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Berkshire Family History Society @berksfhs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Editor – Berkshire Family Historian Learn about volunteering as the remote editor for our quarterly... #BerksFHS #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #MagazineEditor #Volunteering berksfhs.org/job-roles/editor-berks…

A woman at a desk designs the layout of the "Berkshire Family Historian" journal on a computer monitor, with printed copies of the publication and reference books nearby.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Interesting experience as a social and family historian- on holiday in Australia and staying in Brisbane on Census Night! Included even as visitors and had to put my ancestral background- English Irish Scottish as separate tick boxes - that’s me! Never done that before @berksfhs.bsky.social

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally after editing & refining, my article was published online today. Many thanks to Prof Hilary Marland, @fabiolacreed.bsky.social for your invaluable help ‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, 1895 to 1919 academic.oup.com/shm/article/...

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‘Kind, Judicious Treatment’ 1: Infanticidal Mothers, Criminal Insanity, and Institutional Care, c. 1895 to c. 1919

Abstract. Between 1895 and 1919, 185 women were admitted to Broadmoor and Rampton State Criminal Lunatic Asylums for the murder or attempted murder of thei

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@berksfhs.bsky.social Thank you Rowena - we are very happy to welcome new volunteers and members and we aren’t just about the Royal County of Berkshire!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@royalhistsoc.org I’m thrilled to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship. I can’t quite believe it @djrgrey.bsky.social Thank you for your support and friendship. @medhistoryman.bsky.social unbelievable right?!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@drewdgray.bsky.social ooh just got round to watching Lucy Worsley and you pop up! Looking well there!

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Frankly embarrassing for a British newspaper to report this without noting that the University of the Third Age has functioned in the UK for decades. It has 400,000 members. www.u3a.org.uk/about

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‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

King and conqueror is really awful bullshit isn’t it?

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

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Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Just adding alt-text to make sure this much-needed PSA reaches a wider audience

Please don't ask historians when the book will be done, or after the book is done, what their next book project is. This is deeply offensive in our cutlure.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 24/07/2025

Right, I think, as I revise the book for which I consulted original material from nine different archives and fifteen museum/gallery collections

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐 bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...

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Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction

Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries

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Kelly Cornwell @whoamiftr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Calling all #History departments of #Universities I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

What’s amazing is how many of us say pfft to Eurovision yet still have a lingering need to ‘enjoy’ it. Love our British sense of the ridiculous and kitsch.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Historians turned crafters 😂😂recreate a historic site - can you see what it is yet? @histassoc.bsky.social

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Visiting Vancouver for the first time on our way home. Horrified and saddened by last night’s incident- such a friendly and welcoming place. Please accept my condolences from this Brit. 💕

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I am in Hawaii (I know but it was booked BT) however to settle discussions I have seen here - last night I had a pizza with PINEAPPLE 🍍 on it, with pulled pork - definitive Hawaiian pizza 🍕

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My great great grandfather Samuel McCartney born Comber, N Ireland in 1825, died Hokitika, NZ 1914. Arrived in NZ in c1880 and ended up as a gold miner in Rimu. Yesterday,we were amazed to find there, a small Heritage Site re its gold rush. Strange feeling to stand where he did over 125 years ago.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Am I allowed to have a niggle @anncleeves.bsky.social ? Thoroughly enjoying The Raging Storm BUT Hoylake and the Wirral were Cheshire before they were Merseyside not because they didn’t want to be associated with Liverpool. Not a snob thing.

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social I know this is on Open Access but there is still somethings very exciting about having the physical copy. Thank you

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The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Welcome to the Victorian Hand project, funded by @ukri.org (2024-2028) & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & @medhistoryman.bsky.social with more team members to announce very soon! Stay tuned for updates about our research and engagement activities, as well as multimedia fun! Please follow and share!

A painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73) of the linked hands of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Albert (1819-61), produced c.1840-60. The oval image shows Queen Victoria's right hand being held by Prince Albert's right hand, while she places her left hand on the decorated sleeve of his jacket. From the Royal Collections Trust, RCIN 402490.

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is such an exciting & innovative book involving so many wonderful people. It's particularly apt that it's Open Access as it's one of those rare works that genuinely bridges the worlds of academic and popular history. It deserves the widest possible audience. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

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Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Hello! We've just joined BlueSky! For those who don't know us, we are the Archives of the Royal County of Berkshire & we hold historical records going back nearly 900 years! Discover more about us on our website: www.royalberkshirearchives.org.uk

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m blown away by Dr Steven Taylor’s review- thank you.

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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Symposium - Institutional Care or Control: Past & Present #CareorControl @buxiduan.bsky.social

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Today I have been at a great symposium at Birmingham organised by @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social @buxiduan.bsky.social and Dr Emma Watkins. All great papers and reconnecting with friends old and new. What a fantastic day - so pleased to be able to revisit ‘my’ Broadmoor ladies

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

50 years ago yesterday I had my interview at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with Dr Pat Tuck. Who’d have believed that I’d now be a Dr of History. How life can change …

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Really lovely to be at @ihrwomen.bsky.social’s seminar this evening and to hear @drjenniferaston.bsky.social’s presentation on her new book co-authored with the late Olive Anderson. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

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Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th centu…

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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

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Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

This should be a superb day despite the fact I’m speaking 😂😂

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I have deactivated my Tw*X*ter account not that Him over there cares two hoots. Makes me feel better! I think I have still the ability to interact with those who I did with over there, here. Let's keep it a pleasant place to be

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

Dear Mr Blue Sky - is there anyway I can stop the crappy follows apart block the accounts? I am not interested in aged lotharios/requests for help ie money/ finding new love (quite ok with the one I’ve got). And I am mostly definitely not interested in MAGA nor the orange blimp. Help me

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

@kardomah.bsky.social were you also Kirklands? Why go back to Kardomah? Have you been Kardashianized? Or an obsession with the letter K? 😂

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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Fantastic panel on the extent and limits of Gendered Homicide in England & Wales -Sophie Michell, StephEmmaBrown & DrAlexaNeale @sophiemhistory.bsky.social

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Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Tell when I’m back in the north west- the tea tastes sooo much better here - 😘I’m home even though it’s Manchester 😂😂

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