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...
I'm looking for scholars/ students working on infancy / motherhood in c.19th Prussia/ Germany. Any suggestions, lmk! Thank you!
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.
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_
the rare comment that is actually a question
this incredible 1907 film, La Grève des Nourrices. wetnurses strike, toddlers counterprotest, "down with nurses, bottles for everyone". a street fight ensues www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiF...
Such a great paper—rich comparative analysis of “baby farms” in Britain, France, and the USA (late 19th–early 20th c.), showing how labor and care were reconfigured differently despite similar feminist arguments. Can’t wait for the book @emilybaughan.bsky.social! (also check out this wild image)
ahhh thank you ❤️
Very much looking forward to hearing @emilybaughan.bsky.social talk about her current work on the politics of childcare this Thursday. Come if you're in town!
this saturday! I haven't heard it yet, but there's not only interviews with Carolyn Steedman and Miriam Stoppard, but also live audio of me attempting to get my kids out the door for school in the mornings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...
While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:
I wrote about care, capitalism and going on strike
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
anarchist anti-creche, la bonne lousie, founded in Paris in 1909 (a city which had the highest concentrated of state subsidised childcare in the world at the time) bc existing creches were too catholic & social control-y. explicitly invited illegitimate children, usually excluded from trad creches
—@emilybaughan.bsky.social on the broken care economy, reviewing books by Emily Callaci, Gabriel Winant, and Premilla Nadasen
—@eric-reinhart.com on the elite rhetoric of “political violence“
—Honora Spicer on the history of Fort Bliss, the site of a massive new immigration detention center
“As humanities departments shrink and streamline, Patricia Owens reminds us that erasure impoverishes us all” Wonderful to see @whitproject.bsky.social reviewed by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social.
Read more here- (£) www.the-tls.co.uk/history/twen...
I loved it! ❤️
asked my kid's bougie forest school if they could kindly stop sending him home with a half dozen sticks each day. yesterday he brought home: two fishing rods, three magic wands, and a 'bit of tree'
So many liberals who pretend to be shocked about Starmer’s wilful destruction of our universities were of course tireless opponents of his predecessor as Labour leader, who actually prioritised defending higher ed
(79% of supply teachers are women)
and people become supply teachers (who are v poorly paid in spite of profit they generate) for flexibility, because of unplanned absences for caring, chronic ill health, etc
so schools and early years settings need more supply teachers bc absence rates rise as the job gets worse, then schools and settings lose £££ by using private providers, further driving down conditions
still admin-ing the closure of playschool. we owe money to a company that provided supply teachers which is owned by a PLC headquartered in the cayman islands. feel like so much care infrastructure now is for-profit and based off shore -- has anyone written about this in the UK context??
wow!!!! can't wait to read!!!
if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
me too! thank you!!
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This incredible long review of my book by @emilybaughan.bsky.social in the @bostonreview.bsky.social expresses my argument more beautifully than I ever could and pushes it even further. www.bostonreview.net/articles/los...
