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submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

How might ships change the way we understand migration policy in postwar Britain and its empire? My new article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢 www.cambridge.org/core/service...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Since 2015, Women Against State Pension Inequality has campaigned tirelessly for ‘justice’ for millions of 1950s-born women adversely affected by the raising and equalisation of the state pension age. By @historianhelen.bsky.social ( #blog) #UKpol politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/why-the...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

‘This certificate is awarded to Helen McCarthy for serving as a reviewer for [insert journal name].’ Because yes, I am eight years old.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Manchester have posted 14 more postdoc positions in 'SHAPE' disciplines - 4x simon fellowships and 10(!) hallsworth fellowships. Simon eligibility is 'within 4 years of PhD award', except career breaks www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... Happy to discuss these via email

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

My @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article on WASPI women is out! It uses new @massobsarchive.bsky.social data to explore older women's complicated material situations and their even more complicated feelings about those situations. Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

My @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article on WASPI women is out! It uses new @massobsarchive.bsky.social data to explore older women's complicated material situations and their even more complicated feelings about those situations. Read it for free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

MO is supporting Katie White with her research into early parenting during Covid. Katie will be using MO materials to start and facilitate discussions around experiences of pandemic parenting. If you might be interested taking part please email Katie! First workshop is 15th February.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Only just noted this ONS data which shows that fathers are more likely to be hybrid workers than mothers. Structural factors important ofc (more men in senior roles w/ autonomy, female clustering in sectors not amenable to hybrid etc), but I'd love to see some serious qualitative research on this.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Me: did you put the baking powder in? Daughter: did you put the baking powder in?

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

A query to a Citizens Advice Bureau in London in the late 1940s. Would love to know how this one worked out (happily, I hope).

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting quote in this BBC story on Working From Home from a young woman whose ‘social battery’ would expire were she in the office all week. We forget how release from the enforced sociality of workplaces can be as blessed as cutting out stressful commutes or flexing around childcare.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine living long enough to turn 100 only to discover that you are not longer allowed to play Scotland Yard.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

If you can get your hands on a ticket for the final week of the run, GO. Went last night: the most joyous, inventive and physically dynamic production I have ever seen. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

New year, new book... Though it's taken what feels like too many years to count! My book Living with the Dead will be finally out next month - of interest to #skystorians #genealogy and #familyhistory people. Best news is it'll be open access so free online 🎉 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Pleased to say my new book with Bloomsbury is now out.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Guess where I was last week

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I have a piece in today’s Guardian based on my book in which I argue for an expanded, more inclusive definition of multiculturalism as a way out of the culture wars www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

Re-reading Howards End and it’s a very anti-car novel, isn’t it? (As well as being super negative about Edwardian-era mansion flats, ofc)

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

Why do people in publishing refer to the titles of books IN CAPITAL LETTERS? (I mean, I don’t mind - only that it’s reminiscent of my daughter’s TEXT MESSAGING STYLE.)

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Have just received an out-of-office reply which says that the recipient will be on holiday until August 12th. More power to you, my friend.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

submitted 73 days ago • 37 comments

Recall that at 2019 General Election, Labour - under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership - pledged payouts of up to £31k for WASPI women to settle a ‘moral debt’, yet party actually lost vote share amongst older women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

On my regular London bus route, I like how the drivers give each other a friendly wave or nod as they pass; but occasionally they don’t, & at once my imagination conjures the deep personal animosities contained in that fleeting moment of non-recognition. (Yes, this is what I do on public transport.)

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Hello! Recently BAFTA gave #HorribleHistories a Special Award, and invited us to reminiscence about making the show Here’s the first of two panels, with me, our exec Richard, series producer Caroline, production designer Miranda, and songwriter Richie youtu.be/apF42GGtxNk?...

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

submitted 109 days ago • 118 comments

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

Very exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to work on the history of the Salvation Army's HIV/AIDS work. I think this will open up fascinating new avenues for our understandings of religious HIV/AIDS work and activism in the UK. Full details here. northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

History starter-packs appearing on my feed are prompting existential crisis. Is that me? Maybe that was me 10 years ago, but not now? That's sort of me, but not exactly me? Plus the psychic charge of how-others-see-us: dare I click through to find out if I'm in there? Who do I, they, think I am?

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment