Holly Hiscox
@hollyhiscox.bsky.social
PhD researcher | Schools of Empire - Rugby School | OOCDTP | 19th/20th century public schools, elite formation, the City of London and imperial finance | former history teacher
Preparing eyes and brain for another day of reading nineteenth century handwriting
May 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Preparing eyes and brain for another day of reading nineteenth century handwriting
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We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
April 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history.
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8
Totally horrifying
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Totally horrifying
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“And yet, the demand to empathise with the boys and men propagating this hatred must surely be exceeded by a justified anger on behalf of the girls and women who are the actual subjects of said hatred. If anything, it is obscene that we women are not more furious and more frightened.”
The Andrew Tate problem
His coarse misogyny is often described as appealing to working-class boys and young men. Is this really the issue?
www.newstatesman.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“And yet, the demand to empathise with the boys and men propagating this hatred must surely be exceeded by a justified anger on behalf of the girls and women who are the actual subjects of said hatred. If anything, it is obscene that we women are not more furious and more frightened.”
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Our PGR Hub has an update!
- NEW Call for Papers site (see #cfp in #histed in one place)
- Updated funding opportunities!
- Updated free resources and open access texts
- Updated PGR Perks available!
GO HERE: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
Please share this with PGR students! (1)
#edusky
- NEW Call for Papers site (see #cfp in #histed in one place)
- Updated funding opportunities!
- Updated free resources and open access texts
- Updated PGR Perks available!
GO HERE: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
Please share this with PGR students! (1)
#edusky
Postgraduate Research Student Hub - History of Education Society
historyofeducation.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our PGR Hub has an update!
- NEW Call for Papers site (see #cfp in #histed in one place)
- Updated funding opportunities!
- Updated free resources and open access texts
- Updated PGR Perks available!
GO HERE: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
Please share this with PGR students! (1)
#edusky
- NEW Call for Papers site (see #cfp in #histed in one place)
- Updated funding opportunities!
- Updated free resources and open access texts
- Updated PGR Perks available!
GO HERE: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
Please share this with PGR students! (1)
#edusky
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Call for papers for a colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development, and the Human Sciences'. The deadline for proposed papers is 7 March 2025 and the colloquium will be on 23 June 2025, organised by the University of Oxford's Centre for the History of Childhood.
February 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Call for papers for a colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development, and the Human Sciences'. The deadline for proposed papers is 7 March 2025 and the colloquium will be on 23 June 2025, organised by the University of Oxford's Centre for the History of Childhood.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the universities of the nations and regions mostly have to die while core cities get choked and inefficient. What a great plan.
Ucas data confirm selective university recruitment surge.
Ucas end-of-cycle data show recruitment by high tariff institutions up by a third since 2015.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ucas end-of-cycle data show recruitment by high tariff institutions up by a third since 2015.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
January 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the universities of the nations and regions mostly have to die while core cities get choked and inefficient. What a great plan.
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History teachers! The part-time MSc in Learning and Teaching at the University of Oxford offers history-specific strands. Applications are now open for 2025. Scholarships available; apply before March to be eligible. Find out more at bit.ly/OxfordMLT or let me know if you have any questions.
January 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
History teachers! The part-time MSc in Learning and Teaching at the University of Oxford offers history-specific strands. Applications are now open for 2025. Scholarships available; apply before March to be eligible. Find out more at bit.ly/OxfordMLT or let me know if you have any questions.
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This FREE PGR History of Education Seminar happens this Wednesday at 5-6pm GMT online!
Please sign up below and support PhD students in this field. You'll get the link once you sign-up!
#histed #history #education #research #pgr #edusky
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Please sign up below and support PhD students in this field. You'll get the link once you sign-up!
#histed #history #education #research #pgr #edusky
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Our next PGR History of Education Seminar takes place next Wednesday at 5-6pm (GMT) online!
Shu Wan on ‘Transmission and Translation: The Deaf-mute Primer (《启哑初阶》) and the Introduction of Deaf Education into Late Qing China’.
Register/get link here: forms.office.com/e/QEDYKFAgfj
#histed #edusky
Shu Wan on ‘Transmission and Translation: The Deaf-mute Primer (《启哑初阶》) and the Introduction of Deaf Education into Late Qing China’.
Register/get link here: forms.office.com/e/QEDYKFAgfj
#histed #edusky
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Very happy to be back in the land of my fathers
December 23, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Very happy to be back in the land of my fathers
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Here's the first of our tasters for the micro-keynotes at our SHP Understanding event with @teachmedwomen.bsky.social on Sat Jan 18th @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This one is from Dr Natasha Hodgson. Email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to get your free ticket (with entry to the exhibition!)
December 16, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Here's the first of our tasters for the micro-keynotes at our SHP Understanding event with @teachmedwomen.bsky.social on Sat Jan 18th @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This one is from Dr Natasha Hodgson. Email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to get your free ticket (with entry to the exhibition!)
Penultimate library day of 2024. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in the Christmas spirit!
December 19, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Penultimate library day of 2024. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in the Christmas spirit!
