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Cordelia Beattie

@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social

Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d ago

IHR-RHS DC Thomson Applied History Fellowships launch today. Scheme for UK-based recent post-1500 British or Irish History PhDs, providing a 6-month bursary of £12,250 to expand their career opportunities while applying their historical skills in a workplace. #Skystorians

Applied History Fellowships - Royal Historical Society

In November 2025, the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson launched a new Applied History Fellowship partnership to support recent post-doctorate h...

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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 5d ago

#SkyStorians do let colleagues who were recently made redundant or who recently finished their PhD and faced this mad vacuum of a job market know!

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 5d ago

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027 The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians. The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline. This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public. The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship. In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so. The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors. Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last wk.

‘The English belief that they have the oldest and firmest nation-state, or the Spanish belief that they are on the front line with Islam – go straight back to the middle ages. The medieval period lies at the origin of modern myth-making.’ Chris Wickham RIP www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/r...

Chris Wickham: interview

This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work.

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Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2w ago

An update on this post from yesterday (Wed, 10/07): the @nytimes.com has updated their report, now adding "though some experts have cast doubt on that account", with a link to Hannah Barker's paper that I had flagged. "Some experts"! There's not a medieval historian who disagrees. Anyway, progress.

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2w ago

#MedievalSky This from the New York Times, minutes ago: "Has plague ever been used as a bioweapon? Maybe — but it’s been a while. In the 14th century, according to one account, a Mongol army catapulted plague-infested bodies into the Crimean city of Caffa." Please don't let this nonsense persist!

Dr Paige Donaghy@paigedonaghy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Delighted to share my latest article in Gender & History ✨ “Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #gendhist #histmed #history

Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has...

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Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · 2w ago

Unfortunately this lecture has been cancelled. We will share news of the 2027 lecture in due course. #skyhistorians

Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026! Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) "An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE) Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come) #skyhistorians

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

'“What I’m focused on is not only how we can deliver that curiosity-based research but how we can get the benefits of it in the economy by attracting more private sector investment to sit alongside that as well,” McDonald said.' Creative industries anyone? Heritage anyone?

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

The UK is “choking” on its inability to commercialise curiosity-driven research, the science minister has told Research Professional News at the Labour Party conference www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Sarah Crook@sarahcrook.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have a new article in @genderandhistory.bsky.social on efforts for forge a new, popular, mainstream and appealing feminism in the 1990s and its connections to the wider atmosphere of the moment. Read it here - doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural ...

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Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 4w ago

In Book 2 Thornton adds, 'The fuller description is related in my book of meditations on this subject and also of the First Book of My Life, page 203'. A descendant named Comber seems to have had access to that untraced book of meditations in 1832 as he discusses it at some length. 📚 #BookHistory 📜

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

20 Sept. 1662 #OTD Alice Thornton’s 7th child, Robert, was baptised by Mr Lowcock in her chamber at East Newton Hall. His godparents were Dr Robert Wittie (who treated Thornton during pregnancy), Henry Best (her nephew-in-law) and Katherine Cholmley (who assisted at the birth). #EarlyModern 🗃️

A photo of East Newton Hall, taken from across a field. It has farm buildings behind it, as well as a large tree.
The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · last mo.

Emma Trivett reviews 'Gender in Scotland, 1200–1800', ed. Janay Nugent, Cathryn Spence and Mairi Cowan @historianmairi.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @edinburghup.bsky.social

Gender in Scotland, 1200–1800, ed. Janay Nugent, Cathryn Spence and Mairi Cowan

This book marks an important contribution to the fields of women’s and gender history in Scotland. Encompassing an ambitious chronological sweep, it demons

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Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · last mo.

The aisle at Stonegrave in North Yorkshire was levelled in 1863 and most Thornton tombstones were buried. There is a great UoY Masters dissertation on the church, using a buildings archaeology approach, by Elanor Pitt. #Archaeology

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

18 Sept. 1668 #OTD Alice Thornton’s husband, William, was buried. ‘My dearest heart was interred in the alley of his own at his own parish church in Stonegrave, near his own mother and two sweet children, Joyce and Christopher." (Bk Rem, 155) #EarlyModern 🗃️

Two stone effigies lying side by side. Thought to be a married couple from the 15th century.
Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · last mo.

An excellent way to end the week - the @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social team are very happy with this review!

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

"an excellent example of, and model for, how to do open-access digital scholarship. The research aims to showcase clearly why a digital edition was preferred over a print one, and the documentation ensures that the project can be replicated in the future". www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · last mo.

Great to see the new @cmemsedinburgh.bsky.social programme is out hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie... (including a couple of medieval reading group tbcs - Edinburgh people, let me know if you have suggestions!)

Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies Seminars | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies | History Classics and Archaeology

The Centre hosts a seminar series which takes place throughout the academic year and is open to staff, students and the general public

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

This is utterly idiotic. We don't know what skills future workforces will need. We do know that will change & that students perform best if they study something they're actually interested in. And for the pig-ignorant in the back row, fewer than 50% of STEM graduates ever go into STEM employment.

Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?

Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts

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