Just outstanding.
Usually was a research masters. Not uncommon in the UK either. The uptake of the PhD at scale in unis was starting to be pushed then but really became essential in the 90s.
Growing Up in the Early Modern World, a workshop Nov 27 in Sydney exploring childhood in institutional settings, & care, discipline & education across the life course. Please submit a 200 word abstract & 3-sentence bio note by 15 July to paula.plastic@mq.edu.au. Online/hybrid participation possible.
And this is why you need to have a broad base of languages, history and culture taught at university. You want to use your own experts when negotiating war.
Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
Also podcasts.
Except she was actually dead 🤣🤣
Call for papers - growing up in the early modern world!
Valentine’s Day approaches but have you prepared your lips? Here are some top tips for a perfect kiss! And a preorder link to my new book The Kiss, for a bargain £18.
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Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Please do.
Alan Ramsay the Scot operated a circulating library out of his bookshop. His is thought to be the first circulating library in Britain (in 1726).
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CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
Me, Chloe Kennedy, Alice Krzanich and Jacob Fredrickson have a large grant on ‘hurt feelings and the law’ in Scotland (1750 to present), which looks at how the law has compensated for hurt feelings. Defamation and related claims are part of that. I’ve been doing the defamation/slander material.
Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!
Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni
“Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.
This article is good because it opens up a set of questions around how we interpret evidence and how different lenses shape what we see.
I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb
This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.
The problem with people pitching book reviews is you lose editorial control. 80% of the time that’s fine. The other 20% can be painful.
The traditional solution in the uk was to wrap the coin in wax paper.
Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Conversely I love this because it gives you a reading list for the field and helps you see what you might have missed.
Nice of them to do the unions job for them.
Who is doing interesting work on children and crises - disaster, war, famine, climate, familial, personal, gender, etc? Tell me about them!
Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...
📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅
Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
In Oz we now have a social media ban for under 16s. Might be they’re trying to keep on top of that?
