Dr Victoria Dawson
@vsdawson.bsky.social
Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Please let me recommend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social to you. Hiding in Plain Sight will be the perfect next book! To say it's revelatory is an understatement. It's also marvellously written.
July 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Please let me recommend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social to you. Hiding in Plain Sight will be the perfect next book! To say it's revelatory is an understatement. It's also marvellously written.
My copy arrived this morning. This is the printed article.
June 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My copy arrived this morning. This is the printed article.
Join @collinstony.bsky.social on Wed 25 June at 6:30pm at
@hullhistorycentre.bsky.social for a talk and Q&A to celebrate the publication of his new biography, Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader. Email hullhistorycentre@hcandl.co.uk for tickets. #RugbyLeague
@hullhistorycentre.bsky.social for a talk and Q&A to celebrate the publication of his new biography, Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader. Email hullhistorycentre@hcandl.co.uk for tickets. #RugbyLeague
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Join @collinstony.bsky.social on Wed 25 June at 6:30pm at
@hullhistorycentre.bsky.social for a talk and Q&A to celebrate the publication of his new biography, Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader. Email hullhistorycentre@hcandl.co.uk for tickets. #RugbyLeague
@hullhistorycentre.bsky.social for a talk and Q&A to celebrate the publication of his new biography, Roy Francis: Rugby’s Forgotten Black Leader. Email hullhistorycentre@hcandl.co.uk for tickets. #RugbyLeague
Pay up, trillionaires! #DoTheWriteThing #Meta
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Pay up, trillionaires! #DoTheWriteThing #Meta
As an independent historian I pay to do my research from my own pocket. Meta can bloody well pay for my work and everyone else's.
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves
April 2, 2025 at 7:32 PM
As an independent historian I pay to do my research from my own pocket. Meta can bloody well pay for my work and everyone else's.
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves
'If it's a big game on a big stage, Warrington are going to bottle it.'
March 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
'If it's a big game on a big stage, Warrington are going to bottle it.'
I see Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral candidate Luke Campbell's gold telephone box is telling it like it is! 😂
March 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I see Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral candidate Luke Campbell's gold telephone box is telling it like it is! 😂
'Rugby league is so much better than rugby union.'
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
'Rugby league is so much better than rugby union.'
@rwldproject.bsky.social This has appeared in Hull's Paragon Station, commemorating the crash of 14 February 1927. Thought you might like to see it.
February 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@rwldproject.bsky.social This has appeared in Hull's Paragon Station, commemorating the crash of 14 February 1927. Thought you might like to see it.
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
Mine with thanks to @effinbirds.com!
Mine with thanks to @effinbirds.com!
December 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
Mine with thanks to @effinbirds.com!
Mine with thanks to @effinbirds.com!
This will never not be my favourite Victorian Christmas card. Merry Christmas to you all!
December 24, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This will never not be my favourite Victorian Christmas card. Merry Christmas to you all!
Carrying this today. I first painted this slogan on a bedsheet in 2013 to oppose the EDL.
August 10, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Carrying this today. I first painted this slogan on a bedsheet in 2013 to oppose the EDL.
Here is Marlowe. She is the feline blind bell-ball football team's goalkeeper extraordinaire. Named after playwright Christopher who was stabbed in the eye in a pub in Deptford. #ProofOfCat
January 27, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Here is Marlowe. She is the feline blind bell-ball football team's goalkeeper extraordinaire. Named after playwright Christopher who was stabbed in the eye in a pub in Deptford. #ProofOfCat