Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
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Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Reintroducing myself for the influx of people coming over from the other place.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
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As a review is announced into who counts as disabled, I offer some reflections on disability and UK employment policies over the twentieth century
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Stigma, trust and the history of UK disability policy - History & Policy
The numbers of people who are physically impaired, neurodivergent, chronically sick or experiencing mental distress have increased to around one in four of the UK population. Government ministers have...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As a review is announced into who counts as disabled, I offer some reflections on disability and UK employment policies over the twentieth century
historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...
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I sometimes feel like I have a Very Short Introduction in me and now I really hope it’s one that will receive a long, frothing, ‘tohu bohu’ review 🤣
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I sometimes feel like I have a Very Short Introduction in me and now I really hope it’s one that will receive a long, frothing, ‘tohu bohu’ review 🤣
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As pointed out by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social there is in fact an entire article about how much of a jerk this Legrand guy is, from 2017. Let that be our reading for this day.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/545/
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/545/
On Hostility and Hospitality: Othering Pierre Legrand
Pierre Legrand's return to the pages of the American Journal of Comparative Law after nearly twenty years is cause for reflection on the reasons for this prolific comparatist's absence from one of the...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As pointed out by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social there is in fact an entire article about how much of a jerk this Legrand guy is, from 2017. Let that be our reading for this day.
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/545/
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/545/
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Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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December 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...
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A fantastic conference and discussions among medievalists has now seen the light of publication! (I sneaked in as an early modernist) It's all about the debate on the nation in medieval Europe - and here the whole of Europe incl. many (Eastern or Northern) polities often more sidelined in research.
New issues of The Medieval Globe Vol. 11, Nos. 1-2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55994 @projectmuse.bsky.social @archumanities.bsky.social Shaping the Nation in Medieval Europe @cathleen-sarti.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A fantastic conference and discussions among medievalists has now seen the light of publication! (I sneaked in as an early modernist) It's all about the debate on the nation in medieval Europe - and here the whole of Europe incl. many (Eastern or Northern) polities often more sidelined in research.
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.
Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊
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Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊
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What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.
Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊
🗃️
Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊
🗃️
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I know I have been promising this forever but the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States will finally be out in June of next year, just in time to help unite the nation around the 250th
December 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I know I have been promising this forever but the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States will finally be out in June of next year, just in time to help unite the nation around the 250th
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New festive themed video from @railwaymuseum.bsky.social - featuring my better half, @drolibetts.bsky.social etts judging mince pies www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMz...
How to Bake George Stephenson’s 200-year-old Mince Pies | National Railway Museum’s Bakeoff Showdown
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December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New festive themed video from @railwaymuseum.bsky.social - featuring my better half, @drolibetts.bsky.social etts judging mince pies www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMz...
New festive themed video from @railwaymuseum.bsky.social - featuring my better half, @drolibetts.bsky.social etts judging mince pies www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMz...
How to Bake George Stephenson’s 200-year-old Mince Pies | National Railway Museum’s Bakeoff Showdown
YouTube video by National Railway Museum
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New festive themed video from @railwaymuseum.bsky.social - featuring my better half, @drolibetts.bsky.social etts judging mince pies www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMz...
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CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
CFP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500–1750
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 18th–19th June 2026. Deadline: 28 February 2026
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I have set up a bsky for MATER! Please feel free to follow. :) 🗃️
Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I have set up a bsky for MATER! Please feel free to follow. :) 🗃️
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Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
artsandculture.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
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In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
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Excited to share my newest publication, "From Britain to Fairyland: Prince Henry's Investiture and the Fictionalizing Power of the Stuart Court Masques"!
Included in this fantastic Arden Shakespeare collection on extra-theatrical #earlymodern performance 👀
www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...
Included in this fantastic Arden Shakespeare collection on extra-theatrical #earlymodern performance 👀
www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...
Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage
The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances in late medieval and Renaissance England. This wider heterogeneous categ…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Excited to share my newest publication, "From Britain to Fairyland: Prince Henry's Investiture and the Fictionalizing Power of the Stuart Court Masques"!
Included in this fantastic Arden Shakespeare collection on extra-theatrical #earlymodern performance 👀
www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...
Included in this fantastic Arden Shakespeare collection on extra-theatrical #earlymodern performance 👀
www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-mod...
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🎄2⃣ DECEMBER🎄
(25 days of books from Prince Rupert's library)
'Methode Et Invention Nouvelle De Dresser Les Chevaux' includes 42 double-page plates. It was written by the Marquess of Newcastle in 1658.
Considered one of the finest Early Modern works on horsemanship ...
.... continued
(25 days of books from Prince Rupert's library)
'Methode Et Invention Nouvelle De Dresser Les Chevaux' includes 42 double-page plates. It was written by the Marquess of Newcastle in 1658.
Considered one of the finest Early Modern works on horsemanship ...
.... continued
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🎄2⃣ DECEMBER🎄
(25 days of books from Prince Rupert's library)
'Methode Et Invention Nouvelle De Dresser Les Chevaux' includes 42 double-page plates. It was written by the Marquess of Newcastle in 1658.
Considered one of the finest Early Modern works on horsemanship ...
.... continued
(25 days of books from Prince Rupert's library)
'Methode Et Invention Nouvelle De Dresser Les Chevaux' includes 42 double-page plates. It was written by the Marquess of Newcastle in 1658.
Considered one of the finest Early Modern works on horsemanship ...
.... continued
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History, Memory, and William Mack Lee's Mastery Of the Lost Cause 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
History, Memory, and William Mack Lee's Mastery Of the Lost Cause
After decades of entertaining white audiences at Confederate veterans reunions and claiming a close relationship with General Robert E.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
History, Memory, and William Mack Lee's Mastery Of the Lost Cause 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
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Want to understand the relationship between King James VI & I & his favourite, Buckingham, from their own letters?
Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I.
Released 2 weeks today!
#QueerLit #EarlyModern
Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I.
Released 2 weeks today!
#QueerLit #EarlyModern
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Want to understand the relationship between King James VI & I & his favourite, Buckingham, from their own letters?
Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I.
Released 2 weeks today!
#QueerLit #EarlyModern
Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I.
Released 2 weeks today!
#QueerLit #EarlyModern
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In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
The Extreme Right and its use of the medieval past to inform its profile | UON
This blog follows on from Associate Professor Rachel Moss’ blog on Getting Medieval? The Extreme Right and the Distant Past. During the summer, I...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In @errnetwork.bsky.social's latest blog post @siobhanhyland.bsky.social explains how she's working on my British Academy/Leverhulme Trust funded project as a research assistant: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... 🗃️
Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
artsandculture.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
Reposted by Sarah Betts
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
artsandculture.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
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Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜
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Since it's Thanksgiving and domesticated raccoons are in the news, pour one out for Rebecca, the White House pet raccoon who narrowly escaped being eaten with a side of cranberry sauce: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/...
When Rebecca the Raccoon Ruled the White House | Timeless
Library historian Margaret McAleer recounts this unlikely White House pets story, the tale of Rebecca the Raccoon in the Coolidge administration.
blogs.loc.gov
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Since it's Thanksgiving and domesticated raccoons are in the news, pour one out for Rebecca, the White House pet raccoon who narrowly escaped being eaten with a side of cranberry sauce: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/...
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Calling all consultants! Our members the Arkwright Society are out to tender for a Business Planning and Viability Consultant & an Activity Plan Consultant. The roles will support their Celebrating Heritage, Creating a Sustainable Future project.
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Calling all consultants! Our members the Arkwright Society are out to tender for a Business Planning and Viability Consultant & an Activity Plan Consultant. The roles will support their Celebrating Heritage, Creating a Sustainable Future project.
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/