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jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Still time to send in your proposals! @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
jessicareinisch.bsky.social Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · Mar 28
An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!
April 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
#London and London environs folks: I'll be talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY AT @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on Monday April 28! Register to attend.

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
In which I get over-excited and grumpy and reflect on what #DopeGirls tells us about how we (mis)remember #20s30s Britain today.

Thanks to @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social @chriskempshall.bsky.social @anguswallace.bsky.social for asking me onto the podcast and humouring my obsessions.
owalpodcast.bsky.social Oh! What a Lovely Podcast @owalpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 1
What was the real story behind the BBC series Dope Girls?

This month we're joined by @tricksterprince.bsky.social to explore the real figures & stories, the shifting social post-war landscape, & the era’s struggles with gender, crime, & morality. 🗃️

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Dope Girls
What was the real story behind the BBC series Dope Girls? In this episode of Oh What a Lovely Podcast, we dive into the world of Soho’s underground nightlife in the 1920s, as seen in the...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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jessicareinisch.bsky.social
An exciting date for your diaries: the first Birkbeck-QMUL Historical Studies Graduate Symposium will take place on 18 June, on the theme of "methodologies in historical research". BBK PhD students @bbkhistorical.bsky.social & @qmul.ac.uk do send your proposals for 5 or 15 minute papers by 30 April!
March 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
This was a conversation w/ @leahredmondchang.bsky.social, @fatricky.bsky.social, @carolinepennock.bsky.social, and @tamaraw.bsky.social. Book info and some buying links are at the link below. Get 30% off w/ UCPSAVE30 on the @ucpress.bsky.social site!
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Screenshot of a web hompage banner. Top-left, in a row: the University of California Press name and red logo followed by menu options. Main image: a bright, crimson-red background with a spiderwebby or cracked-mirror pattern in thin black lines. A white square on the left, with text: Humans: A Monstrous History. A History Through Monsters. A history of how humans have created monsters… and what these monsters tell us about humanities present and future. Learn more -> 1/3 On the right, a book cover design: an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, “HUMANS”,curved around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies.
March 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM