Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
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Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Reintroducing myself for the influx of people coming over from the other place.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
artsandculture.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Check out some of the amazing @railwaymuseum.bsky.social collection in virtual exhibitions that @drolibetts.bsky.social and his team there have been working on these last few months with Google Arts and Culture 👇
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Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
National Railway Museum - Google Arts & Culture
Journey through the untold story of the railways
artsandculture.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Please enjoy this project we've been working on with the lovely team at Google Arts and Culture:
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
artsandculture.google.com/project/nati...
Its so exciting to make so much of our collection accessible this anniversary year for the railways from models and artwork to tools and vehicles!
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Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Lots of great objects and archives to explore (one at random here, Leighton Dalrymple's sketch of John Blenkinsop's Steam Locomotive 'Salamanca', 1812), with themed virtual exhibitions #histSTM📜
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Since it's Thanksgiving and domesticated raccoons are in the news, pour one out for Rebecca, the White House pet raccoon who narrowly escaped being eaten with a side of cranberry sauce: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/...
When Rebecca the Raccoon Ruled the White House | Timeless
Library historian Margaret McAleer recounts this unlikely White House pets story, the tale of Rebecca the Raccoon in the Coolidge administration.
blogs.loc.gov
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Since it's Thanksgiving and domesticated raccoons are in the news, pour one out for Rebecca, the White House pet raccoon who narrowly escaped being eaten with a side of cranberry sauce: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/01/...
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Calling all consultants! Our members the Arkwright Society are out to tender for a Business Planning and Viability Consultant & an Activity Plan Consultant. The roles will support their Celebrating Heritage, Creating a Sustainable Future project.
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Calling all consultants! Our members the Arkwright Society are out to tender for a Business Planning and Viability Consultant & an Activity Plan Consultant. The roles will support their Celebrating Heritage, Creating a Sustainable Future project.
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
Find out more:
heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/
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Book launch Dec 19, 2025! Register now! Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis www.newberry.org/calendar/pub...
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Book launch Dec 19, 2025! Register now! Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions for a Modern Crisis www.newberry.org/calendar/pub...
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This is an excellent article on the possible motivations for Trump pressuring Hollywood into making a film he wants.
My new book talks about the consequences of a similar kind of political pressure campaign on Hollywood during the McCarthy era, analyzing cultural impacts through a genre study.
My new book talks about the consequences of a similar kind of political pressure campaign on Hollywood during the McCarthy era, analyzing cultural impacts through a genre study.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is an excellent article on the possible motivations for Trump pressuring Hollywood into making a film he wants.
My new book talks about the consequences of a similar kind of political pressure campaign on Hollywood during the McCarthy era, analyzing cultural impacts through a genre study.
My new book talks about the consequences of a similar kind of political pressure campaign on Hollywood during the McCarthy era, analyzing cultural impacts through a genre study.
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The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
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Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.
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This looks absolutely epic
👑 The King's Dinner 🍰 will be out this June.
It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions.
I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it.
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions.
I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it.
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This looks absolutely epic
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Lucky that the budget tomorrow includes a top-secret plan to bail out universities, otherwise this would be entirely empty rhetoric
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Lucky that the budget tomorrow includes a top-secret plan to bail out universities, otherwise this would be entirely empty rhetoric
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Is this a parody account?
Fifty universities on the brink of going under on her watch. We could do with a little less chest-thumping rhetoric and a little more actual action.
Fifty universities on the brink of going under on her watch. We could do with a little less chest-thumping rhetoric and a little more actual action.
Always the way, isn't it? Graduate from top uni says other people shouldn't aspire to go to university.
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
The Prime Minister's target – two thirds of young people getting a degree or an apprenticeship – is the right one. Only Labour backs our young people.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK bigwig who went to top university says fewer others should do the same
Reform UK's former chairman calls for "fewer people going to university" after benefiting from a degree from one of the country's most prestigious ones himself
www.mirror.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is this a parody account?
Fifty universities on the brink of going under on her watch. We could do with a little less chest-thumping rhetoric and a little more actual action.
Fifty universities on the brink of going under on her watch. We could do with a little less chest-thumping rhetoric and a little more actual action.
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It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
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Told my mate about the Hanseatic League and she asked if it was in the Marvel Universe
I would support a film series about the Hanseatic League
I would support a film series about the Hanseatic League
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Told my mate about the Hanseatic League and she asked if it was in the Marvel Universe
I would support a film series about the Hanseatic League
I would support a film series about the Hanseatic League
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Looking for a good book about President James Garfield? The James A. Garfield National Historic Site has you covered. 🗃️#NationalParks
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Looking for a good book about President James Garfield? The James A. Garfield National Historic Site has you covered. 🗃️#NationalParks
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My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
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Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Different strokes for different folks so create the opportunities and freedoms for people to choose the working environments in which they’re happiest and most productive.
Makes *some* of us happier.
Sure it helps if you have a nice house and reasons to be stuck home. Some of us need a mix or balance of things: and the removal of proper work spaces is not okay.
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk/21-11-2025/1...
Sure it helps if you have a nice house and reasons to be stuck home. Some of us need a mix or balance of things: and the removal of proper work spaces is not okay.
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk/21-11-2025/1...
Researchers studying remote work for four years reach a blunt conclusion “Home working makes us happier” and bosses hate it
Not in a shiny-inspirational-poster way, but in the Thursday afternoon way that decides whether you have enough patience left for life. The first morning
www.midlandscarcentre.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Different strokes for different folks so create the opportunities and freedoms for people to choose the working environments in which they’re happiest and most productive.
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
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November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
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Kate Hamilton's notorious 'night-house' (night-club) at 48 Leicester Square, 1860s; now a McDonalds.
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Kate Hamilton's notorious 'night-house' (night-club) at 48 Leicester Square, 1860s; now a McDonalds.
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I'm pleased to announce another new title in @universitypress.cambridge.org 's series Elements in Historical Study and practice is out and downloadable for free till Dec. 5. Chiel van den Akker, Knowledge and Narrative. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Knowledge and Narrative
Cambridge Core - Global History - Knowledge and Narrative
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm pleased to announce another new title in @universitypress.cambridge.org 's series Elements in Historical Study and practice is out and downloadable for free till Dec. 5. Chiel van den Akker, Knowledge and Narrative. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
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I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY!
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I am absolutely over the moon that my book “The Republican House Divided: Civil War Memory, Civil Rights, and the Transformation of the GOP” is officially published TODAY!
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
After years of hard work, I am incredibly proud. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible 📚🐘🗃️
@uscpress.bsky.social
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Mahmood using her own ethnic background to legitimise stripping away migrants’ and refugees’ rights prompted me to revisit this piece I wrote a couple of years back on minorities on the right.
Minorities on the Right
The presence of members of minority groups on the right poses a challenge in both understanding how they got there and discussing the matter with due sensitivity.
academicbubble.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Mahmood using her own ethnic background to legitimise stripping away migrants’ and refugees’ rights prompted me to revisit this piece I wrote a couple of years back on minorities on the right.