Jess Clark
@jesspclark.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain | Currently writing about modernity, nationalism, and smell | Author of Business of Beauty (2020) | Co-editor at the Recipes Project | she/her | Views my own | #histgender #smellhistory
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Jess Clark
@jesspclark.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Jessica Clark
Associate Professor 905 688 5550 x4303 jclark3@brocku.caJessica Clark (B.A., Trent; M.A., York; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) teaches courses in the history of Britain and British colonialism, gender, s...
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Time for proper introductions! My name is Jessica P. Clark, but please— call me Jess.
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
So excited to read this new article from Rochelle Rowe in the latest edition of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#history #BlackBritishHistory #womenshistory
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#history #BlackBritishHistory #womenshistory
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–1959
This article attends to the forgotten histories of Black women’s work with major British sculptor Jacob Epstein, who drew inspiration from African diasporic art and cultures, in the process documen...
www.tandfonline.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
So excited to read this new article from Rochelle Rowe in the latest edition of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#history #BlackBritishHistory #womenshistory
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#history #BlackBritishHistory #womenshistory
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The Library Company of Philadelphia announces the donation of a collection of more than 1500 volumes on the history of sexuality. 📜
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
Announcing an Unparalleled Gift from Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg – The Library Company of Philadelphia
librarycompany.org
February 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Library Company of Philadelphia announces the donation of a collection of more than 1500 volumes on the history of sexuality. 📜
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
(via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...
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New article on smell and gender identity by G. Easterbrook-Smith:
"An occularcentric approach thus far may have led to a neglect of the role which smell plays as part of the multi-sensory experience of transness"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"An occularcentric approach thus far may have led to a neglect of the role which smell plays as part of the multi-sensory experience of transness"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“I’ve adopted it as my smell”: transgender identity and the olfactory
Smell is an often-overlooked sense within transgender studies, despite the extensive theorization of the ways that scent and perfume is categorized along gendered lines, and its links to identity m...
www.tandfonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New article on smell and gender identity by G. Easterbrook-Smith:
"An occularcentric approach thus far may have led to a neglect of the role which smell plays as part of the multi-sensory experience of transness"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"An occularcentric approach thus far may have led to a neglect of the role which smell plays as part of the multi-sensory experience of transness"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fascinating job going at University of Sussex, using Mass Observation Archive
We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course.
With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...
With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...
Research Fellow at University of Sussex
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Fascinating job going at University of Sussex, using Mass Observation Archive
📢 Please share widely 📢:
CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War
Guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social
#histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War
Guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social
#histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
The Recipes Project Spring Edition: "Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power" | H-Net
Food and war are undoubtedly intertwined, revealing histories of survival, oppression, and resistance. This includes how recipes and food practices shaped—and were shaped by—wartime experiences. Food ...
networks.h-net.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
📢 Please share widely 📢:
CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War
Guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social
#histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War
Guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social
#histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
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The next Centre for Midlands History & Cultures organised by the Friends will be online
🗓️Thurs 20 Feb
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making'
All welcome!
#18thCentury
🗓️Thurs 20 Feb
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making'
All welcome!
#18thCentury
Variety and Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of Making
Buttons were an important fashion adornment on eighteenth-century clothing, especially men’s clothing.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The next Centre for Midlands History & Cultures organised by the Friends will be online
🗓️Thurs 20 Feb
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making'
All welcome!
#18thCentury
🗓️Thurs 20 Feb
🕰️7:00-8:00pm
Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making'
All welcome!
#18thCentury
Please share widely: CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War, guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social. #histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
The Recipes Project Spring Edition: "Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power" | H-Net
Food and war are undoubtedly intertwined, revealing histories of survival, oppression, and resistance. This includes how recipes and food practices shaped—and were shaped by—wartime experiences. Food ...
networks.h-net.org
January 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Please share widely: CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War, guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social. #histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Send us your pitch for this exciting and timely issue on food and war, open to all periods and disciplines 😍
CfP: Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power
open.substack.com/pub/therecip...
CfP: Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power
open.substack.com/pub/therecip...
January 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Send us your pitch for this exciting and timely issue on food and war, open to all periods and disciplines 😍
CfP: Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power
open.substack.com/pub/therecip...
CfP: Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power
open.substack.com/pub/therecip...
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We now invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise high quality scholarship published in 2024.
Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3
Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
We now invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise high quality scholarship published in 2024.
Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3
Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3
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Buy all banned books as presents
November 22, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Buy all banned books as presents
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115 years ago today, thousands of garment workers, mostly women, went on a strike known as the "uprising of the 20,000." These women fought for both "Bread and Roses"-for their right to enjoy life. That strike not only turned women into a political power but also the ILGWU into a powerful union. 🗃️
November 22, 2024 at 11:39 PM
115 years ago today, thousands of garment workers, mostly women, went on a strike known as the "uprising of the 20,000." These women fought for both "Bread and Roses"-for their right to enjoy life. That strike not only turned women into a political power but also the ILGWU into a powerful union. 🗃️
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Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History- Lancaster University - History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History- Lancaster University - History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
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Visiting Research Fellowships at Glasgow University Library: incredible opportunity for my friends to come hang out with me!! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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November 22, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Visiting Research Fellowships at Glasgow University Library: incredible opportunity for my friends to come hang out with me!! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
Time for proper introductions! My name is Jessica P. Clark, but please— call me Jess.
