Dr Jennifer Evans

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

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#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

It was a really fascinating talk, thank you.

Wonderful discussion of 'trifles' and 'nothings'. How did people think about their own letter writing in the eighteenth century?@socialhistsoc.bsky.social #shsconference2025

Very much looking forward to @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote !!

Excellent first two days at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference. Some brilliant and thought provoking papers and a funfair evening.

Still thinking about Marcy Norton's keynote on modes of interactions with animals in Europe and America and what they reveal about subjectivities. Fascinating stuff.

Fascinating paper by Brian Li on stone eating in early modern China.

Really enjoyable and informative keynote from Sara Miglietti on what was 'environment' in the early modern period.

Excited to be at the John Rylands Library today for the Bodies and Environnements conference. Really looking forward to a whole host of papers.

There's a whole bunch of similar ones..I like the confectio potentisma. Only very slight attempts to mask it's aphrodisiac properties

Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) at University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion Don't miss your chance to apply for professional services job openings, including the Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) role, listed on jobs.ac.uk. Start your search now!

Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...

'the results also challenge the narrative that generalist or academic degrees are inherently low value. As you can see, most subject areas—including history, languages, and the creative arts, often targeted in these debates—show strong subjective outcomes across the three dimensions'. 3/3

Oh that's so sad

I'm absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a 2025-26 Short Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. I'm very excited to get stuck in to the collections for my research project,
Wounded Wombs and Empty Cradles: Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss in Early Modern England c.1600-1780

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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For all those, like me, who have found that everything they've ever written has been taken, please consider signing this petition.

Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI' Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other Society of Authors (SoA) members will demonstrate outside Meta HQ after millions of pirated books were allegedly used to train Meta’s artificial int...

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Conference Visit the post for more.

📣The programme for our 2025 conference is out now!

👉Read it here (scroll down to 'Conference Programme'): socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

✨Take a look at the amazing array of social & cultural history on show!🗃️

Thoroughly enjoyed hearing about Sophie Mann's monograph I'm her talk today.

Today at 1pm online the Herts History Research Seminar welcomes Sophie Mann (Warwick) talking about 'Double Nature, Double Care: Therapeutics and ensouled bodies in early modern England. Message for joining instructions

A Decade of Crisis The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

The brilliant @davehitchcock.bsky.social speaking what I also feel. I was also hired in 2013 and am now clinging on trying to survive.

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Pancake Plasters Each year on Shrove Tuesday Facebook and Twitter abound with people posting picture of their perfect pancakes. Several historical twitter feeds share images of early modern pancake recipes. The Lon…

As ever pancake day is a chance to share my old blog post on pancake plasters.
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach 26th February 2025

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

Is grateful to have been nominated for a Vice Chancellor's Award, especially as this category is student nominated.

"In all these processes of contractions and closures, one common denominator is that arts and humanities subjects are too often first in line."

New letter to the Secretary of State for Education, from @artsandhums.bsky.social, on the impact and implications of current losses in UK HE #skystorians

I am thrilled to announce that we're offering a funded collaborative PhD studentship between the University of Leeds and Ripon Musuems Trust! The project explores the history of the gaol and police station in the 19th/20th C alongside contemporary representations of policing (e.g. in periodicals):

This sounds like an amazing project.

Squeezing in some research before we start teaching semester B. Looking forward to co-writing with the amazing Victoria Sparey again this year.

Huge congratulations wonderful news

Amazing thank you 😁

Cab I be added please ?