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Sarah Fox
@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
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sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
I don't mean to brag or anything, but I have actually scheduled TWO meetings about research this week.

TWO!!!!!

#historian #skystorians #academicsky
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
This looks good! Reasonably paid, full-time 12 month post, great opportunity to develop project management skills....

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPJ377/p...
Project Specialist, Reynolds Digital Research Resource (Full Time) at The National Gallery
Apply for the Project Specialist, Reynolds Digital Research Resource (Full Time) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to Kate Gibson's paper on Wednesday - DM me if you would like the Teams link.

#EarlyModern 🗃️👇
cemsexeter.bsky.social CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social · 1d
We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:

'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.

Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social
A text description of ‘Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain’
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London.

I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from.

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A banner advert for Matt Houlbrook’s new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
"I do like this portrait of you, Old Fox," said Miss Stevenson. "Such a likeness!" "Thank you," said Old Fox, placing it back in its portfolio. "Although I do look a little tired and uneasy. Rather a strange chap, the artist, didn't really trust him, he lived off the Paddington Canal, I recall. Always talking about dissection and borrowing bodies from St Thomas's to sketch."
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ

Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project.

Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians
RHS Workshop Grants, 2026 - call now open to fund day events on historical projects - RHS
The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the next call for its RHS Workshop Grants for projects to take place in 2026. This scheme provides funding of £1,000 per Grant to enable historians ...
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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ghilondon.bsky.social
Happening tonight!

There is still time to sign up and join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl who will kick off our autumn/winter series: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....

Please note that due to our renovation works the event will take place at Swedenborg House.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
Black background with gold swirls. 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners announced. Celebrating the achievements of thirty outstanding scholars. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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historicaljnl.bsky.social
📣Out now on #firstview!

Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy'

#FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️

👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This article brings together George’s meals and his essays, considering the histories of food, masculinity, and self-fashioning, to argue that George was a monarch who embodied a new form of masculinity, as marked by his agricultural interests and insistence on a modest diet. His eating habits, along with his intellectual interests and public persona, bring us to the intersection between the private man and the public monarch. Drawing on newly digitized data, alongside contemporary caricatures and descriptions, and George’s own writing, we argue that moderation was central to George’s creation of an image that appealed to the emerging British nation of the late eighteenth century; food was central to this image, highlighting both his masculine self-control and his ability to be useful to the nation.
October 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
IT'S US!!!!

New open access article on food and masculinity.

I love collaborating, especially with @adamcrymble.bsky.social @historybeagle.bsky.social, and Rachel Rich. They are some of my favourite people and pretty excellent academics, actually!

#skystorians #18thC 🗃
October 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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historybeagle.bsky.social
Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy
www.cambridge.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular.

University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered.

"Beware employers bearing yoga mats..."

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...
Coping with the university funding crisis - Research Professional News
Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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bsecs.bsky.social
We are in the process of working our way through HUNDREDS (no exaggeration) of fabulous CFPs.

If you have submitted a proposal for #BSECS2026, we will be in touch on or before the ***15 October 2025*** to let you know if you've been successful.

#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Chimney Stacks and Winding Ways, Whitby, 1936, painting by Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1956 (Tate). #NorthernArt
September 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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madlinsudn.bsky.social
The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.
The Boring Fund - Open Collective
We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin
opencollective.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
How many snacks are required to survive Welcome Week you ask....? Turns out the answer is: more than this....
#skystorians #academicsky
The image shows an open drawer containing packs of biscuits, boiled sweets and coffee.
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
I should still be frantically preparing to welcome our new first years next week, but instead I'm finishing my week by reading this. And I don't regret it, even though I know I'm going to have to open my laptop on Sunday as a result! #skystorians
September 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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amiesphilip.bsky.social
Mute Swans, looking angry, and owned.
September 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)
A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.
September 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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materialwills.bsky.social
📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern 🗃️
A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
It was true in 2024 when I took this pic, and it is even more true now
Taken at #ipres2024 in Ghent
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
This is your friendly reminder to VOTE in the @royalhistsoc.org Council elections. Not necessarily for me (though if you felt moved in that direction it would be appreciated), but for any candidates you feel represent you and your experiences of 'doing' History. #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
Today I have mostly sent e-mails. Intentions to review an article and prepare a module handbook have flown out of the window...
...AND YET....
...I currently have more e-mails in my inbox than I had when I started 😬
#skystorians #academicsky #18thC #academicnewyear
September 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
OMG I can't remember what I've done with my work ID or my office keys and I have a vague memory of changing my computer password in late July...😬
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · Aug 31
This is it! The out of office gets turned off tomorrow and I have to try and remember what my actual job is...

#historian #skystorians #academicsky #18thC
August 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM