Jane Hamlett

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
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Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Fellowship Opportunity!

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College

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History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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'We're Hiring! Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer' over an image of leatherbound Records of Buckinghamshire on a shelf.

Want to help preserve the county's history? We're recruiting an Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer to our team!

Head to the link below for more information.

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The James Ford Lectures in British History The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

Prof @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain.

Thursdays, 5pm
Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term

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Legacies and Lessons from the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 - Economic History Society This blog post by Mike Power (Oxford Brookes University) reflects research supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. The research will form part of their PhD the...

My PhD student Mike Power has written a great blog for the @echistsoc.bsky.social... Which very kindly helped to fund this research. The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 was a key moment in so many ways: take a look!
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Events Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

Full schedule for this term's 40+ seminars (free and open to the public) here. If you're studying, researching or just interested in History, have a look, and do book. Most seminars can be attended virtually; many are hybrid and you are welcome to join the Institute's London audience in person. 2/2

Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Dan Breeze (@danielbreeze.com), who this week passed his PhD viva with no corrections. His thesis, Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt, was examined by @janehamlett.bsky.social and @msadams.bsky.social.

The London Journal Volume 50, Issue 3 of The London Journal

Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

A pile of hardback copies of my book Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918. The cover shows the second office of the UK Temperance & General Provident Institution at the City end of London Bridge, with the Thames behind it.

...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here:
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I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February...

@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.

We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians

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New on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’
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Delighted to have our book reviewed on the @whaireland.bsky.social book review page #history #speirgorm

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Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

Addison Act semi-detached council housing

Wheatley Act terraced housing

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’
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Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

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Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

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and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)!

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Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 62 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 248 people newly associated with the Society, f...

We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV

We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!

UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.

Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?

Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!

Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London

Apply by 23 Sept:
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(Standing) Xavier Jou-Badal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) on Gender and Mobility in the Chocolate Factory. Barcelona, 1910-1914; Jenny Smart (Cambridge) on Climacteric Insanity in the Derbyshire and Norfolk county asylums, 1845-1914; Jennie Kiff (Lincoln) on Unravelling “...a knot of women…”: women’s networks and the Bradford branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union; Kate Hart (Birkbeck) on Marching for Change: How Have Women’s Experiences of Local Masculinities Influenced Their Protest Agency in France and Britain? Case Studies from 1981-1983; (Sitting) Florentine Friedrich (Lincoln) on ‘Take Thee to a Nunnery': Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century; Louise Dobson (Sussex) on Janet Flanner, New Journalism, and the Politics of anti-Communism at the New Yorker

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Abstract By the mid-twentieth century, the pet shop was an established feature of London’s retail landscape. Pet shops presented themselves as modern, hygienic, and compassionate spaces that used the kerb appeal of furry animals to lure consumers onto their premises. This article tracks the boom in pet sales across the capital from the early nineteenth century, through street trade, markets and, increasingly, shops. Animals figured as part of the consumer culture of spectatorship and display promoted by the new department stores. Older sites of pet sale were reconfigured as tourist attractions but were simultaneously criticised by observers who argued that they were problematic for animal welfare. From the early twentieth century, traders recognised the need to counteract these narratives. Shops began to use the word ‘pet’ in their titles and marketed themselves as animal welfare friendly environments with a special appeal for children. Older forms of animal retailing remained popular, however, with markets and stalls clustering in the East End.

And rounding off this section of the journal is '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston, and available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