Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
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Sarah Betts
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Reintroducing myself for the influx of people coming over from the other place.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
I'm a PhD student at the University of York. My thesis is on representations and cultural memory of royalists and royalisms of the English Civil War from the 17th Century to the present day.
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Seeing double? Our Network members Kempton Steam Museum have two fantastic consultant opportunities closing at the end of November: an Audience Development Consultant designing a strategy to increase visitor attendance, and a Learning Consultant post to design learning resources - buff.ly/zKc8Cjy
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November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Seeing double? Our Network members Kempton Steam Museum have two fantastic consultant opportunities closing at the end of November: an Audience Development Consultant designing a strategy to increase visitor attendance, and a Learning Consultant post to design learning resources - buff.ly/zKc8Cjy
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This wonderful publication on #portrait #miniatures has just been released, featuring 22 articles by specialists from around the world, including my piece on the topic of portrait miniatures as ‘portable dynasties’ within European court culture.
www.imhof-verlag.de/portrait-min...
www.imhof-verlag.de/portrait-min...
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This wonderful publication on #portrait #miniatures has just been released, featuring 22 articles by specialists from around the world, including my piece on the topic of portrait miniatures as ‘portable dynasties’ within European court culture.
www.imhof-verlag.de/portrait-min...
www.imhof-verlag.de/portrait-min...
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Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
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If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
On 25 November, Dr Natalie Garrett will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where they will be presenting on Jane, duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812.
Find out more and how to attend below:
Find out more and how to attend below:
‘The Tartan Rage’: Fashion, High Society, and Scottish Identity in Eighteenth-Century London - The History of Parliament
The Tartan rage has at length reached Paris,’ declared the World in June 1787. Demand for tartan fabric and accessories had swept British high society earlier that year, with the Gazetteer and New…
historyofparliament.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory
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Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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oh. oh my. oh no. what a shame that would be. dearie me. mustn't let all those authors (iirc the average professional author earns c. 12k a year) put the techlords out of their vital business of stealing from them and every other creative person to produce worthless slop
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
oh. oh my. oh no. what a shame that would be. dearie me. mustn't let all those authors (iirc the average professional author earns c. 12k a year) put the techlords out of their vital business of stealing from them and every other creative person to produce worthless slop
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I just had my work publicly ridiculed by a tenured prof. To all senior scholars who need to hear this: Please don't do this to students (or anyone else for that matter). You have no idea how painful it is. Yes, my topic is unusual & you may not get it, but that doesn't mean it should be made fun of.
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I just had my work publicly ridiculed by a tenured prof. To all senior scholars who need to hear this: Please don't do this to students (or anyone else for that matter). You have no idea how painful it is. Yes, my topic is unusual & you may not get it, but that doesn't mean it should be made fun of.
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
Although it got off to a slow start due to technical issues really enjoyed hearing about @historyboy30.bsky.social's project today on reconstructing royal dress and material culture in his queenship research
Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on Nov 17 (date changed) at 6pm GMT. Join @historyboy30.bsky.social's talk on 'The Material Culture of Queens and Queenship - Employing Digital Research Methods'.
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Although it got off to a slow start due to technical issues really enjoyed hearing about @historyboy30.bsky.social's project today on reconstructing royal dress and material culture in his queenship research
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Since Black Friday seems to have come early this year, if you're shopping for the new paperback edition of Fashion Victims and want a signed, personalized copy, The Huntington's shop can help you out! Just say in the order notes that you want it signed and how. thehuntingtonstore.org/products/fas...
FASHION VICTIMS: DRESS AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XVI & MARIE-ANTOINETTE
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period This award-winning book, now available in paperback, chronicles one...
thehuntingtonstore.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Since Black Friday seems to have come early this year, if you're shopping for the new paperback edition of Fashion Victims and want a signed, personalized copy, The Huntington's shop can help you out! Just say in the order notes that you want it signed and how. thehuntingtonstore.org/products/fas...
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CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
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Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th?
By reading list feels a little dated...
Thanks!
By reading list feels a little dated...
Thanks!
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Does anyone have any recent reading recommendations on how people (particularly working-class people) adjusted to technological change in the long c19th?
By reading list feels a little dated...
Thanks!
By reading list feels a little dated...
Thanks!
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This is a really good summary! TL;DR: the Paris Agreement has stopped us from entirely torching the world (yay!) but things are still not looking great - and there's a lot we COULD do to improve that.
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is a really good summary! TL;DR: the Paris Agreement has stopped us from entirely torching the world (yay!) but things are still not looking great - and there's a lot we COULD do to improve that.
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For all you fans of the new @netflix.com series “Death by Lightning,” here’s the table of contents for my book “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.” It covers much of the ground the series explores.
It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.
It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
For all you fans of the new @netflix.com series “Death by Lightning,” here’s the table of contents for my book “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880.” It covers much of the ground the series explores.
It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.
It’s published by the University Press of Kansas.
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📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📢 Delighted to announce that our Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2026 is now open for applications. Wonderful collections, world-class library & a brilliant @uofglasgow.bsky.social team to support you. Find out more 👇
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Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
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'Applications are invited from both early career and established scholars of any nationality, engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations, that include the analysis of the material features of original manuscripts'. up to £2k.
The British Academy invite applications for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026. The scheme aims to promote the study of Western medieval manuscripts, particularly those of British interest: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
'Applications are invited from both early career and established scholars of any nationality, engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations, that include the analysis of the material features of original manuscripts'. up to £2k.
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This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
Need a late-night read? Or maybe late-afternoon… or mid-morning… Ya know what, time zones are annoying! The latest Carantes newsletter is out on our website! We look forward to Dr Rachel Moss's (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social) talk next month, details in the newsletter!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
carantes.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
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Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on Nov 17 (date changed) at 6pm GMT. Join @historyboy30.bsky.social's talk on 'The Material Culture of Queens and Queenship - Employing Digital Research Methods'.
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on Nov 17 (date changed) at 6pm GMT. Join @historyboy30.bsky.social's talk on 'The Material Culture of Queens and Queenship - Employing Digital Research Methods'.
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
You must be an RSN member and register by Nov 16:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-novemb...
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If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you're a PG student or an ECR working on any aspect of London's history, do consider submitting! And if you're not but you know of, or maybe even supervise, someone who does, encourage them to submit!
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Seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. With other academic colleagues and friends, I’ve contributed a couple on commentaries in the book published this week
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. With other academic colleagues and friends, I’ve contributed a couple on commentaries in the book published this week
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📅#OTD 1671, Thomas Fairfax died.
Find out more about the leader of the New Model Army by listening to episode 11 of #CavalierCast podcast: Professor Andrew Hopper, Nick Lipscombe & MJ Logue discuss.
👂buzzsprout.com/1194917
Find out more about the leader of the New Model Army by listening to episode 11 of #CavalierCast podcast: Professor Andrew Hopper, Nick Lipscombe & MJ Logue discuss.
👂buzzsprout.com/1194917
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📅#OTD 1671, Thomas Fairfax died.
Find out more about the leader of the New Model Army by listening to episode 11 of #CavalierCast podcast: Professor Andrew Hopper, Nick Lipscombe & MJ Logue discuss.
👂buzzsprout.com/1194917
Find out more about the leader of the New Model Army by listening to episode 11 of #CavalierCast podcast: Professor Andrew Hopper, Nick Lipscombe & MJ Logue discuss.
👂buzzsprout.com/1194917