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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! 💐

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 7d

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House on the Living London History website provides a richly illustrated account of a fascinating property dating back to 1724 and described as “somewhere between a house museum and an immersive experience”. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs' House - Living London History

Walk along Norton Folgate from Liverpool Street Station and you are largely surrounded by modern office blocks, many of which have gone up in just the last couple of years. Turn right however down the...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu

The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Cover of new Royal Historical Society monograph published on 30 October 2025: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy

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Dr Stephanie Dropuljic @stephaniedropuljic.bsky.social · 26d

Essay competition below for UG students with an interest in women & legal history! Please feel free to share with interested persons and contacts.

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 15d

I've deleted my last post because the tickets have sold. Thank you so much everyone 💗

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Sophie! X

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you so much. This week can definitely get in the bin! 🙈

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 19d

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

Assistant Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science

An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 19d

This looks very interesting and useful. Here are the titles of the chapters in this edited collection.

Page 1 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
1- “The missing Romanian chapter in disability history”,
2- “Deafening Architectural Modernism: Reconsidering the Archive of Adolf Lois”,
3- “‘Brain of woman, at 30, half an idiot’: recovering disability histories from the ‘footnotes’ of the British Museum collection”.

Page 2 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
4- “Cripping the convict archive”,
5- “The feverish saint: a queer encounter with the public universal friend”
6- “Disability, the modern state, and the archive in the United States”,
7- “ there are no invalids in the archive: hidden sources and ideological obscurations in the history of international blind activism”,
8- “silence and stigma: how archival restrictions threaten histories of the mentally ill in the United States”,
9- “recovering the past to understand the present: cropping school segregation in New York City”,
10- “settler ableism: Indigeneity, unsettling the archive, and accountability in history”,
11- “hall of miracles: Central American disability archives”.

Page 3 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
12- “cripping the settler archive: disability in women’s memoirs of the Indian service”,
13- “deafness and silences in the archives”,
14- “the spoken word is not neutral: oral history, disability, and nonverbal communication”,
15- “ephemeral madness: the patient-theorists of psychiatric archives”,
16- “privileged, oppressed, and liberated: unearthing the archives of a multigenerational white deaf family”,
17- “‘It felt like everything’: disability, affect, and the creation of archival interdependence”,
18- “transnational disability praxis: archiving survival, resistance, and resilience amid ongoing emergencies”.

Page 4 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
19- “accessibility widely defined: making the university of Massachusetts archives’ disability collections available to everyone”,
20- “file/life: remembering the Pennhurst Archive with community activists”.

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 19d

I think it is being rolled out to students later in the semester. It's definitely going to be a whole new way of working.

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 19d

We've just been given something called Claude, which is apparently AI designed for education (I haven't had time to look at it yet). I think it will be widespread by next year, if not this.

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 20d

They normally plant them in the middle of the two houses, so they should still be able to park 😊

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 20d

I live in York too, and you're right! Did you know you can write to the council and ask for trees to be planted on the verges? You can pick the type of tree 🌳

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 21d

I can vouch for John's work. He's brilliant. His recent blog about our work together might be of interest to you www.patreon.com/posts/legacy...

A Legacy of Words: Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in Victorian England | Surprised Eel Maps

www.patreon.com

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 21d

World domination, one eel at a time!

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 21d

This! 👇 Finding someone who can understand a project's often quirky and slightly niche aims (& embrace them) can make all the difference to the final product.
And if you use @greenleejw.bsky.social you not only get beautiful maps but you can also sneak eel pictures into your book 😉 #skystorians

Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21d

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

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Dr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social · 23d

Doing this talk tonight at Guildford Fringe - if you’re interested in suffrage histories and theatre histories then it’ll be the perfect way to spend a blustery evening away from the news… guildfordfringefestival.com/events/deeds...

Deeds With Words: Votes for Women and the Edwardian Stage - Guildford Fringe Festival

In 1908 the Actresses’ Franchise League and Women Writers’ Suffrage League were founded to bring together theatre and entertainment professionals in support of the Votes for Women movement. Both […]

guildfordfringefestival.com

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 24d

@greenleejw.bsky.social has written a blog about the amazing maps he created for 'Deserted Wives'! With help from @bhamhistory.bsky.social, we recreated jurisdiction boundary lines & his final maps really underpin the book's thesis.
Deserted Wives has 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much for this, @greenleejw.bsky.social! It's wonderful to read about the process from the other side of things 🙏

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 28d

Enjoy 😊

Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 29d

It's old, but about Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities? I seem to remember quite a lot about the people and groups who ran towns. Also, Jose Harris, Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions (OUP, I think). It sounds like a great module!

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, Andrew 😊

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great news! eprints of my review still up for grabs: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JQYVV...

Deserted wives and economic divorce in 19th-century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’

Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 34, No. 5, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you so much 💓

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