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Lucie Matthews-Jones
@luciejones83.bsky.social
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Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book. Looks at home, class & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she. Sharing her home office with 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛
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Had a really productive afternoon after at Liverpool’s Colonial Legacies’ event on archives & uncovering voices. The papers were thought provoking&stimulating (esp because mainly papers reflected on creative methods). I really liked the hands-on activity; tracing a Liverpool doorway from a photo
A pink booklet with black text behind it a traced photograph in black on tracing paper Text reads LIVERPOOL COLONIAL LEGACIES RESEARCH NETWORK WORK-IN-PROGRESS WORKSHOP APPROACHES TO THE ARCHIVES: UNCOVERING VOICES READING AGAINST THE GRAIN WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 12:30PM - 5:00PM LUMU, JOHN FOSTER BUILDING, 80-98 MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL, L3 5UZ
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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drhorrocks.bsky.social
BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) conference
The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, with the Centre for Port and Maritime History, are delighted to welcome BAVS delegates to Liverpool in 2026.
www.ljmu.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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gavmaclean.bsky.social
Judith Butler in 2021
As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. It threatens violence against those, including migrants, who have become cast as demonic forces and whose suppression or expulsion promises to restore a national order under duress.
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
‘School trip!’ enthusiastically declared my students when I told them earlier this week we were leaving off to Liverpool’s Walker Gallery. I’m such a fan of off site activities. It was defo welcomed as I enter another week with a cold and made all the better when 1 student told me ‘they loved it’!
A group of people surrounding a Victoria head bust A group of students looking at bronze statue A group of people looking onto a painting
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
It’s amazing to think that my 1st lecturing gig saw me use acetate sheets&overhead projectors & not 15 years later I’m being asked to increase my AI capabilities through an institutional AI Academy &chatbot. I can’t help feeling that somewhere there is a grumpy male academic rolling in their grave.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
Busy but brilliant week on the Divergent Minds in the Archive project: co-ran our "Accessing Archives and Collections" symposium Mon & Tues, now en route to Heriot-Watt to talk about our findings at the @edicaucus.bsky.social symposium! #Neurodiversity
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Today @riacheyne.bsky.social, @amfoster.bsky.social & I showcased our Divergent Minds in the Archive project. It a great event & lovely to be able to talk about what we’ve done from our data collection, graphics, accessibility guide & zines. Thanks to everyone who came & your lovely comments!
A slide with project partners logos and the title ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ with a photo in the corner of three white women.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
Today @riacheyne.bsky.social, @amfoster.bsky.social & I showcased our Divergent Minds in the Archive project. It a great event & lovely to be able to talk about what we’ve done from our data collection, graphics, accessibility guide & zines. Thanks to everyone who came & your lovely comments!
A slide with project partners logos and the title ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ with a photo in the corner of three white women.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
This afternoon I had one of my fav lectures: the Victorian Body. It’s interactive. I set up scholarship & prompts and then students look at archival material from @ljmu-sca.bsky.social. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful uni archive close to hand. Thanks Christopher for such great material!
A table with archive material and stacks behind A selection of archive books on a table A selection of fashion plates A selection of books on a table
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
Every Friday homeworker deserves to have a snuggly purring cat on their lap no
matter how uncomfortable it is. #proofofcat
A black white cat in the stretched legs of a woman whose legs are on a chair
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
Inspired by Matt Smith’s LGBTI Untold Story plates (pic 1) I asked my 2nd year gender history students to design and make plates based on the Oscar Wilde transcript they read in class. It was really good fun.
Matt smiths white and blue platters of Radcliffe & Una / Walt and Peter, Fanny & Stella A handwritten handout. Text reads Four plates with various designs
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
Still time to register for this free online event next week! With fantastic contributions from @nlisn.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @neurodiversemuseum.bsky.social @owenbarden.bsky.social @louisebell.bsky.social @sambrady.bsky.social and many more!
