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Jane Hamlett
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Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
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New on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’
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October 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’
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October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

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Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…
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October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
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October 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)!

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Contested Commons | Reaktion Books
A radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2
Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS
At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!
September 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?

Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!

Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London

Apply by 23 Sept:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...
UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops
Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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August 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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And rounding off this section of the journal is '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston, and available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
July 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥
April 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Gotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025
April 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Princeton turned out.
April 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Remember this massive crowd next time you see someone saying Texas deserves fascism or suffering because it's a red state. #HandsOff #Austin #Texas
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Chicago!
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now.

Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution.

Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏

#HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne

(📸Nate Blouin)
April 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ladies, gentlemen, distinguished folks of all genders… I give you the motherfucking @dropkickmurphys.com #HandsOffBoston
April 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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San Diego 👏

#HandsOff

(📸 Tina Crawford)
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM