Claire Marie ☠️

I cannot stress how much I absolutely HATE Christmas. The Christmas adverts this early just adds to seasonal sadness.

'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery by Benjamin Stone platinum print 22 July 1909 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild

Thousands buried in 17th century Italian crypt reveal lives of working poor Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

In the 1600s, thousands of people were buried in crypts under a Milan hospital & preserved by unusual conditions. “What is striking is how much you can extrapolate from an ancient body,” says one researcher, “and how much you can understand from that about the period they lived in." @science.org

We are not the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn: why the myth of 'lost women's healing knowledge' needs to go. It is Halloween, and I am seeing a whirl of posts about witches, so here’s a quick post.

One for Halloween, on a myth that really never seems to die. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Grumpy looking dog wearing a pumpkin jumper.

Grumpy little pumpkin

The clock in my car will now be wrong for the next 6 months 🤦‍♀️ #dumbblonde

Reopened Ashington railway station wins national prize - BBC News The station opened in December as part of the restoration of the Northumberland Line.

Investing in communities works. Who knew? Now fix the poverty caused by the closure of the mines.

Reopened railway station wins national prize
www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Poor Little Fellow An Unwanted Child

You can read all about it here. I don't blame you if you don't want to.

sophiemhistory.substack.com/p/the-poor-l...

The European World, a textbook

Chapter 4: gender and family

Starting my early modern module today with gender and marriage during the Reformation. Good topic to start with.

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

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 🗃

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering. Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference. Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford. Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’. This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

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I'll DM you, thanks so much!

It would still be useful if you don't mind sharing it?

Northampton research reveals origins of paediatric hospital care Research overturns the belief children did not receive hospital treatment until the Victorian era.

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive:

Child hospital care dates from 18th Century:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The study itself is #OpenAccess:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#History #MedicalHistory

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.

theconversation.com/medieval-ske...

Working with oral histories of children who were in Cottage Homes in the early twentieth century. One old man said 'we had a sister too, I don't know where she went, we never saw her again'. These stories haven't actually changed as siblings are still split up today.

I feel your pain.

My work laptop is reminding me to update to Windows 11 every 5 minutes. The powers that be decided that the marking period is the perfect time for this rollout. I've got 23 MA dissertations, sure, I'll spend a day updating 🙄

#Londonfoundlingmuseum Tokens in the street nearby tepresenting those ‘fallen women’ left with their babies in the hope of reclaiming them.

Kate Brooks has written a brilliant book on care and education systems from the nineteenth century. Do go and buy it! #histchild

Piece of striped fabric attached to a petition for admission to the London Foundling Hospital.

When mothers admitted their children to the London Foundling Hospital, they often left tokens. Sometimes, just a cut of the child's clothing, as in this case. This child was reclaimed by its mother in 1760. Seeing the fabric in the archive this week was incredible.

Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute…

Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted.  womenshistorynetwork.org/girls-in-the... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHM2025

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Get well soon!

Sorry for your loss x