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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 31

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · Jul 31

“The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions.” Would love to know how much money uni leaders across UK have spent on consultants rather than talking to staff about workloads & savings.

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 31

31 July 2025

Also:

Today is the last day of my wonderful
Department of English Literature & Creative Writing

60.5 years - over

Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 25

📣We are delighted to announce that our outgoing Chair, Professor Naomi Tadmor, has been elected Honorary Vice President of the Society.

This role is given as a mark of distinction to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society.

👇Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/24/o...

Outgoing Chair Naomi Tadmor to become Honorary Vice President of the Social History Society

The Social History Society is delighted to announce that Professor Naomi Tadmor will become an Honorary Vice President of the Society. At the Annual General Meeting at the Social History Society Co…

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · Jul 9

At a time when life in HE feels tough #shsconf2025 has been truly joyful. I’m leaving with a notebook brimming with notes & new ideas. It’s been lovely to natter to so many history peeps. Thank you to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for your hard work! BCLM was perfect!

Cups and saucers with a biscuit tone and candies

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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · Jul 8

Huge congrats to the winners of the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social PGR prize this year! 👏👏 @amyloulongmuir.bsky.social
#SHSConf2025

Five people standing on stage. To the left is a man speaking at the lectern, three people are standing in the middle, and then another man stands at the end with a mic.

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Feb 27

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social reviews 'Habsburg England: Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558)', by Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer @gvb1554.bsky.social

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

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Habsburg England: Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558), by Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer

The historical spotlight has favoured the reign of Mary I in recent years, with significant reassessments from John Edwards and, particularly notably, Judi

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jan 31

Looking for a short but good reading on television history documentaries. Any suggestions?

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Dec 4

Christmas door decoration for my office 🎄

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 30

I even broke out the Christmas playlist a day early.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 30

Went to Dunham Massey Christmas light walk- lovely start to Christmas. 🙂

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 28

I hope you found something just as if not more satisfying and much more secure!

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 28

Not sure I’ll hang on much longer, but it’s quite difficult to imagine what else I can do…

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 27

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‘Nor syng, nor to daunce alone’: Precarity, Loneliness and the Early Career Academic

A keynote paper given at The Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Conference, 29-30 June 2021 Postscript: In August 2022, after 8 months of negotiations, I was given …

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 27

My keynote on academic precarity and sixteenth century ballads has now been rehomed on my revamped website.

Please watch and share. I still think this is the best thing I have ever written.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Nov 27

Ah, that’ll be because I renamed my site in the summer.

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · Nov 20

The Ukraine issue of The Historian just arrived (@histassoc.bsky.social), guest edited by Markian Prokopovych (@durhamhistory.bsky.social) with Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social); and I had fun interviewing Ulinka Rublack about Albrecht Dürer 🇺🇦🧑‍🎤✍️📖

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Oct 5

Well it is definitely Professor Sir and Reverend Doctor (I’ve had to introduce both) so I’m guessing Captain Doctor

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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · Sep 23

I spent a large proportion of my weekend editing the captioning on this so that “Luther” doesn’t read “Loser” & other such automated errors…

But have a listen/read of @wallyberry.bsky.social, Frieder Mißfder & Una McIlvenna say Clever Things™️ about songs & news!

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Sep 22

Of Broken Clocks and Drifing Spirits, by James Hyde

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I hope you enjoy it. Please share widely

of Broken Clocks and Drifting Spirits - James Hyde

YouTube video by James Hyde

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Sep 22

Eldest has just released his first EP on YouTube but needs 1000 followers on TikTok tiktok.com/@jimbob478?_... to link to it there. Please repost and follow him

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Join EM Soundscapesfor their next online seminar, where @wallyberry.bsky.social, Una McIlvenna & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder will discuss 'Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe', September 10, 2024, 14.00BST rensoc.org.uk/event/soundi...

Foreground: Soundscapes, LJMU, York & SRS logos near bottom; “Sounding the News on Early Modern Europe”, top right with speakers’ names, date, time & url directly below.

Background: seventeenth-century engraving of news hawkers, recoloured blue.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hello! Do you mind if I use your photo on my blog? I will credit you of course.

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