Michelle Gwynn
@michgreig.bsky.social
Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. Undertaking a PhD at University of Glasgow. Interested in space, conflict and 20C Britain.
wappingtransformation.wordpress.com
wappingtransformation.wordpress.com
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Anyone got or know people working at council or more granular level on London crime statistics 1970s 1980s? #economichistorians #urbanhistorians #numbersgeeks #generalgeeks #skyhistorians
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Anyone got or know people working at council or more granular level on London crime statistics 1970s 1980s? #economichistorians #urbanhistorians #numbersgeeks #generalgeeks #skyhistorians
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Submitted the last major edit of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.
I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!
I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Submitted the last major edit of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.
I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!
I'm looking forward to An Injury To All being published in October 2026!
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If you’d like to hear me talk about my new book in Oxford on 3 February, please come along to All Souls at 1330:
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Money in Modern War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914-18 by Jonathan Boff — The Changing Character of War Centre
Tuesday 3 February, 13.30 Old Library, All Souls
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you’d like to hear me talk about my new book in Oxford on 3 February, please come along to All Souls at 1330:
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
Anyone got or know people working at council or more granular level on London crime statistics 1970s 1980s? #economichistorians #urbanhistorians #numbersgeeks #generalgeeks #skyhistorians
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Anyone got or know people working at council or more granular level on London crime statistics 1970s 1980s? #economichistorians #urbanhistorians #numbersgeeks #generalgeeks #skyhistorians
Whole house is ill & in different rooms. I'm on the recovery in kitchen (ninja style claiming of that sofa/tv/access to snacks). Andooh is in the office in the early stages & has made a gross error with that choice. The mid-stage Boy is in the 'library' (it has a few books) with PS5, sofa & dog.Nice
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Whole house is ill & in different rooms. I'm on the recovery in kitchen (ninja style claiming of that sofa/tv/access to snacks). Andooh is in the office in the early stages & has made a gross error with that choice. The mid-stage Boy is in the 'library' (it has a few books) with PS5, sofa & dog.Nice
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I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I write a newspaper column about Scottish history, historians and heritage.
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
I’m keen to feature more Early Career Researchers. Their work might not otherwise be publicised to a wide audience. Do you know anyone who might like to be in the column?
Got home to a massive fortnum and mason hamper delivery. Groaned as I have never been allowed to accept due to bribery thresholds then remembered I'm now a down on my arse PhD candidate and it's all mine. ALL MINE. I hate I'm so excited. I'm ridiculously excited. Hooray.
December 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Got home to a massive fortnum and mason hamper delivery. Groaned as I have never been allowed to accept due to bribery thresholds then remembered I'm now a down on my arse PhD candidate and it's all mine. ALL MINE. I hate I'm so excited. I'm ridiculously excited. Hooray.
Some corporate archivists are amazing arent they. "I have the files but I dont see X as being the same issue as you do, but you know, maybe, as there was certainly Y going on...." A very gentle way to say FIND Y. Y IS THERE. I WILL PUT A FILE OF Y NEAR YOU. ASK ABOUT Y. IT IS ALL ABOUT Y.
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Some corporate archivists are amazing arent they. "I have the files but I dont see X as being the same issue as you do, but you know, maybe, as there was certainly Y going on...." A very gentle way to say FIND Y. Y IS THERE. I WILL PUT A FILE OF Y NEAR YOU. ASK ABOUT Y. IT IS ALL ABOUT Y.
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Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
Really excited to have a lot of talks/presentations coming up in 2026 as the 40th Anniversary of the Wapping Print Dispute. I'm presenting on the often unreported impact on the residents of the year long (often violent) dispute in which the police secured & barricaded the area.
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Really excited to have a lot of talks/presentations coming up in 2026 as the 40th Anniversary of the Wapping Print Dispute. I'm presenting on the often unreported impact on the residents of the year long (often violent) dispute in which the police secured & barricaded the area.
Art, Memory, and Belonging: Aesthetic Resistance in the Iranian Diaspora at University of Glasgow
📅 Tue 9 Dec 2025
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM
📍 St Andrew’s Building, N307
All welcome
📅 Tue 9 Dec 2025
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM
📍 St Andrew’s Building, N307
All welcome
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Art, Memory, and Belonging: Aesthetic Resistance in the Iranian Diaspora at University of Glasgow
📅 Tue 9 Dec 2025
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM
📍 St Andrew’s Building, N307
All welcome
📅 Tue 9 Dec 2025
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM
📍 St Andrew’s Building, N307
All welcome
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'The Italian Boy' was my first book, and The Pet Shop Boys only went and wrote a song about it
Further Listening mini ep 1 —
Sarah Wise & The Resurrectionist
Graham and Chris dive into the PSB fan‑favourite with historian @misssarahwise.bsky.social, exploring 1830s body‑snatching, Victorian true crime and how it ended up in a pop b‑side.
