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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 10d

niche but -- looking for work on the 1834 Poor Law in international comparative perspective, and, whatever your fave poor law/ workhouse readings are. double points if they're recent. thank you!!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Jun 5

“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social.

Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...

Empire builders

Margery Perham was six feet tall. She was the first woman and youngest lecturer in the history department at the University of Sheffield after the First

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Jun 5

I loved it! ❤️

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 15

asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · Apr 15

So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed

To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff

Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 4

(79% of supply teachers are women)

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 4

and people become supply teachers (who are v poorly paid in spite of profit they generate) for flexibility, because of unplanned absences for caring, chronic ill health, etc

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 4

so schools and early years settings need more supply teachers bc absence rates rise as the job gets worse, then schools and settings lose £££ by using private providers, further driving down conditions

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 4

this kind of thing!! this is insane schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-pay-...

Schools pay almost 100% mark-up for supply teachers

Average secondary supply teacher pay is £150 a day, but schools shell out £291

schoolsweek.co.uk

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Apr 4

still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 28

wow!!!! can't wait to read!!!

Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 28

if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds

From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 27

me too! thank you!!

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · Mar 26

This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 26

I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

Lost Liverpool - Boston Review

The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?

www.bostonreview.net

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 26

so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 21

love this!!

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 20

writing a book!

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 14

went to talk to my 5 year old's class about 'children in the past'. asked for questions at the end and hands shot up. teacher said: now children, sometimes we struggle to remember what's a question and what's a comment. questions start with 'why, how, where or who'

panel chairing goals 🎯

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Mar 12

obsessed with this campaign, and the rule it opposes: that you can't receive govt funding *as a registered childcare professional* for a child in your care that is related to you. such a tell for the principle that love cancels labour; it's not care-work, if you actually care

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Feb 13

we're a non-profit, shoestring-budget, parent-led setting. if *we* can't survive the childcare funding crisis, then few will. 1/3 of settings have closed since 2020 and truly by 2030 unless something changes there'll be almost none left

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Feb 13

me and my three year old were on the radio this morning - he's making beef stew out of sand, I'm warning of the looming childcare crisis and its disastrous consequences (we're on at 7:07am, by which point we'd ofc already been up for two hours) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ellie Colton at Breakfast - 13/02/2025 - BBC Sounds

Wake up with a smile with Ellie and everything you need to know in South Yorkshire.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · Feb 13

our beloved playschool closes for good today. I've spent the last several weeks issuing redundancy notices, battling with the local authority and watching in awe as our treasurer does the most depressing sums

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Closing Sheffield nursery warns of looming 'childcare crisis'

Hunter's Bar Playschool opened in 1975 and is having to close as staff say government funding is too low.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jan 23

The full list of authors on this piece is (deep breath!); me, @teadevotee.bsky.social , @emilybaughan.bsky.social, Laura Beers, Jade Burnett, Frankie Chappell, @ruthdav.bsky.social, @emmaelinor.bsky.social, Mary Clare Martin, Anna Muggeridge, Emma Peplow, Priscila Pivatto and Jessica White

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