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What are the random corporate/marketing emails that frequent your inbox but from which you can't quite summon the energy to unsubscribe? I get poems on my birthday from a small family-run hotel in Austria & I am very up-to-date on Cambridge-based indoor wall-climbing news.

I know that I’ve lost this battle but I still cannot abide ‘relatable’.

Quelle dommage. I was living in east London in 2012 & had my doubts about the Olympics but the spirit of civic fun unleashed by the capital's transformation won me over quite unexpectedly.

I'm incredibly sad & angry to read this news. Both my kids attended Westfield Nursery & I held on to my career through those intense pre-school years thanks in large part to this employer-subsidized institution & its amazing staff. A terrible blow for working parents at QMUL.

The results are in: Cambridge academics voted in favour of retaining an employer justified retirement age but to raise it from 67 to 69.

Pump St chocolate has got to win the prize for most stylish confectionary. Look at the INSIDE of the wrapper!

I’m trying to decide whether this whole concept would have worked in glorious sunshine. Hmm.

No Simone de B?

Sweden came with anoraks. 👍

Have more cool French people dance around looking cool. That was working for me.

Some fantastic history summer reads recommended here by ⁦The Economist⁩ but only one female author out of eleven? Women write History books too!

Finished this excellent & important book by ⁦Tehila Sasson⁩ (review to follow soon). Anyone interested in the roots of contemporary global capitalism must read.

Call for papers: Governing the Global Economy in the Long Twentieth Century (7-8 April 2025, University of Oxford). Financial History Network Economic History Society Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics Economic History Podcast Economic History Review European Historical Economics Society IPEG Global Political Economy Journal @RIPEjournal HYPE @historypolicy Robert Yee

I move back to Kew and Banksy follows…

My first article, ‘“We’ve been left out”: women’s refuges in Northern Ireland, 1974-2008’, is out now in Modern British History. It’s a truly inspiring story and I’m grateful to everyone at Women's Aid NI who shared their time and memories. Cambridge History Camb British History academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-a…

What a rotten thing to do. (In Kew, our Banksy Goat is now protected by a perspex sheet and wooden frame - I guess the owners of the building are taking no chances)

50 years ago this week, my father, Patrick McCarthy, made classical music history by doing this: royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall…

I've joined Threads, so if you are over there feel free to say hello to the new girl. (Still HistorianHelen)

And find me on Blue Sky too. (Henceforth I shall be checking my 'socials', plural)

Very excited for James Chappel's keynote lecture, 12th Sep German Historical Institute London on Atlantic Aging: The Transnational History of Old Age, 1900 - Present. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/atlantic-agi… @Eventbrite