Looks terrific Lise

Volume 34, Issue 1 A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work

Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social

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Really very proud of this issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social and a pleasure to work with Steven and Harry. I think the issue offers a fair-minded view of one of the most important pieces of Labour’s agenda and tackles the changing work landscape in a big picture way. Read, share, subscribe!

Same anthea butler folks. But when I am on my fellowship, I cite the place I'm currently at.

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️

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I'm on around 8:37 on @ms.now talking Pope Leo

Gareth & Marta's fundraiser for Sands Help Marta Zboralska raise money to support Sands

Hello Bluesky. I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a difficult few months. My husband and I are fundraising for Sands, the baby loss charity. Any donations will be very gratefully received:
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Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present This free one day conference aims to bring together researchers from higher education, libraries, archives, museums and community and campaign groups to explore the history of health and welfare in Britain’s coal mining industry. Conference programme: Panel 1: Disasters, safety and commemoration Oaks Colliery Disaster, 1866 Paul Darlow, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Paul Hardman, former NUM National Executive Officer The Safety Men: the Colliery Deputies union in the British Coal Industry Professor Peter Ackers, Loughborough University (Emeritus) Welcomed to Wrexham Sarah Castagnetti, The National Archives The 1959 Auchengeich Disaster: class, community and commemoration in Scotland’s coalfields Professor Jim Phillips, University of Glasgow Chair: Dr Jörg Arnold, Universität Augsburg Panel 2: Health The Violent Realities and Multiple Temporalities of a Miner’s Life Liv Robinson, Northumbria University ‘A wonderful difference to the home life’: pithead baths, pitwomen, and disability in twentieth-century British coalmining communities Lucy Jameson, Durham University Pneumoconiosis, Environment, and the Politics of Coal Miners' Health in Twentieth Century Britain Dr Andrew Seaton, University of Manchester A Special Case? Miners’ Health, Wage Relativities and the Fall of Heath’s Government Robert Rayner, University of Birmingham Chair: Professor Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick

Panel 3: Welfare “Feeding on the job?” Pit canteens in 1940s Britain Dr Ariane Mak, Université Paris Cité & IUF The Warmth of Home: Concessionary Fuel and Domestic Energy in British Coalfield Communities, 1945-1995 Dr Kathy Davies, Northumbria University Class, Culture and Democracy: the Miners Libraries of South Wales John Pateman, University of Leicester Deindustrialisation and the recreational provision of the nationalised British coalmining industry (1950s-1984) Dr Marion Henry, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Chair: Dr Quentin Outram, Society for the Study of Labour History Panel 4: Legacies Now The Dust Has Settled James O. Davies, Historic England 'The Big K: The Pit that shaped a community' Its legacy, a decade after closure. Judi Alston, One to One Development Trust Union Poorhouse to Union Leader - Herbert Smith, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain 1922-1929. Kathryn Stainburn, Castleford Civic Society The Afterlife of Coal in Barnsley: Youth, Community, and Intergenerational Legacies Dr Kat Simpson, The University of Huddersfield Chair: Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Showcase of exhibitions, displays and posters: On Behalf of the People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994 Professor Keith Gildart, University of Wolverhampton Coal: a record of an industry Gary Winter, Historic England Poster of Mrs Sheila Truman Daniella Law, Historic England Glamorgan’s Blood: Dark Arteries, Old Veins – Exploring the Coal Collections at Glamorgan Archives Rhian Diggins, Glamorgan Archives When Coal was Clean: Soap and Smoke in Nineteenth Century Britain Oliver Marshall Mining Disasters in the Village of Worsbrough Maureen Gennard, Peter Fairham and David Bullock, Worsbrough Library Heritage Group

🚨 Conference booking open 🚨

Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain from the 19th century to the present

18 June 2026, University of Warwick

Booking form and additional information about the programme available at
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massive congrats. looking forward to reading it

Chris Moores has reviewed my book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY at the American Historical Review. Read it here:

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Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Sensemaking and Violence in Britain’s Mesopotamia Campaign during the First World War

Really looking forward to hearing Alex Mayhew speak on this this Thursday at the IHR (5:30pm, in person and online). Sign up here!

Thank you @aselmeyer.bsky.social ! Really looking forward to being an urban historian again :-)

Conference time! From protest routes to print networks, from imperial capitals to port cities, urban spaces were not just backdrops but engines of anticolonial struggle. Join us for the "Cities and Decolonization" conference in Oxford this week. More: citiesanddecolonization.com

cant wait to read it andrew

The MA in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham is a rare thing: a chance to explore cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in queer, trans, feminist, and gender studies, with a practical placement built-in. #queerhistory #womenshistory
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I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested?

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full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf

Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf

Full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf

The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely!

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Cyprus, Iran and the long 20th century A war is being fought around an island-colony we half-remember

Can’t think of a better writer than David Wingrave to remind us to pay more attention to Cyprus, and the still too relevant legacies of empire in the Mediterranean, in this week’s @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Weekend Essay www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

FYI — if you’ve messaged me on Bluesky, I can’t receive messages or even see who they’re from. If you need to reach me, please email me instead!

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thank you, Kieran!!

Shortlist for the First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History 2024-2025 - Economic History Society The Economic History Society awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for the best first monograph in Economic and/or Social History.  — One of the lovely things that the Society does is to cele...

Incredibly honored to have THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY shortlisted for the Economic History Society book prize! @echistsoc.bsky.social

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The EHS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the biennial First Monograph Prize for the best first monograph in Economic and/or Social History published during 2024 and 2025.
The shortlisted nominees are:
Damian Clavel, Bart Danon, Koji Hirata, Charmian Mansell, Tehila Sasson and Robert Yee.

Looking forward to launching our book at Amant Foundation in NYC with @joshuacitarella.bsky.social on April 24 www.amant.org/programs/214...

Our exhibition is today! We look forward to seeing you at noon!

No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum Join Mile End Institute to celebrate the publication of Morgan Jones’s new book about the campaign for a second EU referendum and its impact

Why did the People's Vote campaign fail? Could Brexit have been stopped? What lessons can be learned?

Join us on 19 March to launch @morganj0nes.bsky.social's new book: "No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second Referendum".

All welcome!
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