Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
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Can’t wait for new Museum of London to reopen (despite its bloody location 😬)
Good morning! This week's theme is Theatres 🎭
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'Victoria Theatre and Clock' (1992) by Doreen Fletcher
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Women’s History Scotland has a Call for Papers for its Annual Conference 2026. Submissions are welcome from all career stages, especially postgraduate researchers.
❗The deadline for proposals is 1 July 2026.
Details can be found here:
womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c...
#womenshistory
New on the blog!
Esther Dobson and Elspeth King look at the role of women in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the #SecondWorldWar. Many women were involved by employing their hard-earned ‘feminine’ needlecraft skills which the blog explores
womenshistorynetwork.org/hidden-heroi...
Heather Tweed
Some midweek medicinal purple for us all today. How's your week going? What are you working on in your writing? #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Decades of decline, factory closures and underfunded heritage preservation have left many once-grand buildings in a state of disrepair, and Stoke-on-Trent illustrious ceramics history risks slipping into obscurity.
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‘Not all heroes wear capes’, a common refrain during and since the Covid pandemic, but the ideas behind that phrase go back much further and certainly played a part in the Home Front during the Sec…
There can be few gowns that are quite so intensely drenched in colour or so upholstered in style and for that reason I love its boldness and visibility. This is not a woman fading into the background but demanding attention. Early #1870s #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Women's History Network
Women's History Network
We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
#MusicHallMonday 🎶🍺
Featuring The Barman, sung with great success by Wilkie Bard.
As we prepare for our 3rd conference in Nov. 2026, we’re inviting proposals on the theme: CATERING for People’s Desires and Needs in the Music Hall
See Call for Papers on our website:
buff.ly/35wQKXA
Kate Strasdin
Women Writers Network
Eloise Moss
British Music Hall Society
IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast!
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
#skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
