Helen Antrobus
@helenantro.bsky.social
📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once).
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
Pinned
Helen Antrobus
@helenantro.bsky.social
· Jan 26
Fashion highlights in our collections
Learn about the history of the fashion treasures in the collection of the National Trust.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
My book, 100 Things to Wear: Fashion From the Collections of the National Trust (co-authored with the incredible Emma Slocombe) is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I'll be buying all my copies from my local @nationaltrust.bsky.social shop, but this is really hugely exciting to see!
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
You can still REGISTER to join me @womenshistnet.bsky.social Conference 📢
Thurs 4 & Fri 5 Sep 2025
This year 'tis FREE 💰 & online 🖥️
Looking forward to @helenantro.bsky.social @satisfactory20.bsky.social among many others!
A #WomensHistory feast of papers
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
Thurs 4 & Fri 5 Sep 2025
This year 'tis FREE 💰 & online 🖥️
Looking forward to @helenantro.bsky.social @satisfactory20.bsky.social among many others!
A #WomensHistory feast of papers
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
The Women’s History Network Annual Conference
Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Reg…
womenshistorynetwork.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
You can still REGISTER to join me @womenshistnet.bsky.social Conference 📢
Thurs 4 & Fri 5 Sep 2025
This year 'tis FREE 💰 & online 🖥️
Looking forward to @helenantro.bsky.social @satisfactory20.bsky.social among many others!
A #WomensHistory feast of papers
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
Thurs 4 & Fri 5 Sep 2025
This year 'tis FREE 💰 & online 🖥️
Looking forward to @helenantro.bsky.social @satisfactory20.bsky.social among many others!
A #WomensHistory feast of papers
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
You know what the best part of my job is? Being in museums before they open
June 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
You know what the best part of my job is? Being in museums before they open
Intruiged by a graveyard of ships, local hauntings and some marine archaeology? Listen to the latest episode of #BackWhen, the @nationaltrust.org.uk history podcast! www.instagram.com/reel/DKOvBrJ...
Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Intruiged by a graveyard of ships, local hauntings and some marine archaeology? Listen to the latest episode of #BackWhen, the @nationaltrust.org.uk history podcast! www.instagram.com/reel/DKOvBrJ...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
This week in 1584 Manchester Court Leet banned single women of the town from carrying out their own trades including selling ale or bread, as these activities were ‘to the great hurt of the poor inhabitants having wives and children’. The punishment was a fine or imprisonment.
May 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This week in 1584 Manchester Court Leet banned single women of the town from carrying out their own trades including selling ale or bread, as these activities were ‘to the great hurt of the poor inhabitants having wives and children’. The punishment was a fine or imprisonment.
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
Camogie sportswear has evolved dramatically, reflecting broader changes in women's sportswear and celebrating strides towards equality and functionality.
NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
May 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Camogie sportswear has evolved dramatically, reflecting broader changes in women's sportswear and celebrating strides towards equality and functionality.
NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
If you're a #scifi fan, this is the Back When episode for you - exploring the history of #HGWells and his family ties to Uppark House. How did the twists and turns of this country house inspire his writings? Tune in!! open.spotify.com/episode/75cs...
H.G. Wells | The Father of Science Fiction
Back When | History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If you're a #scifi fan, this is the Back When episode for you - exploring the history of #HGWells and his family ties to Uppark House. How did the twists and turns of this country house inspire his writings? Tune in!! open.spotify.com/episode/75cs...
Can't wait to read, congratulations @corinnefowler.bsky.social!
My paperback out 1 May. Heartfelt & compassionate walks through rural Britain and its hidden history of empire.
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Can't wait to read, congratulations @corinnefowler.bsky.social!
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
Join historians @helenantro.bsky.social and James Grasby as they unveil the stories behind history's remarkable people, places, and events. From the Great Stink of London to Britain's space race, explore the tales that shaped our past and define our present. From @nationaltrust.bsky.social.
April 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join historians @helenantro.bsky.social and James Grasby as they unveil the stories behind history's remarkable people, places, and events. From the Great Stink of London to Britain's space race, explore the tales that shaped our past and define our present. From @nationaltrust.bsky.social.
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Black Arrow Rocket | When Britain joined the Space Race
Back When | History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Black Arrow Rocket | When Britain joined the Space Race
Back When | History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
We are delighted to be a part of the #GeneralStrike 100 anniversary national partnership with other museums, libraries, archives and groups.
Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
#GeneralStrike100
Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
#GeneralStrike100
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We are delighted to be a part of the #GeneralStrike 100 anniversary national partnership with other museums, libraries, archives and groups.
Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
#GeneralStrike100
Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
#GeneralStrike100
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
🎉 80 YEARS OF LOSE HILL
The industrial working classes of Sheffield & Manchester were imperative to the early aquisitions of the National Trust, and GHB Ward - rambler, activist & steelworkers - embodies that story. Follow his journey to Lose Hill:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
The industrial working classes of Sheffield & Manchester were imperative to the early aquisitions of the National Trust, and GHB Ward - rambler, activist & steelworkers - embodies that story. Follow his journey to Lose Hill:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
Lose Hill 80th Anniversary Walk from Hope | National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎉 80 YEARS OF LOSE HILL
The industrial working classes of Sheffield & Manchester were imperative to the early aquisitions of the National Trust, and GHB Ward - rambler, activist & steelworkers - embodies that story. Follow his journey to Lose Hill:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
The industrial working classes of Sheffield & Manchester were imperative to the early aquisitions of the National Trust, and GHB Ward - rambler, activist & steelworkers - embodies that story. Follow his journey to Lose Hill:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
#DYK that years before some women were given the franchise in 1918, one woman, Lily Maxwell, actually voted in an election?
Find out how in this article, originally posted on the @victoriancommons.bsky.social website:
#WHM
historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
Find out how in this article, originally posted on the @victoriancommons.bsky.social website:
#WHM
historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix
historyofparliament.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
#DYK that years before some women were given the franchise in 1918, one woman, Lily Maxwell, actually voted in an election?
Find out how in this article, originally posted on the @victoriancommons.bsky.social website:
#WHM
historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
Find out how in this article, originally posted on the @victoriancommons.bsky.social website:
#WHM
historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
Last week, People's History Museum invited me to give a tour, selecting my favourite objects on display.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
March 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Last week, People's History Museum invited me to give a tour, selecting my favourite objects on display.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
It's #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
March 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
Happy publication day @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social!
Kerri's books have inspired so much of my own work, and I cannot wait to read her stunning memoir.
Kerri's books have inspired so much of my own work, and I cannot wait to read her stunning memoir.
Happy publication day to @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social - her brave and beautiful memoir #Pathfinding is out today!
'Press this book into the hands of any mother and she will see herself on these pages, walker or not.’ @lovereadinguk.bsky.social
#memoir #walking #motherhood #mother #NonFiction
'Press this book into the hands of any mother and she will see herself on these pages, walker or not.’ @lovereadinguk.bsky.social
#memoir #walking #motherhood #mother #NonFiction
March 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Happy publication day @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social!
Kerri's books have inspired so much of my own work, and I cannot wait to read her stunning memoir.
Kerri's books have inspired so much of my own work, and I cannot wait to read her stunning memoir.
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Back When | History Podcast
History Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Biweekly
podcasts.apple.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Back When | History Podcast
History Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Biweekly
podcasts.apple.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
1/3
www.thenational.scot/news/1914541...
1/3
www.thenational.scot/news/1914541...
Celebrating one of our greatest Gaelic poets: Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
LAST week I said I would be writing about the early years of the Union after 1707 and telling the untold story – never mentioned by the Unionists…
www.thenational.scot
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
1/3
www.thenational.scot/news/1914541...
1/3
www.thenational.scot/news/1914541...
Reposted by Helen Antrobus
Maternity pay in the UK is an absolute shambles, with statutory maternity pay at around 45% of minimum wage and 3months with no entitlement even to that:
seemingly unpopular opinion given that it’s never been seriously addressed by a government in my lifetime: if you’re on the unpaid portion of maternity leave you should be able to claim universal credit
March 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Maternity pay in the UK is an absolute shambles, with statutory maternity pay at around 45% of minimum wage and 3months with no entitlement even to that:
seemingly unpopular opinion given that it’s never been seriously addressed by a government in my lifetime: if you’re on the unpaid portion of maternity leave you should be able to claim universal credit
March 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Bridestones Moor on a hazy Sunday morning.
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Bridestones Moor on a hazy Sunday morning.