Sarah Crook
@sarahcrook.bsky.social
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Honestly, the press framing of tax is just so gross. These headlines could be: thousands of kids lifted out of poverty; £2m houses taxed more fairly; taxes raised to support hospitals and schools and other good things
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Honestly, the press framing of tax is just so gross. These headlines could be: thousands of kids lifted out of poverty; £2m houses taxed more fairly; taxes raised to support hospitals and schools and other good things
Me, a journal editor: these things take TIME, we are just PEOPLE, doing our BEST, everyone understands
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Me, a journal editor: these things take TIME, we are just PEOPLE, doing our BEST, everyone understands
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
me, an author, waiting for editors: these things should be FASTER, what IS THIS, I don’t UNDERSTAND
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Senior Editor, Local Reporting Network
Remote, United States
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
On my three hour return train with my (sleeping) baby and the GWR refreshments trolley staff just gave me a coffee for free. Even if it was a sympathy coffee for how tired I look I’ll still chalk them up as heroes and this journey as the best ever
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On my three hour return train with my (sleeping) baby and the GWR refreshments trolley staff just gave me a coffee for free. Even if it was a sympathy coffee for how tired I look I’ll still chalk them up as heroes and this journey as the best ever
Pimlott lecture here we come
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pimlott lecture here we come
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Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
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Getting Emotional About History? A Panel Discussion | King's College London
Want to learn more about what studying emotions in the past entails? Interested in how historians manage their own emotional relationships with their source material?
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November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Join Ella Sbaraini, Dan Matlin, Adam Sutcliffe and Lena Ferriday, to hear how King's academics work with the emotions in their own historical work followed by a chaired panel on the nature of studying these slippery but important histories.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/getti...
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Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #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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November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Join us online, at 2.30pm this afternoon, for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Fellowships will enable holders to develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education #Skystorians
Two years into waking up every two hours with my youngest, I’ve found that playing London Thunder by Foals immediately and reliably stops her crying and - miraculously! - puts her back to sleep. Off to 2014 to buy her skinny jeans and a stripy top and converse
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Two years into waking up every two hours with my youngest, I’ve found that playing London Thunder by Foals immediately and reliably stops her crying and - miraculously! - puts her back to sleep. Off to 2014 to buy her skinny jeans and a stripy top and converse
We're so looking forward to @historianhelen.bsky.social's @mbhjournal.bsky.social lecture at KCL next week. Attendees should have just received an email from me, but can I please ask anyone who knows they can't come to cancel their booking? It's fully booked and we have 30 people on the wait list!
November 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
We're so looking forward to @historianhelen.bsky.social's @mbhjournal.bsky.social lecture at KCL next week. Attendees should have just received an email from me, but can I please ask anyone who knows they can't come to cancel their booking? It's fully booked and we have 30 people on the wait list!
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
Sharing this because it’s wonderful news for Wales and because my astounding, magnificent, whip smart civil servant partner has been putting in SUCH a shift, alongside colleagues, to make this happen and I am SO crazy proud www.gov.wales/written-stat...
Written Statement: Affordable housing provision | GOV.WALES
Jayne Bryant MS, Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
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November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Sharing this because it’s wonderful news for Wales and because my astounding, magnificent, whip smart civil servant partner has been putting in SUCH a shift, alongside colleagues, to make this happen and I am SO crazy proud www.gov.wales/written-stat...
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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BBC5: The new BBC channel devoted solely to programmes about the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
BBC5: The new BBC channel devoted solely to programmes about the BBC
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Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'
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#MinersStrike
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#MinersStrike
Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5
The year 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the end of the bitter twelve-month miners’ strike of 1984/5. The dominance of coal in British energy produc
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November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Marking the anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1984/5, Keith Gildart reflects on a selection of recent titles in a new Review Article: 'Which Side Are You On Boys? Revisiting the History of British Coal Miners and the Strike of 1984/5'
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
#MinersStrike
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#MinersStrike
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The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization: A Political and Cultural History. By Jörg Arnold ;
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85. By Robert Gildea;
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Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85. By Robert Gildea;
@yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization: A Political and Cultural History. By Jörg Arnold ;
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85. By Robert Gildea;
@yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85. By Robert Gildea;
@yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
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Truly beautiful insane tweet
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Truly beautiful insane tweet
Delivering my paper in Oxford was a delight, but it was also a reminder that the contexts in which we price work are profoundly unequal. How is my department supposed to produce comparable work when our physical, social, and cultural environment is so depleted? There are buckets in the hallways!
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Delivering my paper in Oxford was a delight, but it was also a reminder that the contexts in which we price work are profoundly unequal. How is my department supposed to produce comparable work when our physical, social, and cultural environment is so depleted? There are buckets in the hallways!
Honestly that “have women ruined the workplace?” NYT article was such a mid-term gift. Just as I’m getting tired it arrived! Going into work with headphones booming and a “going to finish this article, write that review, do some teaching and fuck up the office” vibe is the energy week 7 needs
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Honestly that “have women ruined the workplace?” NYT article was such a mid-term gift. Just as I’m getting tired it arrived! Going into work with headphones booming and a “going to finish this article, write that review, do some teaching and fuck up the office” vibe is the energy week 7 needs
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🌟PSA PRIZES🌟 Nominations for Academic Prizes are now open!
📢 We invite prize nominations outstanding Research, Professional Contributions and Teaching & Learning.
📆 Deadline for nominations 1 December 2025
➡️ Full details, eligibility, guidelines and forms online
📢 We invite prize nominations outstanding Research, Professional Contributions and Teaching & Learning.
📆 Deadline for nominations 1 December 2025
➡️ Full details, eligibility, guidelines and forms online
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November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🌟PSA PRIZES🌟 Nominations for Academic Prizes are now open!
📢 We invite prize nominations outstanding Research, Professional Contributions and Teaching & Learning.
📆 Deadline for nominations 1 December 2025
➡️ Full details, eligibility, guidelines and forms online
📢 We invite prize nominations outstanding Research, Professional Contributions and Teaching & Learning.
📆 Deadline for nominations 1 December 2025
➡️ Full details, eligibility, guidelines and forms online
Spotify is like “we think you’ll love this” and it’s always Winnie and Wilbur Vol. 2 or The Wiggles or That’s Not My Lion.
Yes, parenthood has warped my cultural consumption.
Yes, parenthood has warped my cultural consumption.
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Spotify is like “we think you’ll love this” and it’s always Winnie and Wilbur Vol. 2 or The Wiggles or That’s Not My Lion.
Yes, parenthood has warped my cultural consumption.
Yes, parenthood has warped my cultural consumption.
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The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture!
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
Annual Lecture: Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51
Join us for the History of Parliament Annual Lecture for 2025, given by Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The History of Parliament is excited to announce this year's Annual Lecture!
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
On 16 December in Portcullis House, Rt Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds will be speaking on 'Clement Attlee’s Labour Governments of 1945-51: A Reappraisal'.
Tickets are FREE and can be found in the link below:
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!