@helenantro.bsky.social
📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once). 🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
It's 100 years since the General Strike!
If you are interested in women's history, trade union history and are around Manchester, do join us for a morning of talks, tea and banners (of course) on 14th March at the Mechanics Institute.
FREE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
I remember posting this headline before the US election and someone said to me: “what happened to you?! You used to be the weird medical historian and now you have TDS. We don’t want your political opinions.” As if a historian could stay quiet in this moment.
Anyway, keep shouting everyone.
It's 100 years since the General Strike!
If you are interested in women's history, trade union history and are around Manchester, do join us for a morning of talks, tea and banners (of course) on 14th March at the Mechanics Institute.
FREE
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
You can still REGISTER to join me @womenshistnet.bsky.social Conference 📢
Thurs 4 & Fri 5 Sep 2025
This year 'tis FREE 💰 & online 🖥️
Looking forward to @helenantro.bsky.social @satisfactory20.bsky.social among many others!
A #WomensHistory feast of papers
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
You know what the best part of my job is? Being in museums before they open
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
Intruiged by a graveyard of ships, local hauntings and some marine archaeology? Listen to the latest episode of #BackWhen, the @nationaltrust.org.uk history podcast! www.instagram.com/reel/DKOvBrJ...
This week in 1584 Manchester Court Leet banned single women of the town from carrying out their own trades including selling ale or bread, as these activities were ‘to the great hurt of the poor inhabitants having wives and children’. The punishment was a fine or imprisonment.
Camogie sportswear has evolved dramatically, reflecting broader changes in women's sportswear and celebrating strides towards equality and functionality.
NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies.
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If you're a #scifi fan, this is the Back When episode for you - exploring the history of #HGWells and his family ties to Uppark House. How did the twists and turns of this country house inspire his writings? Tune in!! open.spotify.com/episode/75cs...
Can't wait to read, congratulations @corinnefowler.bsky.social!
Join historians @helenantro.bsky.social and James Grasby as they unveil the stories behind history's remarkable people, places, and events. From the Great Stink of London to Britain's space race, explore the tales that shaped our past and define our present. From @nationaltrust.bsky.social.
IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
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IT'S HERE! #BackWhen has landed on all good podcast platforms! In this episode we go from the @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social to the High Down testing facilities on the Isle of Wight, tracing the story of the Black Arrow rocket.
Listen, rate, comment, share!
open.spotify.com/episode/5JmA...
We are delighted to be a part of the #GeneralStrike 100 anniversary national partnership with other museums, libraries, archives and groups.
Find out how you can support this partnership here: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
#GeneralStrike100
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
Somebody needs to tell the Mail Online that the plot details for Wuthering Heights were unfortunately leaked over 150 years ago
🎉 80 YEARS OF LOSE HILL
The industrial working classes of Sheffield & Manchester were imperative to the early aquisitions of the National Trust, and GHB Ward - rambler, activist & steelworkers - embodies that story. Follow his journey to Lose Hill:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d...
#DYK that years before some women were given the franchise in 1918, one woman, Lily Maxwell, actually voted in an election?
Find out how in this article, originally posted on the @victoriancommons.bsky.social website:
#WHM
historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...
Last week, People's History Museum invited me to give a tour, selecting my favourite objects on display.
I had to pick the Suffragette's Home poster and, from almost 100 years earlier, Cruikshank's 'Belle Alliance'.
So pertinent to the misogyny and rollback to 'trad-wives' we see today.
It's #WomensHistoryMonth 🎉
As usual, I'll be sharing ordinary women's stories.
I like writing about these women. They didn't do anything the world would deem spectacular.
They were just everyday people going about their lives. Surviving the way they knew best.
#History
Happy publication day @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social!
Kerri's books have inspired so much of my own work, and I cannot wait to read her stunning memoir.
Love this article Jane!
Thank you so much!!
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
It's here! The trailer for #BackWhen, a new podcast from the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, which I'm presenting with the wonderful James Grasby. Join us as we encounter shipwrecks, satellites, plague and so much more...
Arriving in April!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
The 19th-century Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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www.thenational.scot/news/1914541...
Maternity pay in the UK is an absolute shambles, with statutory maternity pay at around 45% of minimum wage and 3months with no entitlement even to that:
Bridestones Moor on a hazy Sunday morning.