riacheyne.bsky.social Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 27d
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
“Among the fallen beech leaves”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
A red squirrel is pictured burying a nut at the foot of a beech tree while nearby we see a hen blackbird - and a jay flying overhead
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
🍂Crisp autumn park walks are the best park walks 🍁🍂
A water fountain showing a rainbow with trees behind and a very blue sky Various shades of yellow and orange leaves blue sky behind Trees in the background and firewood steams at the front. River in the middle
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
I’ve just been invited to give my first keynote paper. So I did what this email truly deserved I squealed at my desk and wrote my acceptance reply with a big smile on my face and that’s such a nice way to start my Friday…
November 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
When you’ve been away for a few days and your feline forever best friend wants to make sure that you haven’t forgotten them and that they are available for head scratches and chin rubs… #proofofcat
A black and white cat resting on a diary on a desk in front of a PC, pen pot and cup
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
How is the digital creative? Check out Jamie Wood’s article ‘Creativity&Historical Inquiry in Digital Spaces’. It’s the penultimate early view article for @cathfeely.bsky.social &my special issue on creative history for @hisjournalha.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
An abstract text reads Abstract This article posits that creativity should be recognized as an intrinsic element of history in higher education. It argues that creativity can be effectively fostered by engaging students in active learning in online spaces, highlighting the role of digital platforms as spaces for students to exercise choice, to produce work and to share their learning with others. Case studies from the history programme at the University of Lincoln demonstrate how this can be achieved on both macro and micro levels, through project-based learning as well as active engagement in reading through questioning. Activities of this kind foster skills such as independent research, collaboration and innovative presentation of history, engaging students in the production of historical knowledge, for themselves and for others. The article concludes that incorporating creative, digital-based tasks within history education not only aligns with core historical skills but also enriches students' overall learning experience by promoting autonomy, independent thought and intellectual maturity.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
Not sure if I’m mad or a fool but my request to bring back an exam for my third year module Victorian Cities has been signed off by all. Will anyone sign up for my module now? Will my bring your own-primary-sources-and-notes to the exam work? Who knows, everything rests with the exam gods now.
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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riacheyne.bsky.social
We've teamed up with @amfoster.bsky.social's brilliant 'Accessible Pasts, Equitable Future' project for a TWO day event (17-18 Nov) on archives, accessibility, neurodivergence and disability with some fantastic speakers.
Registration link in previous tweet, programme below.
Accessing Archives and Collections Symposium - Programme
Last updated 16.10.25 - please check back as we continue to confirm speakers! Register here by 13th November (24th October if you require BSL interpretation) Accessing Archives and Collection Sympos...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
Today I visited the stunning Tyntesfield in Somerset, a @nationaltrust.org.uk house financed by Peruvian bird poo. Remodelled in 1864 it is a striking gothic building. Real credit to the thought provoking exhib on how William Gibbs got his money & the human &environmental effects of the guano trade
Panel of a side profile of the house text reads Costing the earth It's 1855. A woman steps into her local bakery. She hands over a penny for a fresh loaf of bread. She thanks the baker and walks home, unaware that the wheat used to bake the bread was grown using Peruvian guano, mined by Chinese labourers working in dangerous slavery-like conditions. The objects in this room were bought, collected and used by four generations of the Gibbs family. For some, we've offered a possible cost to people, or to the planet. These are not definitive accounts but suggestions to prompt reflection on the complex stories behind everyday things. Many of these things also brought benefits. Guano, for example, helped boost food production to feed Victorian Britain's growing cities. The real story is rarely simple. Every object reflects a web of impacts, positive and negative - shaped by the time, the place, and the people behind it. A wooden panel board with a waist coast in it with the text Embroidered silk waistcoat, 1820 Turn over to discover a cost to people, or to the planet. Object placed behind it Same board turned over with text that reads Cost? Silk production is energy intensive with a high carbon footprint; workers face exploitation and silk worms are often boiled alive. Waist coat behind
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
victorianist.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
luciejones83.bsky.social
@emvchung.bsky.social lovely to see your research in the Guardian. I’m even more pleased to see there’s an article too! Congrats!
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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historygriffin.bsky.social
Behind the sensationalised headline, there’s some excellent and fascinating research here.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
luciejones83.bsky.social
I am today’s workplace hero because it was I who sent an email to nearly 950 recipients suggesting that we start using the BCC line to avoid ‘reply alls’. It was gallantly done and much appreciated by those that send me emails and stopped me in the corridor!
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October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM