Sarah Wride
@srwride.bsky.social
Historian of ideas & culture c18th+ @york.ac.uk @ihr.bsky.social & in the wild | writers using HoC make-up & job-description to puzzle out their MO & aims | hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | edits indexes archives👉 sarahwride.co.uk
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Sarah Wride
@srwride.bsky.social
· Sep 3
A HUGE thank you to @ihr.bsky.social for welcoming me into its fellowship community while I work on two big #publichistory projects 2025/26! So excited to get started. If you’re also a #histparl & #truecrime #history & #ethics buff, watch this space!
#ECRs #skystorians #humanities
#ECRs #skystorians #humanities
📣 The Figure of the Politician in Modern & Contemporary Europe from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, & Henk te Velde, launches online on 6 February 👇
#AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky
#AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky
January 5, 2026 at 7:51 AM
📣 The Figure of the Politician in Modern & Contemporary Europe from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, edited by Pasi Ihalainen, @rosariolopez.bsky.social, Kari Palonen, & Henk te Velde, launches online on 6 February 👇
#AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky
#AcademicSky #Skystorians #HistParl #BookSky
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I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
I'm finally clocking (& logging) off for Christmas: Happy Holidays one & all!
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'm finally clocking (& logging) off for Christmas: Happy Holidays one & all!
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Discipline and Nourish.
December 25, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Discipline and Nourish.
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The author was dead: to begin with.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The author was dead: to begin with.
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🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
SHS Annual Conference 2026
Our 50th anniversary conference will be held at Lancaster University, the academic home of the Social History Society. A Significant Milestone The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster Un…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary!
We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands.
📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26
🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
#CFP 🗃️
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵
👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️
History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️
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Amazon is rude to ask for you to review your book purchase when you clearly haven't had a chance to read it yet. Clearly they should wait 10-15 years before sending that follow-up.
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Amazon is rude to ask for you to review your book purchase when you clearly haven't had a chance to read it yet. Clearly they should wait 10-15 years before sending that follow-up.
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We can only whole-heartedly endorse 19th century politicians as Christmas tree decorations. Gladstone would ideally be at the base of the tree with an axe!
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We can only whole-heartedly endorse 19th century politicians as Christmas tree decorations. Gladstone would ideally be at the base of the tree with an axe!
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📢 On 21 January, join novelist Tessa Hadley & actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social as they ask why Austen remains so popular and what she has to say to us after 250 years.
🔗 Register here ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...
🔗 Register here ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📢 On 21 January, join novelist Tessa Hadley & actor-writers Anni Domingo & Romola Garai in conversation with Professor Lara Feigel from @kingsenglish.bsky.social as they ask why Austen remains so popular and what she has to say to us after 250 years.
🔗 Register here ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...
🔗 Register here ⤵️
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/auste...
The Lord John Russell - "The true Christmas spirit of reform?" -flask is mine.
WHO knew that crafting a #histparl research themed Christmas tree decoration could be so much fun?! A cracking idea from @ihr.bsky.social.
(Now #AcademicSky talk to me more about creative outputs & the #REF?)
WHO knew that crafting a #histparl research themed Christmas tree decoration could be so much fun?! A cracking idea from @ihr.bsky.social.
(Now #AcademicSky talk to me more about creative outputs & the #REF?)
More decorations from our fellows and students have appeared on the IHR Christmas tree.
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Lord John Russell - "The true Christmas spirit of reform?" -flask is mine.
WHO knew that crafting a #histparl research themed Christmas tree decoration could be so much fun?! A cracking idea from @ihr.bsky.social.
(Now #AcademicSky talk to me more about creative outputs & the #REF?)
WHO knew that crafting a #histparl research themed Christmas tree decoration could be so much fun?! A cracking idea from @ihr.bsky.social.
(Now #AcademicSky talk to me more about creative outputs & the #REF?)
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Coming up this Thursday in Manchester! Our last Open Mic in Belfast was great fun - highly recommended event in a beautiful, historic setting - the @porticolibrary.bsky.social... #skystorians
Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians!
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
Manchester historians!
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Coming up this Thursday in Manchester! Our last Open Mic in Belfast was great fun - highly recommended event in a beautiful, historic setting - the @porticolibrary.bsky.social... #skystorians
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Do you care about the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure in the UK? Here’s your chance to make a difference by responding to the call for evidence (3,000 words max) to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry. Often the most compelling evidence is not from the « usual suspects »
📣live @ukparliament.parliament.uk calls that may be of interest: for contributions for a POSTnote on 'lifelong learning & skills in the UK' (deadline 18/01 👉 shorturl.at/lDwOC) & for evidence on the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure (deadline 22/12 👇)
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
Reading for Pleasure - Committees - UK Parliament
Reading brings a range of benefits to children, young people and their families, but the number of children reading for pleasure is declining rapidly. This inquiry will look at the reasons behind this...
committees.parliament.uk
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Do you care about the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure in the UK? Here’s your chance to make a difference by responding to the call for evidence (3,000 words max) to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry. Often the most compelling evidence is not from the « usual suspects »
Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians!
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
Manchester historians!
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
FastHistory — The Portico Library
Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!
www.theportico.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians!
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
🗃️
📣live @ukparliament.parliament.uk calls that may be of interest: for contributions for a POSTnote on 'lifelong learning & skills in the UK' (deadline 18/01 👉 shorturl.at/lDwOC) & for evidence on the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure (deadline 22/12 👇)
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
Reading for Pleasure - Committees - UK Parliament
Reading brings a range of benefits to children, young people and their families, but the number of children reading for pleasure is declining rapidly. This inquiry will look at the reasons behind this...
committees.parliament.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
📣live @ukparliament.parliament.uk calls that may be of interest: for contributions for a POSTnote on 'lifelong learning & skills in the UK' (deadline 18/01 👉 shorturl.at/lDwOC) & for evidence on the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure (deadline 22/12 👇)
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
#AcademicSky
#Skystorians
#BookSky
Tschüss, Frankfurt! I had a delightful time at 'Short Narrative Forms of the Long #c18th' talking #GeorgeCrabbe & whether to write short stories that are 'performative' or just fun. Thank you Roslyn Irving, Anna P-M, & @mainzuniversity.bsky.social's lovely English & Linguistics team for inviting me!
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Tschüss, Frankfurt! I had a delightful time at 'Short Narrative Forms of the Long #c18th' talking #GeorgeCrabbe & whether to write short stories that are 'performative' or just fun. Thank you Roslyn Irving, Anna P-M, & @mainzuniversity.bsky.social's lovely English & Linguistics team for inviting me!
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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Programs - School of Advanced Study
universityoflondon.smapply.io
November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS!
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).
Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History
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CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH
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In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
In the lead up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
This week, Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight @yalebooks.bsky.social.
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So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So delighted that this long-gestated brain child is now out and in the real world. I'll be talking about it at the English Faculty in Cambridge, @cam.ac.uk on Thursday of next week at 5pm. Do please come along if you're in town!
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The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The perfect photo to challenge narratives of progress.