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Dr Helen Glew
@helenglew.bsky.social
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Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.

Current projects: social & cultural history of the marriage bar; history of women typists

She/her

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/

Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · Sep 2
I currently have some capacity for freelance work - in historical/archival research, writing, editing, indexing etc.
I've set up a website to outline my work and to offer an overview of what I can offer. Please do take a look and pass on to anyone who might be interested.

Thank you!

helenglew.com
Helen Glew
Historical Research and Writing
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for @garylove.bsky.social's online seminar tomorrow on Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives
Professor Gary Love will present his research on Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91
www.history.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
A few years ago I got a discman for my kid and now I get her CDs, often used, as a present. I think the physical object communicates that people made it, made choices, created art together & did so for other people to appreciate. It’s not content. Anyway maybe you want to bring hard media back too?
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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katejewell.bsky.social
Technical question: around 1912, how many Americans would have known or been able to transcribe Morse Code? How saturated was that knowledge — or, where would I look to get some sense of that? Any ideas very appreciated! I haven’t dug into it yet…
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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georgesevers.bsky.social
Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
oralhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
helenglew.bsky.social
Flashback to late June/early July heatwave and the time I worked on indexes for @jameskneale.bsky.social’s fascinating book on temperance, life assurance and life stories to be told within these.

Great book for those working on c19th, spatial histories or telling life stories from unusual sources
jameskneale.bsky.social James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 16d
Now that you can read /both/ indexes for Temperance Lives, expertly crafted by @helenglew.bsky.social, I can draw your attention to some of the individuals featured in the book.

Tony BENN is there because his uncle Ernest was a director of the largest temperance assurance firm in the 1950s... 1/7
An excerpt from the index of individuals from Temperance Lives: Benn, Anthony Wedgwood 248 Benn, Sir Ernest 248 Bent, Captain 67 Bentham, Jeremy 12, 156–7 Bentham, Dr Robert 146 Bernhardt, Sarah 188 Berryman, Elizabeth 186 Berryman, William 186 Biddulph, Lady Elizabeth 15, 231
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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jonhistorian61.bsky.social
If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
People keep telling me that GenAI is the inevitable future but if that’s true, why does it need so many government subsidies and other assistance ? (rhetorical)
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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caitbeaumont.bsky.social
All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for our seminar tomorrow, Wed 5th Nov, with Katerina Papakonstantinou, who will be speaking on 'Greek Cypriot Migration to London in the 1960s: Women’s Voices and Experiences'

5.30pm UK time, online and at @ihr.bsky.social.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Greek Cypriot Migration to London in the 1960s: Women’s Voices and Experiences
www.history.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
helenglew.bsky.social
Your once-in-a-while reminder that I have some capacity for freelance work and I am here for all your historical research, indexing, copyediting and photographing documents in archives needs.

Get in touch via my website: helenglew.com
Helen Glew
Historical Research and Writing
helenglew.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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dohertyta.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving the @ihr.bsky.social seminar! Hoping to see @caitbeaumont.bsky.social & @helenglew.bsky.social & others - in person or online

#Archives #Activism #WomensHistory

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections
www.history.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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miriamposner.com
If you feel like it, will you show me how you annotate texts you read for research? I thought our first-year undergrads might be interested to see the variety.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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lkremmel.bsky.social
I'm designing a new course on Victorian Literature and Medicine next semester. I'd love any suggestions for texts to include (books and shorter things). It's a 300-level, so mostly Juniors and Seniors, but some Sophomores. Mostly English-Ed majors. Already got J&H!
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact [email protected]
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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modbritstud.bsky.social
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...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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thenacbs.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800.

www.nacbs.org/news/stansky...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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riakapoor.bsky.social
I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
academic.oup.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections
www.history.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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benmechen.bsky.social
On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@ihr.bsky.social
Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning
This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England
www.history.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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lauriestras.bsky.social
"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."
felicityhannah.bsky.social Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Oct 3
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Here's the full seminar programme for autumn 2025. Seminars are either hybrid or online only so plenty of opportunities for those not local to London to join us.

Please sign up using the links for any papers you'd like to come to.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Contemporary British History
The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.
www.history.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories.

💸 Grants up to £1000.
⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025.

#history #apply #funding #opportunity

socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...
Joint BME Small Grants
The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …
socialhistory.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM