Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Sarah Crook
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The Salisbury collection is a hugely important Welsh studies resource, if the plan is to remove it from the main relevant library space that's gobsmacking
Really feel like those years of research training prepared me for a career of repeatedly entering the wrong subcode and having things sent back to me in order to claim £4.25 for a coffee and muffin at Bridgend railway station
It is astonishing* that Angela Rayner's tax affairs - in which the Standards Commissioner found her to have acted "in good faith", in an attempt to protect her disabled son - is STILL a bigger story than Farage trousering £5 million in secret or Tice's taxes.
*It's not astonishing, but should be.
Delighted that @historianhelen.bsky.social 's terrific 2025 Pimlott Memorial Lecture, 'Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s', is now published in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...
We’re halfway through the #MBS2026 (3-5 June, University of Birmingham) and celebrating with 30% off a curated reading list of key titles in the field.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/05...
⬇️ The 2016 referendum campaign was stunningly male-dominated.
Newspapers privileged male voices over female by 85% to 15%.
TV coverage favoured men by 3:1.
In the press, 90% of business voices were male & 85% of politicians. This was markedly worse than in *1975*.
blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/eu-refe...
Still some places left for this online workshop on presenting the history of the British Empire, Mon 1st June:
onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...
Now heading into the final panel of the day #MBS2026:
Teaching and the Future of British Studies in the Academy
Featuring:
@tomhulme.bsky.social (Tom Hulme, Queens University Belfast)
@sarahcrook.bsky.social (Sarah Crook, Swansea)
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social (Margot Finn, UCL)
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Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs.
Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy.
This is just one university.
Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving.
Where is the rescue package for our universities?
