legalhistory
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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✨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.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
✨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.
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 😻
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If reincarnation is true then I hope to have lived a good enough life to come back as a Maine Coon cat 😻
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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)
My book is half price today in the @edinburghup.bsky.social flash sale. (It does make the ebook a v reasonable £12.50)
Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent
Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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)
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 🫠🫠🫠
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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 🫠🫠🫠
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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
The next of this year's Krooss Prize summaries is now available for your perusal & pleasure. Indeed, Pablo Pryluka was the 2025 winner for his dissertation "Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America." Congratulations Pablo! OA here:
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Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core
Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America
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November 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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
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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021):
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/09/26/v...
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/09/26/v...
Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century
By Cassie Watson; posted 26 September 2021. With recent posts having examined the eighteenth-century origins of acid throwing and some of its main nineteenth-century characteristics, this one consi…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson, "Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: 'Acid' Assault in the Twentieth Century" (2021):
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2021/09/26/v...
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...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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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
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
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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
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!
Consett Iron Works, County Durham, 1978, photo by Graham Smith (b.1947).
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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!
Bronze sculpture by Keith Barrett to be unveiled at Riverside Embankment Walkway, North Shields to Mary Ann Macham. She fled slavery, hid in woods in Virginia before stowing away & arriving in North Shields via the Netherlands. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North Shields statue to woman who escaped slavery in America
A statue is unveiled to Mary Ann Macham who fled from Virginia to North Shields in the 1830s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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
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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👇
See below for details of a FREE one-day workshop 'Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare' held @northumbriauni.bsky.social on Tuesday 20 January 2026.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform
This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...
www.northumbria.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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👇
See below for details of a FREE one-day workshop 'Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare' held @northumbriauni.bsky.social on Tuesday 20 January 2026.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform
This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...
www.northumbria.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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👇
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The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History at University of Oxford
Searching for an academic job? Explore this The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
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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...
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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 🤦🏻♀️
Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I wish the teaching moments would stop coming at such a relentless pace 🤦🏻♀️
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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...
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...
Book Launch: "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2"
Join us for a celebration of our latest book, "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2", emerging from the Institute Project on Decoloniality.
essaysondecolonialityvol2.eventbrite.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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...
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...
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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.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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.
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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...
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...
SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
scottishhistorysociety.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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...
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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!
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!
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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!
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!