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emilybaughan.bsky.social
wrote Saving the Children http://ucpress.edu/book/978052034… affiliate @alamedainst writing on early years care crisis at http://emilybaughan.substack.com
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our beloved playschool closes for good today. I've spent the last several weeks issuing redundancy notices, battling with the local authority and watching in awe as our treasurer does the most depressing sums www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

I have lots of feelings about Susan Pedersen's recent review of Tehila Sasson in the LRB. Susan has been a deeply admired mentor, and Tehila is one of my dearest friends who has written - in so many ways - the book I wish I had been brave enough to write. It's whip smart, timely, and persuasive(1/2)

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Read this and then read everything else that @emilybaughan.bsky.social has written on her substack, about care and domestic labour and children's lives.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

Goodness me. The FT recommended my book Vanished on the ‘What to read in 2025’ list in December, and I’ve only just found out. What a gift for the new year! Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day. www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote about the state of the field in modern British LGBTQ+ history for @histassoc.bsky.social: www.history.org.uk/publications...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

once upon a time, this was my job! It was a great way to get to know the field, to get my hands on new books, and to read great review writing. I learned a lot!!

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Who has fun ideas for the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference in May? Who is putting together a panel or a roundtable? Are people submitting individual papers? Are people submitting conceptual, 'about the field' stuff, or case studies in their own research? projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

you can preorder @samwetherell.bsky.social's incredible book here! www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo... imo the most important book in our field rn

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

back on here after a false start last year -- hi 👋

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

my teaching next week is on human rights, refugees, and town planning and honestly I don't know how to do this while a genocide is unfolding in real time, a city is being destroyed, a people are being displaced from their displacement

submitted 478 days ago • 2 comments

Countries in the world that arm Israel: www.workersinpalestine.org/who-arms-isr...

submitted 480 days ago • 0 comments

I've heard of a group called 'parents for Palestine' but can't find any info anywhere - I'm wondering if anyone is planning on taking young kids to the London demo next weekend, and if there is maybe a contingent doing so. Let me know if you know!

submitted 480 days ago • 1 comment

if children in Gaza don't matter then none of us do I wrote about child rights, if they ever existed emilybaughan.substack.com

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