@nic-jim-ed.bsky.social
Tired person | University of Wolverhampton | History graduate/ History Prize 2023 | PhD researcher in History - Working-class women in the 1960s🐺
Take me back to Camden Market
02.09.2025 11:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#OTD 20 August 1976, a group of mainly South Asian workers led by Jayaben Desai, walked out in protest against their treatment at the Grunwick photo processing factory. The dispute became a critical moment for trade unionism and social change.
#GenderHist
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I have just taken these ‘non-iron’ shirts out of the packet and they need ironing 😒
17.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Suppressed memory reawakened
14.08.2025 09:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call for participants 📢 if you or someone you know fits the bill and is interested please send over an email #oralhistory #workingclasshistory #womenshistory #twentiethcenturyhistory #1960s
25.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0😭 Thank you Amy!
10.07.2025 05:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three fantastic days in one of my favourite places! Had a great time at #SHSConf2025 with some fabulous people. Thanks to @historicalmeredith.bsky.social at @manchesterup.bsky.social for the book that I have been eyeing up for a while 😀 @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
09.07.2025 14:41 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A fantastic second day at #SHSConf2025 - presented my paper so I can relax and enjoy everyone else’s research tomorrow 😀 Luckily this bus gets me close to home 😂 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social
08.07.2025 18:28 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really enjoyed your paper Sue!
08.07.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The quietest I’ve ever seen @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social - behind me are dozens of hungry historians queuing for their chippy tea @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #SHSConf2025
07.07.2025 18:33 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Hi Sue, I’ll have a look, thank you! Hope to see you next week
05.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really looking forward to this next week 😀
05.07.2025 13:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tomorrow is our 17th (😳) wedding anniversary 😊 we’ll be off-grid tomorrow so Happy Anniversary Matt 🥰🥰🥰
25.04.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning rainy Manchester 😀 perfect weather for sitting in an archive all day 😉
16.04.2025 09:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A gloriously sunny day spent at the “Ordinary Lives, Everyday People” conference at UAE with Subcultures Network, took part in a fascinating panel and met some great people. Fantastic work by everyone involved 😊
11.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally arrived at the University of East Anglia after an afternoon spent on trains and there are ACTUAL FROLICKING RABBITS RUNNING AROUND CAMPUS. Why don’t we have them at Wolves 🤣 🐇
10.04.2025 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Date night at BCLM
05.04.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So many great papers, so little time 😩
20.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Birmingham in the sun is good for the soul, who knew 🌞 #researchday #birminghamlibrary
18.03.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0After reading updates about last year’s conference while languishing in a hospital bed, I’m delighted to be presenting a paper here this year 😀 the fact that it will be at BCLM is the icing on the cake 😁
17.03.2025 11:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to be presenting a paper as part of this amazing line-up next month! www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
15.03.2025 14:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bargain find in Walsall antique shop 😍 I take back everything I ever said about Walsall being a shithole 🤩
20.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My evening sorted 😍
04.02.2025 19:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Infusion time! 3 hours left to kill 😩 revisiting this beaut
24.01.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pre-birthday treat ❤️
11.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to the 1,600 people and organisations who responded to the UK Ministry of Justice’s proposals on the retention of wills. Good news: The UK Government has determined not to proceed with any reforms that involve the destruction of original wills
Read in full here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
Women are only after one thing and that thing is a beautiful new pair of Docs 😍 also more sleep would be nice
25.12.2024 06:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
60 years of Jackie magazine 😍 hopefully this will keep me going until I can get back in the archives 🤞🏻
28.11.2024 12:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Need 😍
22.11.2024 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨
We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!
Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️
Please share widely!
socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
