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A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives ‪#welshwomensaid ‬ #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
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Calling all #lawyers #policymakers #charityworkers #genealogists #familyhistorians #archivists! This FREE workshop on 20 Jan 2026 will showcase #divorce project findings & welcome speakers from policy, practice & the 3rd sector to highlight the power of #archival research. In person/hybrid. Details👇
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
See below for details of a FREE one-day workshop 'Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform in Marital Breakdown, Domestic Abuse, and Child Welfare' held @northumbriauni.bsky.social on Tuesday 20 January 2026.

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Archives to Action: Historical Evidence for Policy Reform
This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of ...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)

Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025
September 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
At the World Economic History Congress in Lund? wehc2025.com #WEHC2025 Dr Jennifer Aston will be giving a paper ‘Marital Status and Credit: navigating the legal constraints of being a married woman in England and Wales 1850–1925’ on 29th July 2025 from 9.30-10.30am in Universitetshuset, Room 125.
World Economic History Congress 2025
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July 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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📢OUR TRANSCRIBATHON IS TODAY!📢

Online registration has now closed, but if you missed out then DM me and I can provide a workaround ... we wouldn't want anyone to miss the chance to read some lovely wills!

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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I'm beyond thrilled that 'Deserted Wives & Economic Divorce' has been shortlisted for the The Society of Legal Scholars Margaret Brazier Prize 2025. It is wonderful to see Deserted Wives recognised in this way & to share the shortlist with such brilliant authors 🤩

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🌟 Celebrating Outstanding Legal Scholarship 🌟 | The Society of Legal Scholars
🌟 Celebrating Outstanding Legal Scholarship 🌟 We're delighted to share the shortlisted nominees for the SLS 2025 Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Early Career Legal Scholarship and the Margaret...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Thank you for coming @djrgrey.bsky.social! And thanks also to my amazing fellow panellists @sophiemhistory.bsky.social & @ellasbaraini.bsky.social. My first @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference has been an amazing experience so far - presenting in a pub was a first! 🍻#SHSConf2025
Thinking now @socialhistsoc.bsky.social about how mental health difficulties were understood by the divorce court between 1857 and 1937 with @drjenniferaston.bsky.social 👏🏻🌟 #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you’re at #SHSConf2025 join @drjenniferaston.bsky.social who’s presenting a paper called ‘Navigating Mental Illness in the Pre-1937 Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes’ on Tuesday 7th July 2025 as part of Panel 4 from 2.15-3.45pm in the E & C Lounge. More details here: shorturl.at/ojU0z
Tuesday 8th July 2025 - Dr Jennifer Aston's paper on divorce at the Social History Society Conference - A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce, 1857-1923
Dr Jennifer Aston will be presenting a paper called ‘Navigating Mental Illness in the Pre-1937 Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes’ at the 49th Annual Social History Society Conference at the Black Country Living Museum. This will be on Tuesday 7th July 2025 as part of Panel 4 from 2.15-3.45pm on ‘Constructing (In)sanity in 19th […]
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July 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Thank you so much to Prof. Sharon Thompson for her amazing review of 'Deserted Wives'.

"It is a shining example of the best of legal history." 🤩

Please consider ordering it for your library 📖
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
July 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks ‪@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The first review of Deserted Wives has been published and it's a lovely one 🥳 The full review is here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... but I've included a snippet below. Thank you so much @chloechallender.bsky.social 🙏
📖 available here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...
May 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The Sex, Gender and the Law session has been an amazing way to start LSA2025 in Chicago. Female business ownership, family law, divorce and legal history - just a few of my favourite things 😍
Also worth noting the top logo-ing from #LSAChicago
May 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The perfect accompaniment to a morning cuppa ☕️ Take 5 mins to read the latest @divorcehistory.bsky.social blog, which explores if second time is the charm...
In case you missed it, here’s out latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed...remarriage and the Divorce Court’ that looks at a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family who used legislation to reconcile their romantic entanglements #Divorce #LegalHistory #Genealogy #Remarriage (1/16)
May 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In case you missed it, here’s out latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed...remarriage and the Divorce Court’ that looks at a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family who used legislation to reconcile their romantic entanglements #Divorce #LegalHistory #Genealogy #Remarriage (1/16)
May 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Our latest blog ‘If at first, you don’t succeed... #remarriage and the #Divorce Court’ focuses on a couple with links to the #Guinness brewing family and gives a unique glimpse into their attempts to reconcile their romantic entanglements with legislations #legalhistory #genealogy shorturl.at/F6F80
April 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025.

You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
April 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM we’re reposting our blog on one of the most radical pieces of legislation in 19thC England that women could use, protection orders. The topic of the book Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce by Dr Jennifer Aston and Professor Olive Anderson. #womenshistory #women (1/11)
March 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
#genealogy #familyhistory #history #marriage #divorce #letters On the 16 June 1885, a 23-year-old Miss Charlotte Jane Bell (the daughter of a local gentleman) married Charles Marshall Dix (a 30-year-old widower) at the Parish Church in the small market town of Louth in Lincolnshire. After... (1/9)
March 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
As it’s #InternationalWomensDay you can read a free chapter from @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Professor Olive Anderson’s new book: Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales: For Wives Alone? tinyurl.com/bdfe8u9d #history #legalhistory #womenshistory #genealogists
March 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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March 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In our latest blog we explore restitution of conjugal rights. A type of matrimonial cause available in the #DivorceCourt to deal with #desertion, #childcustody and #maintenance issues that could also be used as evidence of desertion in a #divorce case

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March 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Thanks to those who have followed us this week. Our channel will provide you with updates on the Society's work to support and advocate for history and historians, as well as the activity of other Uk / RoW organisations who do likewise.

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February 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In January we got to an exciting point in the project, with a visit to our Project Partners #NationalArchivesUK in Kew. We, the Principal Investigator @drjenniferaston.bsky.social and Senior Research Assistant @dianeranyard.bsky.social spent 5 days at the archives. So why were we there? (1/9)
February 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Find out what we've been working on recently in our latest blog 'New Year, New Stage of the Project! Our visit to #TheNationalArchives, Kew' hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... #archives #divorce #Ancestry #legalhistory #genealogy #familyhistory #history
January 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM