Hannah Scott

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Caricature of Zola - 'Cherchant des documents!' in Au Bonheur des Dames

Well-known 'Sickos' meme, with a man looking lasciviously through a glass window saying 'yes...hahaha...YES!'

And a personal favourite - Zola in a frock and bonnet going to do 'research' at the ladies' department store.

Reminds me of something...

Hand-written musical notes on a stave on the back of a paper Folies-Bergere programme from c. 1900

A programme from the Folies-Bergere - someone trying to note down a particularly catchy ditty

Samplers from a young Simone Vernerey in the 1920s, and her 1st prize for promptness, good conduct, lessons, homework, reading, spelling, sciences, history, geography and calculus, and 2nd prize for sewing.

A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.

Small pink flier from during the Franco-Prussian siege of Paris. Reads: Theatre de Belleville, le lundi 7 Novembre 1870, Soiree musicale et dramatique donne par le 80eme bataillon de la garde nationale sedentaire pour l'achat d'un canon ou d'une mitrailleuse

Fancy a cheeky night at the theatre, despite Paris being under siege?

How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?

Samples of loud coloured tartan silk ribbons pasted in a large paper album

Outrageously loud tartan silk ribbons from 1837-1840 - from a book of *6300* samples

Moulin-Rouge flier reading: Tous les soirs au bal du Moulin-Rouge: les dernieres decouvertes du siecle: Radiologie, Haute Frequence pour la premiere fois en public, demonstrations scientifiques de la production et de l'utilisation des Rayons X et des Courants de Haute frequence. Chacun peut voir le coeur battre, l'estomac fonctionner, les os jouer dans les articulations. 50 centimes

Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…

Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:

Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!

The Boring Fund - Open Collective We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November.

If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look.

They welcome donations too.

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Well I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

Sutton Trust report: 'Only three categories were below the national average – male professional footballers at 5%, female professional footballers at 4% and the Northern Ireland assembly, where nobody attended a fee-paying school.' 1/2

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

🗃️

PhD students working on diplomatic history - if you need more language training, apply for the Hogan Fellowship from @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

I’m a previous winner & thrilled to be chairing the committee this year! ⬇️

#skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory

Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham x9artsandlaw-event,x9history-event,x9historycultures-event,x9clemt-event

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15 September 2025

More info 👇
https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

If Nige is attacking us, reckon that means we’re doing something right…

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025.

Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Calling the #arthistory hive mind ☎️I’m supervising a UG dissertation on late 19th-c French art this year, especially images of public spaces.

It’s a while since I worked on this material; I’d love to hear recommendations of fab recentish studies.

Link me your book/article! Brag for your friends!

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Selfie in front of the mirror wearing my first attempt at making 19th century drawers, chemise and corset.

My first attempt at making a set of mid-nineteenth century undies and corset.

Step aside Marks and Spencer.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

The more I see of AI’s effect on society, the more I’m convinced the word to describe its effects is “corrosive”. AI corrodes your skills, it corrodes your ability to think, and through that, it corrodes your humanity. You can use it as a tool, but you have to recognize how dangerous of a tool it can be, because it uses language — it seems like us. But it fundamentally isn’t. It’s seductive to think that life can be easier. It’s easy to believe that you can let a wondrous machine do the hard thinking for you. It’s appealing to feel like you can skip the uncomfortable introspection that creates growth.

What I'm seeing more and more is that AI is somehow worse for the people who use it frequently than I could have anticipated earlier this year, and one of the strongest arguments I can think of against it is what it does to them

Wicked witch over the wood,
I spy Robin Hood.

A sample of 5 old yellowed 21st birthday cards with good luck keys and horseshoes from my Nana’s 21st birthday in 1944

A sample of 5 old yellowed 21st birthday cards with boats and good luck keys from my Grandad’s 21st birthday in 1941

A large whittled wooden key with an old type-written tag

The key’s tag reads: The Symbol of Freedom: May it open the GATES of HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and WEALTH to YOU AT ALL TIMES. From WELL WISHERS

My wonderful Nana never threw away anything sentimental - so today I came across her stash of birthday cards from her and my Grandad’s 21st birthdays in 1941 and 1944, lovingly saved for 80 years.

And a massive hand-whittled wooden key from the Navy and Wrens chaps she worked with through WWII.

Buzzing after the most wonderful week learning 18th-century costume making skills - now just to get this fancy little number home on the train…

I’ve been doing lots of wonderful courses - inc. dresses at the London College of Fashion and corsetry with Christina Cilano - then lots and lots of practice & researching 19th fashion mag/photo/dressmakers’ manuals. I’ve loved every minute of it so far!

The next round of the BA Talent Development Scheme is open! 🚨I had one of these this year to build historic dress making skills for my performance history work - so culture studies people, don’t be put off, this is also for you!

Vice-Chancellor PhD Scholarship 2026 application form Apply for one of the studentships available to PhD students at Liverpool John Moores University, and join a fantastic, vibrant community of researchers.

#skyhistorians My uni, LJMU, have announced their VC PhD scholarships. Reach out to me if you are interested in doing something on homes; philanthropy/ charity; material culture and lived religion in the long c19th. These are competitive. You do need strong marks

www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd...