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)
Joanna Bourke
@joannabourke.bsky.social
Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
By popular request: a few days ago, I spoke at conference in honour of my partner, Costas Douzinas. A lot of exceptionally erudite talks & eulogies, but I had the task of speaking about the ‘personal Costas’, as well as embarrassing him. I did my best. You can read it here: www.joannabourke.com/blog
I have always said that the best festival in the world is the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney, & they have invited me to speak on Evil Women, Sun 23 Aug, 13.30! Check out the whole brilliant progranmme: festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/ #FestivalofDangerousIdeas @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Program – Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2026
Festival of Dangerous Ideas takes over Sydney 20-30 August 2026, presented by The Ethics Centre.
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Incredible vineyard just outside of Thessaloniki: #ktimagerovassiliou. Not only did we taste some incredible wines (the 2018 Chardonnay at Gerovassiliou is golden nectar) but the food, ambience, and sculpture park is unbeatable. I shall mention it in the book I am writing on Wine-and-Women.
Incredible opportunity to work with Dr Hannah Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social on a funded PhD project exploring unorthodox forms of health activism in postwar Britain. Full details here, do share widely! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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We're a way off publication (likely December this year) and this is not the cover, but it's exciting to see that our book has a web page! www.routledge.com/Reusing-Oral...
Reusing Oral Histories: From Archive to Analysis
Reusing Oral Histories is the first comprehensive guide available to scholars and students looking to analyse or reanalyse archived oral history interviews. Oral history scholarship to date has been...
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Excitement in my household! Costas Douzinas has a conference talking about his incredible contributions to Critical Legal Studies. Join us, 26-27 June from 10am at Birkbeck Main Building. Free but must register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Excitement in my household! Costas Douzinas has a conference talking about his incredible contributions to Critical Legal Studies. Join us, 26-27 June from 10am at Birkbeck Main Building. Free but must register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
CENTRE FOR LAW AND THE HUMANITIES, COSTAS DOUZINAS: RIGHTS RESISTANCE CRITIQUE: A CONFERENCE CELEBRATING THE WORK OF COSTAS DOUZINAS. 26 AND 27 JUNE 2026
This conference brings together a group of distinguished academics to discuss the work of Costas Douzinas.
bbk.ac.uk
To York tomorrow, speaking @ Festival of Ideas about FIVE EVIL WOMEN , 14.30 at the Ron Cooke Hub, Lakehouse. Hope to attend other talks as well. Would love to see York friends! yorkfestivalofideas.com/2026/calenda... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
Five Evil Women
Join writer Joanna Bourke for a critical, comparative history of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka and Tucker.
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My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside
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From 2020 to 2024, media coverage & public opinion moved from emphasizing discrimination against Black people to emphasizing discrimination against White people; now, Republicans perceive more discrimination against White people than Black people link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Perceptions of Discrimination Against White People in Post-Floyd America: Media Coverage and Public Opinion, 2020–2024 - Political Behavior
The aftermath of the 2020 George Floyd protests illustrates a fundamental truism of race relations in America: racial progress is difficult to sustain. While the protests initially seemed to usher in ...
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Recent reorganizations at the National Library of Medicine resulted in the elimination of its History of Medicine Division. The NLM is one of the largest libraries of its kind, critical for students and researchers. Please speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Job Opportunity! University of Wisconsin - Madison - Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Design History and Material Culture networks.h-net.org/jobs/70021/u...
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Design History and Material Culture | H-Net
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Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Do you know someone interested in the history of health and/or activism who might want to do a cool funded PhD in an even cooler city (Glasgow)? Tell them about this #studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
Camp Summer2023: We're Hiring
Alt: We're Hiring
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Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...
I really enjoyed the feedback on my Jonathan Cooper Memorial Lecture at Mansfield College Oxford, last week. Thanks to everyone who attended. You can find the written version here: www.joannabourke.com/blog
Shocking 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
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Would love to see friends at the Jonathan Cooper Memorial Lecture, Mansfield College, this Friday (17.30-18.30). I am speaking about 'Making & Unmaking of Life: Violence, Feminism, & the Politics of Justice, 1980s to the Present'. www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
The making and unmaking of life: Violence, feminism, and the politics of justice - Mansfield College
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'The judgment in the case brought against the Office for Students by the University of Sussex after it was fined more than half a million pounds could not be clearer, or more devastating for the OfS. Whether it can survive only time will tell.' (Sir Peter Scott) 1/2
Free speech, bias and the case of the OfS vs Sussex - HEPI
Over the weekend HEPI published a blog on subject-linked maintenance grants and a book review of Danny Scott’s book ‘The Undisputed King of Selston’. This blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Pet...
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“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men
Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s
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'Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.'
French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery
Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ connections to slavery
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Head over to our website to read the latest blog piece by our project lead, Ruth Beecher, where she discusses the steps we are taking to ensure our project welcoming, safe and accessible for Black survivors of child sexual abuse. shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/reachin...
Reaching Black Survivors of CSA to record their oral histories – Sexual Harms Research Alliance
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Piraeus is a culturally-rich port city outside of Athens. It has a deep history of seafaring, welcoming refugees & migrants, and music (the birthplace of rebetica). In 1941, it was the scene of carnage when the invading Germans sent Luftwaffe to bomb the port. See my blog: www.joannabourke.com/blog
As most of you know, I am writing a book about female cultures of drinking in C20th. Have come across some incredible work by @clairedavey.bsky.social on sober women's resistance to alcohol marketing. If anyone knows how I can contact her for an interview, please reply! www.joannabourke.com
Joanna Bourke | cultural history
Joanna Bourke's website is an essential site for learning about cultural history. She specialises in the history of violence, warfare, the body, emotions, sexuality, and illness in the nineteenth and ...
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I've learnt a lot from sociologist Betsy Ettore -- and she agreed to talk to me about female patterns of addiction & autoethnography! You can read the interview: www.joannabourke.com/blog @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @autoethnography.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @addictionjournal.bsky.social
