Emily Baughan

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La Grève des nourrices (1907) Nurses' Strike (Pathé) YouTube video by Films by the Year

this incredible 1907 film, La Grève des Nourrices. wetnurses strike, toddlers counterprotest, "down with nurses, bottles for everyone". a street fight ensues www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiF...

Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)

ahhh thank you ❤️

Very much looking forward to hearing @emilybaughan.bsky.social talk about her current work on the politics of childcare this Thursday. Come if you're in town!

archive for a good infant I made a radio show!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Landscape For A Good Infant How has the state shaped different generations’ experience of infancy?

this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

The Care Factory - Boston Review In the decades since the Wages for Housework movement, care work has become a site of profit in ways its leaders could never have predicted.

While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.

@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:

I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike

Duncan Tanner Prize 2025 The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches

—@emilybaughan.bsky.social on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen

—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“

—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center

Empire builders Margery Perham was six feet tall. She was the first woman and youngest lecturer in the history department at the University of Sheffield after the First

“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social.

Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...

I loved it! ❤️

asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'

To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed

(79% of supply teachers are women)

and people become supply teachers (who are v poorly paid in spite of profit they generate) for flexibility, because of unplanned absences for caring, chronic ill health, etc

so schools and early years settings need more supply teachers bc absence rates rise as the job gets worse, then schools and settings lose £££ by using private providers, further driving down conditions

Schools pay almost 100% mark-up for supply teachers Average secondary supply teacher pay is £150 a day, but schools shell out £291

this kind of thing!! this is insane schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-pay-...

still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??

wow!!!! can't wait to read!!!

The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.

if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

me too! thank you!!

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This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

Lost Liverpool - Boston Review The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?

I wrote about @samwetherell.bsky.social's brilliant new book www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...

so special to get to come 'home' to Bristol for a seminar, huge thanks to @uobrishistory.bsky.social

love this!!