Sarah Crook
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
- Reposted by Sarah CrookOne Labour issue that doesn't get much discussion: they didn't do policy planning when in opposition. At the time, many assumed that they'd have a plan ready to put into action following the GE. Yes, there is quite a lot of 'policy' -- but there is no plan and this is because there was no planning.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThis is an incredible story when you read it and discover what actually happened was: - Lammy paid in advance - The driver tried to extort him for a massive tip - Drove off with his luggage - At somepoint clocked he was a VIP - Is now selling the story to The Sun.
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- Such a lovely trip to beautiful Belfast, and a real privilege to examine Tom Ward’s powerful thesis
- Reposted by Sarah CrookAs Israel’s government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages in Gaza after it blocked aid deliveries, some Israeli military officials have privately warned that the territory faces widespread starvation if aid is not restored quickly. trib.al/2VovLbU
- Reposted by Sarah CrookAll our disability research zines are hosted in a new place : zinebakery.com/redistro
- Reposted by Sarah CrookMy Inaugural Lecture, "Pure Imagination: Stories, Institutions and Law Reform", will be held on 17th November at King's. Do join if you can! (In-person only, but it will be recorded) www.kcl.ac.uk/events/inaug...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookMy mum in her “going away to the UK” outfit about to do incalculable damage 👍🏽
- This is unbearable and horrific and nightmarish, and so profoundly preventable. Stop this now. Allow a flood of aid. No more bombings. Peace and milk and nappies and medicine. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThis is an absolutely disastrous framing to adopt. “Immigration beings great gains but it needs to be controlled to maximise benefits” was/is right there on the table. Instead they have opted to lead with the strongest possible “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” headline.
- Me: I am a professional woman who can definitely leave my children for a night, no problem My children: your heartstrings, I must pull them
- Reposted by Sarah CrookIntriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookI feel like the Labour leadership is once again overestimating the vote-winning potential of a PR blitz. When some combination of universities and either the social care system or the councils that fund it start collapsing on your watch, no one's gonna care that you got a few good headlines first.
- Been manning the art station since 7am
- Reposted by Sarah CrookIf you don’t see a purposeful government campaign to destroy universities in this interview, I really can’t help you. It’s not that we’re being neglected by Labour: they are actively seeking to destroy academia. It’ll be up there with Brexit as the biggest self-harm in modern British history.
- The fantastic article that follows the 2024 Ben Pimlott lecture, 'Anniversary fever? History and the culture of NHS celebration', by Mathew Thomson and Roberta Bivins, is online at @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it now: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
- Hester Barron's terrific article ‘"I am very sensitive on the subject of accent": Children, young people and attitudes to speech in inter-war Britain' is out now in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. You can read it here doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...
- Delighted to see @petermandler.bsky.social's magnificent piece, 'The country house and the neoliberal society' is out in @mbhjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
- Reposted by Sarah CrookBy targeting academics, embracing nostalgia economics, purging society of opposition ideology, rationing toys, and demolishing our global reputation at the moment we need scale, Trump has responded to the threat of China by mimicking the ghost of its Maoist past. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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- Reposted by Sarah Crookthe fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
- Reposted by Sarah CrookStudying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH
- Reposted by Sarah Crook*PSA Event* Troubled Times: #Gender & #Politics in the 21st Century. 17 - 18 June, from the PSA #Women & #Politics group @psawomenpol.bsky.social. At Gender & Inequalities (GAIN) Centre @unisouthampton.bsky.social.
- Woah, when did the Central line get so decrepit? It’s never been _nice_ but this is… awful?
- What a thoughtful and provocative series of reflections about the point of doing British history today #qmcbs
- Reposted by Sarah CrookWant more? 👀 There are two other #SocialHistoriesofMedicine books coming out this summer! UNHAPPY MOTHERS by @sarahcrook.bsky.social FEELING BLUE by @victoriabates.bsky.social Stay tuned for their release on manchesterhive.com 🐝 @sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed
- I can't be the only academic who, upon encountering a minor technical glitch in my institution's digital systems thinks: I've been fired.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookApplications invited for the Society's new Public History Grant programme, 2025-26: bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants support collaborative work between historians in higher education and those working in related fields of public and community history. Closing date: 23 May #Skystorians
- It’s really lovely, too, to see colleagues making use of Bluesky during #qmcbs - it’s like going back to the era of generative, collegial Twitter. Thanks, guys!
- It was so lovely to contribute to this plenary panel - thank you so much to everyone who helped to make #QMCBS run so smoothly today
- Very excited the @qmcbs.bsky.social fest is about to kick off! All the #SkyStorians in Mile End!
- Reposted by Sarah CrookAt @qmcbs.bsky.social conference talking about the rash of British history edited collections being developed at the moment. @sarahcrook.bsky.social making the important point that what might look like 'vitality' in a field can perhaps better be understood as 'resilience'.
- I appreciate that Londoners’ responses to 30 degree heat range from ‘bikini on the tube’ to “I’ll undo one button on my full length wool coat”
- Texts from my partner as I observe the pupils wandering towards the secondary school we want our kids to go to. No pressure, teenagers of north London
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe Golden Toilet Guy now lecturing the plebes about whether their kids need toys.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe Glasmanisation of the Labour Party is a massive risk to them. The Conservatives discovered that if you insult your professional base long enough in a desperate attempt to win populist right votes, they will flock to the Lib Dems and you lose 60 seats. Labour may find similar soon enough.
- Against many odds, me (and 2 out of the 3 children) are on our way to London for the QM conference
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe AHA is compiling AHA statements, action alerts, and letters; op-eds and media appearances by AHA staff and members; and other resources developed by historians in response to the current moment. 🗃️
- Reposted by Sarah CrookYall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!
- Reposted by Sarah CrookDid you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them
- Reposted by Sarah CrookIf you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.
- Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them. But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer... - Reposted by Sarah CrookI’m dying 😂
- Reposted by Sarah CrookMusk’s latest “genius idea” is to funnel hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to himself, while making our national security reliant on a subscription service he owns. Hell no. Fire Elon Musk.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookSir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...
- Reposted by Sarah Crook“Mothers sleep about the same amount as fathers do, researchers told me, but they report higher levels of fatigue.” @olgakhazan.bsky.social —also a tired mom—examines the mystery of mom exhaustion:
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- Reposted by Sarah Crook📢 New opportunity at Public Policy | Southampton We’re recruiting a Parliamentary and Communication Officer 👉 Passion for public policy 👉 Strong communication skills 👉 Hybrid role with on-campus and external engagement 🔗 Apply now: buff.ly/IxsqBtV
- awaiting my daughter’s searing monograph about the 2024 election and its aftermath
- 17 month old was adamant that this was the only acceptable coat. This is our aesthetic now.
- Reposted by Sarah Crookdidn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"
- Reposted by Sarah CrookResearch Associate - Prisons, Drugs and Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Global Study- University of Leicester - History, Politics and International Relations #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR514/r...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe Department for Education is looking for a new Chief Scientific Adviser - £120k, 3 year term. Important role, and one that might suit a social scientist www.saxbam.com/appointment/...
- Reposted by Sarah Crook‘It was the greatest mass revolt in Europe before the French Revolution; some 100,000 people died.’ @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on a re-evaluation of the German Pesants’ War of 1524-25: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...
- Petition for @netflix.com to belatedly commission more series of the excellent Emily’s Wonder Lab (please please)
- Our four year old has started to call us his “helpers” and gives us star stickers when we’ve been particularly helpful and this does feel like a recognition of the structures of parenting
- Reposted by Sarah Crook“Goebbels lied and lied, but he seems to have know that he was lying, while Trump doesn’t appear to understand the difference between truth and fiction.” Historian of the Third Reich Richard J Evans: www.prospectmagazine...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookCall out to all heritage professionals, students, and academics that the closing date for securing tickets to the Scotland and Medicine Conference: From Artefacts to Insights: Unpacking the meaning of medical museum objects, is 18th April.
- Ah, so Scunthorpe triggers Labour to hop into action and consider nationalising steel. Port Talbot, in Wales, triggers… not much. And closes.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThis is a really cool paper on the socialisation effects of studying at University. Surprisingly, the effects (moving in a leftward, liberal direction) are biggest for STEM students and those who move away from home to study, attend a single campus uni, and who live in ‘university towns’ and London.
- New paper out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social w/ @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jwfurlong.bsky.social What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Sarah Crookgee i wonder why voters might've been confused about the existential stakes of the last election
- Reposted by Sarah CrookSelf-portrait with two pupils, oil on canvas (with preparatory chalk study), exhibited at the Salon of 1785 by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, first female artist to set up studio for her students at the Louvre; member of Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, born #OTD 1749. Met Museum, New York
- Reposted by Sarah CrookNew report from @britishacademy.bsky.social on language skills & capabilities in the UK research base Multilingual capabilities are integral to research excellence, impact and integrity www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThis is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookThe Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
- Reposted by Sarah CrookTo be fair, one man technically does not have this kind of power; he has it only because he has the support of an entire political party and its movement
- Reposted by Sarah Crook📣Call for participants for oral history project! “Ito ang aming mga kwento”: building an oral history archive of Filipino migration to Britain, 1974-present 📜 👉Led by Francesca Humi (@francescahumi.bsky.social) 🌟Looking for interviewees & volunteers Read more: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
- Reposted by Sarah CrookDahl: And the other children are given life changing injuries as punishment for the main 4 vices: greed, gluttony, watching TV & women chewing gum Intern Publisher: Isn't that a bit odd? politically? Older Publisher, who knows Dahl's other views: Shush, Kevin, this could have been a LOT worse
