Dr. Sophie Turbutt

Travelling Activists, Radical Hospitality and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c.1880–1914* This article considers the political lecture tour, and particularly the travelling socialist caravan tours organised by Clarion socialists at the end of the 19th century, to argue that, for socialist...

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

Radical Object: A Song Born of Women's Protest How did a protest by a group of women from a Christian anarchist movement inspire a 1960s American folk song? Victoria Peretitskaya explores the origins of the song, the protest and its feminist legacy.

'If you have a protest no one wants to hear / Just attend a rally where the big shots meet / Strip to your hide and walk down the street’.

Victoria Peretitskaya explores the history of a 1960s folk song and the protest that inspired it.

Currently en route home from what has been an exciting and thought-provoking workshop on working-class history in Spain! Organised by Mari Nieves García Pintor at UPV/EHU in Bilbao.☀️

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

HWJ in the Classroom From histories of the French Revolution, to policing in Early Modern England, to LGBTQ+ histories, these reflections highlight HWJ as a valuable resource across many different classrooms.

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue.

To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

Radical Reads 2025 History Workshop editors share their reflections on the radical books and films which have compelled them, fascinated them, and moved them throughout 2025.

Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal.
To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social

A Radical New Approach to Human History The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow

This was a long time in the making and I'm delighted it's now out. Huge thanks to @galbeckerman.bsky.social for his perseverance and diligence. Please check it out. Print edition will be out soon. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Friends in Common How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource?

Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️

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Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

📣 Call for participants 📣

Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?

We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!

Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

👇! (I'm so grateful to @lahri.bsky.social for this opportunity!)

It was an honour😊 And you are very welcome - indeed, some chocolates have made their way all the way back to Leeds with me after all

That's so lovely to hear Lucie☺ And thank you for the fantastic question you asked!

Pub at the Black Country Museum

Funfair at the Black Country Museum

Black Country Museum street

Conference venue at the Black Country Museum

My #SHSConf2025 highlights:

1. Presenting my research alongside the absolute Dream Team that is @constancebantman.bsky.social, @lauracforster.bsky.social, Nat Andrews, Richard Cleminson, & @clivehenry.bsky.social

2. Smashing the throw-beanbags-at-tin-cans game at the funfair

3. Pub quiz victory😎

📢¡NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN! "Mujeres frente a la miseria. Historia y memoria de la supervivencia femenina (1936-1952)", editado por Alba Martínez y Gloria Román, y publicado en @marcialpons.bsky.social

Thank you so much for your support!!☺

Thank you Constance!! That means so much☺

Thankyou Goyo☺

Thank you so much!!

New profile pic 😉

You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌

Thank you!!😄

Thank you!!

Thank you Sara!!

Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.

The Paris Commune in Britain: Radicals, Refugees, and Revolutionaries after 1871 Abstract. The Paris Commune in Britain is a book about radical ideas, and the people and places that make them. It is about how ideas are forged, propagate

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

Submitted my PhD thesis today!🥳 (eek!)