Finally after editing & refining, my article was published online today. Many thanks to Prof Hilary Marland, @fabiolacreed.bsky.social for your invaluable help ‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, 1895 to 1919 academic.oup.com/shm/article/...

‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’ 1: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, c. 1895 to c. 1919

Abstract. Between 1895 and 1919, 185 women were admitted to Broadmoor and Rampton State Criminal Lunatic Asylums for the murder or attempted murder of thei

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@berksfhs.bsky.social Thank you Rowena - we are very happy to welcome new volunteers and members and we aren’t just about the Royal County of Berkshire!

Rowena Abbott@rowena-abbott.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There are all sorts of opportunities for volunteers in your FHS, whatever kind of person or family historian you are. If you're an introvert like me, based in another county or even country, you could inquire about transcribing or digital organisation. #VolunteersWeek #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Protecting What Matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR

Protecting what matters: A joint statement by the Historical Association, History UK, Royal Historical Society and the IHR

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YAY That's my girl xxxxx -

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Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Many congratulations 🎊 to @sophiemhistory.bsky.social for an excellent viva today with Prof. Ros Crone & me on the Peterborough Coroner's Court, 1856-1905!! 🌟🌟🌟

@royalhistsoc.org I’m thrilled to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship. I can’t quite believe it @djrgrey.bsky.social Thank you for your support and friendship. @medhistoryman.bsky.social unbelievable right?!

@drewdgray.bsky.social ooh just got round to watching Lucy Worsley and you pop up! Looking well there!

@victorianhand.bsky.social @djrgrey.bsky.social looking forward this.

Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members. www.u3a.org.uk/about

‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

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King and conqueror is really awful bullshit isn’t it?

@britishlibrary.bsky.social all gathering for the Big Event @thursdaymurderclub.bsky.social

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.

Henry Yeomans@henryyeomans.bsky.social · last yr.

It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...

Just adding alt-text to make sure this much-needed PSA reaches a wider audience

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · last yr.

Right, I think, as I revise the book for which I consulted original material from nine different archives and fifteen museum/gallery collections

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last yr.

This incredibly worrying study suggests Historians are the 2nd most likely occupation to be supplanted by AI. That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!! Yay 😬😩🤪 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935

@sophiemhistory.bsky.social where can I read your article? X

Nous avons pluie a la Vendee. Zut!

With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐 bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...

Calling all #History departments of #Universities I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.

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What’s amazing is how many of us say pfft to Eurovision yet still have a lingering need to ‘enjoy’ it. Love our British sense of the ridiculous and kitsch.

Historians turned crafters 😂😂recreate a historic site - can you see what it is yet? @histassoc.bsky.social

Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25

@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.

Visiting Vancouver for the first time on our way home. Horrified and saddened by last night’s incident- such a friendly and welcoming place. Please accept my condolences from this Brit. 💕

I am in Hawaii (I know but it was booked BT) however to settle discussions I have seen here - last night I had a pizza with PINEAPPLE 🍍 on it, with pulled pork - definitive Hawaiian pizza 🍕

My great great grandfather Samuel McCartney born Comber, N Ireland in 1825, died Hokitika, NZ 1914. Arrived in NZ in c1880 and ended up as a gold miner in Rimu. Yesterday,we were amazed to find there, a small Heritage Site re its gold rush. Strange feeling to stand where he did over 125 years ago.

Am I allowed to have a niggle @anncleeves.bsky.social ? Thoroughly enjoying The Raging Storm BUT Hoylake and the Wirral were Cheshire before they were Merseyside not because they didn’t want to be associated with Liverpool. Not a snob thing.

@franquinn.bsky.social about to start - excited. Thanks @bertsbooks.bsky.social x

@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you

Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!