Emily Cock
@emilyncock.bsky.social
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
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Emily Cock
@emilyncock.bsky.social
· Jun 18
Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘soc...
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Publication day! ‘Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System’ #OpenAccess in a @genderandhistory.bsky.social sky.social special issue on Gender and Segregation. How did disability affect prisoners’ fates? Was it gendered? 1/6
Publication day! ‘Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System’ #OpenAccess in a @genderandhistory.bsky.social sky.social special issue on Gender and Segregation. How did disability affect prisoners’ fates? Was it gendered? 1/6
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
This week, the trick to getting our baby to sleep is getting a perfect balance of rocking, bobbing, patting her back... and me belting out "Bread of Heaven".
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This week, the trick to getting our baby to sleep is getting a perfect balance of rocking, bobbing, patting her back... and me belting out "Bread of Heaven".
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AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
October 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
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"It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions. The purpose of your hobbies and your free time is your enjoyment and fulfilment, not recuperation from work stress."
We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.
"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News
Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"It’s not your job to be resilient, it’s your employer’s job to provide you with decent working conditions. The purpose of your hobbies and your free time is your enjoyment and fulfilment, not recuperation from work stress."
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Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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"Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News"
Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News
There are plans for such a tax in England to fund maintenance grants for some students.
bbc.in
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"Minister rules out international student levy in Wales - BBC News"
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You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick
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Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
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For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
September 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
For anyone who is #teaching #18thcentury politics and/or electoral culture, or is doing #localhistory or #familyhistory, do check out our ECPPEC web resource : it's chock-full of short informative essays, polling data, and artefacts #skystorians ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
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CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
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Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
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***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
If you are also in the midst of updating any early modern teaching materials and student guides for this year, this list is invaluable!
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you are also in the midst of updating any early modern teaching materials and student guides for this year, this list is invaluable!
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Important reminder for UK peeps today! The alert test is at 3pm so if you’re someone with a secret phone, switch off your phone or put it in airplane mode to avoid it making noise.
This whole test should have been far better organised to ensure that those people who need to have secret phones, such as domestic abuse victims, have been far better informed about how to prevent the alerts.
It's been primarily left to charities to raise that awareness.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
It's been primarily left to charities to raise that awareness.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Keep your cool' during emergency alert test, government says
A nationwide test of the system will see most phones signal an alert at 15:00 BST on Sunday.
www.bbc.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Important reminder for UK peeps today! The alert test is at 3pm so if you’re someone with a secret phone, switch off your phone or put it in airplane mode to avoid it making noise.
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Save the Dates in your planners!
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.
Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.
Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Save the Dates in your planners!
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.
Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed
The dates and host institution for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are now confirmed.
Tues 30 June - Fri 3 July 2026
University of Leeds
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed
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we should all run an informal additional class that’s just ‘how the university works’ — would do wonders for solidarity between staff and students probably
September 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
we should all run an informal additional class that’s just ‘how the university works’ — would do wonders for solidarity between staff and students probably
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First up, Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard of @cardiffunilib.bsky.social will tell us about their efforts to make their library catalogue anti-racist and inclusive. #RBSCG25
September 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
First up, Karen Pierce and Vicky Stallard of @cardiffunilib.bsky.social will tell us about their efforts to make their library catalogue anti-racist and inclusive. #RBSCG25
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Newport locals, I'm running a couple of workshops with The Place on LGBTQ+ literature this month...no no pre-reading necessary, just come along and talk Queer stories!
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature
Discover LGBTQ+ literature throughout the decades.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newport locals, I'm running a couple of workshops with The Place on LGBTQ+ literature this month...no no pre-reading necessary, just come along and talk Queer stories!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
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SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
September 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes.
www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...
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Use little windows of time to progress your academic writing patthomson.net/2025/08/30/f...
Five steps towards writing in fragments
The myth of ideal academic writing time persists. We all long to be in a quiet office, surrounded by books, with hours of uninterrupted time to craft elegant arguments. But the reality is very diff…
patthomson.net
August 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Use little windows of time to progress your academic writing patthomson.net/2025/08/30/f...
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If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
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Possibly the world's creepiest gym
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Possibly the world's creepiest gym
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Still can’t believe cutting skilled and experienced frontline admin, hiring a billion Dean level overseers, and passing tasks down to academics who will either do them grumpily or not at all isn’t working? Maybe rolling out a new IT project can smooth this one over
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...
University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News
Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Still can’t believe cutting skilled and experienced frontline admin, hiring a billion Dean level overseers, and passing tasks down to academics who will either do them grumpily or not at all isn’t working? Maybe rolling out a new IT project can smooth this one over
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