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Dr Emily Hooke
@emilylovesparis.bsky.social
Independent academic now in the charity sector; big dreams of turning my thesis into a book about women, history-writing and the French resistance, some day…

Mainly thinking about food and the random pets I befriend while wandering around.

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I’m off to speak at the @asmcf.bsky.social / SSFH postgraduate study day at Cambridge tomorrow about careers outside academia. Really looking forward to it and glad to be invited, especially as I helped organise it for a couple of years in my PhD days!
February 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Royal Museums Greenwich isn't on here, so I thought I would hoist a flag for its excellent programme of events for LGBTQ+ History Month, including fab Queer History Night on 20 Feb. 🌈⚓🌊☠️

www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...

#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #queerhistory 🗃️
LGBTQ+ History Month
Join us in Greenwich this February for a spectacular series of events celebrating queer histories, cultures and communities
www.rmg.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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We’re gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club 💕🐴
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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something soooooo humiliating about being stressed about a project when you're a writer, oh you're scared of the words? literally all you have to do is go tippy tappy on the computer but the anxiety is keeping you up at night? you're panicking at the thought of opening a document? get a grip
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bloc Party were right, January is endless
January 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Just wanted to draw people's attention to the Fellowship programme at the Greenwich Maritime Museum - it looks like a lot of fun to me. www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Amatriciana-to-be…
January 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Made it through the talk and drinks without telling anyone I knew Josephine Baker was in the resistance ages ago because it was a subplot in gossip girl. A bit proud but also feel like I should have told *someone*. So I’m telling the internet.
It’s slight terrifying to be attending an academic event as someone no longer properly in the sector. Hoping to see some friendly faces and French history pals this evening at Hanna Diamond’s talk about Josephine Baker
January 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It’s slight terrifying to be attending an academic event as someone no longer properly in the sector. Hoping to see some friendly faces and French history pals this evening at Hanna Diamond’s talk about Josephine Baker
January 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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People share this & other stories about coercive, abusive & violent men - horrified, saying stuff like Believe Women.

But when it happens in their own industry/friendship group they do not believe the victim. They don’t change anything, they certainly don’t speak out. And so it keeps happening.
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.

TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New recipe 2/52 - slow-cooked garlic and herb lamb shanks with potatoes and tenderstem broccoli.

This was only the second time I’ve cooked lamb in my life, but it turned out so well and I’ll definitely be making it again. Delicious dinner (although served later than usual…)
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’ve reached the point in my first week back where I’m regretting all the naps I didn’t take over the festive break. I COULD HAVE SLEPT MORE 😭
January 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Today’s lunch break was spent having my hair cut while gossiping and being fed Diet Coke and lotus biscuits. And now… the fringe is BACK!
January 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Ridiculously proud that this is out in the world! Thank you @enghistrev.bsky.social and the many people who helped with this work along the way.
January 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My 2023 New Year's resolution of a new recipe a week brought me such joy that it needs a comeback.
1/52: braised sweet soy pork belly with jasmine rice and garlicky green beans.
This was truly delicious and super easy - if you can ignore the scent of deliciousness wafting from the kitchen…
January 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Me and my partner have taken time off until Monday to spend time together just us two and today having a chilly walk, going to a local wine bar and making a tasty tea has been so relaxing. A Good Day
January 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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If endings and beginnings are tough for you, think of today/tonight/tomorrow as just another day. Take the pressure off yourself. You do you ❤️
December 31, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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since it is Muppet Christmas Carol time, let us revisit this wonderful interview with Michael Caine, who loves it as much as the rest of us

“People say to me, Have you ever sung? I say, Yes, I sang in a movie. They say, Who with? I say, Kermit the Frog.”
Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do
God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.
www.gq.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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My new book, ‘Dealing with Dark Pasts’, where I try to coin a new memory concept, is now out online and is free to download for the first four weeks…! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Dealing with Dark Pasts
Cambridge Core - Global History - Dealing with Dark Pasts
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2024 at 12:40 PM
In 1809, 19 year old Charles Hare escaped from a French Prisoner of War Camp dressed as a French Naval Officer to go back home to Lincolnshire.

Over 200 years later, the uniform was discovered by his family in Canada, along with an account of his escape.

My clever colleagues at the
December 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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“Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they’re rather stupid.” 💔
January 5, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Current working title is “The strongest soul in the frailest body”: integrating disability into a biography of Élisabeth Terrenoire
I’m feeling inspired this morning to get back to academic work, after the CFP for the SSFH conference on “Intimacies and the Self”. I’ve reflected a lot on how the women I’ve researched displace the self within their writings, and about the methodology needed to write about those who do so…
November 12, 2023 at 9:50 AM
I’m feeling inspired this morning to get back to academic work, after the CFP for the SSFH conference on “Intimacies and the Self”. I’ve reflected a lot on how the women I’ve researched displace the self within their writings, and about the methodology needed to write about those who do so…
November 12, 2023 at 9:36 AM
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Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Yesterday I did a proper big cry about how my hand is still sore and recovery is taking forever, but today I made these meatballs with MY OWN SORE HAND, please clap
October 22, 2023 at 6:08 PM