Zoe Thomas
@zoethomas.bsky.social
Historian researching work, gender, politics, & artistic cultures in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries
Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
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Zoe Thomas
@zoethomas.bsky.social
· Mar 12
I have a new open access article out @historicaljnl.bsky.social 🤩 “Marriage, collaboration, and the literary mass market in the English-speaking world, c. 1870-1939” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL
Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion.
Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you'd like to come.
Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you'd like to come.
Thanks Carmen. Look forward to seeing you!
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL
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Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
2 Postdoctoral positions in Intellectual History at the Department of History - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kultur og Samfund - Historie, fag, Aarhus Universitet
www.au.dk
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Some professional news: I'm now hiring two postdocs to be part of the research project I'm leading on global republicanism and the making of democratic cultures in the early 19th century. If you know someone for whom this may be relevant, don't hesitate to let them know.
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
Fantastic looking online conference all about the history of motherhood - and including cutting edge new research by FIVE current history PhD researchers from @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Fantastic looking online conference all about the history of motherhood - and including cutting edge new research by FIVE current history PhD researchers from @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
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Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma
January 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma
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Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu
Enjoying this book *so* much right now, to the extent I am only allowing myself to read a few pages at a time to eke it out as much as possible… Would love more biography (in its loosest form obv) recommendations for 2026 (as I continue to ponder whether I want to write one myself…) #historians
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Enjoying this book *so* much right now, to the extent I am only allowing myself to read a few pages at a time to eke it out as much as possible… Would love more biography (in its loosest form obv) recommendations for 2026 (as I continue to ponder whether I want to write one myself…) #historians
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We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
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#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
October 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...
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'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city’s ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.'
Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...
Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...
Songs of Seven Dials by Matt Houlbrook | The Crack Magazine
I’m always amazed by the stories that are forgotten when writing history, which is why I loved reading Matt Houlbrook’s latest ‘Songs of Seven Dials’. It’s a brilliant re-telling of the Seven Dials ne...
www.thecrackmagazine.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city’s ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.'
Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...
Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...
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I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced
The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
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This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together
This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social
If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!
This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social
If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!
A new academic year is here, and so is our autumn term programme! A thread of our speakers follows.
Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆
Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together
This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social
If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!
This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social
If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!
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🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨
Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'
It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh
Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'
It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh
September 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨
Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'
It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh
Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'
It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh
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New release: https://bit.ly/4oJCR4i
Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.
Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New release: https://bit.ly/4oJCR4i
Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.
Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.
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Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
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This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?
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“it seems probable that the few historians who will still be able to have meaningful academic careers in, say, ten years’ time will all be able-bodied, childless British citizens from upper-class families.”
This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.
This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
🗃️
ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“it seems probable that the few historians who will still be able to have meaningful academic careers in, say, ten years’ time will all be able-bodied, childless British citizens from upper-class families.”
This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.
This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.
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I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.
And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.
Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.
And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.
Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.
September 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.
And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.
Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.
And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.
Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.
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do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated
September 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
It’s here! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social so excited to get reading on my commute, thank you so much!
September 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s here! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social so excited to get reading on my commute, thank you so much!
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Can't resist the temptation to offer some historical context on this, also! (Rutherford, Teaching Gender, p. 84)
September 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Can't resist the temptation to offer some historical context on this, also! (Rutherford, Teaching Gender, p. 84)
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28 September. More reason than ever to join this ride.
September 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
28 September. More reason than ever to join this ride.
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Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org
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Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU