@drangelamuir.bsky.social
Associate professor, historian, sometimes musician. Interested in gender and deviance in 18th century Wales & England. I co-host Wines & Crimes events in Cardiff. Currently writing a non-academic true crime history book (out in 2026) www.angelamuir.co.uk
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
#WorldLetterWritingDay ✒️
Here's the story of love letters I discovered in the Amgueddfa Cymru collections 💌
Sarah was 20 years old when she received these letters. She fell in love with a butcher, and they kept a public house together 🍻
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/my-dearest...
#Wales #History
This is horrendous!
26.06.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see the recording of Angela Muir's excellent paper on 'Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-Century' to @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihrlibrary.bsky.social is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/for...
07.05.2025 08:13 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Join us next week for the @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture:
Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’ with @amalexathorn.bsky.social.
Free to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Absolutely! I personally have no problem with 'baby daddy'!
29.04.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0100%! And speaking broadly, 'unmarried fathers' isn't always accurate since some of them *were* married, just not to the baby mama! I even titled a conference paper 'did baby daddies matter' (it was about Illegitimate infant mortality).
29.04.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I have never read anything more relatable in my entire academic career than this.
29.04.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI:
Our seminar recommences tomorrow night with @drangelamuir.bsky.social presenting her paper ‘Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-century’. Join us in person at the IHR in our regular room or online from 17:30!
www.history.ac.uk/events/force...
There’s still time to sign up online/in person for this important talk this weds @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social 👇
28.04.2025 22:57 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
📣3 Funded MA Studentships!
In partnership with the Black Cultural Archives, the Centre for Regional and Local History is offering 3 funded MA studentships in Black British local history in honour of Len Garrison. Click the link for details
#skystorians
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Looking forward to Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social speaking about 'Forced Abortion in England and Wales in the Long Eighteenth-Century' to the @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihrlibrary.bsky.social next Wed. All welcome in person or online, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/events/force...
24.04.2025 10:15 — 👍 19 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
I'm excited to be speaking at @long18thsem.bsky.social on 30 April at @ihr.bsky.social. It's a dark topic with a lot of modern relevance given the ongoing threat to women's reproductive rights. Join in person or online (it's free)
#skystorians #history #AcademicSky
www.history.ac.uk/events/force...
It's horrible isn't it! I don't think many Unis are safe these days
24.03.2025 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's an externally-funded post doc, so it's not affected by *that*, but the timing isn't ideal. Gotta feel for the academics involved in putting this together given what's going on there.
24.03.2025 20:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Always a nice treat when this time of year rolls around! If you're a writer publishing your work and haven't signed up, you're really missing out!
24.03.2025 17:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I think @themerl.bsky.social is my favourite account on Bluesky. Top tier socials, lads (and lasses?)!
20.03.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam Walton gave one of our tracks a spin Saturday night! Hear 'Little Brain' by The Echo and the Always off of 'With Hearts Like These' at 2hr 50min in. It was part of his #internationalwomensday special
Recorded by @toddhq.bsky.social
#newmusic #welshmusic #iwd25
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I'm sorry if you've misunderstood. 'Wine' and 'true crime' do kind of give away the fact this is not an academic or engagement event. Fair if you want to express your opinion and leave feedback. I don't have you agree with you.
08.03.2025 02:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is an event run by a small business not meant to represent the humanities. There's no dishonesty, it's clearly explained on the website. It's OK to not like the concept. People do come to these, and I think it's OK to have a bit of fun with our work and help a small business once in a while
08.03.2025 02:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Not saying you're thick at all, I just disagree with you and I think that's okay. Appreciate the feedback but this is our 8th event and it's never been an issue so I think it's just a misunderstanding, which happens sometimes!
07.03.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Think we'll have to agree to disagree about that one. The title 'Wines & Crimes' doesn't exactly scream academia, the link goes to a tasting event listing on a business's website (a wine shop) & I just said 'event', which it is. The description on the website explains it all. I reckon that's enough?
07.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's a wine tasting hosted by an independent small business? It costs to run and they can't give away their product for free. It's not like a funder or uni is subsidising it. It's a wine tasting first and foremost which I tell research-based stories at in my spare time. Not sure what this issue is 🤷
07.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The stories I'll be telling come from the research for my chapter 'Sex Work and Economies of Makeshift in Wales, c. 1750-1830' in Gender in Modern Welsh History. It's academic research repackaged as a wine tasting!
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gender-...
#welshhistory #skystorians #womenshistory #wales
For any wine, history and true crime lovers in and around Cardiff we've just announced our next Wines & Crimes! This time we're doing a deep dive into sex work in 18th & 19th century Wales 🍷
📅21 May
📍Corp Market
#truecrime #Wales #Welshhistory #wine #womenshistory
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Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading it!
28.02.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah he's had some unfortunate views for a while now
06.02.2025 10:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I saw them play Cardiff Castle last June and absolutely SOBBED when they played 'Mayonnaise'. I love that album!
06.02.2025 09:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Check out our Open Access article here:
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