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Historian of nuclear technologies. FRHistS & Senior Lecturer American History @ULHistory Author of Every Home A Fortress https://www.umasspress.com/9781625344830/every-home-a-fortress/

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Cover image for Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement

Cover image for Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement

Two days until it’s released and I realise I haven’t skeeted about my book! So here’s my obligatory post…

Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement, out with @umasspress.bsky.social on Friday!

www.umasspress.com/978162534887...

29.10.2025 07:48 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 2
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a cartoon character is holding a sparkler in his hand ALT: a cartoon character is holding a sparkler in his hand

As obligatory posts go it's one I am glad to see. Congratulations!

31.10.2025 12:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*Cough* relevance *cough*

30.10.2025 14:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A man in a black suit holds a woman in a black top and skirt, with heels. They stand in the middle of a street and are encircled by three hoops, reminiscent of nuclear diagrams of an atom's path. The sky behind them, at sunset, bursts forth in a similar "nuclear" fashion.

A man in a black suit holds a woman in a black top and skirt, with heels. They stand in the middle of a street and are encircled by three hoops, reminiscent of nuclear diagrams of an atom's path. The sky behind them, at sunset, bursts forth in a similar "nuclear" fashion.

Gee Wilikers! This week we're taking it back to BLAST FROM THE PAST, a 1999 sci-fi rom-com starring Brendan Fraser as a man raised in a nuclear bunker. Historian of gender and the Cold War Tom Bishop joins to discuss this delightfully zany flick of a man out of time — out now! tinyurl.com/yckfz47z

12.05.2025 10:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Not Just a Housewife Illuminating a powerful yet underappreciated force in the American peace and women’s movements On November 1, 1961, thousands of middle-class white women t...

Out October with @umasspress.bsky.social
‘Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women’s Peace Movement’
www.umasspress.com/978162534887...

Preorder with 20% off using the code UMASS20

29.04.2025 05:34 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A poster describing a community history talk named "Radioactive Lincolnshire!", which will describes how protests in Fulbeck in the 1980s can teach people about events in Theddlethorpe occurring today.

A poster describing a community history talk named "Radioactive Lincolnshire!", which will describes how protests in Fulbeck in the 1980s can teach people about events in Theddlethorpe occurring today.

‘Radioactive Lincolnshire!’ is underway…

We had a fantastic night in Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire on Tuesday as Tom Bishop, Adam Page, and I gave the first in a series of co-created talks as part of our ongoing community heritage initiative – ‘Radioactive Lincolnshire!’

20.02.2025 13:00 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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