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Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ready for the Modern British Studies Conference 2026 in Birmingham on “The Polycrisis? Historical Roots and Critical Perspectives in Modern Studies” 🌱 This event also marks the official launch of the new Modern British Studies Association 🇬🇧 #mbs2026 #empiressdu

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Registration closes for MBS2026 tomorrow at 5pm! We are aware of an issue with the online shop that means people aren't currently able to access the registration form. If you would like to register and are unable to, please email mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk. We hope this will be resolved shortly.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Really looking forward to this - especially to sharing a panel with @tsasson.bsky.social , Erika Rappaport, and Jonathan Saha. If you're about, come and check out our discussion on capital and capitalism on 3 June.

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This time in four weeks we'll be welcoming everyone to the (hopefully sunny!) University of Birmingham campus for Modern British Studies 2026. Registration is open until May 12. Registration and programme details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

MBS2026 is next month! Please note that registration closes on May 12. The conference and registration link is available here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Absolutely delighted to see this very generous review by Lesley Hall published in Journal of Contemporary History a few days ago. Such a joy to be reviewed alongside @hannahcharnock.bsky.social & authors involved in Let's Spend The Night Together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The Waterstones promotion ends later today so it’s your last chance to get 25% off preorders of Songs of Seven Dials. Preorders make such a difference to new books: if you can order or share I would be very grateful. #20s30s #history #sevendials #london

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It was a real pleasure to speak to @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my new book Growing Up and Going Out, which was published with @manchesterup.bsky.social recently! if you're so inclined, you can listen to us talk about youth culture, cities, and identity below.

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

10 minutes!

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Tomorrow lunchtime! We'll be talking histories of childhood and youth, and our three new books: Gifted Children - global.oup.com/academic/pro... Teenage Intimacies - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173157/ Growing Up and Going Out - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

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Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing. Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces. 12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew

Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This week - all welcome!

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

See the latest additions to our Modern History list ⬇️ From youth culture in post-war Britain and sex in England 1950-80, to Smallpox and Nepal - new titles out now! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social @hannahcharnock.bsky.social @historicalmeredith.bsky.social #ModernHistory #NewinHistory #MUP

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Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Picture of my book Teenage Intimacies: Young women, sex and social life in England 1950-80

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It was a pleasure to be joined by @vawright10.bsky.social earlier this week. Valerie's paper explored the experiences of children and teenagers in Scotland's new towns, and reflected on what these places came to mean for families and their children.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

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Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Slowly taking shape into a book. Over the moon with the 🐧 colour scheme which just happens to be 🐯 themed too for proofs. More info here, including links to preorder. www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254... In two weeks, there will be fewer than 100 days to go. Launch event TBC, but more ASAP.

Bound page proofs of Vanished:An Unnatural History of Extinction. An abstract design in classic Penguin colours of white, black and orange.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh

Recruiting now: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Tomorrow is release day for Growing Up and Going Out, and I was just delivered a celebratory balloon and doughnuts from some of my incredibly lovely and thoughtful students. Off to eat sugar and be emotional for a while!

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/02/2025

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters

Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Arrived home to the most wonderful surprise. Growing Up and Going Out is here!

Front cover of Growing Up and Going Out.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 04/02/2025

"In all these processes of contractions and closures, one common denominator is that arts and humanities subjects are too often first in line." New letter to the Secretary of State for Education, from @artsandhums.bsky.social, on the impact and implications of current losses in UK HE #skystorians

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Last October I gave my inaugural lecture as a professor. I talked about mushrooms, and latent commons, and what they might help us to see and manifest as historians and people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2r...

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The trans possibilities of a new history of communal life | University of Birmingham

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If you're in Birmingham on Tuesday, you should definitely come to "Feminist Histories: Care, Loneliness and Embodiment," to hear from an amazing line-up of colleagues! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

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Feminist histories: care, loneliness and embodiment

Panel Discussion with Dr Anna Jamieson, Professor Sarah Knott, Dr Naomi Pullin and Professor Karen Harvey.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My book, Growing Up and Going Out: Youth culture, commerce, and leisure space in post-war Britain comes out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in less than two weeks! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

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Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

If 1000 job losses were announced in one day for another industry, it would make the top headlines. This one is going to take people by surprise with huge impacts on other sectors, cities, regions, life plans...

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Our final event of the semester is this Wednesday, 4-6pm and it promises to be fantastic. Mo Moulton will be in conversation with Matt Cook on the topic of 'New Directions in Queer and Trans History'. The event is hybrid, and you can sign up here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

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New Directions in Queer and Trans History: Matt Cook and Mo Moulton in Conversation

Professor Matt Cook, who holds the Jonathan Cooper Chair in the History of Sexuality (University of Oxford), is in conversation with Professor Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham), followed by a gene...

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am very, very excited for this!

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Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Our autumn series begins this week. Dates and details are available through the link below, and sign-up options for our hybrid session in December are forthcoming. www.canva.com/design/DAGT6...

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

#jobfairy - alert VERY TIGHT DEADLINE of 8th Sept - assoc prof (senior lecturer) in history & heritate at University of Birmingham, pref for geog. spec in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, or North America. Permanent position www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJG439/a... (not my dept so I've no inside info) 🗃️

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Sending my book off in the spring so I had space for other things over the summer was all well and good... until I found out my proofs will be arriving with a one week turnaround during Welcome Week 😬

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Deep in teaching prep for next year, and so delighted to see this Special Issue on women's activisms in Women's History Review. Perfect timing for mine and @zoethomas.bsky.social's feminisms module, and the articles look ace. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies

Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

So many new #Skystorians for the list 🗃️

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

The horror of, well... everything, has mostly driven me offline for the last year or so, but I miss hearing what everybody is up to. Hoping to make a more permanent home for myself - personally and professionally - here.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social now has an account on bluesky for those who would like to follow what we are up to.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

I recently reviewed Mary Grover's wonderful new book, Steel City Readers, for Northern History. Lots here for those interested in #histchild and reading cultures more widely. A really fantastic example of urban social history. You can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925–1955

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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Disgusted by the Home Office's treatment of my brilliant colleague @DoselineKiguru, whose six-year old daughter has been denied a UK visa. This decision needs to be reversed immediately. Please repost and share. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

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‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...

Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

The British Library outage is wreaking absolute havoc with my teaching this week - I wasn't aware quite how often I drew on its resources!

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

I am reliably informed it's publication day for this collection! I've written about teenage magazines, sexuality, and the 'new morality' of 1960s Britain, but you should read everybody else's excellent chapters.

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I am delirious with a cold, but so delighted to have received the readers report for my manuscript back from MUP. Very positive, and my relief is palpable!

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Fellow #c20th historians - do we have something similar set up? I miss knowing what everyone is up to!

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Aaron Reeves @aaronreeves.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

New paper w @evemworth.bsky.social: we interviewed occupationally elite women who attended top girls schools and explore how the trajectories into the elite of those born before 1960 were quite different from those born afterwards www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Very certain my sudden desire to move to the new place is driven by the paperwork that I have been avoiding all week and that absolutely needs finishing today. In any case - pleased to see so many have already made the transition!

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