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Eloise Moss

@ladyburglar.bsky.social
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Professor of Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Megan McAuley @meganmcauley.bsky.social reviews 'Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935', by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social and Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
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Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935, by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss and Charlotte Wildman
Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss and Charlotte Wildman’s text is a significant contribution to the current historiography of child emigration initiatives from the
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Chuffed to bits as my husband spotted my book in Deansgate Waterstones in Manchester! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Its out!
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My new book The Secret Life of the Hotel is on the Independent's list of recommended books for January! www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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What to read this January, including the final book from Julian Barnes
Martin Chilton shares his reading highlights for the beginning of 2026
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Emi Tozawa @emitozawa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New publication🎉 Public History in Japan is out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Public History in Japan
This book explores how public history is gaining attention in Japan and being incorporated into existing Japanese academic studies and practices.
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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Coming soon 🏨🛎️🔍 Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels? Explore a darker modern history of murder, swindles and scandals in The Secret Life of the Hotel by @ladyburglar.bsky.social. Pre-order today: bit.ly/4rpDMbH
Banner for a book titled 'The Secret Life of the Hotel' by Eloise Moss. Coming in January 2026, published by Bloomsbury Academic.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
On 4th Nov at 9pm I should be appearing in the new Sky series Original Gangsters with Sean Bean, chatting about the real Peaky Blinders! Available to watch after on Now TV and Apple as well. www.history.co.uk/shows/origin...
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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is such positive, powerful, direct communication. The fact that this seems so remarkable and so rare speaks volumes about our failure to stand up to the fossil fuel lobby.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Just want to do a shout-out to the wonderful archivist Amanda @oulibrary.bsky.social who got my request for a very rare image of a 1920s burglar last night and sent me the image and helpful copyright info first thing this morning; archivists really are the best!
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I was really delighted to find out I've been elected as a Fellow of @royalhistsoc.org today! This is lovely recognition and I'm looking forward to taking part in more of the RHS's great events when I'm back from mat leave next year.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I had a very unexpected melanoma skin cancer diagnosis today, luckily only stage 1A- very very early. The mole was removed and I'll have further surgery, but it could have been worse and I want to encourage everyone to check out any mole that seems unusual: www.nhs.uk/conditions/m...
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Melanoma skin cancer
Find out about melanoma skin cancer, including what the symptoms are, what causes it and how it’s diagnosed and treated.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks ‪@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This Thurs(12th) at 9p.m. on C5 I'll be in a new series, Great Hotels Through Time. Some content came from my book (out in Jan with Bloomsbury), The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime, and Protest at British Guesthouses since 1918. I should pop up in 4 episodes hopefully saying something coherent!
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Submitting this for publication shortly, and we're now at 2920 signatures. It would be amazing to get it over three thousand before I turn it in...
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I'm overwhelmed and overjoyed 🤩🥹💜 In less than a day, over 350 historians signed this call for the UK's Labour government to stop its attacks on trans people. The letter will be open for more signatures today and over the weekend. Please share widely to your historian friends/colleagues!
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
ONE THOUSAND signatures (on top of the original group). Academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW.
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Please sign this: it matters.
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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
On 13 March 6:30-8pm @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Dr Ruth Lamont, Dr Eloise Moss (@ladyburglar.bsky.social) & Dr Charlotte Wildman (@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social) discuss Friendless or Forsaken?—their powerful book on Britain-to-Canada child emigration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friendless...
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Andrew Harris @andrewharris.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Royal Navy’s Naval Historical Branch is recruiting a full-time, permanent Historical Researcher! Details here: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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NAVY- Historical Researcher - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK
Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For all those who enjoy a ghost story, watch Uncanny on BBC2. I was in episode 1 adding a dollop of history to the tale.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The most important thing I did today was ask for more time: ask for help. I remember the fab @historyhannahb.bsky.social advising me to push back a deadline years ago which a) was realistic + b) made for a better book. I find it hard to ask, so putting it out there in case it helps others ask too.
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
This! From Julie-Marie Strange on fiction and historical methods… in the latest social historian book club, on Amy Bloom’s amazing queer historical novel about Hick and Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘White Houses’ (bsky have my free eprints!) 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNJ57...
"In addition to not talking about the violence of the archive we don't talk about the violence of our practices - that is, the fact that all of our research and writing methods probably stem from a hierarchy of structural violence"
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Just received copies of new book Friendless or Forsaken? on Child emigration histories, which I was very lucky to co-author with Charlotte Wildman and Ruth Lamont! Available in paperback: www.mqup.ca/friendless-o...
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
For my British Academy funded project on the history of hotels, I have partnered with the Mooncup Theatre who are performing a living exhibition followed by dinner and panel discussion on hotels and modern slavery. All welcome! tinyurl.com/5ymtkk52
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
New book club series for Social History journal in which historians discuss historical fiction: For the first one, we read Zadie Smith's The Fraud (here OA): Full article: Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
pleased to see this out: 1st in ongoing series where historians and others respond to recent works of historical fiction. Here: Zadie Smith’s ‘The Fraud’ inc brief comments from me on ‘why historians read historical fiction and what we find compelling about it’🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Social History Book Club: Zadie Smith, The Fraud
Published in Social History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
There's still a month left to get your abstracts in for the British Crime Historians Conference at Manchester! See CFP here: uomhistory.com/2023/12/11/b...
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
My junk mail folder just revealed that Taylor Swift is now issuing a Call for Papers 🤔
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
PhD Studentship: Plants in the Wrong Place? Weeds and weeding in Britain c.1500-c.1950 at the University of York's Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Supervisory team from History, Sociology & Ecology. DEADLINE 8 JANUARY #envhist #earlymodern 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/history/abou...
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PhD Studentship: Plants in the Wrong Place? Weeds and weeding in Britain c.1500-c.1950
Closing deadline for applications is 8th January.
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Calling all crime historians! I'm co-organising the British Crime Historians Conference in Manchester next year, with fantastic keynotes from Hallie Rubenhold and Anindita Ghosh! Please find the CFP here: uomhistory.com/2023/12/11/b...
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Last week, I wrote about how a National Archives file detailed the cover-up of sexual assaults by a Canadian businessman who influenced the global economy. This week, I explain who Mervyn Brown was + reflect on how money + empire let him get away with it: activehistory.ca/blog/2023/10...
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Uncovering the Sexual Assaults of Mervyn Brown: Part 2
By Eloise Moss Part 1 of this two part series appeared on Tuesday, October 3 2023. You can read it here. In part one, last week, I discussed the criminal investigation following the sexual assault …
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Last summer, in a National Archives file, I realised I was reading about the cover-up of a series of sexual assaults by a high-profile Canadian businessman who went on to reshape the global economy. My first piece about this for ActiveHistory.Ca is here:
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Uncovering the Sexual Assaults of Mervyn Brown: Part 1
The case of Mervyn Brown offers an important, if disturbing, precedent for understanding just how entrenched have been the practices of protecting powerful men from the consequences of misogynistic…
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Motivated by the circumstances of a celebrity divorce, the historic interior decorating magazine House Beautiful interviewed me about privacy, police access, and home security devices. This is a first for me!
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How Many People Can See (and Hear!) Your Security Camera Footage?
And could they use it against you?
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Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Just arrived here at the new place and feeling very excited, like first day of school again! :)
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