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Zoe Thomas

@zoethomas.bsky.social
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Historian researching work, gender, politics, & artistic cultures in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview

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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie
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Absence in the Archives
Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
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Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We’re halfway through the #MBS2026 (3-5 June, University of Birmingham) and celebrating with 30% off a curated reading list of key titles in the field. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/05...
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Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My article has been published! And it's open access so you can all enjoy reading about Protestant church orders 🤣 #earlymodern #churchhistory #skystorians #history #reformazing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Consolation in Sixteenth Century Protestant Church Orders
This article presents four ways that demonstrate how Protestant church orders provided comfort and consolation to the laity in sixteenth century Germany, with specific focus on the sacraments of ba...
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thank you so much!
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Yes me too @modbritstud.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Thank you so much for coming @egarritzen.bsky.social and for giving your wonderful paper. Excited for all your ongoing and new research projects too - hope to catch up again soon.
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Elise Garritzen @egarritzen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What an academic treat this was! Thank you @zoethomas.bsky.social @svenjaros.bsky.social and the team for making "Power Couples" happen!
Brochure of the Power Couples workshop
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So exciting to have over a 100 public attendees here tonight for the public workshop @ Mortizburg Museum in Halle, Germany as part of our Power Couples workshop!
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Love this!
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m still thinking about those beautiful maps, the villains, the almost revolutions/revolutionaries, about how the micro and macro shape people’s political beliefs, and about writing biographies without heroes 😍— thanks @tomcutterham.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
So great to celebrate with History Dept colleagues @unibirmingham.bsky.social @tomcutterham.bsky.social forthcoming book with @versobooks.bsky.social - Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution & the Atlantic Working Class - pre order it here for £13 (£6 as an ebook!) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Empire Ablaze
As revolution raged in North America, James Aitken – house painter, highwayman, and escaped indentured servant – wandered the colonies formulating a dramatic plan to cripple the British navy by destro...
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.
Workers’ Rights May pole
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I have had sooooo many of these now. Most recently the invites have moved from San Francisco to Manchester. I really hope people aren’t falling for it 😢
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dracula 1933 Irish translation cover
Dracula, Bram Stoker, translated into Irish by Seán Ó Cuirrín, Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1933. Design: AóM (Austin Molloy). John Moore/Little Museum of Dublin
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...
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Sven Jaros @svenjaros.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They do look pretty nice on paper as well!
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is absolutely amazing! I am so excited to use these this summer for my research.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Yes yes yes! So exciting and so well deserved Mari. It's going to be absolutely beautiful and so important. Can't wait to read it!
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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️
Working from home set up with rubber suffragette duck on desk, New Dawn colourful print on wall behind and a suffrage teatowel hanging over a monitor
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So looking forward to hearing your paper!
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Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In a month we are going to present the Invention of the scientific power couple in 18th century France with @meghankroberts.bsky.social in this exciting workshop! Glad to get to travel after this long writing period and listen to those great papers! couples.hypotheses.org @zoethomas.bsky.social
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social will be speaking about Harriet & George Grote. Some of his work on Harriet can be found on the #HistParl website: historyofparliament.com?s=Harriet+Gr...
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Harriet Grote - The History of Parliament
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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So looking forward to participating in this workshop! I’ll be presenting on Una & Richard Pope-Hennessy’s intellectual partnership, exploring their collaborative endeavours before and during #WW1. Huge thanks to Zoe, Sven, and the team for their work putting together this wonderful programme 🙌🏻
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@draefox.bsky.social @ncardon.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Really looking forward to meeting participants from across the UK, France, US, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Romania, Japan, India, Australia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Italy, and Finland, amongst others.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Grateful to Marta Bartkowska for making a beautiful postcard & flyer for mine & @svenjaros.bsky.social workshop & public event in Germany this May! "Power Couples: Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1920s" funded by the DFG & others. Do get in touch if you want more info about the project!
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
haha totally get that! So excited for the book, love the way it’s organised.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
ooh will there be anything on his friendship with Dora Russell?
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Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Every book I want to buy at the moment is published by you 😍😍😍
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. 'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2. Out now. #booksky
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yes yes yes
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Another day, another “uncovered” archive. The materials “have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium for nearly 200 years.” The course sounds great, but this Indiana Jones framing and erasure of archivists’ work is getting really tired.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Love this!
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I'm looking forward to speaking to French history students in Birmingham later this week (guest video appearance on Simon Jackson's 'Equality, Environment and Empire in Modern France' course) If anyone would like me to speak about the book, then drop me a line, I'm happy to help! 🗃️ #skystorians
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Berkshire Conference of Women Historians @berksconference.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our CfP for the 2027 Big Berks is now OPEN! The 2027 theme is “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine". You can find out more and submit your proposal here: berksconference.org/big-ber...
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So great to see amazing @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social PhD researcher Kelly Bosomworth‘s work in “The Women’s Library at 100“ exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social as part of her wider PhD project all about the Six Point Group 😍
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Next Weds 25th at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social for a paper on the Beaumont Society and online trans communities in the 90s-00s. Register here! Hybrid option available too (if the tech works). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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'The Future is Bright. The Future is Beaumont': Transvestite Lives in a Digital Age
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/03/2026
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...
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Nineteenth-Century Afterlives: Creative and Critical Approaches
An exploration of the many ways in which the 19th century is revisited, reimagined, and critically reinterpreted
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Huge congratulations! This looks absolutely brilliant and so sorely needed. Have been keeping my eye out for this coming out for some stuff I am thinking through about theatre and popular performance.
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Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
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Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thank you to @kellybosomworth.bsky.social for highlighting the campaigning work of the feminist organisation, the Six Point Group. This image shows the first six points of action in the early 1920s.
printed text from early 1920s with six points of action.
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Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A very happy day - publication day! If you’re in Dublin on 18th March do come along to the launch - 6pm @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Dawson street. www.hodgesfiggis.ie/events
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Book Events at Hodges Figgis | Author Talks, Books Signings and More
Discover upcoming book events at Hodges Figgis. Join us for engaging author talks, exciting book signings, and other literary events. Stay informed about our schedule and reserve your spot fo
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This whole issue looks amazing! So excited to dig in next week 😍
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