Professor Karen Harvey
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham; c18th history; letters; body. Most recent book on Mary Toft. PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
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Huntington Exchange Fellowship - University of Birmingham
Information for prospective applicants wishing to apply to the Huntington for a Fellowship to visit the University of Birmingham.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs
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I'm very proud of this work and hope that through the pamphlet and an upcoming CPD session in February, we will continue to support teachers to try this place-based approach in their classrooms: literacytrust.org.uk/communities/... (3/3)
Place-themed literacy: a free CPD series and pamphlet | National Literacy Trust
Join us for a series of monthly, free teacher CPD workshops exploring how tailoring and theming literacy activities around your local area can increase engagement amongst your secondary school student...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm very proud of this work and hope that through the pamphlet and an upcoming CPD session in February, we will continue to support teachers to try this place-based approach in their classrooms: literacytrust.org.uk/communities/... (3/3)
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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
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August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49.
In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey (@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018).
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In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey (@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018).
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The Favourite, Mary Toft the Rabbit Breeder, and Women's Bodies
Historian Karen Harvey on the hidden symbolism of rabbits and women's bodies in The Favourite, and the real-life case of eighteenth-century mother Mary Toft.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49.
In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey (@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018).
www.historyworkshop....
In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey (@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018).
www.historyworkshop....
Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for a brilliant #SHSConf2025. Outstanding papers, ran like a well-oiled machine in a terrific venue. And I got to give the keynote in a swimming pool!
July 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for a brilliant #SHSConf2025. Outstanding papers, ran like a well-oiled machine in a terrific venue. And I got to give the keynote in a swimming pool!
Keynote written. On my way to the #SHSConf2025. Excited to hear so many great-looking papers. (And to eat Black Country fish n chips)
We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!)
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July
🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July
⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Keynote written. On my way to the #SHSConf2025. Excited to hear so many great-looking papers. (And to eat Black Country fish n chips)
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The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
May 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
Modern History post @ Lancaster!
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Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship) at Lancaster University
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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May 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Modern History post @ Lancaster!
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Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!
Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’.
📍 KG/07
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📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820 - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Karen Harvey explores conversations about the body in women's letters.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!
Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181
May 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181
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This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective
Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.
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May 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell.
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT
All are very welcome #skystorians
Our 20th anniversary of c18th studies at Birmingham. Do join us!
The Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre is holding a small conference to mark our twentieth anniversary. It's on the 26 and 27 June, and Linda Colley will be there (as will brilliant Birmingham colleagues like Karen Harvey, Kate Smith, and Hiroki Shin). Join us! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...
May 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Our 20th anniversary of c18th studies at Birmingham. Do join us!
I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!
After a brief hiatus, 'New Directions in the History of the Body' is back! For this interview, I spoke to Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social about embodiment and the material turn, collaborative working practices, social bodies and much more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
New Directions in the History of the Body – Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Karen Harvey
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May 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!
Our transcribathon generated 122 submissions. Thank you! Your transcriptions will be used by researchers and school children, adults learners, older people and archive users who we work with in our engagement projects. Special thanks to @earlymodernemma.bsky.social for such a superb day!
This is tomorrow! We can't wait to see you and read your transcriptions. There's still time to sign up if you're interested - see below 👇 If you've already registered, you should have received an email with information about the day. If not, just give us a shout here! ✍️📝🔍
📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our transcribathon generated 122 submissions. Thank you! Your transcriptions will be used by researchers and school children, adults learners, older people and archive users who we work with in our engagement projects. Special thanks to @earlymodernemma.bsky.social for such a superb day!
We've reached over 100 submissions so far today! I'm stunned by this response. Thanks to our brilliant letter transcribers in Canada, Romania, Dubai, as well as closer to the @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Warwick, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston
April 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We've reached over 100 submissions so far today! I'm stunned by this response. Thanks to our brilliant letter transcribers in Canada, Romania, Dubai, as well as closer to the @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Warwick, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston
Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!
This is tomorrow! We can't wait to see you and read your transcriptions. There's still time to sign up if you're interested - see below 👇 If you've already registered, you should have received an email with information about the day. If not, just give us a shout here! ✍️📝🔍
📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!
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For World Health Day this year, WHO are launching a campaign on maternal and newborn health. #HealthforAll
From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!):
✊🗃
From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!):
✊🗃
April 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
For World Health Day this year, WHO are launching a campaign on maternal and newborn health. #HealthforAll
From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!):
✊🗃
From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!):
✊🗃
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'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:
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📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
transcribathon.eventbrite.com
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A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 6 Dec, is the closing date for two of our open calls for Research Funding:
- Postgraduate Research Support Grants
- Early Career Research Support Grants
Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv
- Postgraduate Research Support Grants
- Early Career Research Support Grants
Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv
December 5, 2024 at 12:29 PM
A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 6 Dec, is the closing date for two of our open calls for Research Funding:
- Postgraduate Research Support Grants
- Early Career Research Support Grants
Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv
- Postgraduate Research Support Grants
- Early Career Research Support Grants
Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv
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We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
December 5, 2024 at 2:35 PM
We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.
Honoured to be the keynote for the SHS Annual Conference in July 2025!
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨
We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!
Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️
Please share widely!
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We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!
Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️
Please share widely!
socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
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December 5, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Honoured to be the keynote for the SHS Annual Conference in July 2025!