Lucie Matthews-Jones
@luciejones83.bsky.social
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 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
‘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’!
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
‘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’!
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!
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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!
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!
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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!
Every Friday homeworker deserves to have a snuggly purring cat on their lap no
matter how uncomfortable it is. #proofofcat
matter how uncomfortable it is. #proofofcat
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every Friday homeworker deserves to have a snuggly purring cat on their lap no
matter how uncomfortable it is. #proofofcat
matter how uncomfortable it is. #proofofcat
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.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.
🍂Crisp autumn park walks are the best park walks 🍁🍂
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🍂Crisp autumn park walks are the best park walks 🍁🍂
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
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
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/...
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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/...
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
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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
I’ve just been sent a certification for presenting and attending a conference. Finally, I have a reason to populate my
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve just been sent a certification for presenting and attending a conference. Finally, I have a reason to populate my
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
National Record of Achievement so more certificates higher education peeps please!
I used to feel uncomfortable with silence in the classroom, but I strangely enjoy them when I ask students to be creative because they suggest real concentration. Today this happened when they made blackout poetry from Mona Caird’s Morality of Marriage. This is a fab exercise for close reading.
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I used to feel uncomfortable with silence in the classroom, but I strangely enjoy them when I ask students to be creative because they suggest real concentration. Today this happened when they made blackout poetry from Mona Caird’s Morality of Marriage. This is a fab exercise for close reading.
My cat Bluebell is writing a detailed and through treatise on the principle of being an office based based cat. #proofofcat
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My cat Bluebell is writing a detailed and through treatise on the principle of being an office based based cat. #proofofcat
I was up early today to virtually join the History Education, Diversity, and Inclusion conf. I had a blast giving my paper on Creativity in the history classroom. Like most academics in week 4 I was hugging a lemsip. I loved Sarah Holland & @amfoster.bsky.social’s papers about disability inclusion!🙌🏻
October 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I was up early today to virtually join the History Education, Diversity, and Inclusion conf. I had a blast giving my paper on Creativity in the history classroom. Like most academics in week 4 I was hugging a lemsip. I loved Sarah Holland & @amfoster.bsky.social’s papers about disability inclusion!🙌🏻
Today I arrived in class to students having an animated convo about this week’s primary source reading. They seemed shocked by Jack’s mother’s behaviour to Beatie. It kicked started a lovely seminar on courtship&love. It really cemented a feeling I have right now that post-pandemic teaching is back.
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today I arrived in class to students having an animated convo about this week’s primary source reading. They seemed shocked by Jack’s mother’s behaviour to Beatie. It kicked started a lovely seminar on courtship&love. It really cemented a feeling I have right now that post-pandemic teaching is back.
Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
October 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Part 1 of McEwan’s What we can know is amazing. It follows its protagonist’s attempts to find a lost 2014 poem. Set in 2119 when much of Britain is submerged under water, it feels like a love letter to the quirks & pitfalls of historical researcher esp know that the bodleian is on top of Snowdonia
Today I headed into Liverpool’s fabric district by my uni to replenish my seminar sewing supplies 🪡 🧵 . I end up discovering the amazing Abakhan Fabrics, where I wished that I was more crafty. The whole area had some incredible street art. This was genuinely a lovely way to prep for class tomorrow.
October 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today I headed into Liverpool’s fabric district by my uni to replenish my seminar sewing supplies 🪡 🧵 . I end up discovering the amazing Abakhan Fabrics, where I wished that I was more crafty. The whole area had some incredible street art. This was genuinely a lovely way to prep for class tomorrow.
‘I wish we had another hour’/ ‘This is so much fun’/ ‘I’m finding this calming’. All the things my students said today in my c19th gender seminar where they made scrapbook pages based on conduct literature extracts. This is 1 of my fav sessions. I’ve got really good vibes for this year!
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘I wish we had another hour’/ ‘This is so much fun’/ ‘I’m finding this calming’. All the things my students said today in my c19th gender seminar where they made scrapbook pages based on conduct literature extracts. This is 1 of my fav sessions. I’ve got really good vibes for this year!
Yday @riacheyne.bsky.social & I marked the end of Disabled Researchers Network at LJMU by running an event showing what we’ve done &future directions. It’s been a privilege to led on this work the last 2 years. Still more needs to be done but I’m proud I did something! www.ljmu.ac.uk/ris/research...
September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yday @riacheyne.bsky.social & I marked the end of Disabled Researchers Network at LJMU by running an event showing what we’ve done &future directions. It’s been a privilege to led on this work the last 2 years. Still more needs to be done but I’m proud I did something! www.ljmu.ac.uk/ris/research...
Last night I saw Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell, a dance production inspired by the characters of Patrick Hamilton’s novels (including Hangover Square). I thought it was wonderful & mesmerising to see the interconnected stories of the down-and-out, lovelorn & lonely punters of a 1930s Soho pub.
September 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Last night I saw Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell, a dance production inspired by the characters of Patrick Hamilton’s novels (including Hangover Square). I thought it was wonderful & mesmerising to see the interconnected stories of the down-and-out, lovelorn & lonely punters of a 1930s Soho pub.
She’s not the main reason I haven’t written my conference paper, but she’s certainly an obstacle and cute one at that.
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
She’s not the main reason I haven’t written my conference paper, but she’s certainly an obstacle and cute one at that.
The 3rd article for our Creative History in the Classroom is out by laura Harrison & @drrosewallis.bsky.social. It’s a great read on creativity as inclusive community making & #unessay. It’s also a powerful reminder about the current state of HE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #skyistorians
September 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The 3rd article for our Creative History in the Classroom is out by laura Harrison & @drrosewallis.bsky.social. It’s a great read on creativity as inclusive community making & #unessay. It’s also a powerful reminder about the current state of HE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #skyistorians
When my nephew wasn’t talking about football or try to get me to play football with him this week I took my chance to chat to him about history (his fav subject). Here’s me explaining the significance of covered entrances for carriages because it’s important that all six-year-olds know this stuff.
August 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
When my nephew wasn’t talking about football or try to get me to play football with him this week I took my chance to chat to him about history (his fav subject). Here’s me explaining the significance of covered entrances for carriages because it’s important that all six-year-olds know this stuff.
Threads of Protest exhibition at Southport’s Atkinson’s art gallery was striking. It explored childbirth &pregnancy. A powerful reminder of women’s creative work &the subversion role of crafting. The large quilt was made of 1000 crochet squares sent in. theatkinson.co.uk/exhibition/t...
August 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Threads of Protest exhibition at Southport’s Atkinson’s art gallery was striking. It explored childbirth &pregnancy. A powerful reminder of women’s creative work &the subversion role of crafting. The large quilt was made of 1000 crochet squares sent in. theatkinson.co.uk/exhibition/t...
I’ve started a novel from 1950 & I’m finding it rather cute. It’s about a man who rans away with a married woman & decides to run a tea shop from their falling down cottage. The best part is that all the chapter titles reference tea. I can’t wait to read ‘cold tea may be endured, but not cold looks’
August 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve started a novel from 1950 & I’m finding it rather cute. It’s about a man who rans away with a married woman & decides to run a tea shop from their falling down cottage. The best part is that all the chapter titles reference tea. I can’t wait to read ‘cold tea may be endured, but not cold looks’
I’m sorry I haven’t done that thing I was too distracted #proofofcat
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I’m sorry I haven’t done that thing I was too distracted #proofofcat