Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr
This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.
“The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions.” Would love to know how much money uni leaders across UK have spent on consultants rather than talking to staff about workloads & savings.
31 July 2025
Also:
Today is the last day of my wonderful
Department of English Literature & Creative Writing
60.5 years - over
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
📣We are delighted to announce that our outgoing Chair, Professor Naomi Tadmor, has been elected Honorary Vice President of the Society.
This role is given as a mark of distinction to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society.
👇Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/24/o...
At a time when life in HE feels tough #shsconf2025 has been truly joyful. I’m leaving with a notebook brimming with notes & new ideas. It’s been lovely to natter to so many history peeps. Thank you to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for your hard work! BCLM was perfect!
Huge congrats to the winners of the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social PGR prize this year! 👏👏 @amyloulongmuir.bsky.social
#SHSConf2025
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social reviews 'Habsburg England: Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558)', by Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer @gvb1554.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Looking for a short but good reading on television history documentaries. Any suggestions?
Christmas door decoration for my office 🎄
I even broke out the Christmas playlist a day early.
Went to Dunham Massey Christmas light walk- lovely start to Christmas. 🙂
I hope you found something just as if not more satisfying and much more secure!
Not sure I’ll hang on much longer, but it’s quite difficult to imagine what else I can do…
My keynote on academic precarity and sixteenth century ballads has now been rehomed on my revamped website.
Please watch and share. I still think this is the best thing I have ever written.
jennihydeacademicservices.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...
Ah, that’ll be because I renamed my site in the summer.
The Ukraine issue of The Historian just arrived (@histassoc.bsky.social), guest edited by Markian Prokopovych (@durhamhistory.bsky.social) with Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social); and I had fun interviewing Ulinka Rublack about Albrecht Dürer 🇺🇦🧑🎤✍️📖
Well it is definitely Professor Sir and Reverend Doctor (I’ve had to introduce both) so I’m guessing Captain Doctor
I spent a large proportion of my weekend editing the captioning on this so that “Luther” doesn’t read “Loser” & other such automated errors…
But have a listen/read of @wallyberry.bsky.social, Frieder Mißfder & Una McIlvenna say Clever Things™️ about songs & news!
emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the...
Of Broken Clocks and Drifing Spirits, by James Hyde
youtu.be/Jia7CL3Kcmc?...
I hope you enjoy it. Please share widely
Eldest has just released his first EP on YouTube but needs 1000 followers on TikTok tiktok.com/@jimbob478?_... to link to it there. Please repost and follow him
Join EM Soundscapesfor their next online seminar, where @wallyberry.bsky.social, Una McIlvenna & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder will discuss 'Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe', September 10, 2024, 14.00BST rensoc.org.uk/event/soundi...
Hello! Do you mind if I use your photo on my blog? I will credit you of course.
My keynote from the 2021 conference on the Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Watch for my thoughts on working as an itinerant academic working on itinerant ballad sellers. Sadly still relevant. Please share widely.
earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...
My keynote from the 2021 conference on the Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Watch for my thoughts on working as an itinerant academic working on itinerant ballad sellers. Sadly still relevant. Please share widely.
earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...
New page on my website for my freelance work - let me know if you have any work that needs doing - archive trips, palaeography, editing, public speaking and performances a speciality! earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/jenni-hyde-aca…
I have a wide range of public talks for history societies, lifelong learning groups, schools and community groups. I also sing the ballads I study. Also, if anyone is in need of a soprano soloist, I’m a trained singer. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer.
I can do palaeography from 16th century secretary hand onwards, and any general research work you might need doing. I am a highly skilled editor and proofreader and I could turn my hand to an index if you like.
