Dr Becca Watterson (she/her)

Introducing Uncle Waldo. The 3-legged wonder rescue pug. 💜🥰 He’s named after Emerson & the drunk goose in the Aristocats. I will not be accepting questions at this time. 🤣

07.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…

10.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 4

Grainne & Becca delivering the first (of hopefully many) workshops on community-based participatory research methods to PhD researchers from law, arts, humanities, heritage, life sciences and more! The change is happening! CHOICE IS LEADING A MOVEMENT.

07.02.2025 11:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

The application deadline for these @historylabplus.bsky.social roles is BUT ONE WEEK AWAY!

24.01.2025 07:41 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM

24.01.2025 09:44 — 👍 338    🔁 231    💬 4    📌 18

#OtD 24 Jan 1919 staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers' council). They also made demands on pay and working hours, including equal pay for women. They won in February stories.workingclasshistory.c...

24.01.2025 20:59 — 👍 102    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2

Hoping to make this! It will be great!

24.01.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Registration open for what should be an excellent talk @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social

24.01.2025 21:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great to see @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social on Bluesky. Welcome! #hstm

24.01.2025 21:12 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Glad you enjoyed it Stuart! More to come :)

24.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*Deadline looming!*
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!

16.01.2025 13:49 — 👍 11    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

04.01.2025 22:27 — 👍 6316    🔁 5803    💬 170    📌 94

Happy new year to everyone in this pack (and those who aren’t). I’m resharing because we’ve had new people added, so worth checking through (again?) for kindred researchers to follow.
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD

02.01.2025 16:29 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Finally exiting the throes of the worst lurgy. Nearly 3 weeks I’ve been down. But I have started my 2025 reads list. Up first is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Hoping to understand myself more after this one.

03.01.2025 10:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

H is for... health - CPRE Bedfordshire CPRE Bedfordshire is working to enhance, promote and protect Bedfordshire's countryside. Love Bedfordshire's beautiful rural areas? Find out more and get involved.

In this feature I explore some of the places in Bedfordshire associated with health and healing, from medieval holy wells to Victorian innovations.
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...

#LocalHistory

02.01.2025 15:09 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Starting my Bluesky off
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!

01.01.2025 02:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0