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Equal pay β a long time coming. Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act
Weβre pleased to be able to share the recording of our online seminar @ihr.bsky.social on 17 September which reflected on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. youtu.be/KRDzkWi14cE
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On Thursday 30 October our Trades Union & Employment forum is hosting a special conference @ihr.bsky.social to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it now via the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
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Image of a room with a power point slide for The National Humanities Lecture at the University of London
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Our CFP doesn't close until 1 February - please share widely and consider submitting a proposal! β¨
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Monstrous fish in Suffolk!
"A most true and marvelous strange wonder" (1568)
described by Timothy Granger.
archive.org/details/bim_...
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A woman stands at a shop counter, counting out several coins. She wears a white bonnet with green ribbon and a cream dress with a high belt and neckerchief. Next to her is a bowl of lemons; perhaps she sells lemonade.
Here's another one for those who like #EarlyModern and #18thC paintings of working women.
The Woman Shopkeeper, British School, c.1790-1800. artuk.org/discover/art...
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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,127,331!
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Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated π¨π¦π¦πΊπ³πΏπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
Editing Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev & directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com.
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
The RCN (@rcn.org.uk) Library and Museum is Europeβs largest nursing library. Use our services online or visit our libraries, exhibitions and events in person.
Get in touch via: www.rcn.org.uk/library
Online|Belfast|Cardiff|Edinburgh|London
We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of Englandβs places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
We are the UKβs national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! π https://historylab.plus/
Head of Library & Digital @ihrlibrary.bsky.social at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK @ihr.bsky.social. Libraries, history, books, music, film, current affairs, the odd bit of politics- you know, the good stuff.
Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vchlondon.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Lecturer | Humanities Training | @ihr.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social & School of Advanced Study | Caribbean Seminars @ilcs.bsky.social | Book: 'Legal Identity, Race & Belonging' https://shorturl.at/JPH0j Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa #digitalidentity
The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
