Dr Sally Holloway
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
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After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk
Does anyone recognise this scene in the background of a print I am using? #SkyStorians #c18th please help! 🙏🏻
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Does anyone recognise this scene in the background of a print I am using? #SkyStorians #c18th please help! 🙏🏻
In my second month of new job and I have finally located the crucial bit of campus
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In my second month of new job and I have finally located the crucial bit of campus
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'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2
Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds
One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2
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Join us tonight for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Join us tonight for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Oxford Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850 this term, on my latest article project on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage. We’ll be on Teams, and at Lincoln College, on 2 December talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... ✍️
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very much looking forward to speaking at the Oxford Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850 this term, on my latest article project on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage. We’ll be on Teams, and at Lincoln College, on 2 December talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... ✍️
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We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!
In Koblenz for the next few days to talk about love letters across time, countries, and disciplines ✍️
September 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In Koblenz for the next few days to talk about love letters across time, countries, and disciplines ✍️
This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
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During my research leave I'm trying to read as much as possible, so I thought I could do a thread where I share nice things about the things I'm reading. Let's see how long I keep up with it!
September 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
During my research leave I'm trying to read as much as possible, so I thought I could do a thread where I share nice things about the things I'm reading. Let's see how long I keep up with it!
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This is England.
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is England.
Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage
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So sorry to hear this news. Frank O'Gorman was an outstanding historian and his work on voters and voting in the 18C was foundational for many of us. #c18th #skystorians 🗃️www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Frank O’Gorman obituary
Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
So sorry to hear this news. Frank O'Gorman was an outstanding historian and his work on voters and voting in the 18C was foundational for many of us. #c18th #skystorians 🗃️www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk
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I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.
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Simon Jenkins, mouthpiece for what is also said to be Reform UK's university policy. 'For most courses, two years should be enough, as the former universities minister, Jo Johnson, has proposed. The number of institutions claiming fully-fledged university status should be slashed.' Unsurprised sigh.
As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins
Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Simon Jenkins, mouthpiece for what is also said to be Reform UK's university policy. 'For most courses, two years should be enough, as the former universities minister, Jo Johnson, has proposed. The number of institutions claiming fully-fledged university status should be slashed.' Unsurprised sigh.
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Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College
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Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College | MEMOs
Research Fellowship: Modern and Medieval Languages; Classics; Linguistics; Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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August 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College
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"How may a man reclaim a headstrong or unruly wife?
The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."
My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.
The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."
My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’ by Mary Beth Norton: A dive into 1690s messy relationships
Readers’ problems in the late 17th century ranged from the mundane – unhappy marriages, difficult in-laws to the dramatic
www.irishtimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"How may a man reclaim a headstrong or unruly wife?
The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."
My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.
The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."
My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.
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📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
August 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History
Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
July 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)
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#CfA Joint Fellowship
📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...
📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...
July 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
#CfA Joint Fellowship
📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...
📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...
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(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2
Institute of Historical Research
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history
www.history.ac.uk
July 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2
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Congratulations to all 92 newly elected FBAs including the wonderful @clairelanghamer.bsky.social whose sterling research is matched by her sterling (or is it platinum?) work for the discipline of History (in all its academic, public and other forms) at the also ace @ihr.bsky.social . 1/2
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Congratulations to all 92 newly elected FBAs including the wonderful @clairelanghamer.bsky.social whose sterling research is matched by her sterling (or is it platinum?) work for the discipline of History (in all its academic, public and other forms) at the also ace @ihr.bsky.social . 1/2