Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. š https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Laura Tisdall
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Strathclyde is a lovely place to work and Glasgow is a seriously great city!
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A discussion about the social media ban on under 16s.
BBC: āYouāre gong to have a lot more time to fill. What will you do?ā
Student: āStare at a wall.ā
Suffragettes organised this IN THE OPEN....they advertised for actionistas in The Times (1913 rail station destroyed by fire bomb www.nrmfriends.org.uk/post/votes-f...)
But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers.
Iām gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes.
Links below:
Very funny to construct a situation where you'll apparently be old enough to vote, but won't be old enough to watch YouTube videos after 8PM
Also what happens when (in the unlikely event the ban actually works) you suddenly get unleashed into the world of social media at 16? Like so many other things, having the chance to learn independence gradually is surely a much better idea
There is absolutely a question here of what children & young people are actually meant to do with their time, given the lack of free public space open to them & the fact that not everyone has parents willing or able to provide endless enriching activities at home (garden definitely a bonus).
We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth
Scott Bryan
I'm sorry but I am just regularly very disturbed by how some adults talk about young people over the age of 16. (Or as they are in fact better known 'other adults'.)
