Dr Mary Katherine Newman
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Dr Mary Katherine Newman
@maryknewman.bsky.social
PhD in Colonial Spanish American Literature @Oxford
Incoming Quirk Postdoctoral Fellow @UCL

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How does one start a new field of history?

For centuries historians have overlooked the history of Romani Americans.

Ann Ostendorf shows how it is the responsibility of all of us to help solve the case of (the) missing Romani American history. 

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The Case of the Missing Romani American History
Investigate why Romani history is often overlooked in America and the detrimental effects on both Romani identity and scholarship.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples?

Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories.

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Indigenous Historical Practices
Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.
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May 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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As the war in Ukraine continues to dominate global headlines, we bring you Jo Laycock's article from our archives.

Jo offers a historical framework through which to understand displacements from and in Ukraine.

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Ukraine: Histories and Boundaries of a Refugee Crisis
As its people flee Ukraine following Russia's invasion, Jo Laycock offers a historical framework through which to understand displacements from and in Ukraine. Can exploring longer trajectories of displacement help refugees make sense of…
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March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Does anyone have access to the book: Italian masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo Del Prado, 2014?

I just need to know how many pages the section on Ribera's El Tacto is for my citations!

#arthistory #historyhelp

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Italian masterpieces from Spain's Royal Court, Museo Del Prado | WorldCat.org
This publication presents works by more than seventy artists, including Michelangelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Tintoretto, the Carracci, Poussin and Tiepolo. Their inclusion reflects the taste of t
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March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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'Without the efforts of ‘freelance’ underground operatives like Glory and Virginia, it is possible that it might have taken South Africa longer to gain its independence.'

Tshepo Moloi explores the history of South Africa's forgotten liberators.

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‘Freelance’ Underground Operatives: Forgotten Liberators in South Africa
What role did 'freelance' underground operatives play in defeating apartheid in South Africa? Tshepo Moloi on a mother and daughter who crossed borders and languages
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February 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"I discovered Durham’s [1983] talk to the History Workshop just weeks after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States – and the historical insights it offers feel uncannily relevant today."

Daniel Jones on revisiting Martin Durham's early research on women and fascism 🗃
Women in the British Union of Fascists
Why are women drawn to fascist ideologies and movements? The timely rediscovery of Martin Durham's talk - given to History Workshop in 1983, looking back to the 1930s - speaks to pressing questions to...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Thank you @newsagents.bsky.social for a fantastic evening last night! The perfect way for @maryknewman.bsky.social and I to celebrate our 3 year anniversary.
Brilliant to cap the trip off by bumping into @lewisgoodall.com in the hotel lift this morning!

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February 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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What happens when we try to preserve the peddlers' calls which made up the soundscape of Peking?

As Odila Schröder writes 'As is the case with most local art forms, the process of heritagisation has fundamentally changed the art form itself'.

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Noise, Nostalgia, and the Sound of Beijing’s Peddlers
What happens in the process of preserving the 'sounds of old Beijing'? Odila Schröder explores the heritagisation of Beijing's peddler calls.
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February 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The first article in @inoutofpractice.bsky.social's new series (From Place to Place) is out and it's such as fascinating piece if you're a scholar of soundscapes like me!

Can we preserve a soundscape? What happens to those sounds when we try?

Fantastic article ft. great illustrations!
Peddlers’ calls have a long tradition in Beijing: Once performed by street vendors to attract customers, these sounds are now understood as a unique type of ‘street theatre’.

Odila Schröder on the soundmark of Beijing's peddlers:

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Noise, Nostalgia, and the Sound of Beijing’s Peddlers
What happens in the process of preserving the 'sounds of old Beijing'? Odila Schröder explores the heritagisation of Beijing's peddler calls.
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February 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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When mudlarkers explore the foreshore of the Thames one of their main finds is printer's type.

But what can these finds tell us about the radical history of printing?

Peter Wollweber investigates what we can learn from these discoveries.

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Radical Object: Printer's Type from the Thames Foreshore
If you go down to the Thames today, you're sure of a big surprise - printer's type. Peter Wollweber unpacks its radical history.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive - travesties, marinas, and gays - contribute to Argentina’s recent legalisation of abortion?

