Dr Catherine Bateson
@catbateson.bsky.social
American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
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Happy 3rd #pubday birthday to my @lsupress.bsky.social book “Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty and Nationhood”! Available from the press & all good bookstores. If any Civil War era/Irish Studies folk want me to talk about it/review it, get in touch!
lsupress.org/978080717793...
lsupress.org/978080717793...
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THIS IS MY BOOK! IT CAME OUT LAST WEEK! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL WAR MEMORY, IT’S THE BOOK FOR YOU! 🗃️
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
THIS IS MY BOOK! IT CAME OUT LAST WEEK! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN REPUBLICANS AND CIVIL WAR MEMORY, IT’S THE BOOK FOR YOU! 🗃️
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
uscpress.com/The-Republic...
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New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…
blog.history.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
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Maybe one for the @vch-home.bsky.social. Can you help @adamchapman.bsky.social?
A question for the #Genealogy #HiveMind. I’m trying to identify parishes (England) within a certain distance of a place. The new FamilySearch jurisdictions map doesn’t do this yet and the old parish finder no longer works. Any other tools to do this quickly? Or do I need a pen and paper approach… ☹️
a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper
ALT: a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper
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November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Maybe one for the @vch-home.bsky.social. Can you help @adamchapman.bsky.social?
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
7 x 3000+ students + 17 smaller institutions must mean 30,000+ affected students. That’s about the same size as Sheffield uni, which employs 8000ish staff. Why is the government tolerating the impending collapse of up to 24 related employers and 8000+ more lost jobs? Where is the sense of crisis?
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If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
If anyone has successfully explained to a STEM boss that, no actually humanities scholars don't need a team of postdocs to collect all the data for them & write their papers & it's completely normal to just... do all your work mostly by yourself with some peer insight & feedback, lmk what you said.
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Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
Chief exec of OfS 'said the OfS believes there are 24 institutions at risk of exiting the market in the next 12 months, seven of which are large providers with more than 3,000 students. There are another 25 or so institutions of various sizes at risk over a two- to three-year period, she added.'
Seven ‘large providers’ at risk of going under in the next year
Skills minister says no higher education institutions are at imminent risk of collapse this year but OfS confirms more than 20 providers are being closely monitored
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Universities are in crisis, and I don’t think it’s helpful to phrase that as “exiting the market”. They’re not mid-range shoe shops, these are educational pillars in society
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Are you studying, researching or teaching histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
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The back catalogues of The Illustrated London News and its nine so-called “sister” titles are available on BOA’s digital archive! Our new brochure showcases these fascinating collections! We hope that you enjoy perusing it as much as we enjoyed compiling it!
Explore it at buff.ly/4PmL2qF
Explore it at buff.ly/4PmL2qF
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The back catalogues of The Illustrated London News and its nine so-called “sister” titles are available on BOA’s digital archive! Our new brochure showcases these fascinating collections! We hope that you enjoy perusing it as much as we enjoyed compiling it!
Explore it at buff.ly/4PmL2qF
Explore it at buff.ly/4PmL2qF
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Hey, let’s give our massive AI project the same name as the device in a Star Trek movie that was created for altruistic purposes but in the hands of a madman became a weapon for global genocide and galactic terror.
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hey, let’s give our massive AI project the same name as the device in a Star Trek movie that was created for altruistic purposes but in the hands of a madman became a weapon for global genocide and galactic terror.
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Very grateful to @johnfea1.bsky.social for featuring my new book, "The Republican House Divided", in the Author's Corner section of his blog The Way of Improvement Leads Home.
Take a read of the interview here: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/24/t...
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Take a read of the interview here: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/24/t...
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The Author’s Corner with Tim Galsworthy
Tim Galsworthy is Lecturer in History & Military History at Lincoln Bishop University. This interview is based on his new book, The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and…
thewayofimprovement.blog
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Very grateful to @johnfea1.bsky.social for featuring my new book, "The Republican House Divided", in the Author's Corner section of his blog The Way of Improvement Leads Home.
Take a read of the interview here: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/24/t...
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Take a read of the interview here: thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/11/24/t...
🗃️
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The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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This is momentous news. Congratulations to the whole team at @tillcenter.bsky.social and beyond who has made this happen. Your work is vital and will continue to be so 🗃️
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is momentous news. Congratulations to the whole team at @tillcenter.bsky.social and beyond who has made this happen. Your work is vital and will continue to be so 🗃️
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The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has purchased and protected the barn near Drew, MS, where Emmett Till was brutally beaten and murdered. It will be preserved not merely as a structure, but as sacred ground. Read our open letter here: www.emmett-till.org/barn
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November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Our latest "Document of the Week", chosen by our Academic Liaison Manager, Dr Catherine Bateson, looks at how The Illustrated London News advertised winter fashion catalogues for readers in the 1840s.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/XmTGwJh
Read the full article here: buff.ly/XmTGwJh
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our latest "Document of the Week", chosen by our Academic Liaison Manager, Dr Catherine Bateson, looks at how The Illustrated London News advertised winter fashion catalogues for readers in the 1840s.
Read the full article here: buff.ly/XmTGwJh
Read the full article here: buff.ly/XmTGwJh
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I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
www.ed.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Our Postgraduate Symposium, on the unequal struggle for equality and rights in America, is this Wednesday!
Tickets are still available here:
Tickets are still available here:
THIS WEEK: The 2025 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium - British Association for American Studies
The 2025 BAAS Postgraduate Symposium is taking place on November 26th as a hybrid event at Teesside University. You can register for the event on EventBrite. If you are a BAAS member, you can get a…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Our Postgraduate Symposium, on the unequal struggle for equality and rights in America, is this Wednesday!
Tickets are still available here:
Tickets are still available here:
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The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The petition has reached 1500 signatures but let’s get more!!
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With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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Thank you to @americanstudier.bsky.social for giving my new book “The Republican House Divided”, which was published on Thursday by @uscpress.bsky.social, a shoutout in this week’s #ScholarSunday 🗃️
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thank you to @americanstudier.bsky.social for giving my new book “The Republican House Divided”, which was published on Thursday by @uscpress.bsky.social, a shoutout in this week’s #ScholarSunday 🗃️
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What I really want is for Ken Burns to remake a new Civil War documentary, incorporating changes in the academic consensus, his own evolution as a filmmaker, and criticisms of the original he seems to have taken to heart at least partially.
I bet no foundations would fund it, though.
I bet no foundations would fund it, though.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What I really want is for Ken Burns to remake a new Civil War documentary, incorporating changes in the academic consensus, his own evolution as a filmmaker, and criticisms of the original he seems to have taken to heart at least partially.
I bet no foundations would fund it, though.
I bet no foundations would fund it, though.
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Wonderful couple of hours wandering around Bristol, taking some photos of my new book in old haunts.
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Wonderful couple of hours wandering around Bristol, taking some photos of my new book in old haunts.
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️