Catherine Sloan
@csloanox.bsky.social
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Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
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Gravy (food history of the US south, through a global lens - chop suey episode is fab). The best history podcasts are always those that don’t pose as history… so frustrating!
csloanox.bsky.social
I love podcasts but my favourite history ones are usually not explicitly historical (the history ones tend to be things like I Am A History Man, or Did You Hear Of This Man). I liked: finding Cleo (indigenous childhoods in mid-century North America); You Must Remember This (erotic 80s and 90s)…
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buleriasfan.bsky.social
🗃️Help, fellow historians! I'm creating a new unit on historical podcasts for my undergrad methods course. I'd like recs for historical podcasts in Eng. that are both scholarly & entertaining. I'd esp. like to know about ones dealing with non-European and non-US history, but all suggestions welcome.
csloanox.bsky.social
You get to join the MS culture gang!
csloanox.bsky.social
Yay yes!!!! There are lots of folks working on ms magazines - Kirstie Blair and Lauren Weiss on mutual improvement society Mags, @kghist.bsky.social on girls MS mags, me 😊 on children’s school MS. Kathryn’s article has a really good summary of the field: academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...
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simonbriercliffe.bsky.social
I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.
Excerpt from handwritten zine-style text entitled "Burglar's editorial" Hand-drawn comic panel showing workman thumping a desk and shouting "I demand shorter hours" - the caption reads, "whadoya want then = fifty nine minutes" Hand-drawn caricature of Ernest Bevin, reading "Bevin says - even Russians read this paper"
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tomhulme.bsky.social
New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.
charlielynch.bsky.social
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
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robertbohan.bsky.social
When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:
11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student
An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.
www.thepinknews.com
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priyaatwal.bsky.social
Excited to share the details of a new event series that I’ll be hosting in #Oxford this term for our Community History Hub! Exploring everything from oral history methods to the legacy of the local car plant. Book your tickets here, all are welcome! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...
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kghist.bsky.social
Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers
roseteanby.bsky.social
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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echomikeromeo.bsky.social
So delighted to be tuning into this this afternoon!
igrct.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 EVENT REMINDER 🏳️‍🌈

This Saturday at 4PM!

Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...

Or register for the webinar: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#lgbthistory #queerhistory
igrct.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre
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kghist.bsky.social
People working on disability history:
elisaheinrich.bsky.social
I am excited to share this call for papers for a special issue on Conceptualizing Disability in History, which I’m co-editing with Monika Baar for the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies.

Please share among your networks, we are very much looking forward to your contributions!
hsozkult.bsky.social
CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157618

Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025
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maggieastor.bsky.social
Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.
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“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
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csloanox.bsky.social
Just wrote a research themed letter that was so satisfying! I am intensely stressed BUT I worked out like a demon and this type of good physical tired is the closest I currently get to energetic (which is backwards, but anyway). It’s a good day.
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jesbattis.bsky.social
Can folks offer some suggestions for fundraising an academic event? What are some events/activities that can help to defray costs and build a bit of funding for the future? Bake sales? BBQs? Readings? Pub quiz nights? Throw them at me.
csloanox.bsky.social
The way personal ethics get erased is so troubling: did they donate their bodies to train soldiers? It’s like egg donation - women aren’t allowed or able to check if the family is racist, homophobic, ableist or otherwise might cause active harm to others. The buyer’s market of ethics.
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
Abstract for an essay "Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age"
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ceyingst.bsky.social
anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise