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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’
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Addison Act semi-detached council housing

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 4d

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

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Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

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Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 8d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 10d

and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)!

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Contested Commons | Reaktion Books

A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11d

We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

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Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS

At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13d

A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!

David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social · 14d

How do we teach public history today? Pleasure to join @julialaite.bsky.social, @ktrcarpenter.bsky.social & Anna Maguire in this roundtable for @historyworkshop.org.uk. Image from @qmul.bsky.social qHeritage project with @museumofthehome.bsky.social
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Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion

Abstract. ‘What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of

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Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social · Sep 2

Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?

Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!

Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London

Apply by 23 Sept:
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UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops

Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · Aug 4

@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social ‪@dralanagharris.bsky.social‬

(Standing) Xavier Jou-Badal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) on Gender and Mobility in the Chocolate Factory. Barcelona, 1910-1914; Jenny Smart (Cambridge) on Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914; Jennie Kiff (Lincoln) on Unravelling “...a knot of women…”: women’s networks and the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union; Kate Hart (Birkbeck) on Marching for Change: How Have Women’s Experiences of Local Masculinities Influenced Their Protest Agency in France and Britain? Case Studies from 1981-1983; (Sitting) Florentine Friedrich (Lincoln) on ‘Take Thee to a Nunnery': Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century; Louise Dobson (Sussex) on Janet Flanner, New Journalism, and the Politics of anti-Communism at the New Yorker

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

And rounding off this section of the journal is '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston, and available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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By the mid-twentieth century, the pet shop was an established feature of London’s retail landscape. Pet shops presented themselves as modern, hygienic, and compassionate spaces that used the kerb appeal of furry animals to lure consumers onto their premises. This article tracks the boom in pet sales across the capital from the early nineteenth century, through street trade, markets and, increasingly, shops. Animals figured as part of the consumer culture of spectatorship and display promoted by the new department stores. Older sites of pet sale were reconfigured as tourist attractions but were simultaneously criticised by observers who argued that they were problematic for animal welfare. From the early twentieth century, traders recognised the need to counteract these narratives. Shops began to use the word ‘pet’ in their titles and marketed themselves as animal welfare friendly environments with a special appeal for children. Older forms of animal retailing remained popular, however, with markets and stalls clustering in the East End.

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Arve Aksnes @arveaksnes75.bsky.social · Apr 5

Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Apr 5

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · Apr 5

Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · Apr 5

Gotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025

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Lisa Boulanger @neurocentric.bsky.social · Apr 5

Princeton turned out.

An estimated 1500 protesters pack Hinds Plaza for the local Hands Off protest.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Apr 5

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Apr 5

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.

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Kit boO'Connell (🎃For Hire👻) @kitoconnell.com · Apr 5

Remember this massive crowd next time you see someone saying Texas deserves fascism or suffering because it's a red state. #HandsOff #Austin #Texas

Sign held in the huge crowd: Hey Congress: The Emperor Wears No Clothes, It's Time to Tell Him.

A massive crowd of thousands in the grounds of the Texas Capitol in downtown Austin

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patricialicious.bsky.social @patricialicious.bsky.social · Apr 5

Chicago!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 5

A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now.

Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.

Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏

#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne

(📸Nate Blouin)

Thousands are seen spread out for hundreds of metres towards buildings in the distance. The mountains are seen on the horizon.

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Jesse @misctakes.com · Apr 5

Ladies, gentlemen, distinguished folks of all genders… I give you the motherfucking @dropkickmurphys.com #HandsOffBoston

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Apr 5

San Diego 👏

#HandsOff

(📸 Tina Crawford)

Against bright sunshine and blue sky, 1000s of protestors are seen filling the street completely. Many waving placards.

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Dr Victoria Bates @victoriabates.bsky.social · Apr 3

Just published - ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain

Children’s hospitals are often thought to be special places, marked by particular attention to emotions and careful consideration of inclusive design. Photographs of children’s hospitals, or design fo...

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Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social · Apr 4

I will get in touch with them and suggest this. Thank you for raising it - it is really appreciated.

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Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you could DM me I could pass your message to the organisers to see if there were ways if sharing it with you?

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