Natasha Anson

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

24.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 2251    🔁 1053    💬 32    📌 20

after quite the day of train cancellations and delays, have just been dropped off home by a total stranger and their mam who I met on the train, and if that isn't solidarity on the evening of the miner's gala I don't know what is 🩷 (June if you're on here, you are a lifesaver, thank you)

11.07.2025 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A poster with a milk and baby reminder so you know how much you need, measured in loaves and pints

A view of a street of brick buildings at the black country living museum, with red white and blue bunting across the street

Mine entrance - a brick building with green double doors which are closed

Sign which reads Happy Mother, Happy Baby, Happy Home, and a bookcase filled with children's toys including dolls, a dolls house and push along dogs

Back from a wonderful few days #SHSconf2025 - maybe the friendliest conference I've been to and a real beacon of light (apart from, of course, underground in the VERY DARK mine) - cheers @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present, BCLM for being a fab venue, and to new friendships 🎠

09.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

honestly it was really great! but very dark (which sounds so obvious but still took me by surprise!)

08.07.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

obviously, we rewarded ourselves for having done our talks by immediately going down the mine, 10/10 #SHSconf2025

08.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

White woman with brown hair and navy dress stands at a lectern, gesturing at an image of a man working a machine with the words "men" and "coal"

Lovely to be on such an inspiring panel on open-air museums #SHSconf2025 (thank you to @meg-sch.bsky.social for putting our panel together!!) although I never realised *quite* how much I talked with my hands until I saw it in pictures...

08.07.2025 20:47 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

A pint of scrumpy cider held in front of a pub with green and cream tiled frontage

All conferences henceforth will need to have pints and fairground rides as evening activities, I'm afraid - a cracking first day #SHSconf2025 @ BCLM topped off by winning the pub quiz 🍻

07.07.2025 21:58 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

ah brilliant - thanks! It was mine too, so it's been quite full circle 😅

02.07.2025 09:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Jenny! Not sure if this is what you're looking for as I'm sort of a blend of both and neither - former practitioner, now PhDing on open-air museums and nostalgia!

01.07.2025 19:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A white enamel mug with 'the floggings will continue until morale improves' in purple. Label with 'floggings will continue mug, Beamish Living Museum, £12.99'

Art gallery with wooden flooring, small black shelving with objects and a white museum display case with glass top. Sign on left wall says Tat, on right wall Café.

Called into the @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social exhibition while in Bloomsbury today with my sister and thoroughly enjoyed it - even a Beamish cameo!

17.06.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

01.05.2025 10:17 — 👍 796    🔁 541    💬 7    📌 63

Congratulations!!

30.04.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New from me! How did the papacy of #popefrancis reflect Franciscan values? A retrospective on the Jesuit with the heart of a Franciscan: youtu.be/_BEK1VNXNHI #francisofassisi #franciscan #skystorians #papacy #catholicism #catholic

23.04.2025 08:00 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

16.04.2025 08:54 — 👍 539    🔁 170    💬 5    📌 3

at what point does history comfortably become novelty?

(allowing for the fact that sometimes the answer is never)

24.03.2025 21:32 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

v excited to be speaking at SHS this year on regional identity in open-air museums, and to be heading back to BCLM - looking forward to seeing the recent additions!

20.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Image of a book in front of a bookshelf. It is "Geordies" by Robert Colls and Bill Lancaster. The front cover features a drawing of a variety of people, most of whom are pulling a rope.

Picking up some apt reading in the library tonight 🖤🤍🖤🤍 #geordies

17.03.2025 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hidden house church. There are pink barriers for the upstairs seats, with replica candles, and a row of individual seats in front of a small altar.

Interior of the Basilica. Three stained glass windows and two plain windows, black and gold walls, and altar.

Interior of the Oude Kirk. Plain walls, with a painting just visible on the wooden roof, and tombstone flooring.

Squeezing as much as possible into the DFDS mini-cruise to Amsterdam with the Oude Kirk, Basilica and the amazing Our Lord in the Attic hidden Catholic Church today!

14.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mega congrats Grant!! 🥳

04.03.2025 22:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

View from Seaham beach of the pebbled beach, receding tide and horizon and grey sky.

A hot chocolate mug on a grey table. The saucer is drizzled with chocolate sauce, the mug has cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate pieces and a wafer.

Lovely Sunday afternoon in Seaham searching for sea glass with a very extravagant hot chocolate as a reward - I love how much history is still washing up on the shore every day

16.02.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

unfortunately literally true

24.01.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Museum display of important industries anf making a living, red panel with white text and interactive screen

Can of pop, cup of tea and bowl of soup on a tray on a table with garden view

Spent a v lovely day in the archives at The Story in Durham, accompanied by an accidentally 99% liquid (delicious) lunch - will definitely be back for more of both 🙌🏻

23.01.2025 16:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Learning a new social media platform in my 30s and in my third year of my PhD; what could possibly go wrong?

10.01.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0