Nothing says “heritage” like Lloyd’s coffee house now being a hub for finance bros buying meal deals

ticketpass.org/event/EBVOMP... Check out this very cool event. May 1st, at Lloyds Fenchurch St

Remember in Notting Hill when Hugh Grant pretends to be a journalist for House and Hound and asks if there are many dogs in her film? Same vibe when I sat down to talk about the sea with the costume designer for the Royal Opera House’s Peter Grimes mariners.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/04/02/t...

✨ COMING UP: Join Dr @katyphipps.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) at the National Portrait Gallery for a public lecture on the history of sex & sex work in Victorian Britain & the British Empire The event takes place on Thursday 16 April, 1-2pm with tickets available 👉 brnw.ch/21x1pgc

Elisa Camiscioli focuses on borders as much as brothels; her beautiful focus on individual stories makes the archives sing in “Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations”. Read my review for @cultsochistory.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations

Published in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

tandfonline.com

The first seminar today of the masters module I was invited to put together: "Prostitutes", "Perverts" and Pornography: Experiences of Colonial Sexuality in European Empires, 1800-2000. Two hours of history of material cultures, gender and empire at the Pitt Rivers 😍

'On the "bitter cold" Christmas Day of 1830, Mary Ann Macham arrived in North Shields, the northern English fishing port that would become her unlikely home; the endpoint of a 4,000-mile journey filled with fear, courage and a superhuman determination to be free.'

From Slavery in Virginia to Freedom in the North East of England

How an enslaved woman fled America and found safety in the North East of England

bbc.co.uk

Seasonal reminder that Nick Cave looks just like The Grinch

Thinking about biopower and how bodies were managed in modern states? Don’t forget brothels! alongside the invention of birth rates, clinics, and prisons, regulated brothels in France from 1800s and in British Empire from 1864 were a key part of the state intervention that created public health

Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue! My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3

Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

I want JStor unwrapped… This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.

Colonial violence has unexpected legacies… the only way I’ll finish this manuscript before Christmas is through a regime of fear (I told my sister to slap me if it’s not done)

Babe, I think you’ve got this the wrong way round… surely it’s to decolonise Britain, the British Museum and the imperial mindset??? Feel like India already knows it’s independent and has a rich history…

In Morocco in the 1930s, hundreds of women and girls were trapped by the French authorities inside the walls of Bousbir — Casablanca’s red-light district and a tourist destination for Europeans. @katyphipps.bsky.social uncovers their stories.

The Lost Daughters of Bousbir

Under French rule in the 1930s, hundreds of Moroccan girls and women were trapped in Casablanca’s red-light district

newlinesmag.com

I’ll live on in how others remember me

🚨new article on mixed identities in Morocco🚨 how did mixed families construct their identity and navigate discrimination in the 20th and 21st century? 🇲🇦 find out here, baby… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maintaining Islam, ‘Moroccanness’ and white privilege: social perception and experiences of mixed individuals in Morocco from the colonial era to the present

This interdisciplinary article examines mixed families in Morocco from French colonial rule to the present day, focusing on experiences and perception of mixed individuals within Morocco. Our compa...

tandfonline.com

🚨 New job🚨 ill be a senior research associate at Bristol this year, looking at race and religion in British colonial port cities with the Mariners project mar.ine.rs Working on anything to do with colonial ports, sex work or the sea? Let me know the sea is about to become my mistress 🌊

A shame to see such poor copy editing for such a beautiful new book from some top decolonial feminists. To include انتفاضة in Arabic but not to connect the letters? Why you need people who know what they’re doing, not AI.

This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research

Journal of Women's History@jwomenshistory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

Why did the French army send hundreds of North African women to work in illegal brothels in France? newlinesmag.com/essays/franc... Thanks to @newlinesmag.bsky.social, @erinclarebrown.bsky.social and @faisalalyafai.bsky.social for publishing this research.

After France Outlawed Brothels, Its Army Kept North African Women Selling Sex in Secret

At the end of World War II, hundreds were trafficked to shabby, illegal camps to service soldiers waiting to be demobilized

newlinesmag.com

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Can we all just stop writing for a year to let everyone catch up?

Another day, another email signed “nest, Catherine”

“Yeah so actually the reason that I’ve published a lot is that every year I’m certain I’ll have to leave academia and not be able to write anything else” 😊🙃

Did George Orwell pay for sex in a colonial brothel in Morocco? Orwell and his wife Eileen spent a few months living in a villa outside of Marrakech in the late 1930s. He wrote the essay "Marrakech" about daily life there, but Marrakech in the 1930s was also home to hundreds of colonial brothels...

Hello from the archives du Maroc where a cat has walked into the reading room More to follow

Humbled. Getting passport photos taken in Morocco and watching the woman photoshop me. Worried will be rejected at customs for not having same glowy skin and fake eyelashes.

I need someone good at music to do a Nancy ajram Britney Spears mashup, my soul cries for it

The rumours are false! The lying media are saying I spent the @sfhs.bsky.social conference in Paris drinking spritzes in the sun. An incredible few days learning so much from my colleagues, some truly wonderful papers from @sjvigneault.bsky.social @carolinesequin.bsky.social this morning

The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is 🔥 Dozens of paintings, obsessed with femininity, violence, power and sensuality, and most showing her as the main heroine. They show Gentileschi’s work throughout her life, not just the rape trial or her fury as a survivor