Claire Marie ☠️
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of Modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Pinned
My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
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Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
📢Call for papers📢 for this year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium on Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood on 22 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by midday on Friday 13 March. We look forward to hearing from you! More details here: www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-histo...
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out.
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Three short paragraphs, and you've got the whole mind-bending mess that is #UKHE finance & governance neatly laid out.
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
This is why it's all so exhausting: our managers declare there's only one static frame, while we know their framing is part of the issue.
💡 www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
January 6, 2026 at 10:06 PM
My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
January 6, 2026 at 10:06 PM
My module 'The Weaker Vessel? The role of women in seventeenth century Britain' starts next week and is available to book! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
Hogmanay ready 🎊
December 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Hogmanay ready 🎊
Bertie loves* his Christmas present from my nephew's dog
*he hates it but has to pose for stupid photos.
*he hates it but has to pose for stupid photos.
December 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Bertie loves* his Christmas present from my nephew's dog
*he hates it but has to pose for stupid photos.
*he hates it but has to pose for stupid photos.
Job rejections the day before Christmas Eve suck.
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Job rejections the day before Christmas Eve suck.
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"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are getting lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely fucking ready.
December 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are getting lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely fucking ready.
Looking forward to speaking at this conference on the 'non-mothers' of the London Foundling Hospital.
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Looking forward to speaking at this conference on the 'non-mothers' of the London Foundling Hospital.
Most of the time, Bertie is a little shit. But today, when life is falling apart, he decides he needs baby cuddles 💜
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of the time, Bertie is a little shit. But today, when life is falling apart, he decides he needs baby cuddles 💜
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Deadline to submit an abstract to the always fabulous @histchild.bsky.social conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026, coming up on 14th December!* #histchild #histyouth #skystorians
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
*this is also a reminder to myself
www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
My next module with Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning is now available to book! The Weaker Vessel examines the lives of women in seventeenth-century Britain
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
The Weaker Vessel? The role of Women in 17th Century Britain (XE19810) : Lifelong Learning , Aberystwyth University
www.aber.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My next module with Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning is now available to book! The Weaker Vessel examines the lives of women in seventeenth-century Britain
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?!
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Ever get the feeling you're being watched?!
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
May 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.
Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild
May 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild
When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.
Reposted by Claire Marie ☠️
Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025
Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips
In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute…
womenshistorynetwork.org
March 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025
I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world
November 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I had to buy my own copy, but happy to see this out in the world