Spotify: tiny.cc/ma1w001
Apple: tiny.cc/pa1w001
Sarah Wise & The Resurrectionist
Graham and Chris dive into the PSB fan‑favourite with historian @misssarahwise.bsky.social, exploring 1830s body‑snatching, Victorian true crime and how it ended up in a pop b‑side.
Spotify: tiny.cc/ma1w001
Apple: tiny.cc/pa1w001
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
'The Italian Boy' was my first book, and The Pet Shop Boys only went and wrote a song about it
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The best thing about Christmas shopping is hitting my wife and kids on the head with tubes of wrapping paper.
December 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The best thing about Christmas shopping is hitting my wife and kids on the head with tubes of wrapping paper.
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I asked this many moons ago on the other site, but does anyone know of any scholarly work whatsoever on ‘nationality branches’ within police forces in the UK?
#historians 🗃️
#historians 🗃️
December 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I asked this many moons ago on the other site, but does anyone know of any scholarly work whatsoever on ‘nationality branches’ within police forces in the UK?
#historians 🗃️
#historians 🗃️
Trying to rehearse timings on a presentation & the Ai coach keeps telling me off for using profanities when I stumble or want to change things. This thing must have a scottish model as my swearing was verging on niche and it still caught it. Ai -Good for catching swearing, shite for everything else
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Trying to rehearse timings on a presentation & the Ai coach keeps telling me off for using profanities when I stumble or want to change things. This thing must have a scottish model as my swearing was verging on niche and it still caught it. Ai -Good for catching swearing, shite for everything else
Watched civilisations with Jn and thought it was dire, but now the TV has started the old Timewatch. Night and day.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Watched civilisations with Jn and thought it was dire, but now the TV has started the old Timewatch. Night and day.
Sitting in an institution Club, sinking into a warm leather sofa, coal fire gently warming behind me, peaceful but for the russling of newspapers and hushed talk, christmas tree and decorations tastefully twinkling. I know none of this is PC but it is lovely. I do have an urge to shout BOGEYS though
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sitting in an institution Club, sinking into a warm leather sofa, coal fire gently warming behind me, peaceful but for the russling of newspapers and hushed talk, christmas tree and decorations tastefully twinkling. I know none of this is PC but it is lovely. I do have an urge to shout BOGEYS though
reached that age when other half requested a 'really nice bone china mug for my tea' for his birthday and I was utterly on board with it instead of taking the piss. I got 4. Sipping our Twinnings like little princelings here.
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
reached that age when other half requested a 'really nice bone china mug for my tea' for his birthday and I was utterly on board with it instead of taking the piss. I got 4. Sipping our Twinnings like little princelings here.
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Anyone know of any work on Gilt Strikes in the 1970s please? I have the usual (treasury/BoE/Government) but looking for more everyday detail. Thanks! #skyhistorians #economichistorians
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Anyone know of any work on Gilt Strikes in the 1970s please? I have the usual (treasury/BoE/Government) but looking for more everyday detail. Thanks! #skyhistorians #economichistorians
Anyone know of any work on Gilt Strikes in the 1970s please? I have the usual (treasury/BoE/Government) but looking for more everyday detail. Thanks! #skyhistorians #economichistorians
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Anyone know of any work on Gilt Strikes in the 1970s please? I have the usual (treasury/BoE/Government) but looking for more everyday detail. Thanks! #skyhistorians #economichistorians
Reading a treasury study and they seem to have published a bit with notes which just states "There was much talk of thin edges of wedges" ha ha. Ace.
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reading a treasury study and they seem to have published a bit with notes which just states "There was much talk of thin edges of wedges" ha ha. Ace.
'Survival capitalism' and the Big Bang: culture, contingency and capital in the making of the 1980s financial revolution by Emma Barrett is absolutely brilliant. I read it a bit last year, but reading it properly now I have more context and it is so, so good on so many levels
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
'Survival capitalism' and the Big Bang: culture, contingency and capital in the making of the 1980s financial revolution by Emma Barrett is absolutely brilliant. I read it a bit last year, but reading it properly now I have more context and it is so, so good on so many levels
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Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately?
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
November 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Have you, a family member or friend moved from council housing to renting privately?
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
I’m a PhD researcher looking into what drives these moves, how it impacts tenants' lives and their views of the council housing tenure.
Please reach out and share among your contacts! 👇
#socialhousing
#renting
First morning back in the pool. Royally lost my shit at the misogynistic crap from Middle Aged Man Swimming Down the Middle Slowly. Not the way to start a Monday after a holiday. I wonder how many men stop women participating in sport in various everyday unchallenged agressions? Lots I would think.
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
First morning back in the pool. Royally lost my shit at the misogynistic crap from Middle Aged Man Swimming Down the Middle Slowly. Not the way to start a Monday after a holiday. I wonder how many men stop women participating in sport in various everyday unchallenged agressions? Lots I would think.
The Limey is on Prime. This is my public service announcement.
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Limey is on Prime. This is my public service announcement.