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Elena Mary
@elenamary.bsky.social
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Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck. https://elenamary.co.uk
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📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳
Why does writing a first draft always feel like one of those nightmares where you have an exam you havent prepared for??? Like, I'm back at school and I have to do my GCSE physics exam but I dont have my calculator and I havent revised and also I'm 31 and I'm pretty sure I've done this all before...
If I just read one more thing, then I'll start actually writing my draft, definitely, but I just need to read this one thing which will probably solve everything and be the crucial piece of the jigsaw I've been missing... right? 🗃️
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Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher
This is such a remarkable thing to admit.

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Looking forward to listening to this on my train journey tomorrow!
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the super beautiful and brainy @drrochellerowe.bsky.social about Victorian beauty standards.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Currently gazing in my wardrobe in abject despair… Are shorts acceptable do we think…? Weighing up my veneer of professionalism against the possibility of fainting on the central line
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Your thought for the day is that magnolias existed 95 million years ago, which means that dinosaurs were around to enjoy them. Bees hadn’t evolved yet, so they were pollinated by ancient beetles!

Next time you see a magnolia tree, think of your dinosaur cousins. ☺️ #science
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Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Congratulations!! Can’t wait to read this!
I thought of the epilogue as something to offer an engaged and interested reader to summarise/deepen the argument already made whereas the conclusion was pitched more at an undergraduate who might not even read the rest of it. also writing the epilogue was really fun...!
Yes, the epilogue was about 30 pages (A4 double spaced) whereas the conclusion was only 6 pages - a brief top level summary of the overall argument/arguments of each chapter, and then a discussion of the avenues this opened up for future work and a reflection on the contemporary relevance of my work
I don’t know if this counts as it’s not (yet) a monograph, but I did an epilogue in my phd thesis which was a biographical case study. I saw it as an opportunity to draw together the themes of the thesis but adopt a different, lighter, more narrative tone. This meant my conclusion was very short!
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'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37

The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social

#skystorians
Thank you so much!
Ah thank you so much that's so lovely to hear!