Helen McCarthy
@historianhelen.bsky.social
Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Self-deprecation I can manage (see previous post) but not at sufficient pace or with adequate wit to qualify as banter.
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Self-deprecation I can manage (see previous post) but not at sufficient pace or with adequate wit to qualify as banter.
Thanks for writing this - am thinking of taking my MA students to see it, and now I can tell them to read your essay first!
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Thanks for writing this - am thinking of taking my MA students to see it, and now I can tell them to read your essay first!
Reposted by Helen McCarthy
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
Or in other words, if I want to read a novel, I'll read a novel.
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Or in other words, if I want to read a novel, I'll read a novel.
Congrats Holly!
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Congrats Holly!
I low-key agree.
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I low-key agree.
Julia, I’m so sorry you have to listen to this awful, scary stuff and I’m sending you all my positive vibes for your son’s surgery. Xxx
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Julia, I’m so sorry you have to listen to this awful, scary stuff and I’m sending you all my positive vibes for your son’s surgery. Xxx
Equalisation was a legitimate goal, & higher SPA for both sexes, maybe, given longevity gains. But how you label non-activity matters; for the individual, there’s a world of difference between claiming conditional working-age benefits and drawing your pension ‘by right’.
October 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Equalisation was a legitimate goal, & higher SPA for both sexes, maybe, given longevity gains. But how you label non-activity matters; for the individual, there’s a world of difference between claiming conditional working-age benefits and drawing your pension ‘by right’.