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Oh that's so interesting Sophie! That seems much lower than what I've usually found (one of the major time-trends analysis puts it nearer to 10-15 per 100,000 from mid-19th to earlier 20th, academic.oup.com/ije/article-...)?
Very welcome! Yeah - very difficult (and even today, really!) Countries have different systems for classifying suicides, and different data collection conventions. So all very tricky. That said I think it's fair to say it's probably an over-exaggeration.
It's broadly accepted that this was probably more impression than reality; for example, it's been argued that the suicide rate in late eighteenth-century Geneva was much higher than England, in the 30s per 100,000 by the 1780s (see Jeffrey Watt)
This is comparable to the present day (c.11 in 100,000). Some very patchy data on Paris has put their rate as much higher (one calculation being 20 in 100,000 in the late 18th century), and by the 1780s/90s, lots of English commentators began to claim that Paris actually had a higher rate
It was certainly a major stereotype from at least the 1690s to 1790s! Comparative data on suicide rates for this period is extremely difficult to produce. My own calculations of rates in Westminster (for an upcoming book on this) have found a rate of 10-13 per 100,000 for mid-to-late 18thC
My latest article, 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760-1850', has been published in @enghistrev.bsky.social!
It uses coroners' inquests to reconstruct everyday food-giving practices in 18th- and 19th-century labouring communities 🍞🍗🥕
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Deadline extended until 23 Jan! Do put in an application for this conference - it's one of the warmest, loveliest and social (fittingly!) conferences there is in History, and it's especially welcoming to ECRs and PGRs!
Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury
UN warns of man-made famine in Gaza as starvation deaths rise, Israel steps up plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza.
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Massive congratulations you star!!
📘New issue out now!
Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at)
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📣Exciting opportunity to contribute to the SHS and be part of the team!
Keen to answer any questions that people might have, and support your nomination✨
Fantastic, rather heart-breaking piece.
'It can be a radical position simply to repair what is broken and to preserve what is valuable from crude financialisaton or elite indifference, rather than to reimagine it wholesale.'
Thank you so much for this - I really appreciate it, so helpful! I am also struggling with those words but thanks so much for the rest!
Would be so grateful if anyone was able to help me transcribe this letter from 1849...
I think it begins 'Dearest Mama', and there's 'I could not account for it' in the middle, but I'm struggling with the rest - any thoughts massively appreciated
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Super interesting historiographical review!
📣Out now on #firstview!
Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social) (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) on 'Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet'
#Art #Body #Merchant #Display #Artisan 16thc 17thc 🗃️
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the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
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Spotify called me a nerd
📢Panel CfP for 'Everyday Environments'!
The convenors of the Heritage, Environment, Spaces & Places strand are looking for papers on the theme of 'Everyday Environments'.
⏰Outline proposal due by 9 December; abstract 10 Jan. More info here:
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Me too😆I'm actually buzzing✨
If you work on any aspect of social and cultural history, I majorly encourage you to submit a proposal!
This is also the first SHS conference taking place in a museum/heritage institution - expect ye olde fish & chips and serious historical vibes😎
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
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Last year's Olivette Otele Prize winner Tionne encourages eligible students to submit for our prize based on her own experience 🏆
Tionne submitted a fantastic paper which she presented at our annual conference & discusses below the advantages of submitting for the prize #skystorians #cfp
I’m giving a lunchtime talk on Britain’s community architecture movement for the Bartlett’s Situating Architecture Lecture Series at UCL - talking about self-build, squatting + student protest 🧱🔧 Come!
📍 1pm, Monday 2 December
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'a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is intended to support research in any aspect of women’s studies in the period 1558-1837 for new or continuing interdisciplinary or single-discipline projects.'