Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate )
@aliped.bsky.social
Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
@drewdgray.bsky.social ooh just got round to watching Lucy Worsley and you pop up! Looking well there!
January 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM
@drewdgray.bsky.social ooh just got round to watching Lucy Worsley and you pop up! Looking well there!
@victorianhand.bsky.social @djrgrey.bsky.social looking forward this.
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
@victorianhand.bsky.social @djrgrey.bsky.social looking forward this.
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Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members.
www.u3a.org.uk/about
www.u3a.org.uk/about
‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure
Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members.
www.u3a.org.uk/about
www.u3a.org.uk/about
King and conqueror is really awful bullshit isn’t it?
August 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
King and conqueror is really awful bullshit isn’t it?
@britishlibrary.bsky.social all gathering for the Big Event @thursdaymurderclub.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@britishlibrary.bsky.social all gathering for the Big Event @thursdaymurderclub.bsky.social
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'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social
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The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.
It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...
JHC (2025) Vol 1, Iss 1
journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.
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Just adding alt-text to make sure this much-needed PSA reaches a wider audience
July 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just adding alt-text to make sure this much-needed PSA reaches a wider audience
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Right, I think, as I revise the book for which I consulted original material from nine different archives and fifteen museum/gallery collections
This incredibly worrying study suggests Historians are the 2nd most likely occupation to be supplanted by AI.
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
arxiv.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Right, I think, as I revise the book for which I consulted original material from nine different archives and fifteen museum/gallery collections
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social where can I read your article? X
July 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social where can I read your article? X
Nous avons pluie a la Vendee. Zut!
July 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Nous avons pluie a la Vendee. Zut!
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With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction
Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries
bl.libguides.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
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Calling all #History departments of #Universities
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
a cartoon of a fox holding a mug with the words just a crumb of attention please below it
ALT: a cartoon of a fox holding a mug with the words just a crumb of attention please below it
media.tenor.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Calling all #History departments of #Universities
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy
Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.
What’s amazing is how many of us say pfft to Eurovision yet still have a lingering need to ‘enjoy’ it. Love our British sense of the ridiculous and kitsch.
May 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
What’s amazing is how many of us say pfft to Eurovision yet still have a lingering need to ‘enjoy’ it. Love our British sense of the ridiculous and kitsch.
Historians turned crafters 😂😂recreate a historic site - can you see what it is yet? @histassoc.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Historians turned crafters 😂😂recreate a historic site - can you see what it is yet? @histassoc.bsky.social
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Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25
May 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25
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@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.
May 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.
Visiting Vancouver for the first time on our way home. Horrified and saddened by last night’s incident- such a friendly and welcoming place. Please accept my condolences from this Brit. 💕
April 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Visiting Vancouver for the first time on our way home. Horrified and saddened by last night’s incident- such a friendly and welcoming place. Please accept my condolences from this Brit. 💕
I am in Hawaii (I know but it was booked BT) however to settle discussions I have seen here - last night I had a pizza with PINEAPPLE 🍍 on it, with pulled pork - definitive Hawaiian pizza 🍕
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I am in Hawaii (I know but it was booked BT) however to settle discussions I have seen here - last night I had a pizza with PINEAPPLE 🍍 on it, with pulled pork - definitive Hawaiian pizza 🍕
My great great grandfather Samuel McCartney born Comber, N Ireland in 1825, died Hokitika, NZ 1914. Arrived in NZ in c1880 and ended up as a gold miner in Rimu. Yesterday,we were amazed to find there, a small Heritage Site re its gold rush. Strange feeling to stand where he did over 125 years ago.
April 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
My great great grandfather Samuel McCartney born Comber, N Ireland in 1825, died Hokitika, NZ 1914. Arrived in NZ in c1880 and ended up as a gold miner in Rimu. Yesterday,we were amazed to find there, a small Heritage Site re its gold rush. Strange feeling to stand where he did over 125 years ago.
Am I allowed to have a niggle @anncleeves.bsky.social ? Thoroughly enjoying The Raging Storm BUT Hoylake and the Wirral were Cheshire before they were Merseyside not because they didn’t want to be associated with Liverpool. Not a snob thing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Am I allowed to have a niggle @anncleeves.bsky.social ? Thoroughly enjoying The Raging Storm BUT Hoylake and the Wirral were Cheshire before they were Merseyside not because they didn’t want to be associated with Liverpool. Not a snob thing.
@franquinn.bsky.social about to start - excited. Thanks @bertsbooks.bsky.social x
March 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
@franquinn.bsky.social about to start - excited. Thanks @bertsbooks.bsky.social x
@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you
February 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you
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Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!
February 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!