Dr. Sophie Turbutt

!!! I am a big big fan of @historyworkshop.org.uk so it's a real honour to have them publish this piece on radical history, print culture and walking. With many thanks to brilliant editor @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social and @btwhite.bsky.social for the encouragement 📚

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

🚨Applications due today! 👇

'[...] intellectual history is made not only in libraries, political meetings and lecture halls, but in drawing rooms and private correspondence'. Ophélie Siméon dives into the letters exchanged between nineteenth-century radical thinkers, Anna Wheeler and Charles Fourier.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Amidst all the gloom (in HE & far beyond), I am delighted to have been awarded an AHRC Curiosity Grant for the 2-year project 'One Century of Anarchist Sexual Politics in Global Perspective', with a fantastic team: Richard Cleminson, Robert Kramm, Kathy Ferguson and @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social.

How can we end ageism? By understanding how the Victorians invented it. Helen Kingstone examines the work of nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.

What a joy it's been to edit this piece written by Clara Vlessing!

'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections' Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻

I've got a new article out @parlhistjournal.bsky.social 💥 It's about late 19thC socialist caravan tours & the production of everyday forms of cross-cultural connection & provincial internationalisms that were vital for the development of socialist ideas in this period

'If you have a protest no one wants to hear / Just attend a rally where the big shots meet / Strip to your hide and walk down the street’. Victoria Peretitskaya explores the history of a 1960s folk song and the protest that inspired it.

Currently en route home from what has been an exciting and thought-provoking workshop on working-class history in Spain! Organised by Mari Nieves García Pintor at UPV/EHU in Bilbao.☀️

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

This year, History Workshop Journal will celebrate two milestones: its 50th anniversary and its 100th issue. To mark the occasion, eleven historians share how they've used the journal in their own teaching.

Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.

For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration 31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

This was a long time in the making and I'm delighted it's now out. Huge thanks to @galbeckerman.bsky.social for his perseverance and diligence. Please check it out. Print edition will be out soon. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

How might we reassess friendship as a transformative, even revolutionary, political resource? Laura Forster (@lauracforster.bsky.social) and Joel White (@joeljoel.bsky.social) join Marybeth Hamilton (@marybethhamilton13.bsky.social) to discuss the radical potential of friendship 🎙️🗃️

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

👇! (I'm so grateful to @lahri.bsky.social for this opportunity!)

My #SHSConf2025 highlights: 1. Presenting my research alongside the absolute Dream Team that is @constancebantman.bsky.social, @lauracforster.bsky.social, Nat Andrews, Richard Cleminson, & @clivehenry.bsky.social 2. Smashing the throw-beanbags-at-tin-cans game at the funfair 3. Pub quiz victory😎

📢¡NUEVA PUBLICACIÓN! "Mujeres frente a la miseria. Historia y memoria de la supervivencia femenina (1936-1952)", editado por Alba Martínez y Gloria Román, y publicado en @marcialpons.bsky.social

New profile pic 😉

You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌

Words cannot express how overwhelming it feels to announce that I passed my PhD viva today! I am beyond grateful to my wonderful examiners: Pamela Radcliff & @lauracking.bsky.social.

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

Submitted my PhD thesis today!🥳 (eek!)

A different way to see Barcelona! "The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War" Tues and Fri+occasssional others, 10am, 35euros/person, 4hrs+. Also private tours on the SCW and Orwell's Barcelona Moltes gràcies info@spanishcivilwartours.com to book. thespanishcivilwar.com

Excited to share the call for papers for our multidisciplinary workshop ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’ (also on our website: tinyurl.com/34vbucud). Please share widely! ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2025 #histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM

Ahh the perfect soundtrack to the final year of my PhD in Spanish history

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

Would anyone be interested (or know someone who'd be interested) in collaborating on a SHS 2025 panel proposal on emotions & gender in the history of social/political movements? Reach out via comments/DMs! Pls share!😊

Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...

'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries. #dishist #disability www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...

@profrichfg.bsky.social this'll get you going. There's an emotion research one too in my profile. go.bsky.app/EqzZWma

Would anyone be interested (or know someone who'd be interested) in collaborating on a SHS 2025 panel proposal on emotions & gender in the history of social/political movements? Reach out via comments/DMs! Pls share!😊

⏰ Please share far and wide, #foodhistory and #foodstudies friends: The CFP for the Amsterdam Food Symposium 2025 is out ⏰ This is a very special year, as it coincides with the 750th anniv. of Amsterdam and an exhibition on the history of food in Amsterdam. allardpierson.nl/en/news/call...

¡Si no quieres perderte a nadie de "Twitter Historia" durante el éxodo este es tu Starter Pack! Aquí puedes seguir a toda la divulgación histórica en español. ¿Faltas tú o alguien que conoces? No hay problema, coméntalo y el pack será actualizado. ¡Bienvenidos a #BlueskyHistoria! go.bsky.app/L8HA64

Je viens de créer cette modeste liste pour essayer de regrouper les hispanistes de tous les horizons qui viennent de rejoindre Bluesky, n'hésitez pas à me demander de vous ajouter!

I made a Starter Pack for Women's and Gender History because when I looked yesterday I couldn't seen one - sorry if it's now been superseded. You know the drill by now: please just let me know if you'd like to be added, and equally if you'd prefer not to be listed, just shout. go.bsky.app/KR9qXhj

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Post you from a different era: Me, aged 16, on a museum work experience day at the @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social in Worcester. (Me, aged 26, is now finishing a PhD in History!)