Emily Baughan
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
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I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
“The wish that women’s care work be waged seems to have come true, albeit in funhouse-mirror form: legions of women now work to care for other peoples’ families, while the vast majority still take care of their own families for free.”
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework’s legacy:
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework’s legacy:
The Care Factory - Boston Review
In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.
www.bostonreview.net
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
Duncan Tanner Prize 2025
The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches
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—@emilybaughan.bsky.social on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen
—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“
—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center
—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“
—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
—@emilybaughan.bsky.social on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen
—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“
—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center
—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“
—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center
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“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social.
Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
Empire builders
Margery Perham was six feet tall. She was the first woman and youngest lecturer in the history department at the University of Sheffield after the First
www.the-tls.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social.
Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'
April 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'
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So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed
To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff
Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed
still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??
April 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??
if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds
From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
March 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
Lost Liverpool - Boston Review
The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?
www.bostonreview.net
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social
went to talk to my 5 year old's class about 'children in the past'. asked for questions at the end and hands shot up. teacher said: now children, sometimes we struggle to remember what's a question and what's a comment. questions start with 'why, how, where or who'
panel chairing goals 🎯
panel chairing goals 🎯
March 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
went to talk to my 5 year old's class about 'children in the past'. asked for questions at the end and hands shot up. teacher said: now children, sometimes we struggle to remember what's a question and what's a comment. questions start with 'why, how, where or who'
panel chairing goals 🎯
panel chairing goals 🎯
obsessed with this campaign, and the rule it opposes: that you can't receive govt funding *as a registered childcare professional* for a child in your care that is related to you. such a tell for the principle that love cancels labour; it's not care-work, if you actually care
March 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
obsessed with this campaign, and the rule it opposes: that you can't receive govt funding *as a registered childcare professional* for a child in your care that is related to you. such a tell for the principle that love cancels labour; it's not care-work, if you actually care
our beloved playschool closes for good today. I've spent the last several weeks issuing redundancy notices, battling with the local authority and watching in awe as our treasurer does the most depressing sums
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Closing Sheffield nursery warns of looming 'childcare crisis'
Hunter's Bar Playschool opened in 1975 and is having to close as staff say government funding is too low.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
our beloved playschool closes for good today. I've spent the last several weeks issuing redundancy notices, battling with the local authority and watching in awe as our treasurer does the most depressing sums
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The full list of authors on this piece is (deep breath!); me, @teadevotee.bsky.social , @emilybaughan.bsky.social, Laura Beers, Jade Burnett, Frankie Chappell, @ruthdav.bsky.social, @emmaelinor.bsky.social, Mary Clare Martin, Anna Muggeridge, Emma Peplow, Priscila Pivatto and Jessica White
January 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The full list of authors on this piece is (deep breath!); me, @teadevotee.bsky.social , @emilybaughan.bsky.social, Laura Beers, Jade Burnett, Frankie Chappell, @ruthdav.bsky.social, @emmaelinor.bsky.social, Mary Clare Martin, Anna Muggeridge, Emma Peplow, Priscila Pivatto and Jessica White
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It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.
'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2
January 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It’s out!!!! Huge huge gratitude to all of our co-authors, whose brilliant contributions you can read here, and especially to my wonderful co-editor @teadevotee.bsky.social without whom this literally would still be a series of notes in my email inbox.
I have lots of feelings about Susan Pedersen's recent review of Tehila Sasson in the LRB. Susan has been a deeply admired mentor, and Tehila is one of my dearest friends who has written - in so many ways - the book I wish I had been brave enough to write. It's whip smart, timely, and persuasive(1/2)
January 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I have lots of feelings about Susan Pedersen's recent review of Tehila Sasson in the LRB. Susan has been a deeply admired mentor, and Tehila is one of my dearest friends who has written - in so many ways - the book I wish I had been brave enough to write. It's whip smart, timely, and persuasive(1/2)
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Read this and then read everything else that @emilybaughan.bsky.social has written on her substack, about care and domestic labour and children's lives.
I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔
Of church halls and custard creams
or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups
emilybaughan.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Read this and then read everything else that @emilybaughan.bsky.social has written on her substack, about care and domestic labour and children's lives.
I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔
Of church halls and custard creams
or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups
emilybaughan.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔
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Goodness me. The FT recommended my book Vanished on the ‘What to read in 2025’ list in December, and I’ve only just found out. What a gift for the new year!
Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day.
www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)
Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day.
www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)
January 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Goodness me. The FT recommended my book Vanished on the ‘What to read in 2025’ list in December, and I’ve only just found out. What a gift for the new year!
Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day.
www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)
Meanwhile, you can preorder and wait for it to land on World Environment Day.
www.ft.com/content/bc3a... (paywalled link)
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I wrote about the state of the field in modern British LGBTQ+ history for @histassoc.bsky.social: www.history.org.uk/publications...
What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
www.history.org.uk
January 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I wrote about the state of the field in modern British LGBTQ+ history for @histassoc.bsky.social: www.history.org.uk/publications...
once upon a time, this was my job! It was a great way to get to know the field, to get my hands on new books, and to read great review writing. I learned a lot!!
We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️
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academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...
Call for MBH Book Review Editor
Modern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves
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December 11, 2024 at 11:31 AM
once upon a time, this was my job! It was a great way to get to know the field, to get my hands on new books, and to read great review writing. I learned a lot!!
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Who has fun ideas for the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference in May? Who is putting together a panel or a roundtable? Are people submitting individual papers? Are people submitting conceptual, 'about the field' stuff, or case studies in their own research?
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Who has fun ideas for the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference in May? Who is putting together a panel or a roundtable? Are people submitting individual papers? Are people submitting conceptual, 'about the field' stuff, or case studies in their own research?
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/