Christina de Bellaigue

Day 6 - doing better but still mostly going to be in bed today

V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar

V cool to be hearing paper from Luisa - who I met in very early days of our PhDs in Cambridge, when we were both lost while trying to find the CamPop seminar

Oxford friends - beware this hellish cold/flu so many ppl have got; wish I’d worn a mask and brought my hepa filter to seminars last week. In bed since Thursday, high high temps, shivering, body aches, nausea, sore throat, testing neg for Covid but this is v nasty

Oh wow! I was there a couple of years ago and it was already mind blowing

Sigh

Fancy joining us in Oxford?

The Koch History Centre is inviting applications for next year's fellowships and senior fellowships, on the theme 'Scarcity and Abundance'.

Applications close at noon on 17th Dec.

For details, see:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/vacancies#ta...

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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!

We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.

This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”

Deadline: 17 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

@oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social - how about it?

What an amazing offer!

@brepols.net Hello - I'm trying to use BBIH but everytime I click on a title, I just get the blank screen of doom (see screenshot). I've checked my safari settings and don't have any obvious content or popup blockers that would lead to this - any insight? It's making BBIH unusable for me.

Very excited for @sarahknott.bsky.social inaugural lecture this evening

Really looking forward to hearing Matilda's paper on Anders Zorn this week

Exciting talk in Oxford this coming Friday!

“Seven women told Bloomberg about alleged rapes or sexual assaults across the university in the past five years, while more than 30 described direct experiences of harassment or bullying over the past 20 years.”

During the pandemic, every politician should have read « Alison Hubble, who went to bed single and woke up double » for a basic grasp of what exponential growth actually means

Bright orange and blue sunset over rooves

Pretty pretty pretty good

Come along this week for what promises to be a very interesting discussion

council offloading maintenance of municipal underpass (currently flooded and unuseable, forcing kids onto road) to school that is the main, but definitely not the only, user by calling it ‘flood preparedness’ is next level shittiness, esp in a city that claims It’s a bike haven

This was such an important and devastating read and a really interesting conversation; @evemworth.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social lots to think about for downward social mobility too

Charles Parker Prize | Showcase Your Audio Talent — Charles Parker Archive Trust Discover top student audio features and enter the Charles Parker Prize for a chance to broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians
www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

Join us for what promises to be a fascinating session this week

Such a pleasure and privilege to sit and listen to a friend and colleague talking at length and fascinatingly about a subject they are so expert on. David's work is so original in its sources and approach, and so powerful in its commitment to thinking hard about social history

David Hopkin at Long 19thC this week

Saw you in Oxford last night - it was great - thank you!

Looking forward to this later today

This calls to mind Lizabeth Cohen’s MAKING A NEW DEAL: INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN CHICAGO, 1919-1939, which demonstrates that voluntarism and charity were insufficient when things got tough and that working people turned to the state, which proved far more effective.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Repost for non-insomniacs. For avoidance of doubt I am 💯 pro-vax & I know that LCers and others can have immune system reactions

Looking forward to this - join us!

2 authors whose work I love responded to posts of mine; loads of useful work contacts & references from outside my immediate academic field >> new projects & ideas discovered Octavia Butler, new insights into autism that have positively transformed personal life, long covid solidarity & advice