Zoe Thomas

V exciting news!

#History For 19thc historians an exciting new interdisciplinary journal coming soon!

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

I was excited to find out that my book is available for pre-order! One for anyone interested in energy, climate, and the history of Britain. Thanks to MUP for making it pretty and affordable 🫶 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Thank you for mentioning my book Fredrik. I am delighted to hear of yours and am going to order it right now, I don’t know how I haven’t read it already! I grew up in the Lakes and miss it dearly. I have also been meaning to explore the Collingwoods for ages for a new project - especially Dorrie.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social

Most importantly the film is free to watch on you tube, just click on the attached.

Such an absolute treat to be at @BAVs today on a panel talking about @drvickymills.bsky.social & others short film about the David Parr House, as well as all things nineteenth-century, collaborative labour, processes of making, back pain pills, women as curators of archives & lots more…

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I have such a soft spot for Will Sharpe - have you seen Flowers?! If not would recommend that before Girls it’s the absolute best.

I say this as someone who adored Girls and don’t care if this says something bad about me (although the final episode where she floated off to become a professor was extremely ridiculous 😅)

Absolutely. I sort of adored it. Didn’t love the final few episodes but episode 3 (the one where they continually have sex and eat noodles) was very good as was the intense chat with Naomi Watts about UTIs and THE menopause.

Reposting our CfP for the “Power Couples” workshop - now with a new poster advertising the event kindly made for us by designer Marta Bartkowska!

Glass eyes lying on a black background. The eyes are half globes that closely resemble a human eye, including the black pupil, coloured iris (in shades of blue, green and brown) and the white sclera with the details of red blood vessels.

Glass eyes lying in a grid in a blue velvet case. The eyes are half globes that closely resemble a human eye, including the black pupil, coloured iris (in shades of blue, green and brown) and the white sclera with the details of red blood vessels.

These glass eyes were made by Mollie Surman of Kingston, Surrey in the mid 1900s.
Surman was from a family of glassblowers and made her first 'eye' when she was 12.
The main eye would be blown from white glass before other colours of glass were added in to make the iris, pupil, and veins.

Wonderful to present on a panel on scrapbooking between the generations alongside @janehamlett.bsky.social & Lucy Brownson, chaired by @zoethomas.bsky.social. Fascinating discussions in the Q and A after.

Thanks to everyone who joined us and to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for a fab conference.

& the giraffe surely?

I was only there for the day, chairing the wonderful panel on scrapbooking, but completely agree with this! Thank you so much @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for organising such a great conference. There was such a lovely intellectual and friendly buzz! #shsconf2025

Shortly before banning Palestine Action, British parliamentarians dressed up in the colours of another, famous Direct Action group - The Suffragettes.
A group they would certainly have proscribed for their campaigns, which included bombs & vandalism

Irony is dead.

Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!

YES yes yes yes! I very much think you should do this…

Yes?

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The Women’s History Network Conference is happening in Sep - it is online, FREE, and packed with fascinating sounding papers by archivists, curators, local historians, museum professionals, scholars, etc all about women’s history & archival, library, museum & personal collections.

@tabithalambertb.bsky.social I just noticed this!

What a fascinating sounding article, downloading to read now!

Amazing 🤩

Thankyou!

Yessss! I’ve been so excited by amount of different groups and individuals starting to think of plans…. 🥳🥳

So pls do share with the committee I am really keen to help facilitate and support things as much as I possibly can in the lead up to and during 2028!

Hello! I have just submitted a funding bid to bring together cultural institutions, academics, campaigners, and publics across the four nations for the centenary… in the hope it can provide a meaningful space for as many people as possible - would love to combine ideas if it did happen to be funded.