janehamlett.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I'm delighted to have been invited to be a Keynote speaker for this hybrid conference on the Histories of Disability and Living Spaces, being organised by the Bodies and Material Culture Research Group @rhulhistory.bsky.social. The CFP is open until March 31st; see the quoted post below for details!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wangari Maathai was brave. As a member of the National Council of Women in Kenya, and as prep for the UN International Conference on Women in 1975, she came up with the idea of planting trees which became the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She features in this exhibition: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 NEW BLOG POST: The Sceaux Gardens Estate; officially opened by Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 1959. In Ian Nairn's words, 'magical transformation has happened, and an estate has turned into a place' ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/s...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social ! 👸🤴🦄💂🧑‍🌾🏰🇫🇷

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Today @janehamlett.bsky.social hosts the @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of History's Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture... on the rise of pet cats in modern Britain 🐈‍⬛ In our collections... poet James Thomson describes Lisy's heartbreak as she parts with her cat for boarding school in 1725 💔

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Really excellent symposium on Disability and Home coming up at QMUL & Museum of Home in May. CFP deadline end of Feb www.centreforstudiesofhome.org.uk/call-for-pap...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Great blog on the first Black circus owner in Britain from Charlotte Bookham @rhulhistory.bsky.social historiansforhistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

If you're in or near London, consider preparing for this Free IHR training event by visiting the Migration Museum, Lewisham before it's 'All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain' exhibition before it closes 30 March. @migrationmuseum.org . Details: www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/a...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Thursday 1st May - Save the Date Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

So lovely to see this now out and free to read and download now 🎉 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

JVC Prize Essay Talk, 'The Afterlife of a Stuart Princess in Victorian Culture ', by Sarah Betts. Join us on Thursday 27th March, 6pm, Royal Holloway Picture Gallery. More info here: jvc.oup.com/events-and-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The program of this symposium on Gender and Education in Copenhagen April 10 looks great! (incl @kareneandreasen.bsky.social @mariasimonsen.bsky.social et al) www.arbejdermuseet.dk/arrangement/... #histed

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Greenhouse #envhum book talks welcomes @mapicone.bsky.social to discuss her book Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina on Monday, 10 February 2025, at 16:00 CET in Norway / 10:00 Eastern in Boston. Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

Such a privilege to work with @womensinstitute.bsky.social SIGBI (Ireland & England), Irish Country Women's Association (ICA) & WI of Northern Ireland. And with fab core team @annefhlogan.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @racheljcollett.bsky.social & Anna Muggeridge ❤️. #womensgrassrootsactivism

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #SaintBlaise Day! 200 years ago the largest St. Blaise celebration took place in #Bradford. This Bradford Museums blog I wrote a few years ago details the Blaise procession of 1825 . 🧶🧵🎉 bradfordmuseums.org/bradford-and...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Delighted to be giving the Katrina Honeyman Lecture at Leeds Central Library - on the history of cats… Please do join us if you are in the area… www.eventbrite.com/e/purr-fect-...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Definitely one of those mornings at Royal Holloway … #EverydayEpiphanies

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Shouting out to #EarlyCareerResearcher in the #UK and #Iraq with research interest in #climatechange and #women’s #resilience in Iraq, I’m part of this project. If interested please apply! Details on the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social link below. Pls spread the word 🙏🏼

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Hello to all of our new followers! Glasgow Women’s Library offers: Books📚 Museum Collections 🕰 Archive Collections 📜 Public Events 🎟 Learning Opportunities 📝 Exhibitions 🔲 Adult Literacy & Numeracy 💭 A safe space ❤️ A warm welcome 🤗 A cup of tea ☕️ And so, so much more 🗣👩‍🎨📽🎶 #LibrariesMatter

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Extremely hot book cover klaxon! “Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives”, edited by @matildagreig.bsky.social and Nicole Cochrane, coming on 6 February (and featuring a chapter from me on Napoleonic performance w/Albert Dieudonné as key case study). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleoni...

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

I am SO happy to share that Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s which I worked on with co-editor and human being extraordinaire @nushpowell.bsky.social is our in PAPERBACK with @edinburghup.bsky.social #C18 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

NEW ARTICLE: '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1....

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨 This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Hi everyone, can you help one of my students with her MA dissertation? Amy is exploring the motivations, influences & ambitions of those who practice history (from professionals to amateurs, paid to hobbyist). Fill in her survey to add your experience (& please share): forms.office.com/e/mFNv6tAqxn

submitted 50 days ago • 41 comments

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

A first post on a cheering topic. Coming up in February, at Birmingham, with thanks to Lucie Ryzova and Karen Harvey: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The full cache of declassified MI5 files, released by the National Archives today, can be found here www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/l... Among other things, they cover the Cambridge Spy ring, including Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

submitted 57 days ago • 11 comments

Lionfish (Pterois miles) Drawn by John Whitchurch Bennett (1790-1853) from live specimens and published in 'Fishes found on the Coast of Ceylon' (1830). See his collection via our #DigitisedCollections https://bit.ly/4gZg4Np #WhoseTailIsItAnyway #SpecialCollections

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Good news for feminist book history! A team led by Julie R. Enszer has built a dataset with metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) from 1976 to 2000, published open access at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/femini...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Call for papers for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures International Conference @portsmouthuni, 10-11 June 2025. Submit your 300-word abstract by 19 January 2025 to [email protected] for @UoP_Maritime's inaugural conference www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Tried and failed to get this done for the 102nd anniversary of her death yesterday. No one spoke of my great great aunt, Fanny Amelia Woolgar, although much was said about her siblings. During her life, she spent time in three different asylums. #FamilyHistory www.grannystales.co.uk/general-8-24

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

We now invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise high quality scholarship published in 2024. Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

For years I've been collecting old snapshots of dogs posed sitting in chairs. It used to be a Thing. Here are the most recent additions to my collection. (Now and then if the stars align, there's a cat in the chair too.)

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

Who said the Victorians were prudes? From bawdy limericks to clever jokes about "red ink" accidents, check out how menstrual humor was embraced in 19th-century erotic poems. It is, indeed, "Bloody Hilarious." jvc.oup.com/2021/11/11/m... #journalofvictorianculture #19thcentury

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

🎺🎺 CALL FOR PAPERS🎺🎺 Delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the inaugural Symbols of Mortality Online Conference, in conjunction with Orkney Museum, is now live. Please feel free to re-post, pass on etc. For further details, contact [email protected]

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

So delighted to have a chapter on the Bath Marriage Mart in this fab volume on Bath. Congrats @hillaryburlock.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social and to the wonderful series editors @profelainechalus.bsky.social @deborahsimonton.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey... #skystorians #18c

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

PhD funding in media and comms. 10 studentships across Uni of Westminster: UK fees & stipend for 3 years. Deadline 7th Feb. Please share with prospective applicants. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr... Below: @camri.bsky.social research themes / specific project areas I'm keen to discuss.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The latest volume in our Studies in Design and Material Culture series, looking at the business of fashion in the wake of fascism #designhistory #fashionhistory

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for our ghost conference! We will have two keynotes: Prof. Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr. Shane McCorristine (Newcastle). It's going to be spooktacular!

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Do give the @womenshistnet.bsky.social a follow if you’re interested in #womenshistory!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

@1972shp.bsky.social is thrilled to be able to announce the launch of our new SHP Understanding event in conjunction with @teachmedwomen.bsky.social: A half day conference for teachers and A Level students about Teaching Medieval Women on January 18th 2025 from 1-5pm @britishlibrary.bsky.social

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments