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Jane Hamlett
@janehamlett.bsky.social
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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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municipaldreams.bsky.social
New on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’
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Opening brochure cover with line drawing of new block
October 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Delighted to have our book reviewed on the @whaireland.bsky.social book review page #history #speirgorm
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
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 🗃
Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨 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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Addison Act semi-detached council housing Wheatley Act terraced housing
October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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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roseteanby.bsky.social
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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themerl.bsky.social
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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royalhistsoc.org
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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markhailwood.bsky.social
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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selenadaly.bsky.social
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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vickyig.bsky.social
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:
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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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ihrwomen.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social ‪@dralanagharris.bsky.social‬
(Standing) Xavier Jou-Badal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) on Gender and Mobility in the Chocolate Factory. Barcelona, 1910-1914; Jenny Smart (Cambridge) on Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914; Jennie Kiff (Lincoln) on Unravelling “...a knot of women…”: women’s networks and the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union; Kate Hart (Birkbeck) on Marching for Change: How Have Women’s Experiences of Local Masculinities Influenced Their Protest Agency in France and Britain? Case Studies from 1981-1983; (Sitting) Florentine Friedrich (Lincoln) on ‘Take Thee to a Nunnery': Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century; Louise Dobson (Sussex) on Janet Flanner, New Journalism, and the Politics of anti-Communism at the New Yorker
August 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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thelondonjournal.bsky.social
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.....
Abstract By the mid-twentieth century, the pet shop was an established feature of London’s retail landscape. Pet shops presented themselves as modern, hygienic, and compassionate spaces that used the kerb appeal of furry animals to lure consumers onto their premises. This article tracks the boom in pet sales across the capital from the early nineteenth century, through street trade, markets and, increasingly, shops. Animals figured as part of the consumer culture of spectatorship and display promoted by the new department stores. Older sites of pet sale were reconfigured as tourist attractions but were simultaneously criticised by observers who argued that they were problematic for animal welfare. From the early twentieth century, traders recognised the need to counteract these narratives. Shops began to use the word ‘pet’ in their titles and marketed themselves as animal welfare friendly environments with a special appeal for children. Older forms of animal retailing remained popular, however, with markets and stalls clustering in the East End.
July 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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arveaksnes75.bsky.social
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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artologica.net
Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff
Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ericblanc.bsky.social
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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acarv.in
Gotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025
April 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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neurocentric.bsky.social
Princeton turned out.
An estimated 1500 protesters pack Hinds Plaza for the local Hands Off protest.
April 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
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.”
informor.bsky.social Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · Apr 5
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
Sign held in the huge crowd: Hey Congress: The Emperor Wears No Clothes, It's Time to Tell Him. A massive crowd of thousands in the grounds of the Texas Capitol in downtown Austin
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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patricialicious.bsky.social
Chicago!
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
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)
Thousands are seen spread out for hundreds of metres towards buildings in the distance. The mountains are seen on the horizon.
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)
Against bright sunshine and blue sky, 1000s of protestors are seen filling the street completely. Many waving placards.
April 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM