Kate Bradley

Three women standing and one seated in front of them. All wear the 1919-style female officer's hat with a broad brim, knee-length boots and ankle-length skirts in Met blue. Two of those standing wear a tunic with a closed high collar bearing collar numbers or symbols, whilst one of them and Stanley wear a tunic with an open collar, tie and white shirt or blouse.

Several ex-suffragettes and ex-suffragists like Sofia Stanley (centre, seated) joined volunteer police patrols during the First World War and then brought that experience into the Met's women patrols when those were founded in 1919. #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #FWW #WWI #IWD

Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:

Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.

The article covers newly released discovery in the case.

Here’s what discovery confirmed:

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And it really was good fun!

Also: this. (I consume a huge amount of podcasts - it is v easy to put references in the show notes!)

Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.

Cannot recommend it enough.

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”

My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

*last day of teaching, not my only day of teaching! The tech issues have moved over to Bluesky, evidently

A whiteboard drawing in black ink of a cat, which has been given a top hat and a monocle with blue ink along with some love hearts and stars. Legend says: Cat of the day!

Yesterday was my day of teaching until October - first, the smart board and PC wouldn’t switch on; when they were on, the lecture recordings wouldn’t upload to the server and I had to restart the PC three times for that… but I *did* get to see this little bit of whiteboard art left in the room

Working with criminal justice records
Wed, 25 March | 13:00 GMT | Online

🎤 Charlotte Smith, The National Archives
🎤 Dr Jessamy Carlson, The National Archives
🎤 Miles Wright, The Law Commission of England and Wales

Reserve your spot here:
shorturl.at/KlsVm

Forgive this historian and editor a small ambition, but I would love to be able to expand the kind of high quality local history research @vch-home.bsky.social does a bit further west.

So, if you have a suitable place-based history in mind, drop me a line. 🗃️

When is an international station not an international station? The great Stratford mystery.

The great Stratford mystery: When is an international station not an international station?

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus i ti!

Congratulations, Dr Michell!!!

University of Galway plans to end and replace arts course amid fall-off in interest ‘Urgent’ reform aims to meet changing needs of students as they seek ‘direct routes to employment’

Worrying headline today in Irish Times. Experiencing maelstrom of cuts to humanities & social sciences in UKHE at first hand means that this is a clear warning sign that the crisis could spread to Ireland. Ignore at peril to these subject areas & the right to study them. @royalhistsoc.org @ria.ie

It is self-evident looking around cities, towns and the smallest villages that there are places of worship no longer used by those that built them. 🗃️

Some, of course, are houses. Others remain in devotional use. Some examples from our volumes, supplemented by other information - a short thread 🧵

Connecting the Disconnected: Telephones, Activism, and “Faring Well” in Britain, 1950–2000 This chapter critically examines the ways in which 24-hour telephones were used by radical activist groups from the 1960s and 1970s to connect people in a timely fashion with the experiential expertis...

And if you want to know more about the history of helplines in the UK, here’s a link to my (open access) chapter on their origins in the 1960s: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... 2/2

Struggling and need to talk? Find the support you need #HelplinesAwarenessDay2025 YouTube video by Helplines Partnership

Today is #HelplinesAwarenessDay in the UK. Whether over the phone, via chat or online, helplines support millions of people each year: youtu.be/M6-9_tulps8?... You can also find a helpline here: www.helplines.org/helplines/ 1/2

Congratulations!!! Looking forward to reading this!

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

Single coolest rock ever found?

History and Well-Being: a Historian's Perspective A public lecture as part of the Royal Historical Society's visit to historians at Sheffield Hallam University and University of Sheffield

On Weds we'll be with historians at Sheffield Hallam University & University of Sheffield for the next RHS visit with academics and history practitioners in the city.

Our visit ends with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) to which all are welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-an... 1/2

About to embark on the long journey to #RenSA26 and San Francisco.

I'll be there as @rsaorg.bsky.social Religion Discipline Rep and as co-editor of the Transactions of @royalhistsoc.org.

If you have ideas for an article or just want to talk about submissions, please send me a DM!

#earlymodern

I’m glad you are feeling better already a third of the way through - it’s a long old haul, but so worth it.

Yeah, it’s grim! On the other side of my loading dose I lost aches and pains, and my hair thickened up, too. How long have you got left to go on the loading dose?

I’m so sorry for your loss.

‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives’: programme and booking for ‘History and Archives in Practice, 2026’ now available - RHS On Thursday 16 April 2026, the Royal Historical Society joins with The National Archives, Institute ofHistorical Research and University of Sheffield Library to co-host the this year’s History and Arc...

On 16 April, we co-host 'History and Archives in Practice, 2026' with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library.

For #HAP26 our theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: the Impact of Archives and Historical Research’ bit.ly/4tvKUnX. Booking now #Skystorians

Flyer for lecture with Professor David Stack on the subject of 'History and Well-Being. A Historian's Perspective', Sheffield Hallam University, 5.45pm on Wednesday 18 February 2026. All are welcome to attend.

Next Wednesday, the Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield.

Our visit closes (5.45pm) with a guest lecture by Prof David Stack (Reading) on 'History and Well-Being: a Historian's Perspective' bit.ly/4aa4Yoe

Open to all and followed by a reception.

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting database - Legal Cheek Blow for open justice

I'd missed that the government last week ordered the deletion of the site Courtsdesk. It's hard to describe how impossible it is for journalists to find court listings in UK. There's countless hearings I'd send a reporter to... if I knew they were happening. www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/mini...