Dr Helen Glew

Ah, sorry, my mistake!

I guess that’s two books to read, then.

Excellent.

Between this and @thelong1930s.bsky.social’s chapter, I definitely need to read this book!

Am curious, given your title - do you talk about E M Delafield's work in the chapter?

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📖 New article online

'Forced Displacement and the Weaponisation of Humanitarian Aid during the Greek Civil War, 1947–50', by Panagiotis Karagkounis

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Hivemind, a favour? Tilly loves animations with a musical score but no dialogue, where you can infer what’s going on from just the visuals and music. The Snowman and Fantasia are favourites, & I’d like to broaden her options. What else, if anything, is out there?

me: i think i'll be more productive today if i put my phone in the other room before getting down to work

every website: to log in, we need to you put this code into your phone, which will give you a code on your phone to type in here, and then maybe we'll let you login

The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Edited by Tamas Benyei, Shene Boskani & Nick Hubble. Bloomsbury: The Decades Series.

Back Cover of The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Note BCCW logo.

Contents Contributors Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Tamás Bényei, Shene Boskani and Nick Hubble 1. Fairy Fruit and Creative Auto-Intoxication: The 1920s as a Decade of Fantastic Romance Nick Hubble 2. The Way Things (Still) Are: Women, Visions and Realities in the 1920s Lesley A. Hall 3. The Shapes of Time: Novelistic Form and Decadal Time in the 1920s British Novel Tyrus Miller 4. The First World War in the 1920s Andrew Frayn 5. Home and Away: The Fiction of the 1920s and the British Empire Tamás Bényei 6. Casting Shadows: Women, Absence, and History in the Gendered Narratives of Naomi Mitchison Shene Boskani 7. Englishness, Modernism and Gender—The Hungarian Reception of Virginia Woolf Nóra Séllei 8. Platforming the Poor in 1920s Britain: Habermas, Foucault, and the Politics of Display Luke Lewin Davies 9. Animals at the Hearth: A.A. Milne, E. H. Shepard and Illustrated Fantasies of Rural Living Kristin Bluemel Timeline of Works Timeline of National Events Timeline of International Events Biographies of Writers Index

All 10 volumes in the now completed Decades Series. The 1920s, The 1930s, The 1940, The 1950s, The 1960s, The 1970s, The 1980s, The 1990s, The 2000s, The 2010s.

Editor and contributor copies of The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction have come through. Great chapters from @erinacean.bsky.social, @afrayn.bsky.social & @kristinbluemel.bsky.social. The 10 volume Decades Series (conceived in 2007, published 2014-2025) is complete. (profile cover updated)

Alberta’s Government, the Mainframe Computer, and Women’s Work In the 1960s, Bill Rogers convinced the Alberta government to invest both computers and the training needed for their workers to program these machines, launching a data revolution. Women dominated th...

Great new @yegcityasmuseum.bsky.social story this week by Cathy Roy about the women worked with the Alberta government’s first mainframe computers. A rough job but one they took a lot of pride in.

(Shout out to editor @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social)
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Well done, Sarah! (And I get the anxiety, too, though I am very sure none is needed!) Looking forward to diving in.

Unhappy mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain is out in the world and it's open access! Here's a wee sample of the conclusion (you can read more here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/) which gives, I think, a sense of the themes and rhythms of the book.

Thanks - will look into this.

Thanks! Yes, been very much enjoying @meganfaragher.bsky.social’s work and learned a lot from it.

Working on a book project on women's paid work in the Mass Observation/Mass Observation Project collections, so Fremlin features quite a bit in the early sections. Just read, and wrote about, War Factory which I found fascinating.

Discovered her when I read 'The Hours Before Dawn' a few years ago!

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Interesting - thanks for sharing. Hadn't thought directly about film.

Yes, was sort of thinking about 'career novels' as a genre - even if what I'm writing about wasn't seen as career-ish enough. Thanks!

Thank you!

Also, sidenote: just saw your chapter on Fremlin, who comes up in another project I'm working on. Adding that to my reading list now.

And then (sometimes) these depictions become embedded in ways of thinking about the occupations themselves?

Thanks.

Literary scholars/cultural studies scholars: can anyone point me to any work on tropes about women's paid work in 20th century fiction? I'm particularly interested in the idea that certain types of work get portrayed as ubiquitous and are therefore meant to come across as cosy/familiar to readers.

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8. Historians are good for highlighting that things people now think have been around for ages are more recent than you think…

Or conversely, things that people think are only recent phenomena have actually a lot older history

Helen Glew Historical Research and Writing

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Oooh, this looks super-interesting. Thanks for highlighting, Sarah!

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Maybe @emmaelinor.bsky.social?

Nerds of Sky, any thoughts?
I have an elderly relative who, despite teaching since before the first Apple came out, has ignored computers for decades... and now wants to learn.
He needs an online, self-paced, super-basic "How to Computer for Olds."
Does that exist?

(repost for errors, sorry)

another job going on my Joyce Butler project - year long 0.6 role for an archivist.

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