@thenacbs.bsky.social Great news about a @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article from January
There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power
(video: defiancedispatch/IG)
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
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📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World!
Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.
I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research.
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📢New article in JBS!
📗"'Captured at Sea': Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain" by Rebecca Earle
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article in JBS!
📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Check out our editor Roey Sweet's latest article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Focusing on case studies of Shrewsbury, Chester, York, Coventry, and Bristol, Roey's article analyzes how the concept of the “historic town” emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century
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Broadsides will be celebrating Pride with a series of pieces throughout the month that highlight queer and trans histories.
In this first essay, @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social explores the risks of making a person's transness the center of their history.
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The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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“Captured at Sea”: Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain - Volume 65
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 - Volume 65
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"Ironically, the trans-centric view also obscures aspects of her life that could be meaningful for the modern trans community, like the fact that there was little, if any, controversy around her eligi...
Pleasantly surprised to learn my January
@jbritishstudies.bsky.social
article was covered in a recent issue of Historie, a chain of Scandinavian history magazines!
Check out doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... for my original "From Amputee to Author" article.
📢New article in JBS!
📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 - Volume 65
