Historian; cultural & social history of 19th c. history writing, archives & book history. Latest passion: scholarly celebrity culture. Researcher at the U. of Helsinki. Author of Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
Elise Garritzen
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Celebrity can be frustrating, delighting, and emotionally disturbing. There are many ills in celebrity, but celebrity has played too big political, social, economic, and cultural role in history to dismiss it as a viable topic for historical research. cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/s...
The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.
Elise Garritzen
Elise Garritzen
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Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25?
🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com
Closing date is 28 February 2026!
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Notoriety, it seems, has become the new normal, but notorious celebrities are not a 21st-century invention. Victorians were galvanized by scandalous celebrities: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/a...
Permanent position of a University Lecturer in Social Science History, in the University of Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Elise Garritzen
PostDoc position in the project “A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950”
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Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
Ann Kennedy Smith
What an academic treat this was! Thank you @zoethomas.bsky.social @svenjaros.bsky.social and the team for making "Power Couples" happen!
Intl Federation for Research in Women's & Gender History
After three intense years of research on Victorian celebrities, celebrity culture still baffles me. In Britain, celebrity had firmly established itself as a cultural, social, political, and economi…
The woman who haunts Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
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Elise Garritzen
Kansallisarkisto on tiedottanut tänään virallisesti suunnitelmistaan lakkauttaa useita toimipisteitä. Tilalle arkisto ehdottaa digitaalisia ratkaisuja, joiden valmistelu on kesken.
Kysymys on koulutus- ja tiedepolitiikasta sekä alueellisesta tasa-arvosta.
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Kaarina Kilpiö
Edith Thompson was furious in 1924. She was well in her seventies, a respected historian, and a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. But now she was angry, very angry. The reason …
Postdoctoral position in digital humanities , Department of ALM, Uppsala University
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"#Biographies soared."
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Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.
Charlotte Lydia Riley
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The Bookman, a trade organ of booksellers and publishers, announced in December 1892 how reminiscences were “Among the most successful books of the month” and “Memories of living men” were more suc…
NEW on Wonkhe: Students aren't confused about AI – they're making rational choices in a system that has removed the incentives to learn. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall preview findings from new research on learning in an age of AI buff.ly/4TKftU3
