Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Lucie Matthews-Jones
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Ten years on from the Brexit vote: a new @yougov.co.uk poll finds that 77% of the British public have trust in the expertise of historians bit.ly/49I9NV7
It's heartening to hear that so many value, and certainly haven't had enough of, the historian as expert. #Skystorians 1/4
This morning I got to met members of St Hilda’s East Community Centre’s over 50s group called Chit, Chat, Chai. We started a banner project together. I discussed history & shared sources. We thought about belonging. I’m making a banner square celebrating what goes on behind the centre’s front door!
Visiting Toynbee Hall, a charity I have researched for nearly two decades, for an event. I’m currently eating my packed lunch in their very sunny courtyard thinking I’ve written about this place and somehow that feels super-historian-cool 👌🏻
Thought this ghost sign on Shoreditch’s Old Road was amazing.
Reads: The Salvation Army Hostel for Working Men. Cheap beds and food.
A reminder to always look up!
Kicked started an exciting zine making project today at Shoreditch’s St Hilda’s East. I shared photographs & titbits I have collected from my archive adventures at Tower Hamlets Local Library and Archives. Over the next 3 weeks we’re going to make a zine that explores belonging & history.
I’ve never seen a Victorian organisation run a ‘Father’s Club’ before. But, St Hilda’s East did because lots of ‘quiet middle-aged…rather tired men’ were not being served by the too active men’s clubs. Instead, they invited Shoreditch’s older men to sing a few songs in their garden. Strangely, cute.
Today, with a notebook in hand, I took a stroll through some of Liverpool’s Georgian streets as part of an event where Sonia Overall encouraged us to think of walking as a part of the research process. It was fun after the marking session to think about my book ideas & to hang out with colleagues.
Just when we all think that exams might be the answer to AI.
As an invigilator I’m going to miss the days when my biggest worry was if notes had been hidden in the loos.
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'London Town, No. 72', Eltham Road, Blackheath (c.1950s) by Robert Ellis
(Private collection)
We also have cats! Well, Reader in Victorian History @luciejones83.bsky.social has lovely cats.
Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham
Whenever @jovanevery.bsky.social asks in Meeting with your Writing what your distractions might be, one of my cats always decides to head over to my office. Today I got to have a lovely snuggly lap cat who only sometimes demanded big head rubs #proofofcat
