Amy Thorpe
@acthorpe.bsky.social
PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Let this be the turning point. Absolutely extraordinary.
Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Let this be the turning point. Absolutely extraordinary.
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Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!
📢 New Seminar Series!
We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)
We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)
September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!
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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
September 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’
Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'
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I can't overstate how crucial these casual vacancy elections are. HEC is pretty much deadlocked atm, so please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd for UK wide rep and, if in the North East region (comprised of Northern and Yorkshire and Humberside) then vote for Adam Hansen too. #ucu
New on our Substack: two crucial casual vacancy elections for NEC/HEC open TODAY. Ballots will arrive by post. If you are in any HE institution, please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd; if in the North East region please also vote for Adam Hansen. #ucu
ucucommons.substack.com/p/vote-in-uc...
ucucommons.substack.com/p/vote-in-uc...
Vote in UCU NEC's Casual Vacancy Elections!
Dear subscribers,
ucucommons.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I can't overstate how crucial these casual vacancy elections are. HEC is pretty much deadlocked atm, so please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd for UK wide rep and, if in the North East region (comprised of Northern and Yorkshire and Humberside) then vote for Adam Hansen too. #ucu
Registration is open for the fantastic Women's History Scotland conference in September. I'll be delivering a paper on my new research, “‘May WE Have
Huts, Too?’: Understanding
Emotion, Space, and Leisure
of Women at War Through
the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!
Huts, Too?’: Understanding
Emotion, Space, and Leisure
of Women at War Through
the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!
📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open!
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social
🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex
Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...
Buy tickets – Women’s History Scotland Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland – Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce their one-day conference is taking place on Saturday 13 September 2025 at th...
www.tickettailor.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Registration is open for the fantastic Women's History Scotland conference in September. I'll be delivering a paper on my new research, “‘May WE Have
Huts, Too?’: Understanding
Emotion, Space, and Leisure
of Women at War Through
the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!
Huts, Too?’: Understanding
Emotion, Space, and Leisure
of Women at War Through
the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Great to see this news and I cant wait to see it go on permanent display. We are long overdue a blockbuster exhibition on the Iron Age in Yorkshire @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iron Age hoard moves permanently to Yorkshire Museum
The Melsonby Hoard contains 800 artefacts, believed to be one of the UK's largest Iron Age finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Great to see this news and I cant wait to see it go on permanent display. We are long overdue a blockbuster exhibition on the Iron Age in Yorkshire @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Congratulations to the phenomenal Lionesses! What a hard-fought win and an absolutely sensational tournament.
And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!
And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!
July 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Congratulations to the phenomenal Lionesses! What a hard-fought win and an absolutely sensational tournament.
And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!
And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!
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If you enjoyed our conference why not help shape our next one!? We are currently recruiting for our new committee and are looking for...
✨ Secretary
✨ Treasurer
✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors
✨ Social Media Officers
✨ Awards officer
See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!
✨ Secretary
✨ Treasurer
✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors
✨ Social Media Officers
✨ Awards officer
See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!
July 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If you enjoyed our conference why not help shape our next one!? We are currently recruiting for our new committee and are looking for...
✨ Secretary
✨ Treasurer
✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors
✨ Social Media Officers
✨ Awards officer
See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!
✨ Secretary
✨ Treasurer
✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors
✨ Social Media Officers
✨ Awards officer
See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!
This was such a fantastic conference! Thank you to all the speakers, organisers, delegates, and to @ihr.bsky.social and @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social for being such brilliant hosts.
Thank you to everyone who attended and presented at our conference yesterday in London @ihr.bsky.social in person and online! Each paper was truly fascinating, and we hope you all enjoyed it!
Thank you @maxinebeuret.bsky.social for these pictures!
Thank you @maxinebeuret.bsky.social for these pictures!
July 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This was such a fantastic conference! Thank you to all the speakers, organisers, delegates, and to @ihr.bsky.social and @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social for being such brilliant hosts.
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Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works.
All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.
All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works.
All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.
All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.
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*New talk klaxon*
Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...
Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...
Talks : Caitríona's Talk on The WI at 110 Years - The Story of a Movement for Women - WI Learning Hub
learninghub.thewi.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
*New talk klaxon*
Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...
Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...
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JSTOR’s shared collections make room for surprise. Scholars and the archive-curious can explore them through stories from @jstordaily.bsky.social!
🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy
Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy
Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
July 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
JSTOR’s shared collections make room for surprise. Scholars and the archive-curious can explore them through stories from @jstordaily.bsky.social!
🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy
Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy
Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.
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For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social!
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs
www.history.org.uk
July 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social!
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
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Listen! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social spoke to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating “Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-a...
Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Listen! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social spoke to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating “Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-a...
I'm delighted to announce I have been elected as a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society. I'm very much looking forward to being an active member of such a brilliant community of scholars.
We are very pleased to welcome today 233 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members who join the Society after their election at the latest meeting of the Society's Council bit.ly/3GQAQSW
They join the Society's 6500 members who practice and promote history in 72 countries 1/2
They join the Society's 6500 members who practice and promote history in 72 countries 1/2
July 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'm delighted to announce I have been elected as a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society. I'm very much looking forward to being an active member of such a brilliant community of scholars.
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Songwriters in Conversation returns on AUGUST 17th at Baba Yaga's Loft, North Shields, with sets from The Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray discussing 'Comedy and Music.' I'm delighted to share we've received £3000 in funding from North Tyneside Council to put on 4 more events in the series.
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Songwriters in Conversation returns on AUGUST 17th at Baba Yaga's Loft, North Shields, with sets from The Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray discussing 'Comedy and Music.' I'm delighted to share we've received £3000 in funding from North Tyneside Council to put on 4 more events in the series.
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Each session features two artists playing for thirty minutes each, followed by an onstage Q&A about their songwriting practice. The events will be filmed for YouTube, Tiny Desk Sessions-style, by Kyle Heslop, whose great images from our first event starring Nev Clay NOVYI LEF feature in this post.
July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Each session features two artists playing for thirty minutes each, followed by an onstage Q&A about their songwriting practice. The events will be filmed for YouTube, Tiny Desk Sessions-style, by Kyle Heslop, whose great images from our first event starring Nev Clay NOVYI LEF feature in this post.
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You can buy tickets for a mere £5 on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/songwriter.... See you at the 'Comedy and Music' event, with bells on!
Songwriters in Conversation #3 (The Young Property Developers, Nicky Bray)
Performances by the Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray, followed by a Q&A with the songwriters discussing community and collaboration
www.eventbrite.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You can buy tickets for a mere £5 on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/songwriter.... See you at the 'Comedy and Music' event, with bells on!
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'Afterlives of war' by Michael Roper has won the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 🎉
This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com!
Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess
This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com!
Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess
July 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
'Afterlives of war' by Michael Roper has won the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 🎉
This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com!
Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess
This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com!
Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess
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If you're in the Todmorden area on July 19, I'm doing a talk at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Northern Spiritualism: Talking to the Dead in Manchester and Newcastle! It would be lovely to see you there. More details 👉🏻 www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
July 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
If you're in the Todmorden area on July 19, I'm doing a talk at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Northern Spiritualism: Talking to the Dead in Manchester and Newcastle! It would be lovely to see you there. More details 👉🏻 www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
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New digitised resource!
Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records.
More to be added in the next 12 months!
Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records.
More to be added in the next 12 months!
July 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New digitised resource!
Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records.
More to be added in the next 12 months!
Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records.
More to be added in the next 12 months!
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I’m in awe of my colleague, Izzy, who created this podcast series doing all the planning, researching, writing and interviewing herself. She’s going to do (even more) great things! . open.spotify.com/show/2k1Xn50...
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I’m in awe of my colleague, Izzy, who created this podcast series doing all the planning, researching, writing and interviewing herself. She’s going to do (even more) great things! . open.spotify.com/show/2k1Xn50...