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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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
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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.
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...
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...
