Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
Chuffed to see my article on feminist responses to the unemployment crisis of the 1980s out in JBS:
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65www.cambridge.orgexcited to see whether sam smiths pubs become drinkable in once again, i've been on a one-woman boycott of them for some years now
Oxford ClarionOxford drinkers may finally be able to swear in the Three Goats’ Heads after the death of Humphrey Smith, the irascible owner of Sam Smiths Brewery, at the age of 81. The pub chain enforced strict bans on swearing and mobile phone use. Smith was described in a Facebook pubs group as “an absolute tit
do not know why not all of them could do this, it's not hard to not shake the hand of somewhat being tried on 7 counts of rape
Emily✨Terrible quality but this is the clearest video I can find of Djed Spence refusing to shake Partey’s hand 🫡
just to say that in my research on unemployment in the 70s and 80s, I had the surreal moment of seeing government officials blaming unemployment for school leavers in *1978* on the particular fecklessness of modern youth. absolutely zero sense of wider structural changes to the economy at all.
Jonn ElledgeI do sometimes worry that all the worried headscratching about youth unemployment might be missing the point. Everyone is always talking about how it relates to the education or welfare systems, no one wants to say "well the economy just produces far fewer entry level jobs than it once did"
Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.
v much looking forward to this on Monday - book here if you want! www.thesocial.com/event/no-fut...
Really looking forward to talking with @lauratisdall.bsky.social this Wednesday about her fab new book at Gower St Waterstones - book below if you fancy coming!
Laura TisdallNew link for my London book launch for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN at Waterstones Gower St on Weds 13th May at 6.30pm - because I'm now in conversation with the fantastic @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/we-ha... #skystorians #histchild
Looking forward to this tomorrow! More info below.
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminarNext Thursday, 30 April, 5.30-7pm... Join us (online or in person) with Bobby Phe Amis offering wonderful new perspective on postimperial Britain, welfare and the managed return of colonial service officers! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I am so looking forward to chatting with the brilliant @lauratisdall.bsky.social about her ace new book at the Gower St Waterstones on 13 May - book below if you fancy coming!
Laura TisdallNew link for my London book launch for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN at Waterstones Gower St on Weds 13th May at 6.30pm - because I'm now in conversation with the fantastic @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/we-ha... #skystorians #histchild
seems indicative of well, something, that none of the links to the candidates that Lambeth Labour are standing in the May election actually work on their website www.lambeth-labour.org.uk#our-track-re...
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