The life of a scholar, on the shelves and in notes.
Read our tribute to Malcolm Chase in @northernhistory.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
THE NEW TRADITION (1968)
Katrina Navickas
Katrina Navickas
If you know of early career scholars who are working on 18th and 19th century labour history, point them to Minster Gate bookshop in York.
Yesterday I was in York, and popped into Minster Gate bookshop.
Scanning the British History shelves, I slowly realised that there were many books on the same themes - radicalism, Chartism, trade unionism, 19th century economy and society, clearly part of a curated collection 1/n
‘While women certainly undertook vastly more of the recorded tasks for housework and care work, these two categories of labour took up less than 40 per cent of the total time they spent working.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
it's very, um, fun to see that pals working at the unis that "hover up" all students are exhausted and unhappy and pals at unis whose students are being "hovered up" are... also exhausted and unhappy
Katrina Navickas
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Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...
