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Kate Bradley
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Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 10d
I always relish opportunities to speak about the amazing life-long feminist activist HHH or H3 as her friends called her, so great to do so at #nacbs2025 on #1970sWomen roundtable yesterday & if your interest is piqued you can read all about her in this @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social OA article 😊.
The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 1980
Focussing on the life-long activism of former suffragette and feminist Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan this article presents an innovative re-appraisal of histories of the women’s movement in England during...
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 12d
If this was a run and this was my watch, you best believe I’d be scampering around the car park to complete that mile and a bit more…
A car dashboard with the mileage displayed as 30249.9 miles.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13d
The government has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners will be scrapped in 2028 - which would have been the next elections - saying it will "cut the cost of unnecessary bureaucracy"

Many senior police officers have long wanted them gone, as seen here www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Elected police and crime commissioners can be 'absolutely bleeding hopeless', report told
Officers tell researchers Coalition government changes left 'bonkers' structure of British policing
www.independent.co.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18d
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN

Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 19d
Onnea!!! That’s brilliant news!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 23d
Another vote for WoB when I had to move! Yeah - I like to think that me getting my books out into their warehouse means someone else can love a book I’ve had on my shelf for years… or give it a change of scene by sitting it on their shelf for years…

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 24d
Accidentally running to Windsor?? Sounds ace. Four naans would be perfect for carb-loading, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Peep Show marathon starts at Croydon's Apollo House
The sitcom Peep Show, has become a cult classic, also inspiring a marathon from London to Windsor.
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 25d
I will try not to spend it all at once.
An email from Ocado offering me a 1p voucher because my shopping would have been 1p cheaper if I’d gone to Tesco.

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 27d
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
Microsoft Forms
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 28d
I have managed to remember to change the car clock, so there isn’t that to add to my annoyance!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 28d
Having had my first drive home from work in the dark of this autumn, I’d say I love having LED lights… I just hate that everyone else does, too… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night
Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Oct 27
🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.

Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm. Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · Oct 27
Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Oct 26
This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:

'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT

Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Oct 23
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract: "Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds." Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · Oct 22
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · Oct 21
I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 20
If I had a run this morning, but Strava’s down, did I actually have a run?

[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]
A rainbow forming a complete arch over the river Medway.

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 18
Future generations discovering these things when clearing out lofts etc will have no idea what was achieved by young people in the 1990s, thanks to this design fault!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 18
Can’t find it but I vaguely remember mine also having the NRA logo in Welsh on it, too? It was a handy-ish place to keep certificates until I realised the plastic wallets leached the ink out of documents, especially the handwritten bits we’d been made to do…

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 18
I’m glad I’m not the only person to discuss Prince in these circumstances!!

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Oct 17
📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

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Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · Oct 16
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...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
I don’t blame you!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
I love it!! Dog photos are an under-rated element of recovery.

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
That sounds amazing!!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
Ha! My post-op drip was *amazing*. It did compel me to tell them about Prince but, otherwise, I was very chill about proceedings. Hope sorting the kidney stone remained painless!

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
I’m so sorry to hear this, Cath - my sympathies and solidarity to you all. Xx

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 15
This surgery and fentanyl talk reminds me of when I had an op under a general anaesthetic & came round as they were running through the meds I’d had, including fentanyl, and I piped up, “FENTANYL’S WHAT KILLED PRINCE!” then went back to quiet semi-consciousness…
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Oct 15
Fentanyl is good stuff.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Oct 15
Fentanyl is good stuff.