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Jade Shepherd

@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/ja…

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.
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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK
Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...
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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My excellent colleague Claudia Soares is advertising a funded PhD studentship with us in History at Newcastle. Closing date 16 October. ,📢 Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX723/n...
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NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection at Newcastle University
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a NUAcT PhD Studentship – Histories of Child Protection Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
University of Lincoln has disposed of over 500 staff since 2024. As we start a new academic year management have refused to rule out further compulsory redundancies. @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social is balloting its members on their willingness to take industrial action. If this is you please vote.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A new experiment in writing for me, which has been equal parts daunting and rewarding. Thank you so much to @the-polyphony.bsky.social for the invitation. thepolyphony.org/2026/08/07/t...
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The Intersections Between Memoir Writing and Histories of Alcoholism
Jennifer Wallis reflects on her personal experience of an alcoholic parent and how her expertise as a historian has shaped her understanding of alcoholism.
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We now have a Medical Humanities at Imperial blog 🎊🎊 Please take a look - I'll be adding to this regularly with posts from both staff and students. #medhums #meded blogs.imperial.ac.uk/medical-huma...
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Medical Humanities at Imperial – Humanities, Philosophy & Law student art exhibition
Humanities, Philosophy & Law student art exhibition
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Higher Education Crisis: tl; dr version
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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My Oxford Bibliographies entry on 'Asylums, Mental Hospitals, and Other Forms of Institutionalized Care' is now out 🎊 If your institution has access, please consider recommending to your students and adding to any #histpsych reading lists! doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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Asylums, Mental Hospitals, and Other Forms of Institutionalized Psychiatric Care
The appearance of the asylum as a form of institutionalized psychiatric care is a major theme within the history of psychiatry. Ranging from private asylum
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Fifty-two per cent of students have noticed cost-cutting, and 83 per cent of those say it changed the experience they were promised."
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Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It’s the 1890s all over again: ‘the system is so mild that…the inmates eat, drink, laugh & grow fat. There is no sign or trace of insanity about a number of them…the attendants seem highly amused at the tricks which must have been used to fool doctors…so as to secure admission to this paradise’
Newspaper headline from the 1890s: ‘Startling Scandals at the “Murderers Paradise” (Broadmoor)’
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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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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One in four academic history positions in post-92s are gone since 2019 alone. One in four. We don't have data for 2025-6 and I doubt it magically got better.
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.
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Andrew Defty @adefty.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday 142 academic staff at the University of Lincoln were put at risk of redundancy including the entire Politics and International Relations team. This follows cuts since 2024 which have already seen over 500 people leave the university. This is the 'University of No Regrets'.
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Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester
Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 | University of Strathclyde
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
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Claudia Soares @claudiajsoares.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Final couple of days to get your abstracts in for our conference on histories of care! We've had some exciting proposals in so far and we're really looking forward to seeing more. #skystorians
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Claudia Soares @claudiajsoares.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Final two weeks to get your proposals in for our conference on care histories - please do think about submitting! We're also happy to consider papers that don't strictly fit into the defined time period! 🙂 #skystorians
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Caring Communities @caring-communities.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/
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Society for Army Historical Research @societyarmy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Shortlisted for the SAHR Templer Medal 'An impressive study of how the cultural legacy of the Great War shaped the attitudes of wartime soldiers in the Second World War.' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We're hiring! We’re looking for a Research Assistant (0.4FTE, 12 month FTC) to join us and work with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social. Role can be held flexibly (though not remote); centres around outreach + engagement, archival + oral history work in Worcestershire jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at University of Worcester: Research Assistant (Voices of Motherhood)
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team working on the ‘Birthing Stories’ project with the University of Worcester and the George Marshall Medical Museum, a collaborative project between the ...
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
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The Politics of Personal Experience | Writing a History of Munchausen
How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The book is finally finished. It comes out 25th April 2026. It’s about historians’ “personal experiences”, how these might relate (critically and analytically) to their histories. It is called _The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes_
Front cover of a book _The Politics of Personal Experience_. The cover is mainly red with wavy white lines. The main title text is black on a white background.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
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Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Behind the sensationalised headline, there’s some excellent and fascinating research here. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
And I will tell you flat out, there is a HELL OF A LOT BETTER-QUALITY ACTUAL TEACHING involved in getting a good degree out of a student who came in with BCD than there is getting one from an A*A*A student.
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from. 1/15
A banner advert for Matt Houlbrook’s new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
If you don’t want to do your job, you can leave! People are desperate to teach at universities, let them do it!
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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I also think the assumption was “You need to be ridiculously lucky to get an open ended job, but only once”. And then the wave of redundancies began, and I realised you also only need to be unlucky once.
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Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
It’s real and I’ve got one! Daughter’s honest and accurate review: “It doesn’t have so many pictures.” She’s not wrong. If you need pictures this isn’t for you, but if you like free access to new First and Second World War history then download it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Child holding a book titled Joining Up In The Second World War
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 07/08/2025
Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.
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OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’
GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.
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Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781... @manchesterup.bsky.social
Front cover of book; civilian men queuing to become soldiers
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Hey... our July titles in Modern History are all #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 Available from 29 July, these books are new in our @sshmedicine.bsky.social & Cultural History of Modern War series. Feat. @sarahcrook.bsky.social, Joel Morley & more. Ground-breaking research, completely free.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
THIS.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The government response to this petition is infuriating. “Maternity and other types of Parental Pay are intended to provide a measure of financial security to support parents whilst they are away from the workplace; they are not a replacement of earnings” except they literally are??? Please sign:
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Petition: Raise statutory maternity/paternity pay to match the National Living Wage
Statutory maternity and paternity pay is £4.99 per hour for a full-time worker on 37.5 hours per week - approximately 59% less than the 2024 National Living Wage of £12.21 per hour for workers aged 21...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What we're doing in the uni sector is shutting off routes for kids with Bs and Cs to do key (and prestigious) subjects, and closing down the ability of young people to go to the local uni just when it becomes ruinous expensive to go way. Will have incalculable consequences for social mobility.
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Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Is there a better time to read and review books than summer? I don't think so - and I'm looking for reviewers for lots of titles for the Journal of Contemporary History. We now do review articles of up to 4,000 words, covering three books. These and many more are up for grabs:
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.
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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last year we ran a survey on UK HE redundancies. Based on 349 responses, the UNIVERSITIES DEGRADED REPORT uncovers awful conditions, targeting of marginalised groups, & far more cuts than estimated. People's stories matter. We can hold leaders to account. Please share widely tinyurl.com/48nzf7ew
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Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...
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Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are currently advertising for a 1-year fixed term 0.8 FTE post in Modern History at Lancaster. It goes without saying that it would have been nice had it been a F/T post but, in the current climate, it is something ... hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship)
Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship)The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a new Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship).* This is a ...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
this is in fact true for almost all early years interventions, which is yet another reason why the lack of childcare support in the UK is criminal
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/04/2025
How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....
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Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society
Lucy Noakes on how the crisis in UK higher education is impacting history and historians, and how the Royal Historical Society can advocate for our discipline.
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