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No uterus, no opinion? Travestis, Gays & Maricas’ Activism for the Abortion Legalization in Argentina
How did the movements for bodily autonomy by those without the capacity to conceive - travestis, maricas, and gays – contribute to Argentina's recent legalization of abortion? Marce Butierrez and Patricio Simonetto trace the genealogy of…
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February 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Elly Robson is joined by Nazmia Jamal and Syeda Ali to discuss queer education: the violent silence of Section 28, how it was resisted, and what lessons we can draw from it today.

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Queer Education: Section 28 and its Legacies
Elly Robson is joined by Nazmia Jamal and Syeda Ali to discuss queer education: the violent silence of Section 28, how it was resisted, and what lessons we can draw from it today.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Jessica Hinchy writes on how colonial officials sought to eliminate and ‘fix’ the gender identity of ‘Hijras’, who are often termed ‘transgender’, and the contemporary resonance of this process.

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“Registers of eunuchs” in colonial India
Jessica Hinchy writes on how colonial officials sought to eliminate and 'fix' the gender identity of 'Hijras', who are often termed 'transgender', and the contemporary resonance of this process.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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What is gained when 20th century Queer history is brought into the classroom? Claire Holliss discusses her experience of visiting the archives to find sources for her A-Level students.

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20th Century Queer History in the Archives and the Curriculum
What is gained when 20th century Queer history is brought into the classroom? Claire Holliss discusses her experience of visiting the archive to find sources for her A-Level students.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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What can the biography of William McIlroy, a gay humanist from post-war Northern Ireland, tell us about the negotiation of non-conforming in the face of inflexible religious conservatism?

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Queerness and Atheism in Post-War Ireland
What can the biography of William Mcllroy, a gay humanist from post-war Northern Ireland, tell us about the negotiation of non-conforming identities in the face of inflexible religious conservatism? Charlie Lynch investigates the…
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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How can oral history interviews between different generations of LGBTQ+ people aid our understanding of the ongoing impact of Section 28?

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Intergenerational Oral History and Section 28
How can oral history interviews between different generations of LGBTQ+ people aid our understanding of the ongoing impact of Section 28?
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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How have Indigenous and queer traditions of resistance come together in the celebration of Pride on the Norwegian-Russian border?

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Rainbow Mass
How have queer and indigenous traditions of resistance come together to celebrate Pride on the Norwegian-Russian border?
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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John Marnell on MaThoko’s old post box, which played an important role as a key communication node for the nascent LGBT movement in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Radical Objects: MaThoko’s Post Box & the Birth of the Black LGBT Movement in South Africa
John Marnell on MaThoko’s old post box, which played an important role as a key communication node for the nascent LGBT movement in South Africa during the 1980s and 1990s.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month.

In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn.

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#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth

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Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive
Laura Forster is joined by Ajamu X and E-J Scott to discuss public history, the queer archive, and what it means to queer the museum.
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February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'?

Editorial Fellow Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories called From Place to Place:

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From Place to Place
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'? Vivien Chan introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories.
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January 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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It's a big day!

This intro took a while to put together, a lot of ideas, and lots of thoughts on itinerance while 'wandering and working' in some ways myself... plus I realise definitions are difficult and scary!

I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts! DMs are open!
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'?

Editorial Fellow Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories called From Place to Place:

www.historyworkshop....
From Place to Place
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'? Vivien Chan introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
My fantastic colleague at @historywo.bsky.social, Vivien Chan (@inoutofpractice.bsky.social) has just launched this incredible new series - 'From Place to Place'! Check out the introductory article:

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From Place to Place
What radical histories can be found in 'working and wandering'? Vivien Chan introduces a new History Workshop series on itinerant histories.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Just one week to go until AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium!

4 February 10:30 to 15:00
Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College

Register online to attend:

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January 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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At History Workshop, we have a long history of publishing articles on the history of food and eating.

From the history of the pineapple to the legacy of the soon-to-close Smithfield meat market, this🧵 is sure to make you hungry (for history)!

(Part 1)

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December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM