Alison Twells
@alisontwells.bsky.social
History, 'creative history', life writing: www.alisontwells.com
OUT NOW! A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0461
OUT NOW! A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0461
Pinned
Please forgive the self-promotion, but this book has been many years in the making and is published today by OpenBook Publishers: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
Please forgive the self-promotion, but this book has been many years in the making and is published today by OpenBook Publishers: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Please forgive the self-promotion, but this book has been many years in the making and is published today by OpenBook Publishers: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
the diaries of a working-class girl
sexual grooming in WW2
Using family history & lifewriting to explore history from below
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Reposted by Alison Twells
For World Habitat Day read ‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. womenshistorynetwork.org/a-womans-par...
‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter.
In our latest blog Isabelle Carter reflects on gender, housing and everyday life at Sheffield’s (in) famous Park Hill. Built in 1957 and still standing today, Park Hill remains one of Sheffie…
womenshistorynetwork.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
For World Habitat Day read ‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. womenshistorynetwork.org/a-womans-par...
I teach this every year on my 'northern history' module. My students often struggle with poetry, but once we've read it a few times, and watched him reading, they get it and enjoy. The first writing I ever read on being 'educated out of your class.' RIP, genius man.
September 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I teach this every year on my 'northern history' module. My students often struggle with poetry, but once we've read it a few times, and watched him reading, they get it and enjoy. The first writing I ever read on being 'educated out of your class.' RIP, genius man.
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🚨 New on Substack, my post on Sheffield's interwar council housing. The council built 28,000 council homes between the wars and was the first major city, in 1926, to come under Labour control:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/sheffields...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/sheffields...
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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'With a relatively fixed pool of applicants and a relatively fixed distribution of A-level points, if “top” universities are expanding their intake, they’re inevitably either reducing the attainment of those they admit, or redistributing market share at smaller institutions’ expense, or both.' 1/3
All must have prizes (except Iain Dale)
I don’t intend to get excessively pearl-clutchy over the language, but LBC’s Iain Dale calling Portsmouth VC Graham Galbraith a “twat” wasn’t on my bingo card for today.
wonkhe.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
'With a relatively fixed pool of applicants and a relatively fixed distribution of A-level points, if “top” universities are expanding their intake, they’re inevitably either reducing the attainment of those they admit, or redistributing market share at smaller institutions’ expense, or both.' 1/3
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Please forgive the shameless self-publicity, but a collection of essays on transnational working-class literature which I helped to co-edit (and also contributed to) has been published today! See the link below for details & ask your library to order a copy!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Transnational Working-Class Literatures
This book addresses an urgent need for a study which brings together the national, transnational and international dimensions of working-class literatures.
link.springer.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Please forgive the shameless self-publicity, but a collection of essays on transnational working-class literature which I helped to co-edit (and also contributed to) has been published today! See the link below for details & ask your library to order a copy!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...