Catherine Sloan

Gravy (food history of the US south, through a global lens - chop suey episode is fab). The best history podcasts are always those that don’t pose as history… so frustrating!

I love podcasts but my favourite history ones are usually not explicitly historical (the history ones tend to be things like I Am A History Man, or Did You Hear Of This Man). I liked: finding Cleo (indigenous childhoods in mid-century North America); You Must Remember This (erotic 80s and 90s)…

🗃️Help, fellow historians! I'm creating a new unit on historical podcasts for my undergrad methods course. I'd like recs for historical podcasts in Eng. that are both scholarly & entertaining. I'd esp. like to know about ones dealing with non-European and non-US history, but all suggestions welcome.

You get to join the MS culture gang!

Yay yes!!!! There are lots of folks working on ms magazines - Kirstie Blair and Lauren Weiss on mutual improvement society Mags, @kghist.bsky.social on girls MS mags, me 😊 on children’s school MS. Kathryn’s article has a really good summary of the field: academic.oup.com/ehr/article-...

Excerpt from handwritten zine-style text entitled "Burglar's editorial"

Hand-drawn comic panel showing workman thumping a desk and shouting "I demand shorter hours" - the caption reads, "whadoya want then = fifty nine minutes"

Hand-drawn caricature of Ernest Bevin, reading "Bevin says - even Russians read this paper"

I have a set of hand-drawn comics/gossip sheets/newspapers donated alongside our aluminium foundry at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, dating from (I think) late 1940s. Does anyone know any lit that will help me explore this as a source? I've found work on company mags but this is very different.

A Cultural History of Higher Learning How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…

Published 30 Oct ... I'm in vol 5, expertly edited by @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and @capandgown.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.

11-year-old trans child allegedly assaulted by fellow student An 11-year-old trans child was allegedly assaulted by a fellow student over their gender identity, the student's father has claimed.

When politicians like Trump, or Starmer, say & do transphobic things, parents talk about it in front of kids & then the kids bring it to school.

It’s horrific that these kids are being taught to hate & at such an early age.

It is critical we do not import this into Irish politics:

Excited to share the details of a new event series that I’ll be hosting in #Oxford this term for our Community History Hub! Exploring everything from oral history methods to the legacy of the local car plant. Book your tickets here, all are welcome! www.communityhistory.ox.ac.uk/article/comm...

Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

So delighted to be tuning into this this afternoon!

People working on disability history:

Disarm the cops includes the UK.

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Important to remember that stories about children killed by vaccine-preventable diseases when they're too young to be vaccinated are, beneath that, stories about the loss of herd immunity.

This baby caught whooping cough from somebody. That somebody was probably old enough to be vaccinated.

Just wrote a research themed letter that was so satisfying! I am intensely stressed BUT I worked out like a demon and this type of good physical tired is the closest I currently get to energetic (which is backwards, but anyway). It’s a good day.

Can folks offer some suggestions for fundraising an academic event? What are some events/activities that can help to defray costs and build a bit of funding for the future? Bake sales? BBQs? Readings? Pub quiz nights? Throw them at me.

The way personal ethics get erased is so troubling: did they donate their bodies to train soldiers? It’s like egg donation - women aren’t allowed or able to check if the family is racist, homophobic, ableist or otherwise might cause active harm to others. The buyer’s market of ethics.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Abstract for an essay "Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age"

Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.

anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship.
History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

No but I must read it 😊😊😊😊

I so love @rhaplord.bsky.social’s work on urbanism in pre-colonial Africa. Looking forward to reading what is sure to be another illuminating thread

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is so commercial now. Accommodation, flyering and PR costs are insane. And yet, if you want to be seen by producers, you have to go. And now, people like me, who’ve been doing it for years can’t sell tickets because big acts are turning up.

Headline from The Daily Telegraph reading Trump to govern Gaza with Blair

This is some horrific bullshit #FreePalestine