Kate Bradley

@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social

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Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 4d

Onnea!!! That’s brilliant news!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Another vote for WoB when I had to move! Yeah - I like to think that me getting my books out into their warehouse means someone else can love a book I’ve had on my shelf for years… or give it a change of scene by sitting it on their shelf for years…

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 9d

Accidentally running to Windsor?? Sounds ace. Four naans would be perfect for carb-loading, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Peep Show marathon starts at Croydon's Apollo House

The sitcom Peep Show, has become a cult classic, also inspiring a marathon from London to Windsor.

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 10d

I will try not to spend it all at once.

An email from Ocado offering me a 1p voucher because my shopping would have been 1p cheaper if I’d gone to Tesco.

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 14d

I have managed to remember to change the car clock, so there isn’t that to add to my annoyance!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 14d

Having had my first drive home from work in the dark of this autumn, I’d say I love having LED lights… I just hate that everyone else does, too… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night

Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Kate Bradley

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 15d

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social.

Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply:

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Applied History Fellowship launch Event- 19 November 2025: 2.30pm - 4.00pm.

Register to join us online: https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/applied-history-fellowships

Reposted by Kate Bradley

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 15d

Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16d

This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:

'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT

Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

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Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Malcolm MacLean, Margot C. Finn , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Malcolm MacLean, Margot C. Finn, Kate Bradley

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 19d

New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2

Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract:

"Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds."

Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Mel Bartley, Karen R. Lips , and 37 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Mel Bartley, Karen R. Lips, Christoph Lutz, Elizabeth Stokoe, Du Plessis, Charles West, Roger Luckhurst, Martin O’Neill, Peter Campbell, Patrick O’Brien, Christopher R. Matthews, Greg Walker, Carolyne Larrington, John Foot, Ingo Rohlfing, George McKay, Daniel S. Goldberg, Andrés Guadamuz, Margot C. Finn, Charlotte Taylor, Michael H. Whitworth, Steven Fielding, Aurélien Mondon, David Bartram, Patrick Präg, Katrina Navickas, Urška Demšar, David D. Buck, Kathleen Kennedy, Ian Bruff, Jon Dean, Catriona Seth, Claire Jowitt, Nick Clarke, Kate Bradley, Robert Adlington, Jan R. Boehnke, François Guesnet, José Pina-Sánchez

ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 20d

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 21d

I am reading the Labour Education whitepaper and it is absolutely awful on universities. It's going to take a "10-minute read" of an article to set out why. But the "vision" set out in it for HE is frankly horrendous, and is remarkably anti-growth for a government so obsessed with it.

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 22d

If I had a run this morning, but Strava’s down, did I actually have a run?

[Yes, yes I did! And it was accompanied by a rainbow!]

A rainbow forming a complete arch over the river Medway.

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 24d

Future generations discovering these things when clearing out lofts etc will have no idea what was achieved by young people in the 1990s, thanks to this design fault!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 24d

Can’t find it but I vaguely remember mine also having the NRA logo in Welsh on it, too? It was a handy-ish place to keep certificates until I realised the plastic wallets leached the ink out of documents, especially the handwritten bits we’d been made to do…

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 24d

I’m glad I’m not the only person to discuss Prince in these circumstances!!

Reposted by Peter Gatrell, Felicity Callard, Kate Bradley

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25d

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

Reposted by Dave O’Brien, David Edgerton, Lucy Delap , and 1 more Dave O’Brien, David Edgerton, Lucy Delap, Kate Bradley

Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social · 25d

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

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

I don’t blame you!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

I love it!! Dog photos are an under-rated element of recovery.

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

That sounds amazing!!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

Ha! My post-op drip was *amazing*. It did compel me to tell them about Prince but, otherwise, I was very chill about proceedings. Hope sorting the kidney stone remained painless!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

I’m so sorry to hear this, Cath - my sympathies and solidarity to you all. Xx

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 26d

This surgery and fentanyl talk reminds me of when I had an op under a general anaesthetic & came round as they were running through the meds I’d had, including fentanyl, and I piped up, “FENTANYL’S WHAT KILLED PRINCE!” then went back to quiet semi-consciousness…

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26d

Fentanyl is good stuff.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Kate Bradley

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26d

Fentanyl is good stuff.

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Reposted by Diane Watt, Katrina Navickas, Kathleen Kennedy , and 2 more Diane Watt, Katrina Navickas, Kathleen Kennedy, Claire Jowitt, Kate Bradley

Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · Oct 8

I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths

On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 6

Yeah, many of us give up and hide out there!

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 6

Were there any Katharines in attendance? I don’t often meet others in the wild so it’s v exciting.

Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Oct 6

One of my regrets in life is not saving the email we got about this, subject line “SNAKE!!!!!”

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