Yes! I was more scared about the workshop than my viva (and actually, my PhD examiner was there 😂)
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Yes! I was more scared about the workshop than my viva (and actually, my PhD examiner was there 😂)
I was lucky enough to do this in Jan 2024 and it was one of the highlights of my career. It's such an amazing scheme. Best of luck with the final stages of writing.
I am so excited about this upcoming 1-day hybrid conference. I can't wait to share findings from the project & hear the amazing papers we have lined up.
Most importantly, it's free! In person attendees get cakes, lunch & a drinks reception. Travel bursaries are available for PhDs/ECRs. Join us!
What do Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the 19th-century Divorce Court have in common? Murder, of course.
I chatted with @cacrampton.bsky.social on the Shedunnit podcast about how divorce law shaped golden age detective fiction 🔍
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#LegalHistory #DivorceHistory
A patchwork of 11 images. Clockwise from top left corner: 1. A close up of piece of indigenous artwork in the dot style by artist Lee Rehardt 2. The cover slide from my conference presentation 'Counting the Cost of Divorce: the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and the british empire 3. a koala bear sitting in a tree 4. An advertising banner from an exhibition at Sydney Art Gallery titled "Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940" 5. Sydney Harbour bridge, taken from a ferry 6. A view of sunrise in Adelaide taken from a terracotta tiled balcony. The sun is rising over the hills in the distance. 7. Large hand painted paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling in a thai restaurant in Sydney's china town. 8. The Faery Bower Pool at Manly Beach 9. Grape vines in McClaren vale 10. a sun bathing water dragon 11. Sydney opera house
I've checked into the airport hotel ready for my early flight back to the UK. Thank you to Cath Bishop, Melanie Methot, @kris-inwood.bsky.social, Claire Wright, Alecia Simmonds and everyone at the @asia-pacific-echr.bsky.social for such a brilliant trip (and to the 🐨who kindly posed for a photo!)
Cover image for 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales'
Cover image for 'Manning the Law'
Cover image for 'Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court'
It’s fantastic to see several Hart titles shortlisted across the 2026 SLSA Prizes!
Congratulations to @drjenniferaston.bsky.social, Ngaire Naffine & @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social on this recognition for their outstanding socio-legal scholarship.
Read the full shortlists: https://bit.ly/4c3516P
Thanks Sophie!
Thank you 😊
The shortlists are full of amazing scholars whose work I really admire and am so proud to feature alongside. Congratulations everyone and thank you so much to the @slsauk.bsky.social for the wonderful honour 🥳
This double-whammy of loveliness wouldn't have been possible without the amazing team at @hartpublishing.bsky.social & my colleagues in @nulawandsociety.bsky.social & @northumbriahistory.bsky.social, plus all the others who have listened & given feedback. Thank you so much💖
(still more👇..!)
I am delighted that my most recent book 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales' (Hart, 2024) has been nominated for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize AND the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2026... (more below!)
slsa.ac.uk/so/45PmDxXBD...
🎓Less than a week to go to submit your abstract for 'Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'.
We've had some cracking submissions & (along with a keynote from the inimitable Lady Hale) it is shaping up to be a brilliant event!
💰speaker bursaries available
Details below 👇
🎓Less than a week to go to submit your abstract for 'Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969'.
We've had some cracking submissions & (along with a keynote from the inimitable Lady Hale) it is shaping up to be a brilliant event!
💰speaker bursaries available
Details below 👇
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
⦁ Relationships
⦁ Domestic abuse
⦁ Financial repercussions
⦁ Child custody
⦁ Emotions
⦁ Sex & sexuality
⦁ Mediation
⦁ Legal reform
⦁ English Law & the wider world
⦁ Representations in novels/plays/films/television/newspapers/magazines
📢 #CfP @divorcehistory.bsky.social conference: Marital breakdown in the English common law world 1801-1969
📅 20 April 2026
🎓Northumbria University
🎤 Keynote: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
💰 Speaker bursaries available!
#legalhistory #socialhistory #genderhistory #VictorianHistory #law #humanities.
It's the last day to register for the free & online @divorcehistory.bsky.social one-day workshop 'Archives to Action' where we will be examining the relevance of #humanities and #sociolegal research to contemporary policy issues. All welcome! Sign up here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
How can locating women, children and diversity in the #archives be used in the present? Incl. @jessamycarlson.bsky.social from The National Archives and @lizzybarchivist.bsky.social from @northeastmuseums.bsky.social
#Genealogy #genealogists #familyhistory #archivists #museums #divorce #marriage
#History #legalhist #divorce #familylaw #CfP One-day conference on marital breakdown in the English Common Law world 1801-1969' Online & in-person @northumbriauni.bsky.social 20 April 2026. Keynote = former President of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale. Bursaries available for PhDs/ECRs/unfunded!
This images is a logo for Welsh Women's Aid consisting of a white square and at the bottom are 3 purple symbols and wording that says: Cymorth i Ferched Cymru. Welsh Women's Aid.
How can stories of Victorian abuse survivors help women today? Join our ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20 Jan 2026, inc. Kate Perry-Jones @welshwomensaid.org.uk , Prof @bettinsonv.bsky.social & Prof Nicola Wake @northumbriauni.bsky.social
#charity #survivors #abuse #coercion #women
#History #SkyStorians @hisjournalha.bsky.social is at the @historians.org 8-11 January! For details about meeting the editor, Daniel Laqua, to discuss submissions see flyer!
Historian Olive Anderson wrote a great article about the development of Hansard in the 19thC. www.jstor.org/stable/577104
This is a photograph of two buildings that are curved in shape with lots of grey and glass visible. There is a pathway between the two buildings and trees on each side of the pathway. On one of the buildings are the words 'Northumbria University NEWCASTLE' and a shield logo, both in white.
Our FREE ‘Archives to Action’ workshop on 20th January 2026 will now be a fully virtual event. Come and join us and our fantastic speakers, all welcome.
#Archives #History #MaritalBreakdown #Divorce #DomesticAbuse #ChildWelfare #ChildCustody #PolicyReform #Policy #England #Wales
I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
A repost for the breakfast crowd ☕🥐
See below for details of a CfP on all aspects of #divorce and #marital breakdown @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Newcastle on 20 April 2026.
#PhD #ECR & unfunded bursaries available for speakers. **Abstract deadline 2 Feb 2026**
#history #legalhist #law #marriage
A fascinating blog from my brilliant colleague Dr Helen Rutherford on #Victorian #Coroners and a unique source held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Do you research #marriage, #divorce, or anything in between?! Submit an abstract for the @divorcehistory.bsky.social end of project conference. The keynote speaker is Lady Hale & speaker bursaries are available - it will be a fab day, join us!
#legalhistory
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
✨Inside the medieval roof timbers at Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, one of the rafters has been dated (c. 921) and was a sapling during the reign of King Æthelstan, before England was an entity.
Touch it and you feel a kind of altitude and sense that the past is cheek by jowl.
Well deserved congratulations! 👏 💐 x
The con that got us all into academia...
An unconscious ginger maine coon boy cat called Tigger. He's sleeping on a pink fleecy blanket placed on the arm of a sofa precisely because he and his sister insist on sleeping on the arm of said sofa. He has very hairy toes.
If reincarnation is true then I hope to have lived a good enough life to come back as a Maine Coon cat 😻