Sarah Crook

NBC: "won't someone think of the inconvenienced white people!"

Like, sometimes it’s that they had a bad dream. But other times I open my eyes at 2am to find myself nose to nose with a 5 year old who wants to tell me something about Pokémon battles

One of the things that surprised me about motherhood was that my bed would cease to be “my bed.” Instead it’s a community meeting hub that various children drift into and out of during the night to share their thoughts, needs, and feelings

Absolutely. There's a 24-month temporary cover post in British history at Cambridge just now, clearly angled at new PhDs (which is great!) that – at it's very *minimum* starting rate – pays over £2,000 more than I get paid (& redundancy risk, etc). The problem is jobs, not the people going for them.

Young People, Social Media and New Understandings of Mental Distress This conference brings together scholars, activists, and NGOs to explore how young people’s understandings of mental health are changing in the context of a youth mental health crisis. It focuses on d...

As the Government begins its consultation on social media and young people, we are holding a conference later in the year to strengthen the evidence base including the latest thinking on understanding young people's mental health
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

A handwritten note reading "Sarum Primer in ruinous condition, had better not be touched until it is to be mended. Found in the roof of a cottage in Suffolk"

A small book whose cover has fallen off. There are wormholes in the back and many pages have crumbled away.

A small book which appears to have been nibbled by rodents.

Love opening up a box or two in the stacks to see what's inside and found two absolute treasures today. First up, a poor ruinous mid-sixteenth century primer which alas has not yet been mended, and doesn't appear in the catalogue. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1/2

It's all terribly uneven. I would LOVE to see more postdoc positions and permanent jobs, and alongside that feeling, I am so anxious and scared about my department's current (& future) rounds of compulsory redundancies. It's really terrible for so many people - ECRs and established researchers

This seems to position ECRs & established researchers as working to different ends, when we all want a thriving field with space for new minds. Also – I was shortlisted for an AP job at Oxford 2 years ago that paid £10K more a year than I am currently paid at Swansea, where I have worked for 8 years

Thanks for sharing! This looks fascinating!

Sarah Crook, Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood and Social Change in Postwar Britain Are you crazy if the full-time care of a small baby causes you distress and despair? Or is this a normal reaction to the realities of child-rearing in a pa

Gosh, so pleased (and terribly relieved) to see that the first review of Unhappy Mothers is out and is kind (so many thanks to Katie Joice for her careful time on it) doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Left to right - Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman

Welcome to Reform’s front bench

Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school

The authentic voice of the working class

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Absolutely. Not sure they can pronounce Medr let alone know it exists

We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor

Honorarium

Deadline: 9 March 2026

Please circulate

Mind you, neither is having a leader who tells a rally in Newport that he lives in Wales when he actually lives in… Bath (unless he’s hoping to move the Welsh border?)

Threatening to defund the Welsh university widely perceived to be a bastion of the Welsh language - it has one of the highest proportions of Welsh speaking students - isn’t a great look for a party looking to sweep the Senedd in May

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cultural and Social History Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History

The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

The sooner Keir Starmer resigns, the sooner he relaxes and becomes quite insightful and affable in media appearances and we can all go "why wasn't *THAT* guy PM?"

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison.

Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

“All of London Started With Her”: Vivienne Westwood’s Punk and Britishness

Still time to book to come along to next @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. Next Weds 11 Feb, 5.30pm, in-person with Margo Rashba on 'Vivienne Westwood's Punk & Britishness' 🧷 🇬🇧. Maybe see you there? #skystorians @d-j-frost.bsky.social
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Sunday Supplement - Starmer, Reform, the Homelessness Bill, Cross-border health, New Labour - BBC Sounds Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

Over the weekend I spoke to BBC Radio Wales about the book I've got coming out this week... 'New Labour, New Britain? How the Blair Governments Reshaped the Country' is officially published tomorrow. You can listen in here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Stuart Hall Archive Project - February 2026 The third of our Readings Seminars will be held on Wednesday 11 February: Education: Maximising Difference. For this seminar, we welcome Dr Ingrid Abrahams, who will introduce us to her doctoral research on the systemic underrepresentation of black senior leaders in schools in England, particularly since the Education Reform Act of 1988. Abrahams will begin with an introduction to a speech, given by Stuart Hall in the early 1980s, on 'Anti-Racist Education'. The recording was made on an audio-cassette labelled 'Prof Stuart Hall, Anti-Racist Education, Hampstead School' (no date given) and has been digitised. Those who register for this seminar will be given access both to the audio and a transcript. To Register and for details of future Seminars: https://buytickets.at/stuarthallarchiveprojectattheuniversityofbirmingham/2013038

The Stuart Hall Archive Project Readings Seminars provide an opportunity to read and listen to a selection of Stuart Hall’s unpublished lectures, interviews, and letters, discussing his life and work and our own times.
3. Wed 11 February Education: Maximising Difference
buytickets.at/stuarthallar...

Cultural and Social History Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Cultural and Social History

The special issue of Cultural and Social History on “Researching Student Lives: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives” (co-ed. w Georgina Brewis & Jodi Burkett) is live - yay! Several articles are OA :) Huge thanks to our contributors & the journal editors!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2...

Have we ever solved the mystery of why babies only ever sleep ACROSS beds

Huge congratulations!

We are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!