Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Helen McCarthy
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This looks amazing: a postdoc fellowship working with the personal born-digital archives of some of Britainās leading writers at @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.bl.uk/services/res...
At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country.
The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.
Helen McCarthy
Robert Saunders
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We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
Still time to register for our event on Thursday (in-person & virtual) on lessons on ageing from the early modern world.
Thoughts on trade books sending the reader to a website for footnote references? Do we like/not like/donāt care?
Discovering that I can respond to emails on Outlook with a š emoji might be the best thing thatās happened to me in 2026. (I know, Iām always late to the š )
Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians
I'm chairing a conversation on what those who study ageing in the present and recent past can learn from historians of early modern Europe. With @jenmcfarland.bsky.social & Laetitia Pilgrim. Join us in-person or online, June 11th 2pm.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50556/
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Delighted to see this article out! I look at how the elderly used urban space, and the important role of mobility in old age in early modern Italy.
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...