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
Jessica Clark
Associate Professor 905 688 5550 x4303 jclark3@brocku.caJessica Clark (B.A., Trent; M.A., York; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins) teaches courses in the history of Britain and British colonialism, gender, s...
brocku.ca
November 22, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Time for proper introductions! My name is Jessica P. Clark, but please— call me Jess.
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
brocku.ca/humanities/h...
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Hey #Medievalsky, #PCRS, and #Shakerace
I have a book cover! From Penn's #RaceB4Race series!
Designed by Brad Foltz.
I am so freaking excited I could scream!
I have a book cover! From Penn's #RaceB4Race series!
Designed by Brad Foltz.
I am so freaking excited I could scream!
November 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Hey #Medievalsky, #PCRS, and #Shakerace
I have a book cover! From Penn's #RaceB4Race series!
Designed by Brad Foltz.
I am so freaking excited I could scream!
I have a book cover! From Penn's #RaceB4Race series!
Designed by Brad Foltz.
I am so freaking excited I could scream!
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How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM
How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
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Welcome to the Migration Museum, now on Bluesky. If you'd like to be part of their plans to create a permanent museum of migration stories (in the City of London, with regional pop-up hubs), do give them a follow. Or visit their 'All Our Stories' exhibition (& Migrant Makers' Market) in Lewisham.
Christian Sinibaldi's portrait of Allyson Williams MBE (left) is shortlisted for #PortraitofBritainAwards! This work is part of his commission for our Heart of the Nation exhibition, highlighting the contributions of people from all over the world who’ve worked in the #NHS over the past 75 years
November 22, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Welcome to the Migration Museum, now on Bluesky. If you'd like to be part of their plans to create a permanent museum of migration stories (in the City of London, with regional pop-up hubs), do give them a follow. Or visit their 'All Our Stories' exhibition (& Migrant Makers' Market) in Lewisham.
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Disability activist Betty Vernall-Jones, Clapham, London, 1938: 'Solidarity is essential. ... [We aim] to make this movement a national campaign - not for charity, but for the common rights of citizens; the right to consideration, and the right to work.’ #disabilityhistory #disabilityhistorymonth
November 22, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Disability activist Betty Vernall-Jones, Clapham, London, 1938: 'Solidarity is essential. ... [We aim] to make this movement a national campaign - not for charity, but for the common rights of citizens; the right to consideration, and the right to work.’ #disabilityhistory #disabilityhistorymonth
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Shoutout to the university press editor who just added a TON of books from their list to ours! If you're a UP editor in history/related fields, why not do the same? contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2024 publi...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Shoutout to the university press editor who just added a TON of books from their list to ours! If you're a UP editor in history/related fields, why not do the same? contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR073/s...
Thrilled that this opportunity at Strathclyde has been made possible through the Charlotte Lythe bequest.
Thrilled that this opportunity at Strathclyde has been made possible through the Charlotte Lythe bequest.
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow/Lythe Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Migration at University of Strathclyde
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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November 20, 2024 at 8:38 PM
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR073/s...
Thrilled that this opportunity at Strathclyde has been made possible through the Charlotte Lythe bequest.
Thrilled that this opportunity at Strathclyde has been made possible through the Charlotte Lythe bequest.
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Reminder: we prioritize pitches from people who've completed postgraduate work in history (or closely related fields) and who don't have tenure track employment. That means adjuncts and VAPs and postdocs, but also archivists, teachers, public historians, AND folks who don't do history as Their Job.
November 20, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Reminder: we prioritize pitches from people who've completed postgraduate work in history (or closely related fields) and who don't have tenure track employment. That means adjuncts and VAPs and postdocs, but also archivists, teachers, public historians, AND folks who don't do history as Their Job.
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👋 WELCOME New Followers! 👋
We're a @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social and the UK National Archives.
We're working with the public to transcribe ✍️25,000 English wills 📜 dating from 1540-1790
You can find out more here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
We're a @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social and the UK National Archives.
We're working with the public to transcribe ✍️25,000 English wills 📜 dating from 1540-1790
You can find out more here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790
*** VOLUNTEER ON THE PROJECT! CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE *** Welcome to our project. We're a team of researchers from the University of Exeter and The National Archives using wills to explore the
sites.exeter.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 AM
👋 WELCOME New Followers! 👋
We're a @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social and the UK National Archives.
We're working with the public to transcribe ✍️25,000 English wills 📜 dating from 1540-1790
You can find out more here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
We're a @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social and the UK National Archives.
We're working with the public to transcribe ✍️25,000 English wills 📜 dating from 1540-1790
You can find out more here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access.
Can't wait to share it all with you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Can't wait to share it all with you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access.
Can't wait to share it all with you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Can't wait to share it all with you.
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Really important thread on how Nova Scotia benefitted from plantation slavery - elsewhere. (Lit in #cdnhist emphasizes that yes, there were enslaved people in Canada but slavery was different in the colonies of British North America. This work shifts our attention and focus in crucial ways).
Nova Scotia history often includes some discussion of trade with the West Indies (the greater Caribbean). And our historians of slavery show that enslaved people in NS were bought and sold by white NSian traders in business with Caribbean counterparts. I have a story to add.
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October 24, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Really important thread on how Nova Scotia benefitted from plantation slavery - elsewhere. (Lit in #cdnhist emphasizes that yes, there were enslaved people in Canada but slavery was different in the colonies of British North America. This work shifts our attention and focus in crucial ways).