Elena Mary
@elenamary.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
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Elena Mary
@elenamary.bsky.social
· Apr 14
📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳
Really interested to read this this morning on govt announcement of new law banning depictions of non-fatal strangulation ('choking' in pornography). As the article suggests, the key will be enforcement www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'Choking' in porn has become the new normal. Here’s why a new UK law banning it is so vital | Clare McGlynn
Strangulation during sex damages young women’s brain health and breeds deep gender inequality. But the real test will be its enforcement, says Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Really interested to read this this morning on govt announcement of new law banning depictions of non-fatal strangulation ('choking' in pornography). As the article suggests, the key will be enforcement www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Why does writing a first draft always feel like one of those nightmares where you have an exam you havent prepared for??? Like, I'm back at school and I have to do my GCSE physics exam but I dont have my calculator and I havent revised and also I'm 31 and I'm pretty sure I've done this all before...
July 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Why does writing a first draft always feel like one of those nightmares where you have an exam you havent prepared for??? Like, I'm back at school and I have to do my GCSE physics exam but I dont have my calculator and I havent revised and also I'm 31 and I'm pretty sure I've done this all before...
If I just read one more thing, then I'll start actually writing my draft, definitely, but I just need to read this one thing which will probably solve everything and be the crucial piece of the jigsaw I've been missing... right? 🗃️
July 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If I just read one more thing, then I'll start actually writing my draft, definitely, but I just need to read this one thing which will probably solve everything and be the crucial piece of the jigsaw I've been missing... right? 🗃️
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This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...
The Rise and Fall of the Gifted Child - Digital Childhoods
This spring, Jennifer Crane published her new book ‘Gifted Children’ in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 with Oxford University Press (open access). It expands upon the article “...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This week on the blog, check out this fun interview with Jennifer Crane (@jennycrane.bsky.social) all about her fascinating new book on the rise, fall, and legacy of gifted children in the UK and the world: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/the-rise...
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Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher
May 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thinking of every academic who has had to apply for grants to cover the cost of requesting and licensing images for their books with zero assistance from a publisher
Looking forward to listening to this on my train journey tomorrow!
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the super beautiful and brainy @drrochellerowe.bsky.social about Victorian beauty standards.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
May 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looking forward to listening to this on my train journey tomorrow!
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Your thought for the day is that magnolias existed 95 million years ago, which means that dinosaurs were around to enjoy them. Bees hadn’t evolved yet, so they were pollinated by ancient beetles!
Next time you see a magnolia tree, think of your dinosaur cousins. ☺️ #science
Next time you see a magnolia tree, think of your dinosaur cousins. ☺️ #science
April 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Your thought for the day is that magnolias existed 95 million years ago, which means that dinosaurs were around to enjoy them. Bees hadn’t evolved yet, so they were pollinated by ancient beetles!
Next time you see a magnolia tree, think of your dinosaur cousins. ☺️ #science
Next time you see a magnolia tree, think of your dinosaur cousins. ☺️ #science
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Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.
12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
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'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37
The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social
#skystorians
The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social
#skystorians
April 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
'Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society': bit.ly/4cRjK37
The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social
#skystorians
The Society's President, Lucy Noakes, writes today on the profession and discipline @historywo.bsky.social
#skystorians
📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳
April 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢 An update - now the dust has settled I'm really thrilled to share that I finally submitted my thesis on the cultural history of the female neck in modern Britain earlier this year and passed my viva just over a week ago!! 🗃️🎉🥳
On my moodboard today is Rossetti’s sumptuous ‘Lady Lilith’. Just look at that neck! The abundance of flowers in this painting always makes me think of spring - not to mention the sudden urge to grow my hair! 🌷🪞✨🗃️
April 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
On my moodboard today is Rossetti’s sumptuous ‘Lady Lilith’. Just look at that neck! The abundance of flowers in this painting always makes me think of spring - not to mention the sudden urge to grow my hair! 🌷🪞✨🗃️
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Govt AI creators & copyright consultation closes midnight today.
I used the ALCS guide to complete, answering in my own words, and it took me about 30 minutes, as opposed to the several hours it would have done otherwise.
I used the ALCS guide to complete, answering in my own words, and it took me about 30 minutes, as opposed to the several hours it would have done otherwise.
DACS also got you covered:
www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/...
ALCS here to help too:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/...
ALCS here to help too:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Copyright and A.I. consultation: how to respond - DACS
DACS has produced a guide to completing the UK Government's consultation on Copyright and artificial intelligence, to help you respond and express your views on the Government's proposals.
www.dacs.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Govt AI creators & copyright consultation closes midnight today.
