So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
Dr Helen Glew
@helenglew.bsky.social
Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd. Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives She/her https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/ Research/writing services: https://helenglew.com
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Another piece in the cuts of funding for the humanities is visible in local record offices. The Somerset Archives are only open 3 days a week; Norfolk only 4 days a week. As a US grad student doing research in the UK, that would have made it impossible to write my dissertation.
If it's something I need to read I do not want AI summarising it for me. The point of reading is to be immersive, thoughtful, critical and analytical. It's not to have a few bullets, a bland interpretation, a corporate repackaging, and an entire loss of meaning.
Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.
The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History
An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.
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Historian colleagues, can you rec a book or article using/about rumors as source material? Theorization of same? There's a few good things in my field (Russia) but I'm looking for stuff from elsewhere. 🗃️ #historiansky
#OpenAccess #Skystorians #GenderHistory
Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · last mo.How does a generation's identity form — not at its peak, but in its decline? New article OA by Katharina Friege on the two Weimar-era German writers, Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner. #WeimarRepublic #NeueFrau #GermanHistory #WomensHistory #skyhistorians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE
Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo agoShocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵
University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review
The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.
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Well everyone else seems to be doing it & so I will too! @manchesterup.bsky.social big summer half price sale 🥳. You can get my 'Housewives & Citizens' for just £12.50, worth it for the cover alone (in my humble opinion 😀). @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians
. @manchesterup.bsky.social are having a site-wide sale, meaning you can get my book for £15, and a whole host of other great titles too. C'mon, you know a heatwave is the perfect time read about the fight for equality by women in public service jobs! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146632/
Manchester University Press - Gender, rhetoric and regulation
Gender, rhetoric and regulation - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Gender, rhetoric and regulation by Helen Glew
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. @manchesterup.bsky.social are having a site-wide sale, meaning you can get my book for £15, and a whole host of other great titles too. C'mon, you know a heatwave is the perfect time read about the fight for equality by women in public service jobs! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146632/
Manchester University Press - Gender, rhetoric and regulation
Gender, rhetoric and regulation - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Gender, rhetoric and regulation by Helen Glew
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.
A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/a...
A Scandinavian Answer to John Singer Sargent Gets Her Due
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This is a great read, not just in terms of the topic at hand but as an explanation of how social science research works (and changes over time).
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University@oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoDid the iPhone *really* cause the baby bust? A more skeptical reading of the new viral study from LCDS Deputy Director @drjenndowd.bsky.social jenndowd.substack.com/p/did-the-ip...? #demography #econsky #causalsky @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
I am really looking forward to talking about my research and (so very nearly completed) book on women’s welfare activism at the CBH seminar on 24th June at IHR. If you are in London then do come along would be lovely to see you. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Women's welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century Britain
Contemporary British History Seminar
history.ac.uk
Had a great time at our virtual launch this morning discussing the book with co-authors and editors, with some very thought-provoking questions from the audience too. Download the whole book for free here (or purchase a print copy): www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Reworking the Computer Age
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
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Dr Helen Glew@helenglew.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy chapter 'The end of the typing pool: New technologies, old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media' is out this week and open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
This Wednesday 17 June at 1-2pm, we are running a special workshop on workloads to help members know their rights and how to stand up for them. There will also be a short cross-branch meeting at 1230 - just before the workshop. See tomorrow’s UCU Westminster email for the Zoom link.
a machine that can fill in the gaps in the archives! this is distilled essence of so much of the techno-utopianism around LLMs and research. it fundamentally misunderstands: the *gaps* are the meaning. history is not the past, it is the processes of recording, then interpreting those records
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Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo agoRebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
It was 😊, thanks Katja & next up for last @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar for 2025/26 is the fab @ruthdav.bsky.social speaking about her forthcoming book on women’s welfare activism. Weds 24 June, 5.30pm at the @ihr.bsky.social. Book your spot via the website today. @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Caitríona Beaumont@caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll set for this evening’s @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar at the @ihr.bsky.social with Dr Katja Seidel speaking on foreign policy entrepreneurship, expertise & gender. Should be fascinating.
A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.
mrs dalloway said she would create the art & write the books herself
Our next seminar is next week! 🗃️ Prof. Cait Beaumont (London South Bank University) will discuss Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, from 1918 onwards. 18 May 2026. 6pm. Online via Zoom. As ever it's free & all welcome. Sign-up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Hello, I'm on the academic lit search again - is there any writing out there on trans lives* in Northern Ireland? Thank you! * specifically trans people, I've found tons of great sources on LGB people. @hleehurley.com