Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Cordelia Beattie
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Happy to share my latest article in Aschkenas, “Rachel Was Shapely and Beautiful: A Jewish Woman in Hostile Archives”—on a 13th-century woman from Nottingham, archival silences and hostility, and critical speculation. Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Great statement by the RHS on the situation in England. I'm less convinced by their optimism for the situation in Wales and Scotland though...
This new article by Evguenia Davidova argues that although nursing opened new job possibilities for women, the close cooperation between the state, military, and humanitarian philanthropy both reinforced traditional inequalities and manufactured new ones.
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the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
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By integrating a study of gender, class, and nationality as categories of analysis, this article identifies nursing mobility as a multidirectional and asymmetric social phenomenon and employs a compa...
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In August 1644 Thomas and Katherine were hiding in Middleham Castle due to Thomas's Royalist allegiance and Katherine gave birth to her 15th (of 16) children there. She was about 28.
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One of our more recent OA articles now out! Lisa Surwillo and Martín Rodrigo Alharilla use the dual biographies of the enslaver Manuela Xiqués, from Cuba and Spain, to better understand the role of European and Creole women in the 19th-century Atlantic.
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Another new OA article! Anna Cant examines the construction and performance of gender in 1970s Columbia via the Catholic non-governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action) and its radio station “Radio Sutatenza.”
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An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth-century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women i...
The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines h...
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It's hard enough to keep up with the destruction of universities locally. Especially when the dial is set to full-on demolition. But really this is a global, or at least pan-Western crisis. Reaction, inequality, elite failure, AI delusion – a perfect storm for which we seem totally ill-prepared. 1/4
