Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment. 127906220
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's quite obvious what's going on here. 081
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is quite a wild ride. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.comA death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto ZThe long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger 071
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardKim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I've contributed some commentaries to this massive and welcome box set ... severinfilms.com/en-gb/blogs/...severinfilms.comMORBID PLEASURES: A COMPENDIUM OF GRAND GUIGNOL & THE GRAND GUIGNOLESQUESeverin’s Most Ambitious Box Set Ever Explores The Grand Guignol’s Influence on Film, Theater, Music & Beyond From the birth of cinema to the enduring influence of macabre horror, Severin Films presen... 1273
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speakers announcement! We're super lucky Jen Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Victoria Cranna (LSHTM archives) will speak at this event, alongside Kat Rawling and me on behalf of the project. Oh and we'll be recording and sharing the event afterwards. Can't wait to share this with the world! 0115
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardRobin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/ 16665487
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17886390
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just picked this up from Imperial Library today and, after looking at the contents, I think I'm definitely going to have to buy my own copy ✍️✍️✍️✍️ 050
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardKatie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This poor cat has been fated to answer phones in a call center for life. 380108831199
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1143332751
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardAlexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 18/09/2026Bluesky cuties, consider this a good old fashioned call-out for work! I've landed safely thanks to your support, but financially things are still a little struggletown. This thread is really to remind commissioning type folks, producers and editors of the kind of work I do. Signal boosts welcome! 🧵 1110109
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026'The strike action, planned for 22 September, marks the first time staff have organised to walk out in The Lancet’s 200-year history. The Lancet Group, now owned by the Elsevier publishing conglomerate, comprises 29 monthly specialty titles, in addition to the flagship weekly medical journal'.timeshighereducation.comStaff at prestigious medical journal set to strike over payFor the first time in The Lancet’s 200-year history, union members plan to strike over “unacceptable” pay offer 02922
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardDr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums 23319
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardCate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If your employer uses Lyra Health for its EAP, please read the fine print. Recordings of sessions are the default, and while coaches and therapists will ask you if you want to continue recording, they will not tell you that a transcript of your session will be used to train AI. 35029
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child: 1. The actors in Blackadder III; 2. The supply teacher who my friend Michelle and I convinced ourselves was a witch; 3. My dad's pathology/microbiology handbook; 4. VHS tape of The Changeling recorded off TV; 5. Swallowing an apple pip/chewing gum. 020
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026you are not going to get from AI. I am so bored of explaining why your "clever" little bit of tech can't replace rigorous historical reading and research. As @marieallitt.bsky.social said to me last week "reading *is* a method". 1112
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Would be really nice if journals saved wasting our and their own time by also sending any info about AI use along with the abstract 🙃 Historic psychiatric records are notoriously "messy" to use and interpret, they require an understanding of language, broader context, and paper technologies that 151
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026...to be, in effect, a completely different article. I refused to review it because a) even if you "removed" your AI use, it's still informing your analysis, and b) it's a NEW article and any decent journal ought to treat it as such. 131
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I recently agreed to review an article based, as is typical, on the abstract. On receiving the whole thing I see that the article is a revised version of an earlier paper that used AI to analyse historical records. The revised version claims not to use AI (in response to first reviewer concerns) and 163
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Here goes: read my book if you want to know about scientific work in #c19 asylums. Each chapter focuses on a part of the body that was deemed important for understanding General Paralysis of the Insane (neurosyphilis). Also, it's open access and *free*. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comInvestigating the Body in the Victorian AsylumThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked t... 02712
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardLouise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oxford - please join another unity march against the far right. 12pm Manzil Way, Sat 17th October. It's really important that we show them 'there are many many more of us than you'. The first unity march last autumn was a really joyful event, music, drums and a positive welcome all along Cowley Rd 13525
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardEveryone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Londoners say NO to Ray-Ban pervert glasses 4706214