I used the ALCS guide to complete, answering in my own words, and it took me about 30 minutes, as opposed to the several hours it would have done otherwise.
I used the ALCS guide to complete, answering in my own words, and it took me about 30 minutes, as opposed to the several hours it would have done otherwise.
So exciting to see this in print!! 🗃️
📣The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is here!
Featuring shrines, social mobility, galleries, 'odious work', child welfare work and popular culture from the 16th to the 20th centuries...📜✨
👉Read online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
🗃️ 16thc 17thc 18thc 19thc 20thc
Featuring shrines, social mobility, galleries, 'odious work', child welfare work and popular culture from the 16th to the 20th centuries...📜✨
👉Read online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...
🗃️ 16thc 17thc 18thc 19thc 20thc
February 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So exciting to see this in print!! 🗃️
Something that always surprises me all over again about writing is how much bravery is required. Sending good vibes and solidarity to anyone else trying to write the conclusion to a piece of work that has taken many years to come together. Courage calls to courage everywhere! Your work matters! 🗃️
December 6, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Something that always surprises me all over again about writing is how much bravery is required. Sending good vibes and solidarity to anyone else trying to write the conclusion to a piece of work that has taken many years to come together. Courage calls to courage everywhere! Your work matters! 🗃️
Is it normal when you get really close to your phd submission deadline to slow down to a crawl?To take hours to do each edit/paragraph? I only hear stories of miraculous feats and speeding up..! 🐢 🫠 🗃️
December 2, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Is it normal when you get really close to your phd submission deadline to slow down to a crawl?To take hours to do each edit/paragraph? I only hear stories of miraculous feats and speeding up..! 🐢 🫠 🗃️
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Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
How the British Library cyberattack disrupted research
Academics who rely on the British Library’s unmatched collection are still feeling the impact of a devastating cyberattack a year ago. Jack Grove hears from those affected and considers how another ca...
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social
Killing my darlings: closing my emotional support “to read” ebook/pdf tabs 🗃️
November 19, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Killing my darlings: closing my emotional support “to read” ebook/pdf tabs 🗃️
Another productive day of reading underway (downloading pdfs, scanning the footnotes, highlighting articles to download as pdfs, organising the pdfs into categorised folders) 🗃️
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Another productive day of reading underway (downloading pdfs, scanning the footnotes, highlighting articles to download as pdfs, organising the pdfs into categorised folders) 🗃️
Historians of gender and the body: now is the time to tell me about your/your colleagues recent publications so I can include them in my literature review! All suggestions vvv welcome, especially interested in work on specific body parts/visual culture or unusual periodisations 🗃️
November 13, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Historians of gender and the body: now is the time to tell me about your/your colleagues recent publications so I can include them in my literature review! All suggestions vvv welcome, especially interested in work on specific body parts/visual culture or unusual periodisations 🗃️
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With this lovely influx of new followers I guess its a good time to share my first ever article on gender, sexual violence and popular culture in modern Britain! doi.org/10.1080/1478...
November 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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With this lovely influx of new followers I guess its a good time to share my first ever article on gender, sexual violence and popular culture in modern Britain! doi.org/10.1080/1478...
November 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
With this lovely influx of new followers I guess its a good time to share my first ever article on gender, sexual violence and popular culture in modern Britain! doi.org/10.1080/1478...
Spending some time looking at jewellery today and once again in raptures over this pearl and diamond Van Cleef & Arpels necklace given to Grace Kelly as a wedding gift by her husband in 1956. 🗃️
October 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Spending some time looking at jewellery today and once again in raptures over this pearl and diamond Van Cleef & Arpels necklace given to Grace Kelly as a wedding gift by her husband in 1956. 🗃️
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For #DigitalFriday I’d like to gather a list of royalty/fee-free image catalogues and databases - ideally thing that *can* be used commercially too - to counter the “but I have to use AI” argument. Any suggestions?
It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs), tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky (pls boost to any relevant feeds)
October 11, 2024 at 10:03 AM
For #DigitalFriday I’d like to gather a list of royalty/fee-free image catalogues and databases - ideally thing that *can* be used commercially too - to counter the “but I have to use AI” argument. Any suggestions?
Brilliant day editing my chapter (moving paragraphs around before putting them back in the same place they originally were, deleting paragraphs then reinserting them, spending hours crafting 1 footnote) 🗃️
September 6, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Brilliant day editing my chapter (moving paragraphs around before putting them back in the same place they originally were, deleting paragraphs then reinserting them, spending hours crafting 1 footnote) 🗃️