Dr Kate Gibson
@kategibson.bsky.social
Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
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The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
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December 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain).
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
Our book is published!
On how faith shaped ordinary people's experiences of family relationships, work and business, childcare, identity, time, the spaces in their town and their material possessions. A glorious mash up of economic/urban/social/religious history.
And, it's open access! 🥳
On how faith shaped ordinary people's experiences of family relationships, work and business, childcare, identity, time, the spaces in their town and their material possessions. A glorious mash up of economic/urban/social/religious history.
And, it's open access! 🥳
So excited to see ‘Faith in the Town’ (co-authored my me, @kategibson Jeremy Gregory and Carys Brown & published in Open Access form (free to read) today by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Want to know how religious faith was woven through urban life in northern English towns 1740-1830? Then read on …
Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830
Abstract. Faith in the Town explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industr
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February 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Our book is published!
On how faith shaped ordinary people's experiences of family relationships, work and business, childcare, identity, time, the spaces in their town and their material possessions. A glorious mash up of economic/urban/social/religious history.
And, it's open access! 🥳
On how faith shaped ordinary people's experiences of family relationships, work and business, childcare, identity, time, the spaces in their town and their material possessions. A glorious mash up of economic/urban/social/religious history.
And, it's open access! 🥳
Reposted by Dr Kate Gibson
Am looking forward to chairing Kate Gibson’s paper on ‘Illegitimacy & Unmarried Parenthood in 18thC England’ on 11th February- why not join us? Online and all welcome, more details and registration here: www.history.ac.uk/events/illeg.... @kategibson.bsky.social
Illegitimacy and Unmarried Parenthood in Eighteenth-Century England
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January 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Am looking forward to chairing Kate Gibson’s paper on ‘Illegitimacy & Unmarried Parenthood in 18thC England’ on 11th February- why not join us? Online and all welcome, more details and registration here: www.history.ac.uk/events/illeg.... @kategibson.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Kate Gibson
Start your week w/ always compelling @kawulf.bsky.social reflections on family history in the context of new fascinating books by @kategibson.bsky.social & Amy Harris - or what I would call what often seem like the margins but were in fact at the center .... karinwulf.com/trove/early-...
Early Modern England (Reading Family History 5) - Karin Wulf
This is a quick and short post, but I wanted to share a bit about these two books I’d been looking forward to reading: Kate Gibson’s Illegitimacy: Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834, and Amy ...
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October 23, 2023 at 7:18 AM
Start your week w/ always compelling @kawulf.bsky.social reflections on family history in the context of new fascinating books by @kategibson.bsky.social & Amy Harris - or what I would call what often seem like the margins but were in fact at the center .... karinwulf.com/trove/early-...
I'm speaking about my research on the amazing records of the Edinburgh Orphan Hospital tomorrow, 6.30pm, for
History Scotland
#HistoryofCare, #FamilyHistory, #histchild, #histed
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History Scotland
#HistoryofCare, #FamilyHistory, #histchild, #histed
Sign up here!
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October 2, 2023 at 11:59 AM
I'm speaking about my research on the amazing records of the Edinburgh Orphan Hospital tomorrow, 6.30pm, for
History Scotland
#HistoryofCare, #FamilyHistory, #histchild, #histed
Sign up here!
www.historyscotland.com/virtual-even...
History Scotland
#HistoryofCare, #FamilyHistory, #histchild, #histed
Sign up here!
www.historyscotland.com/virtual-even...