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...portsmouth.co.ukProtestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotelMisinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel 47730228
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259921593
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardIan McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Isn’t this terrorism? When this kind of thing happened in Northern Ireland it was terrorism. If someone protests about an issue, that’s their democratic right. But wearing masks and blocking roads is terrifying members of the community, so isn’t that an act of terror? 2105
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...bbc.co.ukPort of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roadsHundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port. 1061845816
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardWilliam Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comDisruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protestImages appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings. 30473202
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardTheresa @tlc57.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If anyone was ever in any doubt about Farage & Reform being a Fascist enterprise this should remove any doubt. All they are missing is the Black Shirts. The so called media should be all over this or they are complicit. 042
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardHwaet @cog1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Reform are all about protecting women and girls. Until one of them opens her mouth. Then she needs to be shown who’s boss. Every woman (or man) who has ever cast a vote for or platformed this shower shares some of the responsibility for this. 13620
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Can't resist a TV movie paperback. 141
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's not often I buy books at conferences, but this - by @angiesuttonvane.bsky.social - looked too fascinating to leave behind. 191
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Anyway, I think almost everyone in the audience has either instantly bought or is about to buy Louise's book: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...uk.bookshop.orgThe Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence*Shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize*When the gates of the last Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on. Or so it seemed. 'Enraging ... superb' JOHN BANVILLE, Guardian'Remarkable... 152
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The idea that we, as a culture, tell ourselves the historical stories we *want* to hear very much resonated with my own experiences of asylum history. It also made me want to return to my work on the St James's Home for Inebriate Women, which modelled itself on the laundries #histpsych #drinkhistory 161
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Another fascinating day at the British Crime Historians symposium, but the highlight was undoubtedly @louisebrangan.bsky.social's keynote on memories of the Magdalene laundries. Such a nuanced and sensitive exploration of how the laundries have been remembered and misremembered through time. 1174
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardHatchlings Games ~ Shop opening soon! @hatchlingdm.itch.io · 04/09/2026Hatchlings Games has secured a small shop in the heart of Bristol. If you’re a UK-based zine creator/publisher, please sound off below. We may soon have a space to sell your indie RPGs. No AI permitted and please no graphic content. 54408178
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardChris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 04/09/2026this is a wonderful piece of writing that I missed when first published - the bit about being surprised by a detail you later realise you already knew is such a wonderful and generously reflexive window onto the process of writing history 172
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They were, I'm so sorry you're missing it. Are you feeling any better? 110
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Plus @morbidmae.bsky.social (and Neil Pemberton)'s paper was a tour de force, looking at how Netflix's Monsters series often problematically blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. #horror 142
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026And @emilyrosehay.bsky.social's paper on researcher "allegiances" to their historical subjects was genuinely exciting - it was great to see #histemotion work linking up with #histcrime, plus a big shout-out for @chrismillard83.bsky.social's book! 261
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026@drstephaniebrown.bsky.social's paper on the spatial politics of abortion was also brilliant, with the "retrospective policing" of domestic space reminiscent of Amy Bell's work on crime scene photos. Really useful for my own research on post-mortems in domestic space too. #c19 293
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 03/09/2026An excellent day at the British Crime Historians symposium today. Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch's paper on c19 crime scene maps was fascinating: the second front page illustration The Times ever printed in 1806 was a house floor plan of a murder site. #history #c19 #crimehistory 1177
Reposted by Jennifer Wallis-BernardAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. 23987194
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The anomaly in a row of terraces", yet the (arguably worse looking) anomaly of the estate/lettings agent two doors down isn't a problem 🤷♀️ 042
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nooo! Well, I shall try to post lots of conference content here to keep you updated 🙂 x 110
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Health is more important - rest up and get waited on by everyone else in the house! x 110
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Oh no, I was looking forward to seeing you (it's just up the road from me, so rude not to attend)! Get well soon and I'll look forward to your online paper x 110