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Very exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to work on the history of the Salvation Army's HIV/AIDS work. I think this will open up fascinating new avenues for our understandings of religious HIV/AIDS work and activism in the UK. Full details here. northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/...
northernbridge.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Very exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to work on the history of the Salvation Army's HIV/AIDS work. I think this will open up fascinating new avenues for our understandings of religious HIV/AIDS work and activism in the UK. Full details here. northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/...
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Good morning!
We wanted to promote our wonderful PGR Hub for all PhD students on BlueSky.
It contains accessible information to a range of #histed events, external conferences, open access resources, and much more!
See here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
#phd #pgr #histed #history #education
We wanted to promote our wonderful PGR Hub for all PhD students on BlueSky.
It contains accessible information to a range of #histed events, external conferences, open access resources, and much more!
See here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
#phd #pgr #histed #history #education
Postgraduate Research Student Hub - History of Education Society
historyofeducation.org.uk
December 10, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Good morning!
We wanted to promote our wonderful PGR Hub for all PhD students on BlueSky.
It contains accessible information to a range of #histed events, external conferences, open access resources, and much more!
See here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
#phd #pgr #histed #history #education
We wanted to promote our wonderful PGR Hub for all PhD students on BlueSky.
It contains accessible information to a range of #histed events, external conferences, open access resources, and much more!
See here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/
#phd #pgr #histed #history #education
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Look upon this list of what’s currently happening to British universities- and weep
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 26, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Look upon this list of what’s currently happening to British universities- and weep
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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This is an *amazing* story, excellently researched and well-writen. Do read!
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 8:38 AM
This is an *amazing* story, excellently researched and well-writen. Do read!
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It’s time, friends! We welcome submissions for #batw2025 in Liverpool, UK. Join us at John Moores University 25-27 June 2025 for another great conference!
We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.
britainandtheworld.org/2025
We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.
britainandtheworld.org/2025
2025 Conference - Liverpool John Moores University — Britain and the World
britainandtheworld.org
November 12, 2024 at 12:13 AM
It’s time, friends! We welcome submissions for #batw2025 in Liverpool, UK. Join us at John Moores University 25-27 June 2025 for another great conference!
We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.
britainandtheworld.org/2025
We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info.
britainandtheworld.org/2025
New 'Schools of Empire' blogpost from me - a slightly unusual case study: 👇
www.schoolsofempireproject.org/networks-of-...
www.schoolsofempireproject.org/networks-of-...
Networks of Imperial Finance — Schools of Empire
www.schoolsofempireproject.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:51 PM
New 'Schools of Empire' blogpost from me - a slightly unusual case study: 👇
www.schoolsofempireproject.org/networks-of-...
www.schoolsofempireproject.org/networks-of-...
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Really excited by this new part of the #CurriculumPATHS project. We are collaborating with various bodies to share sources and interpretations to inspire #historyteacher s in their planning for school. Our first set is a collab with the BL looking at Britain and India 1600-1947. Please share!
Welcome to PATHfinders from SHP #CurriculumPATHS. PATHfinders is all about collaborating with museums, libraries and galleries to share fascinating sources and historical interpretations to inspire #historyteacher planning. /1
curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/11/19/p...
curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2024/11/19/p...
PATHfinders: Refresh your teaching on Britain and India 1600-1947 with these fantastic sources from the British Library - SHP Curriculum PATHS Blog
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be many PATHfinders updates. We know there is so much creativity in the history teaching world, but it is not always easy to have the time to search for sourc...
curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Really excited by this new part of the #CurriculumPATHS project. We are collaborating with various bodies to share sources and interpretations to inspire #historyteacher s in their planning for school. Our first set is a collab with the BL looking at Britain and India 1600-1947. Please share!
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For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 AM
For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.
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If you're contributing to your subject association, learned society or other organisation's response to the DfE Curriculum Review (deadline 22 November), you may find the @histassoc.bsky.social 's excellent summary response useful. Kudos too to the HA for referencing the environmental impact of AI.
The Historical Association's response to Curriculum Review 2024
www.history.org.uk
November 16, 2024 at 11:56 AM
If you're contributing to your subject association, learned society or other organisation's response to the DfE Curriculum Review (deadline 22 November), you may find the @histassoc.bsky.social 's excellent summary response useful. Kudos too to the HA for referencing the environmental impact of AI.
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Wonderful to hear James Marriott, on #R4Today, defend the humanities on human, not just economic principles.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
November 15, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Wonderful to hear James Marriott, on #R4Today, defend the humanities on human, not just economic principles.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself.
It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.
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Can you help me share some great news?
The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended!
We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role.
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The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended!
We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role.
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November 13, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Can you help me share some great news?
The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended!
We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role.
1/
The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended!
We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role.
1/
Amazing to spy some familiar names (carved on their old school desks) when I got the chance to visit the Upper Bench on my trip to Rugby School today
November 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Amazing to spy some familiar names (carved on their old school desks) when I got the chance to visit the Upper Bench on my trip to Rugby School today