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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've had a great couple days this week getting started on my UCL Special Collections Visting Fellowship research by doing some digging in the Huguenot Library collection at the National Archives @uclspeccoll.bsky.social @huguenotsociety.bsky.social

Birds in front of The National Archives, Kew

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Reading Group Proposal: Given the current state of academia in the UK (and globally) I have become increasingly interested in thinking about how we can build autonomous research and pedagogical networks aimed at extending the educational commons without necessarily relying on existing institutions

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

As an ECR currently employed outside academia, I love setting aside a day to do academic work like it'll be a nice little treat for myself, only to then on the day immediately remember that academic work is actually really difficult and not the barrrel of laughs I romanticise it to be

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

First day (temporary, part-time) teaching at De Montfort University on the fabulous 'Journeys & Places' level 1 module done!

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Enjoyed first seminar of @ihr.bsky.social Migration + Mobility seminar series led by the fantastic @kabcommons.bsky.social, starring legend @profpanayi.bsky.social and great presentations by @endeeekay.bsky.social (see pic for book out soon w/ @punctumbooks.bsky.social) & @marcloureiro.bsky.social

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Happy to say that my recently completed PhD thesis 'Identification Documents and the Governance of Mobilities in,through and beyond Seventeenth-Century London' is now available to download online open-access if anyone ever fancies having a read etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025. • African History • Migration & Mobility History • Planetary History Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Very interesting document from today's visit to Brotherton Cutural Collections: a translated (German-English) printed copy of a passport issued to a Protestant exile from Salzburg in 1731, included within a 1732 book containing several other translated documents related to the expulsion

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So excited to be co-convening this seminar with a fantastic team of migration scholars! Can't wait for it to get started this autumn

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Passed my viva yesterday with editorial corrections! A massive thank you to @renaudmorieux.bsky.social and Stephen Alford for examining and to everyone who's supported me over the course of my PhD

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This Monday! I'll be talking about how migrants seeking protection creatively use paperwork to make moral claims to rights - in Britain today and 16thC England. Does a lack of rights limit the impact of paperwork? And how can we use of paperwork recentre migrants in histories of protection?

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Finding out that (shockingly) the knowledge I gained from writing a PhD thesis on seventeenth-century identification documents does not in fact transfer to attempting to navigate the unnecessarily complex process of trying to update a UK passport when you're a dual national in 2025

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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Finally got around to making an account on here! Mainly as a scheme to distract myself from the marking I really should be focusing on this afternoon, but also definitely looking forward to being able to keep up with academic stuff without having to deal with Xwitter in its current state

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