Excited that my new article 'Postmistresses and the State' is now available open access Women's History Review Thanks to all UWE History who have read it, and cheers also to Mark Hailwood and Dr Mary Chadwick for looking at it in an earlier phase! To read it go to tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to see this BBC Arts podcast on the power of the local now live. LOVED recording it with Joan Passey, Rachel Matthews, and @annamuggeridge. I'm talking about post wenches 😍 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Had my weekly reminder of the loss of a memory drive 4 years ago with all my research photos on from the previous 7 years... Woe!

Help! Looking for anything on concepts/histories of internal (or domestic) exile. Does anyone have any ideas?

Put together a little piece on our UWE History collaboration with Ian Brooks. Thanks to Royal Historical Society for supporting! Research from UWE Bristol Elena Marco

Honoured to have an article in TRHS. This has been a long time in the making! Thanks to all who have read, commented, and listened to me spout on about it... Research from UWE Bristol UWE History

ISWE COMMUNITY DAY 2024 2.30-5.30pm, Wednesday 30 October Cledwyn 3, Bangor University LL57 2DG All Welcome! To be followed by the Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives Annual Lecture by Prof. Terence Dooley Bangor Hanes a Gwleidyddiaeth / History & Politics School of History, Law & Social Sciences Bangor

My article, in the wild!

Highly recommend submitting to TRHS - great process, speedy journey through publication, and a pleasant and supportive time. Thanks Royal Historical Society <3

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As 'The Value of History', Royal Historical Society's new briefing, shows, cuts to history depts hit hardest on historians / students working in post-92 universities. 88% of post-92 depts, responding to a recent RHS survey, report cuts in staffing since 2020. Why does this matter? 1/4

If you're into the Interregnum, Welsh history, translation, or Henry Vaughan OR ejected clergy, look no further! My @odnb entry on Thomas Powell of Cantref is now out: oxforddnb.com/display/10.109…

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Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast, they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.