Kate Bradley
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
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Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
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I always relish opportunities to speak about the amazing life-long feminist activist HHH or H3 as her friends called her, so great to do so at #nacbs2025 on #1970sWomen roundtable yesterday & if your interest is piqued you can read all about her in this @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social OA article 😊.
The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 1980
Focussing on the life-long activism of former suffragette and feminist Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan this article presents an innovative re-appraisal of histories of the women’s movement in England during...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I always relish opportunities to speak about the amazing life-long feminist activist HHH or H3 as her friends called her, so great to do so at #nacbs2025 on #1970sWomen roundtable yesterday & if your interest is piqued you can read all about her in this @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social OA article 😊.
If this was a run and this was my watch, you best believe I’d be scampering around the car park to complete that mile and a bit more…
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If this was a run and this was my watch, you best believe I’d be scampering around the car park to complete that mile and a bit more…
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The government has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners will be scrapped in 2028 - which would have been the next elections - saying it will "cut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy"
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Elected police and crime commissioners can be 'absolutely bleeding hopeless', report told
Officers tell researchers Coalition government changes left 'bonkers' structure of British policing
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The government has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners will be scrapped in 2028 - which would have been the next elections - saying it will "cut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy"
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Still time to register for this free online event next week! With fantastic contributions from @nlisn.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @neurodiversemuseum.bsky.social @owenbarden.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social @sambrady.bsky.social and many more!
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
Microsoft Forms
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November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Still time to register for this free online event next week! With fantastic contributions from @nlisn.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @neurodiversemuseum.bsky.social @owenbarden.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social @sambrady.bsky.social and many more!
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🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Accidentally running to Windsor?? Sounds ace. Four naans would be perfect for carb-loading, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Peep Show marathon starts at Croydon's Apollo House
The sitcom Peep Show, has become a cult classic, also inspiring a marathon from London to Windsor.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Accidentally running to Windsor?? Sounds ace. Four naans would be perfect for carb-loading, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
I will try not to spend it all at once.
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I will try not to spend it all at once.
Having had my first drive home from work in the dark of this autumn, I’d say I love having LED lights… I just hate that everyone else does, too… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night
Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Having had my first drive home from work in the dark of this autumn, I’d say I love having LED lights… I just hate that everyone else does, too… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t
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This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
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Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V
@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
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Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support...
Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".
Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support...
Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".
Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".
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I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.
October 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.
If I had a run this morning, but Strava’s down, did I actually have a run?
[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]
[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If I had a run this morning, but Strava’s down, did I actually have a run?
[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]
[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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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...
This surgery and fentanyl talk reminds me of when I had an op under a general anaesthetic & came round as they were running through the meds I’d had, including fentanyl, and I piped up, “FENTANYL’S WHAT KILLED PRINCE!” then went back to quiet semi-consciousness…
Fentanyl is good stuff.
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This surgery and fentanyl talk reminds me of when I had an op under a general anaesthetic & came round as they were running through the meds I’d had, including fentanyl, and I piped up, “FENTANYL’S WHAT KILLED PRINCE!” then went back to quiet semi-consciousness…
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Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
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I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths
On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …
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October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
Every now and then, when I think about Starts of the Academic Year Past, I remember 2008, when we had a campus alert about Snakey, a 6ft boa constrictor, who had escaped nearby…
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Kent | Missing snake found after 53 days
news.bbc.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Every now and then, when I think about Starts of the Academic Year Past, I remember 2008, when we had a campus alert about Snakey, a 6ft boa constrictor, who had escaped nearby…
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england...
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We're out here bringing joy and positivity to our readers on a Monday afternoon.
Happy Monday! I was having a good day until I was reminded by the SS Richard Montgomery… via @kentcurrent.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We're out here bringing joy and positivity to our readers on a Monday afternoon.
Happy Monday! I was having a good day until I was reminded by the SS Richard Montgomery… via @kentcurrent.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Happy Monday! I was having a good day until I was reminded by the SS Richard Montgomery… via @kentcurrent.news
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If you would like to become a Fellow or Member of the Society, we have several membership categories for historians of different backgrounds and career stages: bit.ly/4gXhsBw
Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2
Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
If you would like to become a Fellow or Member of the Society, we have several membership categories for historians of different backgrounds and career stages: bit.ly/4gXhsBw
Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2
Applications are welcome at any time, with the next closing dates on Mondays 13 October and 15 December 2025 2/2