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Dr Helen Glew
@helenglew.bsky.social
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Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.

Current projects: social & cultural history of the marriage bar; history of women typists

She/her

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/

Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · Sep 2
I currently have some capacity for freelance work - in historical/archival research, writing, editing, indexing etc.
I've set up a website to outline my work and to offer an overview of what I can offer. Please do take a look and pass on to anyone who might be interested.

Thank you!

helenglew.com
Helen Glew
Historical Research and Writing
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chanda.blacksky.app
People keep telling me that GenAI is the inevitable future but if that’s true, why does it need so many government subsidies and other assistance ? (rhetorical)
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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caitbeaumont.bsky.social
All set for this evening’s seminar for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social with Dr Katerina Papakonstantinou. Looking forward to hearing her fascinating paper, & thanks to our fab Chair Prof Pat Thane & Term programme organiser @helenglew.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Still time to sign up for our seminar tomorrow, Wed 5th Nov, with Katerina Papakonstantinou, who will be speaking on 'Greek Cypriot Migration to London in the 1960s: Women’s Voices and Experiences'

5.30pm UK time, online and at @ihr.bsky.social.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Greek Cypriot Migration to London in the 1960s: Women’s Voices and Experiences
www.history.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
helenglew.bsky.social
Your once-in-a-while reminder that I have some capacity for freelance work and I am here for all your historical research, indexing, copyediting and photographing documents in archives needs.

Get in touch via my website: helenglew.com
Helen Glew
Historical Research and Writing
helenglew.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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dohertyta.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving the @ihr.bsky.social seminar! Hoping to see @caitbeaumont.bsky.social & @helenglew.bsky.social & others - in person or online

#Archives #Activism #WomensHistory

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections
www.history.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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miriamposner.com
If you feel like it, will you show me how you annotate texts you read for research? I thought our first-year undergrads might be interested to see the variety.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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lkremmel.bsky.social
I'm designing a new course on Victorian Literature and Medicine next semester. I'd love any suggestions for texts to include (books and shorter things). It's a 300-level, so mostly Juniors and Seniors, but some Sophomores. Mostly English-Ed majors. Already got J&H!
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!

Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.

For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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modbritstud.bsky.social
We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies.

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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thenacbs.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800.

www.nacbs.org/news/stansky...

@uchicagopress.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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riakapoor.bsky.social
I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
academic.oup.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections
www.history.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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benmechen.bsky.social
On Weds we welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social to IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar

Katrina will talk abt "Public space + popular protest in 20thC England: enclosure, resistance + commoning"

In-person/hybrid. All welcome, register here!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@ihr.bsky.social
Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning
This session draws from the book, Contested Commons: a History of Protest and Public Space in England
www.history.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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lauriestras.bsky.social
"She's the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's Mrs Mullally to you."
felicityhannah.bsky.social Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Oct 3
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
Here's the full seminar programme for autumn 2025. Seminars are either hybrid or online only so plenty of opportunities for those not local to London to join us.

Please sign up using the links for any papers you'd like to come to.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Contemporary British History
The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.
www.history.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories.

💸 Grants up to £1000.
⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025.

#history #apply #funding #opportunity

socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...
Joint BME Small Grants
The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …
socialhistory.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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benmechen.bsky.social
This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together

This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social

If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!
cont-brit-hist.bsky.social Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · Sep 24
A new academic year is here, and so is our autumn term programme! A thread of our speakers follows.

Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Woo hoo!
I'm also going to be revealing some of the research I've been doing this year on the 1980s, unpublished work in progress, to get feedback from you contemporary historians out there.
cont-brit-hist.bsky.social Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · Sep 24
.@katrinanavickas.bsky.social will be speaking on 8th October at 5.30pm on work arising from her soon-to-be-released book! Join us for “Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning”. This is a hybrid event. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Contested Commons | Reaktion Books
A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...
reaktionbooks.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
A new academic year is here, and so is our autumn term programme! A thread of our speakers follows.

Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social
We're grateful to @ukri.org and @worcesteruni.bsky.social for supporting this conference.

Please share widely and email us [voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk] with any questions!
voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · Sep 24
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.
lizcovart.bsky.social Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · Sep 22
Something I’ve been thinking about:

History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.

Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Any suggestions for how and where to organise a promotional tour for my new book?
Fellow scholars and writers seem to have extensive tour dates - how did you organise it?
a penguin wearing a hat is carrying a stack of books including a book that says " tudgy 101 "
ALT: a penguin wearing a hat is carrying a stack of books including a book that says " tudgy 101 "
media.tenor.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM