Only one day in but they love it so far! They're really digging into the question of agency and the influence of global capitalism in its myriad forms on LH's life. It's working really well on the heels of reading a Child of the Jago + the historical appendices for that novel.
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Really excited to be starting our discussion today of The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey by @julialaite.bsky.social, a new addition to the syllabus for my First Year Seminar on Crime and Punishment in British Cities. Students have already been talking to me about it!
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Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
Historian of education at the University of Kansas interested in the British Empire, world history, and settler colonialism. All views my own.
Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies. Just published Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909. https://tinyurl.com/52xkw9rj Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Bodies, medicine, + colonialism in the British Empire // Assistant Professor of History Kenyon College (she/hers)
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data shaping and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
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Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor at W&L | views mine | she/her.
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. No longer a member of any political party.
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY: LIVING WITH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Spending the 2024-25 year at The Huntington Library in California.
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. https://www.saraeblack.com/
Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
