Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We discussed the myths surrounding enslaved people's emotion, enslaved people's resistance, our emotion in the archive, and the ethics of this work. If you're interested in the book, please take a listen. 000
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I am on a podcast - This Week in Black History, Society and Culture - which is out now! It was wonderful to talk to Dr Hettie Williams about my book, 'I Felt All This'. You can listen to it here - thisweekinblackhistoryandsociety.buzzsprout.com/1285163/epis...thisweekinblackhistoryandsociety.buzzsprout.comI Felt All This: A Conversation with Beth Wilson - This Week in Black History, Society, and CultureIn this episode Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Beth R. Wilson about her work on the history of emotions among enslaved people in the Antebellum South. Williams is a multi-award win... 100
Reposted by Beth WilsonDavid Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy to announce the launch of Elements in the History of the American South, new book series that I'm editing with @daviddoddington.bsky.social at @universitypress.cambridge.org. 0199
Reposted by Beth WilsonDr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Friends, following the success of our Teaching Antifascism event in London in May (ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...), we are going to start a v. basic newsletter. It will include the sections in this image, and you can sign up here: forms.office.com/e/txSSt6K5cY 111
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Thanks, Warren! Congrats on the publication of your new book too. 010
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Thank you Cecelia! Very happy to be part of the new series. 010
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I am so grateful to the British Academy for giving me the time and space to write this book, to @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social and @vphillips.bsky.social at CUP for their editorial guidance, and to so many wonderful colleagues who have mentored me along the way. 041
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026It explores how enslaved people formed their own, gendered emotional frameworks to both refuse and survive the institution of slavery. It also considers how enslaved and formerly enslaved people spoke to different aspects of their emotional worlds in written, oral and visual testimony. 121
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026⭐⭐ It's publication day for 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South' published by @universitypress.cambridge.org! You can now buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... ⭐⭐ 511137
Reposted by Beth WilsonMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3timeshighereducation.comUniversity of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go 7135118
Reposted by Beth WilsonBeth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Alongside being a historian, I work in youth participation, and last year worked alongside Trussell to develop a report exploring the hopes and experiences of young people experiencing financial hardship. You can take a look at the report here: www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...trussell.org.ukMaybe, tomorrow | TrussellThis report amplifies the voices of young people aged 16-25 experiencing financial hardship in the UK. 111
Reposted by Beth WilsonSadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStoriansjobs.manchester.ac.ukLecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road 14568
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Excited to see 'I Felt All This' is now available to read online through Cambridge Core. Looking forward to seeing it published in print later this month! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...cambridge.org‘I Felt All This’Cambridge Core - Colonial American History - ‘I Felt All This’ 031
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026You too Eabha! Your research is fascinating, and important, so I can't wait to see more. 000
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This was such a brilliant conference. I learnt so much about histories of infertility, about how to locate these histories, and about how to communicate this work creatively. So many thoughts for my new project! Thanks so much for having me @niamhroisin.bsky.social 220
Reposted by Beth WilsonErin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Delighted that my latest article in @anchistjournal.bsky.social, 'Challenging the Overseer', has been shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize ⭐ 074
Reposted by Beth WilsonNiamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...irishhumanities.ieIrish Humanities Alliance | Locating LossLocating Loss: Histories of Infertility in Landscapes and Spaces conference, University of Limerick on 27 May 2026.<br /> <br /> The aim of the Locating Loss project is to explore the spaces… 12313
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We ran numerous workshops with young people, including students and young mothers about the barriers they face in life and their hopes for the future. They told us how they believe the barriers they face can be broken, and emphasised that they wanted their voices heard. 100
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Alongside being a historian, I work in youth participation, and last year worked alongside Trussell to develop a report exploring the hopes and experiences of young people experiencing financial hardship. You can take a look at the report here: www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...trussell.org.ukMaybe, tomorrow | TrussellThis report amplifies the voices of young people aged 16-25 experiencing financial hardship in the UK. 111
Reposted by Beth WilsonOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Every single member of the History Department at Uni of Nottingham is at risk of redundancy. Every single one of us. 55355197
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Really looking forward to being part of this Locating Loss conference in May, speaking on a roundtable about my new project on slavery and infertility. @niamhroisin.bsky.social 's project is brilliant, bringing together historians, health professionals and others to consider spaces of loss. 163
Reposted by Beth WilsonCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now. 1131660
Reposted by Beth Wilsondaviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Some really excellent work forthcoming from CUP. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...cambridge.org‘I Felt All This’ | Cambridge University Press & Assessment 151
Reposted by Beth WilsonCecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Still one more month to apply for our new grant for under-represented early career scholars. All details below. @universitypress.cambridge.org 012
Reposted by Beth WilsonRachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic arrived at the houses of Pretzel and Paz Purrmann this week, and their humans (Jessica Roney, and me) were pretty jazzed @pennpress.bsky.social 2206
Reposted by Beth Wilsondaviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (@branchuk.bsky.social) from October. Emily has left some enormous shoes to fill (figuratively...), but this is the first organization I joined back in the mists of PhD time, and it's an enormous honor to step up here. www.branch.org.ukbranch.org.ukBritish American Nineteenth American Historians (BrANCH)BrANCH, the association of British American Nineteen Century Historians, is a UK-based group of historians interested in US history across the long nineteenth-century. 0144
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June. 1205
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...cambridge.org‘I Felt All This’Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’ 1156
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I was lucky enough to work in the Department of American Studies at Nottingham for a year, and as Emily says, it is a dynamic and welcoming community providing students with a really important alternative to a history degree. Please sign this! 050
Reposted by Beth WilsonRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 17/06/2025Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today it's Katherine Burns, ‘‘She died from grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements’, Slavery & Abolition' bit.ly/3HDuOVZ 1/2bit.ly‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted AdvertisementsThis article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification... 1279
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The book explores how enslaved people formed their own, gendered emotional frameworks to both refuse and survive the institution of slavery. It also considers how enslaved and formerly enslaved people spoke to different aspects of their emotional worlds in written, oral and visual testimony. 020
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have signed a contract with CUP for my book, provisionally titled 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum South', which will hopefully be out next year! 2212
Reposted by Beth WilsonAisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social · 02/12/2024It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇 036
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Thanks Teresa! So glad that it’s being published in book form - hopefully you’ll receive your copy soon! 221
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024So glad your article is in the collection, Hannah - such an important intervention. Fingers crossed you’ll receive your copy soon! 010
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I'm discussing my work tomorrow at the RAI. Please join us! 0100