Lucie Matthews-Jones

A white woman’s hand holding a mug with a blue logo up.

Had a lovely day chatting&zine making at today’s Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop. Thank you to everyone who shared ND archive experiences with me & @amfoster.bsky.social. Big shout to Rhian @glamarchives.bsky.social’s for hosting us! The tour & mugs were splendid additions.

A room looking onto a blue skyline with chairs and table and curtains

Looking onto a sky line in the distance is the Bute castle behind that mountains and a blue skyline

Look onto a statue or a postman holding out a kettle with building in the distance

I’ve won the uni travel agent lottery with my Cardiff hotel room. Like look at my view! My hotel was once the old post office& I get to spy the behind of a postman statue delivering a letter from the corridor. The dining room- the old sorting room- has napkins folded as envelops. Historian happy!

About the Project Liverpool John Moores University invites applications for a fulltime, funded PhD researcher to work on a collaborative doctoral project with the Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre. The project will explore the global and imperial history of Liverpool's Blue Coat Charity School in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will focus on the extent to which the growing globalisation of the port of Liverpool, and associated colonial connections and structures, were reflected in the people involved in the charity school - its trustees, supporters, pupils and staff - and the School's wider activities. The period covered is from the formal end of the slave trade and slave ownership in the early-nineteenth century to the purchase of the Bluecoat's city-centre buildings - significantly by Merseyside philanthropist and imperialist William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) — in the Edwardian era. As well as the completion of a PhD thesis, the project will involve the co-production of a contemporary arts programme, reflecting upon the Bluecoat's imperial connections and legacies.

My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🥳 congrats

About the Project Liverpool John Moores University invites applications for a fulltime, funded PhD researcher to work on a collaborative doctoral project with the Bluecoat, Liverpool's contemporary arts centre. The project will explore the global and imperial history of Liverpool's Blue Coat Charity School in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It will focus on the extent to which the growing globalisation of the port of Liverpool, and associated colonial connections and structures, were reflected in the people involved in the charity school - its trustees, supporters, pupils and staff - and the School's wider activities. The period covered is from the formal end of the slave trade and slave ownership in the early-nineteenth century to the purchase of the Bluecoat's city-centre buildings - significantly by Merseyside philanthropist and imperialist William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) — in the Edwardian era. As well as the completion of a PhD thesis, the project will involve the co-production of a contemporary arts programme, reflecting upon the Bluecoat's imperial connections and legacies.

My @ljmuhistory.bsky.social colleague Nick White with the art’s organisation Bluecoat’s are recruiting a PHD student to research the global &imperial history of Liverpool’s Blue Coat Charity School. They want someone who can develop a community strand #skyhistorian www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A screen shot of journal webpage Text reads WILEY •*Online Library History / Early View Forum & Open Access Ragged Histories: Textiles, Craft and Creative History ANDREA KORDA, MARY ELIZABETH LEIGHTON, VANESSA WARNE First published: 24 July 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70038

Abstract This article presents insights from three academics who are based at Canadian universities and have used rag-rug making as a teaching method, engaging students in studying material culture and industrialization in nineteenth-century England. It shows how the integration of such creative practices can be used for different disciplines, encompassing literature, art history and history in this case. It also features the reflections that this process inspired amongst the students and academics involved in this joint endeavour.

Just signing off &the most exciting email from @hisjournalha.bsky.social has just arrived to announce that the 1st article in mine & @cathfeely.bsky.social’s special ed ‘Creative History in the Classroom’ is out. So #skyhistorians check out rag rug making here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A screen shot of journal webpage Text reads WILEY •*Online Library History / Early View Forum & Open Access Ragged Histories: Textiles, Craft and Creative History ANDREA KORDA, MARY ELIZABETH LEIGHTON, VANESSA WARNE First published: 24 July 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70038

Abstract This article presents insights from three academics who are based at Canadian universities and have used rag-rug making as a teaching method, engaging students in studying material culture and industrialization in nineteenth-century England. It shows how the integration of such creative practices can be used for different disciplines, encompassing literature, art history and history in this case. It also features the reflections that this process inspired amongst the students and academics involved in this joint endeavour.

Just signing off &the most exciting email from @hisjournalha.bsky.social has just arrived to announce that the 1st article in mine & @cathfeely.bsky.social’s special ed ‘Creative History in the Classroom’ is out. So #skyhistorians check out rag rug making here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A black ans white cat on a desk with them resting on a pink notebook with Alice and Wonderland on the cover

Every snuggly cat needs a notebook for a pillow, while every loving owner is forced to rely on their memories rather than much needed notes #proofofcat

Urban History Group conference 2025 The Urban Commons:Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4-5 September 2025, University of Leicester Registration is now open for the Urban History Group’s 2025 co…

📣 Registration is now open for #UHG2025!

We're excited to welcome you to our first conference organised with the Pre-Modern Towns Group.

The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern

🗓️ 4-5 September 2025
📍 University of Leicester

Vice-Chancellor PhD Scholarship 2026 application form Apply for one of the studentships available to PhD students at Liverpool John Moores University, and join a fantastic, vibrant community of researchers.

#skyhistorians My uni, LJMU, have announced their VC PhD scholarships. Reach out to me if you are interested in doing something on homes; philanthropy/ charity; material culture and lived religion in the long c19th. These are competitive. You do need strong marks

www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd...

History A leading history department in the country, LJMU History has a 91% student satisfaction rating on the 2022 National Students Survey.

I also have some colleagues doing great work too on a whole host of topics and geographical regions. Take a look here www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni...

Vice-Chancellor PhD Scholarship 2026 application form Apply for one of the studentships available to PhD students at Liverpool John Moores University, and join a fantastic, vibrant community of researchers.

#skyhistorians My uni, LJMU, have announced their VC PhD scholarships. Reach out to me if you are interested in doing something on homes; philanthropy/ charity; material culture and lived religion in the long c19th. These are competitive. You do need strong marks

www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd...

It was great to catch up with you! Good luck with the book. 🙌🏻

I went to chapelgarth writers retreat. It was good fun!

Wheat field in front of some green mountains and a cloudy but blue sky

Quote on a chalkboard that reads "For it would seem (...) that we write not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. Virginia Woolf Orlando, 1928

Heading home after a 3 day writing retreat. I’m pleased to have broken the back of a shortish funding application. I’m not going to lie finding my funding voice has been a bit uncomfortable and hard, but at least there was cake and lovely views to get me through.

Neurodivergent experiences of archives – call for workshop participants Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive, library, or collections professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive, library, or collections professional who can offer insights into accessibility? As part of the EDI Caucus funded project ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ , we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively ‘re-imagine’ archival spaces through zine-making. We can fund limited travel expenses for participants to workshops, including support worker travel and overnight accommodation where necessary. Please apply for one workshop only. We are currently recruiting participants for the following workshops, to be hosted by: ● ● Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Tuesday 29 July, 10am-4.15pm. Liverpool Records Office, Liverpool, Thursday 14 August, 10am-4.15pm. Please apply by Monday 21st July, or as soon as possible if you need travel support. If you cannot make these events, but would like to hear more about the project, sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course. Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com. All the very best, Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK, Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives,

#skyhistorians We are looking forward to our Divergent Minds in the Archive workshops in Cardiff (29 July) & Liverpool (14 Aug). There’s still time to sign up & we are looking for a broad group of archive users! We have travel bursaries & can if needed help with hotel accommodation. More details👇

A side picture of a window and door with hills and oak tree in the distance. Table near by

A summer house with a table and chairs

I was a bit flustered and scattered this morning before I arrived at the dreamy Chapelgarth, but I’m now super settled with an excellent view and good intention to write, write, write at my writing retreat.

Sign up here

Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Tuesday 29 July, 10am-4.15pm. @glamarchives.bsky.social
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Liverpool Records Office, Liverpool, Thursday 14 August, 10am-4.15pm

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Neurodivergent experiences of archives – call for workshop participants Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive, library, or collections professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive, library, or collections professional who can offer insights into accessibility? As part of the EDI Caucus funded project ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ , we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively ‘re-imagine’ archival spaces through zine-making. We can fund limited travel expenses for participants to workshops, including support worker travel and overnight accommodation where necessary. Please apply for one workshop only. We are currently recruiting participants for the following workshops, to be hosted by: ● ● Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Tuesday 29 July, 10am-4.15pm. Liverpool Records Office, Liverpool, Thursday 14 August, 10am-4.15pm. Please apply by Monday 21st July, or as soon as possible if you need travel support. If you cannot make these events, but would like to hear more about the project, sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course. Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com. All the very best, Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK, Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives,

#skyhistorians We are looking forward to our Divergent Minds in the Archive workshops in Cardiff (29 July) & Liverpool (14 Aug). There’s still time to sign up & we are looking for a broad group of archive users! We have travel bursaries & can if needed help with hotel accommodation. More details👇

A book page with people in the distance blurred

Spent a sunny day with my book club at a day reading retreat where I read my book, chatted books and got free books. My gift bag also included a personally selected book. It was truly wholesome and ace☀️ 📖 ☀️ 📖

A book page with people in the distance blurred

Spent a sunny day with my book club at a day reading retreat where I read my book, chatted books and got free books. My gift bag also included a personally selected book. It was truly wholesome and ace☀️ 📖 ☀️ 📖

Not much chance to post much over the last few days at #SHSConf2025, but seeing everybody's happy memories and excitement at being at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social has almost brought a tear to my eye. On behalf of the museum, thanks so much @socialhistsoc.bsky.social and all delegates for coming!

I think we are allowed to be insufferable till noon Friday or at least till I’ve finished all my lemon sorbet sweets… 🤭🤭🤭🤭

An Edwardian street scene with bunting

A shoe doll on a window seal

Cups and saucers with a biscuit tone and candies

At a time when life in HE feels tough #shsconf2025 has been truly joyful. I’m leaving with a notebook brimming with notes & new ideas. It’s been lovely to natter to so many history peeps. Thank you to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for your hard work! BCLM was perfect!

@sambrady.bsky.social congrats on your @socialhistsoc.bsky.social prize. It’s wonderful to see your Paralympic exhibition recognised. I hope you sensed the loud round of applause from the auditorium!

Your panel was brilliant! I throughly enjoyed all the papers. Well done on organising it.

This looks brilliant and I will be checking it out… thank you!

It has been so much fun! I hope you’re not too jealous 🤭

Best conference venue ever!

Thank you so much for coming: I’m pleased to hear that you enjoyed it!