Elise Garritzen

A Historian, A Murderess, and the Two Edith Thompsons: Fascination with Notorious Celebrities Edith Thompson was furious in 1924. She was well in her seventies, a respected historian, and a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. But now she was angry, very angry. The reason …

Notoriety, it seems, has become the new normal, but notorious celebrities are not a 21st-century invention. Victorians were galvanized by scandalous celebrities: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/a...

University Lecturer in Social Science History University Lecturer in Social Science History

Permanent position of a University Lecturer in Social Science History, in the University of Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Published a book on transnational women's or gender history 2020-25?

🚨Submissions to the Ida Blom-Karen Offen Book Prize in Transnational Women's & Gender History now open🚨You can see the full details on our website: www.ifrwh.com

Closing date is 28 February 2026!

#WomensHist #GenderHist

The ghost of Jane Harrison The woman who haunts Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.

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I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Thanks for the link! Macaulay certainly made art out of "hilariously brutal" criticism about anything that was published. I am reading a volume of his journals which I missed earlier and it is another treat of the mighty TBM delivering his punches with confidence!

Indulging Passion for Private Lives of Notable Men and Women:  Victorian Readers, Writers, and the Allure of Biographies The Bookman, a trade organ of booksellers and publishers, announced in December 1892 how reminiscences were “Among the most successful books of the month” and “Memories of living men” were more suc…

Be like the Victorians and read a biography or two during the holidays 📚🎄
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Fascinating 👑 #bookhistory

Vielä joulun alle tämän vuoden viimeinen puheenvuoro Kansallisarkiston digitaalisen toimittamisen mallista. Äänessä jälleen Liisa V-B, joka kertoo kuulumisia joulukuun alussa pidetystä KA:n ja tutkijoiden keskustelutilaisuudesta: blogit.utu.fi/suomenhistor...

Paljon onnea 🥳

Hienot juhlat 🤩 Kiitos järjestämisestä!

KYSELY ARKISTOJEN DIGITALISOITUMISEN VAIKUTUKSISTA
Miten digitoidut aineistot ovat muuttaneet tutkimustyötä, millaisia mahdollisuuksia ja rajoituksia se tuo tutkimukseen, millaiseksi tutkijat näkevät historiantutkimuksen tulevaisuuden digiaikana? Linkki kyselyyn: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Dear Historian: Agnes Strickland, Fan Mail, and Historical Knowledge as a Franchise There was a group of ladies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who were enthusiastic about Charles Dickens. In fact, their enthusiasm was so intense that they decided to write to their idol to request a s…

Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Wonderful chain and tribute to beutiful scholarly writing!

Huippuväitös alkamassa 🤓 #humanistinentdkHY

#minätutkin miksi ja miten humanisttutkijoista tuli julkkiksia 1800-luvun Britanniasss 🌟✨️🎓

Just added this to my reading list!

What a fun essay about photographs in middle-class parlours. I'm especially glad to know about Charlotte O'Conor Eccles and this piece in The Windsor Magazine about "the average hostess" babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... #victorian #19th-c

Photographs, Victorian Homes, and the Comings and Goings of Trendy Interiors Vases, porcelain figurines, mirrors, busts, statues, paintings, engravings, photographs, books, ornamental wallpaper, curtains, cushions, carpets, side tables, chests, lamps, chairs… It was “in” to…

An ode to all the clutter in Victorian middle-class homes and especially to photographs in and about these homes cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/p...

Apply | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | University of Helsinki Here you will find information on our application procedures

We've just opened our call for applications for fixed-term appointments starting in August 2026. We're seeking 10-15 Core Fellows and 1-2 Postdoctoral Researchers in the Arts. For more details, please visit our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...

Workshop: Contentious Topics in the History of Science - Tiedeakatemia Time and place: 16–17 December 2025, Helsinki, Finland By focusing on the uncomfortable legacies and darker aspects of the past, this workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in the problem...

📣 Call for papers 📣
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August

#skystorians

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A Note for Summer Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, had something important to say in his old age in 1892: I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ […] the best of air, no care…

"I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ [...] the best of air, no care, a walk and a drive daily, and times in which to read and lie fallow." Benjamin Jowett, 1892.
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
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"The Hagley Digital Archives is currently offline due to a sustained bot attack" begins a message from the archive, explaining that AI is using bots to train machine learning learning models.

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.

They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."

The web is being murdered. So aggravating.

digital.hagley.org

Suuret onnittelut 🥳 Todella tärkeä ja (valitettavan) ajankohtainen hanke!

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

Great job opportunity for an emerging historian in global history of knowledge at the Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."

Scandalous Celebrities, Lousy Mothers: Victorian Women Writers and Perilous Celebrity Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, wrote to Charlotte Brontë to warn her about the dangers of literary pursuits for women’s moral character. Southey advised (ordered?) Brontë to drop all literary aspir…

What can Charlotte Brontë and Britney Spears possibly have in common? As celebrities, a lot! More about women celebrities pushing the boundaries of appropriate domesticity here: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/s...

La révolution française de 1789 ⚔️Chanson Histoire 4ème 🎶 YouTube video by Equylia - Tes cours en chanson !

Kuka suomalaisartisti voisi olisi sopiva tekemään jotakin vastaavaa? Entä mitä biisi käsittelisi? Pähkinäsaaren rauhaa, Nuijasotaa, Turun akatemiaa, Porvoon valtiopäiviä, kieliasetusta, naiskagaalia, kieltolakia, peruskouluasetusta vai jotakin muuta 🤔 youtu.be/yoAeKvtY_dE?...

College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy | Timeless -This is a guest post by Candice Buchanan and Wanda Whitney in the History and Genealogy Section. Buchanan wrote the first entry; Whitney, the second. Lucy Lazear, the valedictorian of her 1853 gradua...

"...the records female students left behind at these early institutions created a genealogical window into women’s lives that had not previously existed. " 📜
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
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