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Dr. Sophie Turbutt
@sophie-turbutt.bsky.social
Historian of Spanish anarchism: gender, comradeship, intimacy, emotions 📚
☆LAHRI Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
☆History Workshop Editorial Fellow
☆Global Opportunities @ Uni of York 🌏
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Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.
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How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️
Friends in Common
How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
👇! (I'm so grateful to @lahri.bsky.social for this opportunity!)
This month we welcome eight new Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows who have recently completed their PhD in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. You can find out about the fascinating projects they'll be pursuing over the next twelve months on our website: lahri.leeds.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
Visiting Fellows | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute
lahri.leeds.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My #SHSConf2025 highlights:

1. Presenting my research alongside the absolute Dream Team that is @constancebantman.bsky.social, @lauracforster.bsky.social, Nat Andrews, Richard Cleminson, & @clivehenry.bsky.social

2. Smashing the throw-beanbags-at-tin-cans game at the funfair

3. Pub quiz victory😎
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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📢¡NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN! "Mujeres frente a la miseria. Historia y memoria de la supervivencia femenina (1936-1952)", editado por Alba Martínez y Gloria Román, y publicado en @marcialpons.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
New profile pic 😉
Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌
May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.
May 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963
The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871
Abstract. The Paris Commune in Britain is a book about radical ideas, and the people and places that make them. It is about how ideas are forged, propagate
academic.oup.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Submitted my PhD thesis today!🥳 (eek!)
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A different way to see Barcelona! "The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War" Tues and Fri+occasssional others, 10am, 35euros/person, 4hrs+. Also private tours on the SCW and Orwell's Barcelona Moltes gràcies info@spanishcivilwartours.com to book. thespanishcivilwar.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Excited to share the call for papers for our multidisciplinary workshop ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’ (also on our website: tinyurl.com/34vbucud). Please share widely!
⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2025
#histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM
December 17, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Ahh the perfect soundtrack to the final year of my PhD in Spanish history
December 4, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Looking for radical histories on Bluesky?

We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for.

Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added.
🗃️ & ✊🗃️

go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV
Radical Histories
Join the conversation
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December 3, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Would anyone be interested (or know someone who'd be interested) in collaborating on a SHS 2025 panel proposal on emotions & gender in the history of social/political movements? Reach out via comments/DMs! Pls share!😊
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!

Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️

Please share widely!

socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...
Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, th...
www.routledge.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries.
#dishist #disability
www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...
Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “For disability, see infirmities” — Archives & Records Association
In this guest blog Professor Lucy Delap reflects on the challenges even experienced users of archives faced when searching for disability and Deaf histories.  Currently completing a book project ...
www.archives.org.uk
November 30, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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@profrichfg.bsky.social this'll get you going. There's an emotion research one too in my profile. go.bsky.app/EqzZWma
November 28, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Would anyone be interested (or know someone who'd be interested) in collaborating on a SHS 2025 panel proposal on emotions & gender in the history of social/political movements? Reach out via comments/DMs! Pls share!😊
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!

Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️

Please share widely!

socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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⏰ Please share far and wide, #foodhistory and #foodstudies friends: The CFP for the Amsterdam Food Symposium 2025 is out ⏰

This is a very special year, as it coincides with the 750th anniv. of Amsterdam and an exhibition on the history of food in Amsterdam.

allardpierson.nl/en/news/call...
Call for papers: Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2025
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is: Food and the City
allardpierson.nl
November 18, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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¡Si no quieres perderte a nadie de "Twitter Historia" durante el éxodo este es tu Starter Pack! Aquí puedes seguir a toda la divulgación histórica en español. ¿Faltas tú o alguien que conoces? No hay problema, coméntalo y el pack será actualizado. ¡Bienvenidos a #BlueskyHistoria!

go.bsky.app/L8HA64
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Je viens de créer cette modeste liste pour essayer de regrouper les hispanistes de tous les horizons qui viennent de rejoindre Bluesky, n'hésitez pas à me demander de vous ajouter!
November 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded.

You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout.

go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj
November 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!

Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️

Please share widely!

socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Post you from a different era:

Me, aged 16, on a museum work experience day at the @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social in Worcester.
(Me, aged 26, is now finishing a PhD in History!)
November 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM