Jane Hamlett
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
- Reposted by Jane HamlettFor anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettWant to help preserve the county's history? We're recruiting an Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer to our team! Head to the link below for more information. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettProf @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain. Thursdays, 5pm Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term 🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettMy PhD student Mike Power has written a great blog for the @echistsoc.bsky.social... Which very kindly helped to fund this research. The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 was a key moment in so many ways: take a look! ehs.org.uk/legacies-and...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettIts out!
- Reposted by Jane HamlettFull schedule for this term's 40+ seminars (free and open to the public) here. If you're studying, researching or just interested in History, have a look, and do book. Most seminars can be attended virtually; many are hybrid and you are welcome to join the Institute's London audience in person. 2/2
- Reposted by Jane HamlettHuge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Dan Breeze (@danielbreeze.com), who this week passed his PhD viva with no corrections. His thesis, Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt, was examined by @janehamlett.bsky.social and @msadams.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Jane HamlettOur third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...
- Reposted by Jane Hamlett...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc... I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Jane HamlettFellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide. We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
- Reposted by Jane HamlettNew on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/john-scurr...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettDelighted to have our book reviewed on the @whaireland.bsky.social book review page #history #speirgorm
- Reposted by Jane HamlettHello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃
- Reposted by Jane Hamlett🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/interwar-c...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettCFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 🗓️ 22 May 2026 📍 European University Institute, Florence 👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni 🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉 socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettJoin me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here: photooxford.org/events/const...
- Reposted by Jane Hamlettand if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)! reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettWe are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2
- Reposted by Jane HamlettDelighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettA great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!
- Reposted by Jane HamlettInterested in digital history, government records, or web archiving? Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October! Dates: 7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew 15 Oct @ Senate House, London Apply by 23 Sept: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...
- Reposted by Jane Hamlett@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jane HamlettAnd rounding off this section of the journal is '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston, and available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
- Reposted by Jane HamlettHuge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:
- Reposted by Jane HamlettAdorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff
- Reposted by Jane HamlettMassive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥
- Reposted by Jane HamlettGotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025
- Reposted by Jane HamlettPrinceton turned out.
- Reposted by Jane HamlettI asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
- I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
- Reposted by Jane HamlettRemember this massive crowd next time you see someone saying Texas deserves fascism or suffering because it's a red state. #HandsOff #Austin #Texas
- Reposted by Jane HamlettChicago!
- Reposted by Jane HamlettA quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)
- Reposted by Jane HamlettLadies, gentlemen, distinguished folks of all genders… I give you the motherfucking @dropkickmurphys.com #HandsOffBoston
- Reposted by Jane HamlettSan Diego 👏 #HandsOff (📸 Tina Crawford)
- Reposted by Jane HamlettJust published - ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...
- Really looking forward to the Disability and Home Symposium at Museum of Home in May - www.museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettVery proud of @wromantichistry.bsky.social as she gives a version of her award winning paper on the Victorian interest in Princess Elizabeth Stuart in front of the painting itself at Royal Holloway!
- Reposted by Jane HamlettThings are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettI'm delighted to have been invited to be a Keynote speaker for this hybrid conference on the Histories of Disability and Living Spaces, being organised by the Bodies and Material Culture Research Group @rhulhistory.bsky.social. The CFP is open until March 31st; see the quoted post below for details!
- CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
- CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettWangari Maathai was brave. As a member of the National Council of Women in Kenya, and as prep for the UN International Conference on Women in 1975, she came up with the idea of planting trees which became the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She features in this exhibition: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
- It's 20 years since Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize. Who was this woman who almost didn't go to school at all, who planted 30 million trees and who made a president so afraid of her he had her arrested, and attacked? Read about her here: #IWM manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettFrom the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...
- Reposted by Jane Hamlett🚨 NEW BLOG POST: The Sceaux Gardens Estate; officially opened by Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 1959. In Ian Nairn's words, 'magical transformation has happened, and an estate has turned into a place' ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/s...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettThe latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social ! 👸🤴🦄💂🧑🌾🏰🇫🇷
- Reposted by Jane HamlettToday @janehamlett.bsky.social hosts the @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of History's Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture... on the rise of pet cats in modern Britain 🐈⬛ In our collections... poet James Thomson describes Lisy's heartbreak as she parts with her cat for boarding school in 1725 💔
- Really excellent symposium on Disability and Home coming up at QMUL & Museum of Home in May. CFP deadline end of Feb www.centreforstudiesofhome.org.uk/call-for-pap...
- Great blog on the first Black circus owner in Britain from Charlotte Bookham @rhulhistory.bsky.social historiansforhistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettLast call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.
- Reposted by Jane HamlettThe @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettIf you're in or near London, consider preparing for this Free IHR training event by visiting the Migration Museum, Lewisham before it's 'All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain' exhibition before it closes 30 March. @migrationmuseum.org . Details: www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/a...
- Reposted by Jane Hamlett*Thursday 1st May - Save the Date* Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
- Reposted by Jane HamlettSo lovely to see this now out and free to read and download now 🎉 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
