Sophie Michell
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
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Hello new followers. I am an OOC funded PhD candidate at the Open University working on 19thC English inquests from a criminal justice/social history/microhistory perspective.
I'm in my final year so expect increasingly fraught blathering.
I'm in my final year so expect increasingly fraught blathering.
THE JOY of writing methodology statements in history. "I read everything and then FIGURED IT OUT"
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
THE JOY of writing methodology statements in history. "I read everything and then FIGURED IT OUT"
I went to do a talk to my local Age UK group about railways and they have ordered me to come back with a murder next time
My brand, guys
My brand, guys
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I went to do a talk to my local Age UK group about railways and they have ordered me to come back with a murder next time
My brand, guys
My brand, guys
The nice thing about living here is that I can hear the trains on the ECML and I just heard a steam whistle
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The nice thing about living here is that I can hear the trains on the ECML and I just heard a steam whistle
OF COURSE a scaffold tower is being built on the house adjoining mine on the ONE DAY I am home alone and have shitloads to do, OF COURSE
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
OF COURSE a scaffold tower is being built on the house adjoining mine on the ONE DAY I am home alone and have shitloads to do, OF COURSE
Reposted by Sophie Michell
where to start
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
where to start
I need to cut my 17.5k lit review down to about 8k and my husband suggested chopping every other word.
Yeah, fuck it.
Yeah, fuck it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I need to cut my 17.5k lit review down to about 8k and my husband suggested chopping every other word.
Yeah, fuck it.
Yeah, fuck it.
If you average out all the inquests taken in the least inquesty-year of 1858... it works out to one inquest held every half hour.
If you use the most-inquesty year of 1901, there is one inquest held every ten minutes.
If you use the most-inquesty year of 1901, there is one inquest held every ten minutes.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you average out all the inquests taken in the least inquesty-year of 1858... it works out to one inquest held every half hour.
If you use the most-inquesty year of 1901, there is one inquest held every ten minutes.
If you use the most-inquesty year of 1901, there is one inquest held every ten minutes.
What in the 1834 is this?
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What in the 1834 is this?
Unhelpful comments made by Old Me assuming Current Me would not have a brain entirely made of soup: an occasional series
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Unhelpful comments made by Old Me assuming Current Me would not have a brain entirely made of soup: an occasional series
Five years since the greatest act of robbery the OU has ever known
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Five years since the greatest act of robbery the OU has ever known
*CLANGS THE INQUEST BELL*
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
*CLANGS THE INQUEST BELL*
Gotta cite myself in my lit review.
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Gotta cite myself in my lit review.
@cbuckthorn.bsky.social IMAGINE the Mum version of this.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@cbuckthorn.bsky.social IMAGINE the Mum version of this.
Although I am EXTREMELY deep in thesis editing/writing/assemblage... I still have a Friday murder for you... because I was sensible, and wrote up a bunch in September.
ANYWAY, gather round for a tale of misery in Liverpool, 1883.
ANYWAY, gather round for a tale of misery in Liverpool, 1883.
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Although I am EXTREMELY deep in thesis editing/writing/assemblage... I still have a Friday murder for you... because I was sensible, and wrote up a bunch in September.
ANYWAY, gather round for a tale of misery in Liverpool, 1883.
ANYWAY, gather round for a tale of misery in Liverpool, 1883.
Love to explain my own endometrial thickness to the GP
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Love to explain my own endometrial thickness to the GP
I have to go out in the raaaainnnn
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I have to go out in the raaaainnnn
Brain is so full of thesis but every now and then reminds me that La Roux is June Ackland off The Bill's daughter
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Brain is so full of thesis but every now and then reminds me that La Roux is June Ackland off The Bill's daughter
Me vs Word Count
a video game screen shows scorpion and sub-zero fighting each other in round 1
Alt: a video game screen shows scorpion and sub-zero fighting each other in round 1
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Me vs Word Count
Husband got me a Lalique necklace for our 15yr anniversary
a woman is wearing a fur coat and a dress .
Alt: Angela Lansbury is wearing a fur coat and a dress saying Your Girl Is Bougie
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Husband got me a Lalique necklace for our 15yr anniversary
This week in "my eldest son discovers horror films and watches them on his day off", I have to try and work while he squeals his way through Ring [original]
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This week in "my eldest son discovers horror films and watches them on his day off", I have to try and work while he squeals his way through Ring [original]
I woke up cheerful for the first time in AGES, and now have to edit several thousand words on managing suicidality in the 19th century.
Woop.
Woop.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I woke up cheerful for the first time in AGES, and now have to edit several thousand words on managing suicidality in the 19th century.
Woop.
Woop.
If you liked me banging on about railway death, you'll LOVE Mike doing the same thing.
This will be great!
This will be great!
🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If you liked me banging on about railway death, you'll LOVE Mike doing the same thing.
This will be great!
This will be great!
Ooh, interesting 1921 Census snippet. A return is marked
"Copy. Original paper was burned: fever in the house"
Now, how the bloody hell did they know that?
"Copy. Original paper was burned: fever in the house"
Now, how the bloody hell did they know that?
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ooh, interesting 1921 Census snippet. A return is marked
"Copy. Original paper was burned: fever in the house"
Now, how the bloody hell did they know that?
"Copy. Original paper was burned: fever in the house"
Now, how the bloody hell did they know that?
I want to know why Liquorpond Street in Boston (not Boston) is so named. WAS THERE A POND OF LIQUOR? ENQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW.
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I want to know why Liquorpond Street in Boston (not Boston) is so named. WAS THERE A POND OF LIQUOR? ENQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW.
This has reminded me to obtain the jam calendar
The jam calendar is extremely worth it
The jam calendar is extremely worth it
everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This has reminded me to obtain the jam calendar
The jam calendar is extremely worth it
The jam calendar is extremely worth it