Check out the amazing Birkbeck Arts Week programme! 7-10 May in the heart of Bloomsbury bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbeck-…

🚨I recently started as the post-1800 reviews editor for Gender & History. If you have written a book that addresses gender history after 1800 or want to review a specific book/s in this field, please get in touch!🚨

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Only two weeks left to apply to our symposium - we seek interdisciplinary papers on fin de siècle sexuality, sexology, eroticism and its long afterlife.

Sponsored by The University of Edinburgh and VPFA! And you can look forward to a keynote by Heike Bauer

DEADLINE: 15 April!

Please listen to this podcast where my colleagues discuss the devastating impact of proposed cuts and the history of English as a discipline at Surrey open.spotify.com/episode/6ZSnrl…

According to this student-led petition there are projected to be 100-150 staff losses across all Schools at the University of Surrey. Solidarity with colleagues.

More worrying HE news as University of Surrey opens a Voluntary Severance scheme. Pls see & share the Trade Union open letter below 👇👇👇

Today! Join us!

🚨CFP: Fin de Sexe? (25 Jun) invites papers on how, where, & why sexual knowledge was produced, contested, eroticized & troubled at the fin de siècle, across all disciplines.

Keynote by Heike Bauer! Travel grants available.

Deadline: 15 Apr!

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It is that time of year to post Margery Brews’ valentine letter to John Paston III so here we go, BL Add MS 43490 f.24r, the first surviving example of its kind. The couple married, and had several children, at least two of whom died in infancy.

Different From the Others -Join us on 20 Feb 5.30pm UK time for an online roundtable to mark LGBTQ+History Month on 'the first homosexual movie'. With Molly Harrabin (Warwick), Ervin Malakaj (UBC) & Sara Friedman (Berkeley). Free! Register👇history.ac.uk/events/anders-… History of Sexuality

Tomorrow! Very much looking forward to this 👇Listen in; it’s free and open to all #dogs #cats #queerhistory

Looking forward to speaking at Institute of Gender Studies, University of Chester about cats, dogs and queer modernity. The talk is online - come along if you’re free

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Trans History Now! Free online roundtable featuring brilliant scholars. Come and join us! 👇👇👇

Darwin the black #labrador , a much loved member of the #canicross family, has been missing since Sept. He’s got a distinctive black spot on his tongue. Pls check out his QR code for more details & RT to make him #TooHotTooHandle

Look at this amazing spider, spotted in the garden today!

Delighted to have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! Royal Historical Society

Picture shows Renée Sintenis' 'Young Tiger' as I'm currently thinking about cats in Weimar Berlin.

Stumbled across this gem in the digital archives of the Bundesarchiv: Clara Zetkin with a cat and dog in Sullenbuch near Stuttgart c.1905, around the time when Zetkin was likely working on her influential Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage (1906).

Still thinking about the wonderful Lotte Laserstein exhibition Moderna Museet. Here’s a detail from the 1950 ‘Self-Portrait in front of “Evening over Potsdam”’. You can glimpse Evening’s German Shepherd, painted largely from a fur coat as the real life model refused to sit still.