Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
📣📣Call for papers
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Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".
27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.
Please share!
I’m delighted that the three wonderful creative responses commissioned for my and @niamhcullen.bsky.social AHRC network ‘Institutions and Infant Care’, can now be viewed online www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/services-2, featuring works by Izaac Elliott, Alison Lowry and Alice Kinsella.
Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
Could I be added too, please? Thank you.
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
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Great to see this out in the world. A real team effort to bring the story of Scotland's new towns into view. And it's Open Access!
And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
A first post on a cheering topic. Coming up in February, at Birmingham, with thanks to Lucie Ryzova and Karen Harvey: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
A hybrid workshop on 'Histories of Maternity: Ideas, Practices and Transfers' will take place on 17 January 2025, from 09:00 to 18:00 CET at the Academic Conference Center in Prague and online via Zoom.
Don't miss out on this insightful workshop. More details👇
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Delighted to announce that I’m co-organising with Niamh Cullen a conference on ‘Infants and Institutions: Foundling homes and residential care for babies in twentieth-century Europe’ at the London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025. Please share. See also www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/about-2-1-1
