Charlotte Wildman
@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Pinned
I am extremely on brand in my article in the December issue of @historytoday.com A VERY unhappy Christmas story of wartime Liverpool and Birkenhead and fears of working-class women’s sexuality. Part of my work on working-class homes, gender and crime .
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Exciting news! 🎉👀
We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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Marginalised Motherhoods
Led by the University of Worcester
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Exciting news! 🎉👀
We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
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We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
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Fabulous to see @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social named as the winner of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture. 1/2
Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society
This prize lecture is given on a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.
royalsociety.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fabulous to see @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social named as the winner of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture. 1/2
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🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social:
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s
Abstract. The value of producing counterfactual history has been hotly debated, but principally in relation to major public events. Drawing on oral history
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social:
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
Ah thank you @djrgrey.bsky.social 😊 Great panel, brilliant conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Stellar opening ✨️ as usual by @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social presenting her fascinating work @socialhistsoc.bsky.social on criminal networks and clichés of care in postwar Britain 🇬🇧 Can't wait for the book!! #SHSConf2025
July 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ah thank you @djrgrey.bsky.social 😊 Great panel, brilliant conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.
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Delighted to be here for Professor @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote address at the annual @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference drawing on her exciting Leverhulme funded project on letters and embodiment in the long 18th century 🌟 #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Delighted to be here for Professor @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote address at the annual @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference drawing on her exciting Leverhulme funded project on letters and embodiment in the long 18th century 🌟 #SHSConf2025
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I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921
Sarah Roddy’s Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921, which is out in e-book format now and will be released imminently in hard copy by Cambridge University Press, examin…
socialhistory.org.uk
June 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
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Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain
Focusing on the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) and the National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS), this article looks at activism and campaigning for married women workers after ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
CFPallpages.pdf
drive.google.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
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📣GWL is hiring a Production
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
June 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📣GWL is hiring a Production
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
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“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois
"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."
www.nacbs.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
womenshistorynetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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Are you unemployed and interested in joining a creative community where you can further your skills as a writer? There’s a FREE creative writing course run by industry professionals available in Liverpool.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Write To Work: Free Writing Courses | Writing on the Wall
Discover Write to Work: Free one-day creative writing courses in Liverpool. Learn writing skills for various professions and publishing info.
writingonthewall.org.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Are you unemployed and interested in joining a creative community where you can further your skills as a writer? There’s a FREE creative writing course run by industry professionals available in Liverpool.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
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@lizzieseal.bsky.social and I are are excited about this next phase of our historical criminology adventure. Read about our aims and watch this space for next steps.
Read about new project ‘Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown’ that @esmoriemiller.bsky.social and I are about to embark upon
Combining criminology and history, this interdisciplinary project will examine the everyday experiences and portrayals of crime, victimisation and justice of people of colour in Britain from 1870 to 1939. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @lizzieseal.bsky.social @esmoriemiller.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
@lizzieseal.bsky.social and I are are excited about this next phase of our historical criminology adventure. Read about our aims and watch this space for next steps.
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📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!
Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...
Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) at University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion
Don't miss your chance to apply for professional services job openings, including the Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) role, listed on jobs.ac.uk. Start your search now!
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!
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On Weds 2 July, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture given this year by Professor Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective
Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.
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May 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
On Weds 2 July, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture given this year by Professor Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
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Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians
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If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k.
Here's how you can help
www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...
Here's how you can help
www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...
Donate to Save the Heritage Centre, organized by David Bridson
It is with huge regret and great sadness that the Joseph Williamson Society has to report that,… David Bridson needs your support for Save the Heritage Centre
www.gofundme.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k.
Here's how you can help
www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...
Here's how you can help
www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...
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Deeply, deeply worrying news emerging from Liverpool city centre today where there are reports from police that a car has hit a number of pedestrians during the LFC parade
My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
City centre live updates as police confirm people hit by car
Emergency services are at the scene
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Deeply, deeply worrying news emerging from Liverpool city centre today where there are reports from police that a car has hit a number of pedestrians during the LFC parade
My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...