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Lesley A Hall

@erinacean.bsky.social

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Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @[email protected] www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 18h

You can read about David Killingray's approach and methods to identifying black Britons in rural settings (from 1600 onwards) in @balhnews.bsky.social's journal, 'The Local Historian'. Recommended.

The Local Historian Volume 51 Number 4 October 2021 | | Local History News | British Association For Local History

www.balh.org.uk

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Rebecca Whiteley @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social · 19h

Does anyone know of any work on the Victorian use of the word 'interesting' to describe women as a category - 'the most interesting part of humanity'? I keep finding it and its making my toes curl 😰

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19h

This is interesting: “I analyze the puzzling trajectory of Men’s Liberation, which went from an ally to liberal feminism in the 1970s to the crucible of the antifeminist Men’s Rights’ movement in the 1980s”

US Men’s Liberation in the 1970s: Autopsy of a Movement

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 20h

In 1968, against the backdrop of the Race Relations Act and Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech, local Birmingham groups campaigned against racism and in support of civil rights

The archives of activist Margaret Stanton capture some of the grassroots activities mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/MSP/...

Ticket for the inaugural meeting of the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign.

Photograph from the Birmingham Post, 6 May 1968, captioned 'A grim struggle for the police as they link arms to hold back the large crowd of demonstrators in Victoria Square, Birmingham, yesterday during the Prime Minister's visit'. The most visible placard says 'Would you let your daughter marry Enoch Powell'.

Letter sent to newspaper editors in August 1968 by the Birmingham Committee of the International Year for Human Rights. It deplores "the recent recommendations of the Birmingham City Council that all immigration into the city should be stopped, and we affirm that this policy is both morally wrong, and unworkable in practise. We remind the Council that the prosperity of this great city has been built on a long tradition of welcoming immigrants of all races. ... The proud motto of Birmingham is "Forward". Let the Council abandon its present backward-looking policy, and go forward to lead the nation in creating a society in which all races can work together in harmony."

Circular issued by the Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign Steering Group in 1968. It identifies four main fields of activity for the newly formed Birmingham Area Civil Rights Campaign: education, research, community action and political activity.

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Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections

www.history.ac.uk

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 21h

Cool new fund from @royalphilsoc.bsky.social:
'We will annually offer a number of grants to encourage UK-based performers, ensembles, venues and festivals to put exceptional yet overlooked music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming'

Introducing the new RPS Ambache Fund

royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 21h

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21h

Awards of up to £10,000. Deadline Wednesday 5 November 2025, 17:00 (GMT).

Open to researchers in all disciplines and all postdoctoral (or equivalent) career stages.

The call is focused solely on Pillar 2 of Horizon Europe – Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness (see below).

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 21h

Six of London’s smaller museums have been awarded funding by the Arts Council’s Museum Renewal Fund.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/art...

Arts Council awards £1.43 million lifeline to six of London's smaller museums

Six of London’s smaller museums have been awarded funding by the Arts Council’s Museum Renewal Fund.

www.ianvisits.co.uk

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 21h

I'm looking forward to speaking at the History of Medicine seminar at University College Dublin this afternoon. I'll be talking about British HIV/AIDS activists & their role in the broader transnational AIDS movement. More info here, inc. how to sign up for the Zoom link www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...

Current Seminar Series - UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland

www.ucd.ie

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22h

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social · 22h

The full issue - all short, accessible pieces - is here

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025) | feminists@law

journals.kent.ac.uk

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 22h

Former UK Supreme Court President on leaving the #ECHR:

“It would be a disaster for Europe… it’s one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation since the Second World War. The Convention put into language the rights everybody ought to have.”

🔗 www.scottishlegal.com/articles/bar...

Baroness Hale warns against ECHR withdrawal

Former Supreme Court President Baroness Hale delivered a powerful defence of the European Convention on Human Rights in the latest episode of a podcast hosted by Baroness Chakrabarti, warning that lea...

www.scottishlegal.com

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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 22h

History lessons are just as short of female representation in the national curriculum as STEM, says End Sexism in Schools (ESIS) report. We need to find ways o make all lessons more respresentative of society (then and now). www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Why are women missing from school history?

The extent to which history lessons ignore female figures has been revealed by new research. Here, teachers share the changes they are making to address this gender imbalance

www.tes.com

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · 22h

Three major works on #TransgenderStudies by Magnus Hirschfeld. In English. Original source for historians, anthropologists, activists and sociologists. eBook, paperback and hardcover #MagnusHirschfeld #GermanGayMovement #QueerStudies #LGBTQhistory 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXM423VD

Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part

Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Three Transgender Works: Gender Transitions Intersexual Constitution With Max Tilke Transvestites: Illustrated Part

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LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social · 22h

Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday 15 October, when @rebwright.bsky.social and @sexhistorian.bsky.social will be examining the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain. Details below:
Location: Online.
Time: 12:45 - 14:00

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Health or energy crisis? The politics of framing hypothermia | LSHTM

This presentation explores the historical framing of accidental deaths from hypothermia in post-war Britain, examining how these were increasingly framed as an ‘energy-management’ issue. Its target

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 23h

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 23h

Brighton: Tomorrow I’m chairing this panel on queer history with Sacha Coward, DJ Ritu, and Eleanor Medhurst at Coast Is Queer! Tickets: coastisqueer.com/event/resear...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

GB News pay party political leader Nigel Farage over half a million pounds. The TV channel pays him five times his MP salary - and as much as his other 11 further external jobs put together
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 1d

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

socialhistory.org.uk

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 1d

Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...

Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen

Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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Chloë Green @okaychloegreen.bsky.social · 1d

You know what I think we should all do? Just start reply to stuff with positive comments.

Dickheads are so quick to comment, how about we tell people they look good? Their art is cool? The event sounds excellent. Whatever. Fucking hell, let’s just be openly nice for once.

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Alice Bennett but scarier @aliceponderland.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to all my fellow arts and humanities graduates in the UK with our rip off degrees- many of us may not be the biggest earners but I would argue have generally been considerably better contributors to society than vast majority of the Tory party.

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the new Friends of the Women’s Library website! Lots of background information and details of forthcoming events. @fotwl.bsky.social friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...

Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.

friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d

Emily Cockayne, Penning Poison (2023), on anonymous letters, though, might have something relevant on internal mechanisms and relations with policing.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 1d

There's a book, Postal Pleasures: Sex, Scandal and Victorian Letters (2012) by Kate Thomas, but apart from a chapter on Cleveland Street and the messengers, rather beside the point for you, seems to lean hard on literature.

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Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 1d

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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