Hannah Cusworth
@hannahcusworth.bsky.social
Historian, curator, former teacher, toddler mum.
Such a joy to be back with history teachers today talking about my research and translating it for the classroom. I owe so much to this community.
Fab workshop from @hannahcusworth.bsky.social on teaching the transatlantic slave trade via the story of mahogany. So interesting.
#Soane25
#Soane25
February 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such a joy to be back with history teachers today talking about my research and translating it for the classroom. I owe so much to this community.
February 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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I've had sneak peak at @hughrichards.bsky.social slides and ...
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've had sneak peak at @hughrichards.bsky.social slides and ...
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
...it will be EPIC!
It's also FREE!
4pm Thurs (yes, less than 24 hours away)
You can register 👉 ow.ly/PmAv50UJsER and listen later.
252 have already registered already!
Short 🧵 on why you should join us...
#ChangingHistoriesKS3
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Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.
January 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.
At the Hew Locke exhibition at the British Museum and obsessed with how many of these colonial artefacts were donated by women to the BM: widows, goddaughters, great nieces.
January 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
At the Hew Locke exhibition at the British Museum and obsessed with how many of these colonial artefacts were donated by women to the BM: widows, goddaughters, great nieces.
So in my current job (curatorial fellow- only a 1 year contract) people have taken to emailing me about historical things I generally know about, I go away, do a bit of research, come back with an answer, some sources etc.
I love it.
Is this a job that exists on a permanent basis anywhere?
I love it.
Is this a job that exists on a permanent basis anywhere?
January 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So in my current job (curatorial fellow- only a 1 year contract) people have taken to emailing me about historical things I generally know about, I go away, do a bit of research, come back with an answer, some sources etc.
I love it.
Is this a job that exists on a permanent basis anywhere?
I love it.
Is this a job that exists on a permanent basis anywhere?
Sorry but baby’s first snow was incredibly cute. The pure joy and wonder ✨✨✨✨✨
January 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sorry but baby’s first snow was incredibly cute. The pure joy and wonder ✨✨✨✨✨
The power of curriculum. Changing perceptions of the past through beautiful story telling based on rigorous historical research
Year 7 today, started Mansa Musa and Mali. One genuinely asked “I don’t mean to be racist but I thought black people were slaves back then?”
An hour with the opening story from the #changinghistoriesKS3 enquiry changed his view! Just look at this writing 👀
An hour with the opening story from the #changinghistoriesKS3 enquiry changed his view! Just look at this writing 👀
December 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
The power of curriculum. Changing perceptions of the past through beautiful story telling based on rigorous historical research
Any tips for coming to terms with almost constant illness. I ADORE the toddler but wow, this is hard. Currently enjoying a bout of Norovirus after RSV. Feel like I keep dropping the ball on work stuff and saying “this isn’t like me” but actually maybe it just is now… 🫠
December 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Any tips for coming to terms with almost constant illness. I ADORE the toddler but wow, this is hard. Currently enjoying a bout of Norovirus after RSV. Feel like I keep dropping the ball on work stuff and saying “this isn’t like me” but actually maybe it just is now… 🫠
Looking for recent work on gender and consumption in the long 18th century. Got lots of beautiful work from late 1990s to early 2000s such as Vickery but looking to see where the field is at now and drawing blanks! Pls help 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
December 13, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Looking for recent work on gender and consumption in the long 18th century. Got lots of beautiful work from late 1990s to early 2000s such as Vickery but looking to see where the field is at now and drawing blanks! Pls help 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.
#skystorians
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
#skystorians
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...
uk.bookshop.org
December 8, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.
#skystorians
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
#skystorians
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...
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This was absolutely great last year, and the line-up for 2025 looks amazing!
#Soane25 is live!
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
December 6, 2024 at 3:13 PM
This was absolutely great last year, and the line-up for 2025 looks amazing!
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Bursary for Caribbean-based student presenters now even better thanks to Eccles Institute @britishlibrary.bsky.social:
-conference registration fee,
-return flights to UK
-accommodation & food in Bristol
-travel Bristol to London
-£750 for research at Eccles
see link below & please share widely!
-conference registration fee,
-return flights to UK
-accommodation & food in Bristol
-travel Bristol to London
-£750 for research at Eccles
see link below & please share widely!
CFP: Society for Caribbean Studies annual conference, Bristol, July 2-4, 2025; applications due Jan. 13!
See website for a new bursary for student presenters coming from Caribbean institutions.
community-languages.org.uk/scs/conferen...
See website for a new bursary for student presenters coming from Caribbean institutions.
community-languages.org.uk/scs/conferen...
Call for Papers: 48th Annual Conference 2025 – Society for Caribbean Studies
community-languages.org.uk
December 6, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Bursary for Caribbean-based student presenters now even better thanks to Eccles Institute @britishlibrary.bsky.social:
-conference registration fee,
-return flights to UK
-accommodation & food in Bristol
-travel Bristol to London
-£750 for research at Eccles
see link below & please share widely!
-conference registration fee,
-return flights to UK
-accommodation & food in Bristol
-travel Bristol to London
-£750 for research at Eccles
see link below & please share widely!
Reposted by Hannah Cusworth
This is going to be so exciting. If you like the idea that the pastis an imagined world to your students, come and think/discuss to how other people do it!
Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.
Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.
#Soane25 is live!
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
Come and join us on Saturday 8th
February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers.
Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!)
Don’t miss it!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...
December 6, 2024 at 6:03 PM
This is going to be so exciting. If you like the idea that the pastis an imagined world to your students, come and think/discuss to how other people do it!
Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.
Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.
Guys, do we know what Speedie Didi’s position on the genocide in Gaza?
December 6, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Guys, do we know what Speedie Didi’s position on the genocide in Gaza?
Doing some reinterpretation related to a portrait of Emma Hamilton and I get that she was once a maid but that’s very much not what I would have led with?
Anyway, if anyone has any tips on how to fit her wild life into circa 150 words, I’d really appreciate it 🤪
Anyway, if anyone has any tips on how to fit her wild life into circa 150 words, I’d really appreciate it 🤪
December 3, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Doing some reinterpretation related to a portrait of Emma Hamilton and I get that she was once a maid but that’s very much not what I would have led with?
Anyway, if anyone has any tips on how to fit her wild life into circa 150 words, I’d really appreciate it 🤪
Anyway, if anyone has any tips on how to fit her wild life into circa 150 words, I’d really appreciate it 🤪
I’m in a book!
(More accurately) a version of the article I wrote on the ethics of writing about the emotions of the enslaved has been published. Thanks again to @bethrwilson.bsky.social & Emily West for inviting me to publish & their editorial support
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(More accurately) a version of the article I wrote on the ethics of writing about the emotions of the enslaved has been published. Thanks again to @bethrwilson.bsky.social & Emily West for inviting me to publish & their editorial support
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 2, 2024 at 6:18 PM
I’m in a book!
(More accurately) a version of the article I wrote on the ethics of writing about the emotions of the enslaved has been published. Thanks again to @bethrwilson.bsky.social & Emily West for inviting me to publish & their editorial support
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(More accurately) a version of the article I wrote on the ethics of writing about the emotions of the enslaved has been published. Thanks again to @bethrwilson.bsky.social & Emily West for inviting me to publish & their editorial support
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Started my new job today as a curatorial fellow at Queens House in Greenwich. Here it is on a much sunnier day ☀️
November 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Started my new job today as a curatorial fellow at Queens House in Greenwich. Here it is on a much sunnier day ☀️
Being a toddler parent is hilarious to me because one minute you are trying to have original thoughts about the link between Victorian photographers, the legends of Arthur & the empire. The next you’re ordering Sing & Signs ‘Jessie Cat needs the potty’ lift the flap book for Christmas presents 🤪
November 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Being a toddler parent is hilarious to me because one minute you are trying to have original thoughts about the link between Victorian photographers, the legends of Arthur & the empire. The next you’re ordering Sing & Signs ‘Jessie Cat needs the potty’ lift the flap book for Christmas presents 🤪
What a way to start the week.
Final day of writing briefing notes for the next You’re Dead to Me episode I’m working on.
Final day of writing briefing notes for the next You’re Dead to Me episode I’m working on.
November 18, 2024 at 9:32 AM
What a way to start the week.
Final day of writing briefing notes for the next You’re Dead to Me episode I’m working on.
Final day of writing briefing notes for the next You’re Dead to Me episode I’m working on.
Went to Belgium, ate lots of good food. Avoided buying my husband a Zwarte Pete chocolate (mostly because didn’t want the woman behind the counter to think I endorsed it) so bought him a white chocolate that looks like an archbishop that is apparently sinterklaas. All in all, good times.
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Went to Belgium, ate lots of good food. Avoided buying my husband a Zwarte Pete chocolate (mostly because didn’t want the woman behind the counter to think I endorsed it) so bought him a white chocolate that looks like an archbishop that is apparently sinterklaas. All in all, good times.
Also, hello history teachers 👋🏾 thanks for following, it’s make me thinking maybe I should post some sort of history content soon 😂
August 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Also, hello history teachers 👋🏾 thanks for following, it’s make me thinking maybe I should post some sort of history content soon 😂
Honestly makes me so happy that I get to do this sort of thing at the weekend now
August 26, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Honestly makes me so happy that I get to do this sort of thing at the weekend now
Today I’m working on a cool project & reminding myself all about the bits of Atlantic history that we often leave out of the usual narrative we tell in Britain.
Very grateful for this great article by Issac Samuel: newlinesmag.com/writers/isaa...
Very grateful for this great article by Issac Samuel: newlinesmag.com/writers/isaa...
January 18, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Today I’m working on a cool project & reminding myself all about the bits of Atlantic history that we often leave out of the usual narrative we tell in Britain.
Very grateful for this great article by Issac Samuel: newlinesmag.com/writers/isaa...
Very grateful for this great article by Issac Samuel: newlinesmag.com/writers/isaa...
Thought I might start up this account properly now I’m back to work. Last week, I started as the new Interpretation Manager at Chelsea Physic Garden. It’s been very cold but stunning in the winter sunshine and nice & warm in the glasshouses.
January 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Thought I might start up this account properly now I’m back to work. Last week, I started as the new Interpretation Manager at Chelsea Physic Garden. It’s been very cold but stunning in the winter sunshine and nice & warm in the glasshouses.