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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · 21d

A fantastic conference. Wonderful to catch up with fab scholars and to meet many people working on such interesting things. Very much looking forward to next steps.

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations 🎊 to @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and @janetweston.bsky.social for a brilliant conference! 👏🏻 Lots of amazing papers including @historywill.bsky.social @sophiemhistory.bsky.social @stephemmabrown.bsky.social @henryyeomans.bsky.social 🌟 Looking forward to next steps 😀

Photograph of two British women police officers from the 1950s wearing masks to protect themselves from the smog

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday I was on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour talking about
the history of suicide. You can catch up here (from c.32mins):

Woman's Hour - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pregnancy drug DES, Novelist Heather Morris - BBC Sounds

The Murder on the Dancefloor hitmaker has a new album, Perimenopop

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · 29d

Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...

Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford

Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Aug 28

My article for @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/our-medieval...

Our medieval murder maps reveal the surprising geography of violence in 14th-century English cities

In the 14th century, Sundays were particularly deadly.

theconversation.com

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thanks for sharing @kyjanl.bsky.social

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Aug 23

A great couple of days at the 'Behind Bars' Penal Heritage Symposium at Shrewsbury prison

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Aug 6

The online version is here: www.history.org.uk/publications...

Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England

www.history.org.uk

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Aug 6

Just received my copy of The Historian @histassoc.bsky.social. Thanks to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and Ros Crone for a fab issue on crime and punishment 💕

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jul 24

Huge congratulations, Greg. Well deserved 🎉

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jul 21

Congrats Jen 👏 🎉

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jul 13

My article for @theconversation.com 'The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave'

theconversation.com/the-dangers-...

The dangers of romanticising Britain’s 1976 heatwave

By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.

theconversation.com

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Reposted by Dr Stephanie Brown

Early Career Researcher Podcast @ecrpodcasters.bsky.social · Jul 1

Listen now: Episode 28: ‘Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education’ feat. @rozierhistorian.bsky.social + @stephemmabrown.bsky.social on:
- Why teach?
- Types of teaching opportunities
- How to get started (and how to enjoy it!)

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

open.spotify.com/episode/70ss...

Episode 28: Teaching Opportunities in Higher Education

Podcast Episode · The Early Career Researcher Podcast · 30/06/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jul 3

a man is sitting in the back of a truck with two women .

ALT: a man is sitting in the back of a truck with two women .

media.tenor.com

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jul 3

Huge congratulations @lflannigan17.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
Well deserved 👏

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):

'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

bit.ly/4nwi4kj 1/2 #Skystorians

Cover for 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jun 27

Come (virtually) to hear me talk about @medimurdermaps.bsky.social for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks on 10 September.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...

Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford

Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jun 19

If this is you, and you are interested in the imprisonment of people awaiting execution in the nineteenth-century (my work looks at Wales), do get in touch.

Keen to explore media discourses at the time and how we tell these stories today.

Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jun 19

My paper at the ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social looked at narratives of the condemned in the liminal space between death sentence & execution.

To develop this work, I'd really like to work with experts in heritage or corpus linguistics.

Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jun 19

Enjoyed hearing @stephemmabrown.bsky.social speak about narratives of liminal space & the shaping of national identity through carcerality, & Alessandra Calanchi discussing domestic entrapment and surveillance in Louisa May Alcott - ‘Narratives of Captivity’ @northumbriauni.bsky.social

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you @eepwrites.bsky.social. It was a great panel and a wonderful conference.

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Dr Stephanie Brown @stephemmabrown.bsky.social · Jun 18

Oh, don't! This is something that I have to tackle later this week. Hoping I don't run into (m)any tech/access issues 😅 Huge congrats on your success 😂😂

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