Zoe Thomas

MBS2026 MBS2026 MBS2026!

Logo with the words 'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies' in coral text on a purple background.

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

Songs of Seven Dials by Matt Houlbrook | The Crack Magazine I’m always amazed by the stories that are forgotten when writing history, which is why I loved reading Matt Houlbrook’s latest ‘Songs of Seven Dials’. It’s a brilliant re-telling of the Seven Dials ne...

'An essential insight into the voices that are often silenced by a city’s ego, and a timely spotlight on a political agenda that is ever-present today.'

Thanks @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social for this review of 'Songs of Seven Dials', publishing next month: www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editori...

2025 Wolfson History Prize shortlist announced The Wolfson History Prize has revealed its 2025 shortlist, with six books in contention for the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

Yesssss will message you 🤓

This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together

This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social

If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!

Any chance you could be tempted to come to Birmingham Laura next year to talk about your incredible research? 👀

I’ve just bought a copy of Floating Coast too! Looks wonderful. Maybe time for a BlueSky book club reading it?!

🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨

Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'

It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh

Branner featuring the book cover of 'Coal in Modern Britain: A Social and Cultural History from 1830 to the Second World War' by Charles-François Mathis.

New release: https://bit.ly/4oJCR4i

Coal in Modern Britain is the first book to examine the social and cultural significance of coal in Britain. Charles-François Mathis explores the coal industry from the early 19th century through to the ‘coal-minded’ society of the 1940s.

Cannot wait to read this Rachel!

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?

“it seems probable that the few historians who will still be able to have meaningful academic careers in, say, ten years’ time will all be able-bodied, childless British citizens from upper-class families.”

This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.

And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.

Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

I think this has just happened in Lancaster.

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

Oh Laura this looks so wonderful! Huge congratulations !

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

I can’t believe I haven’t read it yet. 😳 Better late than never though and perfect timing for the modernity and antimodernity chapter!

A picture of Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s Green Victorians.

It’s here! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social so excited to get reading on my commute, thank you so much!

Can't resist the temptation to offer some historical context on this, also! (Rutherford, Teaching Gender, p. 84)

Big Ride for Palestine poster. Leaving 10:15 from Centenary Square, Birmingham, 28 September

28 September. More reason than ever to join this ride.

Sepia photograph of Julia Wedgwood. A young white woman with dark hair sitting in profile wearing a buttoned dress with lace collage and a ribbon choker with cameo pendant

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️
Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography.
www.juliawedgwood.org

😍😍

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

If you need a good spot for a field trip or your students want internships we would be delighted to hear from you at the Art Gallery & Museum in Leamington! Lots of exciting and relevant work coming up in our programme over the next few years.

Right?! Can’t get enough of all of the stuff on marriage and the family power dynamics of the leading figures.. haven’t actually been to the archive yet but going to try and squeeze a visit in this term…

Who knew this would be the summer I would get absolutely obsessed with the history of the Salvation Army? Endlessly fascinating #researchpivot