Charlotte Wildman
@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Pinned
I am extremely on brand in my article in the December issue of @historytoday.com A VERY unhappy Christmas story of wartime Liverpool and Birkenhead and fears of working-class women’s sexuality. Part of my work on working-class homes, gender and crime .
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We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
December 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026
See 👇for details.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
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As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
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This year's Christmas presents sorted, thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This year's Christmas presents sorted, thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social
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If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship
www.history.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
SHS Annual Conference 2026
Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
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Exciting news! 🎉👀
We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
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Marginalised Motherhoods
Led by the University of Worcester
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Exciting news! 🎉👀
We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
(1/4)
We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.
(1/4)
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!
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We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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Fabulous to see @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social named as the winner of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture. 1/2
Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society
This prize lecture is given on a subject relating to the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.
royalsociety.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fabulous to see @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social named as the winner of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture. 1/2
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🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social:
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s
Abstract. The value of producing counterfactual history has been hotly debated, but principally in relation to major public events. Drawing on oral history
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social:
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny!
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
Ah thank you @djrgrey.bsky.social 😊 Great panel, brilliant conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Stellar opening ✨️ as usual by @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social presenting her fascinating work @socialhistsoc.bsky.social on criminal networks and clichés of care in postwar Britain 🇬🇧 Can't wait for the book!! #SHSConf2025
July 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ah thank you @djrgrey.bsky.social 😊 Great panel, brilliant conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.
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Delighted to be here for Professor @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote address at the annual @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference drawing on her exciting Leverhulme funded project on letters and embodiment in the long 18th century 🌟 #SHSConf2025
July 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Delighted to be here for Professor @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote address at the annual @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference drawing on her exciting Leverhulme funded project on letters and embodiment in the long 18th century 🌟 #SHSConf2025
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I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921
Sarah Roddy’s Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921, which is out in e-book format now and will be released imminently in hard copy by Cambridge University Press, examin…
socialhistory.org.uk
June 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
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Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain
Focusing on the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) and the National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS), this article looks at activism and campaigning for married women workers after ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access so free for all to read.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
History: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Early education, education, education: childcare in the policy and imagination of New Labour’s England, 1994-2003 (RS852) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
www.swansea.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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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
Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
CFPallpages.pdf
drive.google.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day
Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025
Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July
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📣GWL is hiring a Production
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
June 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📣GWL is hiring a Production
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...
Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover)
10 hrs/week
Fixed term to May 2026
£27.5k pro rata
Glasgow-based
Help us deliver owerful events &
exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space.
Apply by noon, Fri 20 June.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...