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Ella Sbaraini

@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
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Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📣Out now on #firstview! Jake William Bransgrove @jakebransgrove.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social on 'Patronage Networks and the Afterlives of James Cook, c. 1770–1820' #Patronage #Social #Friendship #Family #Kinship 18thc 19thc 🗃️🧑‍🤝‍🧑 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This article examines the longevity of interpersonal ties in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, and their impact on the structure of social networks incorporating individuals separated by rank. Using the example of a protracted patronage relationship involving the explorer James Cook, his family, and the wealthy naturalist and president of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, it shows how social ties formed in life continued to exert an influence on behaviour when a key member of a network was dead. Cook, who died in 1779, remained associated with Banks many years later, the consequence of a powerful and recognized bond combining qualities of friendship and patronage. This bond motivated appeals to Banks to assist Cook’s impoverished family, initiating an affair with which this article is concerned, and whose granular study illuminates the operation of genteel norms conditioning lasting interpersonal ties. In showing the representative value of this case, the article tracks actions motivated variously by friendship, kinship, and patronage, demonstrating how they unfolded across time and in surrogate fashion.
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Absolutely awful news; a full-scale, profoundly myopic and existentially destructive attack on the humanities in the UK.
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Iconic abstract for an article 👒
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📣New SHS PGR Work-in-Progress sessions launched by our PGR reps @louisebell.bsky.social & @aayushigupta.bsky.social! Informal, supportive space to share research & test ideas. Open to all history PGRs & ECRs working in and around social history. More info here! socialhistory.org.uk/2026/04/09/s...
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Social History Society Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Sessions
Our wonderful PGR Reps, Aayushi Gupta and Louise Bell, are launching a new series of Work-in-Progress sessions – informal, supportive online spaces for postgraduates to share their research and rec…
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Must-watch film.
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
December Issue: Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @kingshistory.bsky.social
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Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850
Abstract. This article proposes that gifts of everyday foodstuffs were a crucial way in which labouring communities attempted to provide care, and express
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My latest article, 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760-1850', has been published in @enghistrev.bsky.social! It uses coroners' inquests to reconstruct everyday food-giving practices in 18th- and 19th-century labouring communities 🍞🍗🥕 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Deadline extended until 23 Jan! Do put in an application for this conference - it's one of the warmest, loveliest and social (fittingly!) conferences there is in History, and it's especially welcoming to ECRs and PGRs!
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Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/08/2025
UN warns of man-made famine in Gaza as starvation deaths rise, Israel steps up plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza.
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Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks, forcing starving Palestinians to flee
UN warns of man-made famine in Gaza as starvation deaths rise, Israel steps up plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza.
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Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️ 20thc
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📣Exciting opportunity to contribute to the SHS and be part of the team! Keen to answer any questions that people might have, and support your nomination✨
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fantastic, rather heart-breaking piece. 'It can be a radical position simply to repair what is broken and to preserve what is valuable from crude financialisaton or elite indifference, rather than to reimagine it wholesale.'
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Would be so grateful if anyone was able to help me transcribe this letter from 1849... I think it begins 'Dearest Mama', and there's 'I could not account for it' in the middle, but I'm struggling with the rest - any thoughts massively appreciated 🗃️
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Super interesting historiographical review!
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📣Out now on #firstview! Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social) (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) on 'Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet' #Art #Body #Merchant #Display #Artisan 16thc 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Spotify called me a nerd
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
📢Panel CfP for 'Everyday Environments'! The convenors of the Heritage, Environment, Spaces & Places strand are looking for papers on the theme of 'Everyday Environments'. ⏰Outline proposal due by 9 December; abstract 10 Jan. More info here: socialhistory.org.uk/2024/11/28/p... 🗃️
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Panel CfP: Everyday Environments
Where does the ‘environment’ fit in social history? It is now nearly two decades since Stephen Mosely’s article ‘Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History’ appeared in the Journal…
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Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you work on any aspect of social and cultural history, I majorly encourage you to submit a proposal! This is also the first SHS conference taking place in a museum/heritage institution - expect ye olde fish & chips and serious historical vibes😎
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last year's Olivette Otele Prize winner Tionne encourages eligible students to submit for our prize based on her own experience 🏆 Tionne submitted a fantastic paper which she presented at our annual conference & discusses below the advantages of submitting for the prize #skystorians #cfp
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Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I’m giving a lunchtime talk on Britain’s community architecture movement for the Bartlett’s Situating Architecture Lecture Series at UCL - talking about self-build, squatting + student protest 🧱🔧 Come! 📍 1pm, Monday 2 December www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
'a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is intended to support research in any aspect of women’s studies in the period 1558-1837 for new or continuing interdisciplinary or single-discipline projects.'
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