Jacinta Mallon
@jacintamallon.bsky.social
🏡 historian, generally thinking about home/emotion/war
⚓ currently doing archaeological archives for HMS Victory/NMRN
🎓 PhD from UKC, also previously IHR
⚓ currently doing archaeological archives for HMS Victory/NMRN
🎓 PhD from UKC, also previously IHR
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Jacinta Mallon
@jacintamallon.bsky.social
· Mar 26
Domestic Dislocations: Home-loss and the Second World War in Urban Britain - Kent Academic Repository
kar.kent.ac.uk
For folks who'd like to read the thesis, you can find it available open access here: kar.kent.ac.uk/109402/
Would love to hear more thoughts on it as I start to think about publishing plans, so if you read it and like it (or don't!) then do drop me a line! 🥳
Would love to hear more thoughts on it as I start to think about publishing plans, so if you read it and like it (or don't!) then do drop me a line! 🥳
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Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)
'Just 40,900 students entered to take history, compared with 41,900 taking economics and 43,000 for physics. Maths remains the most popular A-level with 105,000 entries this year, up by more than 4% compared with 2024.'
Both 'Just' and 'career-related' doing heavy lifting here. 1/2
Both 'Just' and 'career-related' doing heavy lifting here. 1/2
A-level results in England expected to return to near pre-pandemic levels
Career-focused subjects such as business studies and economics to surpass traditional academic disciplines like history in popularity
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)
Second World War > World War II > the Guardian's insistence on using all lower-case and writing it as "second world war" 😤
28. “Second World War” > “World War II”and all style guides should reflect this
August 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Second World War > World War II > the Guardian's insistence on using all lower-case and writing it as "second world war" 😤
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We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...
Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) at King's College London
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Early Career Development Fellowship in Modern History (Britain and the World) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jo...
www.jobs.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...
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What are you up to today? Anything interesting? Or are you just at work, and actually it's quite a run-of-the-mill day for you? Either way, we want to hear about it! Today is our annual diary day where we ask people to record their day and send it to us! 🗃 #writing
May 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What are you up to today? Anything interesting? Or are you just at work, and actually it's quite a run-of-the-mill day for you? Either way, we want to hear about it! Today is our annual diary day where we ask people to record their day and send it to us! 🗃 #writing
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Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
placememory.net
April 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
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New blog post by Will Sanders on 'Aerial Threat and the City'
Sanders discusses his doctoral research on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the importance of #UrbanHistory approaches, and the work of the Lviv Center for Urban History in documenting the invasion of Ukraine
Sanders discusses his doctoral research on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the importance of #UrbanHistory approaches, and the work of the Lviv Center for Urban History in documenting the invasion of Ukraine
Aerial Threat and the City
On 25th July 1909 Louis Blériot conducted the first aerial crossing of the English Channel – an achievement which prompted commentators of the time to state that Britain was ‘no longer an isla…
urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
New blog post by Will Sanders on 'Aerial Threat and the City'
Sanders discusses his doctoral research on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the importance of #UrbanHistory approaches, and the work of the Lviv Center for Urban History in documenting the invasion of Ukraine
Sanders discusses his doctoral research on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the importance of #UrbanHistory approaches, and the work of the Lviv Center for Urban History in documenting the invasion of Ukraine
Now that the thesis is free for anyone to read, it feels like a good time to do a little update and say I passed my viva last month! Feeling extremely chuffed to be #PhDone, and even more grateful for all the lovely people who helped me get there ✨
March 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Now that the thesis is free for anyone to read, it feels like a good time to do a little update and say I passed my viva last month! Feeling extremely chuffed to be #PhDone, and even more grateful for all the lovely people who helped me get there ✨
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The #UHG2025 Call for Papers is now live! Make sure you follow @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social for updates
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern
🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester
🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern
🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester
🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
November 18, 2024 at 11:18 AM
The #UHG2025 Call for Papers is now live! Make sure you follow @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social for updates
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern
🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester
🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern
🗓️ 4-5 September
📍 University of Leicester
🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
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2. The Second World War Research Group has collaborated with @moffski.bsky.social (University of Otago) to bring together esteemed scholars from 3 different continents for what promises to be a fascinating discussion of SWW home fronts.
6 Dec UK/Eur/US
7 Dec NZ/Aus
Registration is required!
6 Dec UK/Eur/US
7 Dec NZ/Aus
Registration is required!
New Histories of the Home Front: Global Online Seminar Series, 6 December 2023
Are there similarities between Scottish, Russian, and New Zealand Māori experiences of the Second World War? Join us for the next event in our online global seminar series to find out more. This even...
www.swwresearch.com
November 27, 2023 at 11:37 AM
2. The Second World War Research Group has collaborated with @moffski.bsky.social (University of Otago) to bring together esteemed scholars from 3 different continents for what promises to be a fascinating discussion of SWW home fronts.
6 Dec UK/Eur/US
7 Dec NZ/Aus
Registration is required!
6 Dec UK/Eur/US
7 Dec NZ/Aus
Registration is required!
Excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social War, Society and Culture seminar tomorrow evening! If you want to hear more about home-loss in the SWW and how it shaped understandings of wartime citizenship, then you can find all the details here! 👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-hea...
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-hea...
A “heartbreaking reality”: Coping with Home-Loss in Urban Britain during the Second World War
www.history.ac.uk
November 7, 2023 at 9:58 AM
Excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social War, Society and Culture seminar tomorrow evening! If you want to hear more about home-loss in the SWW and how it shaped understandings of wartime citizenship, then you can find all the details here! 👇
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-hea...
www.history.ac.uk/events/a-hea...