prof stephanie spencer

Historian of women, education and girls school stories. Loves books, tennis, skiing, airedales, london and her family, not necessarily in that order

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@CatGQFreeman Well done - so pleased you finally heard!

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@DeirdreRaftery @ElenaFranRossi A really excellent conference

[Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social @DrSarahLKenny]

It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out.

It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

Excellent news!!!

[Laura Carter @carter740]

My book, 'Histories of Everyday Life', which is a social history of social history in mid-C20 Britain, is published in paperback today with @OUPHistory at a very respectable price 🪇

(Thanks to everyone who has already engaged with it!)

https://t.co/o2LVUXIK9J

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

Looking forward to this - echoes of 1950s career novel Pan Stevens secretary @NancyRosoff

[Prof Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont]

Looking forward to chairing next @ihr_history @contbrithist seminar this Weds 24 Jan with @HelenGlew speaking about her fab new project on the typing pool. Free to join & be lovely to see you there. Click on link below. @WomensHistNet @socialhistsoc
https://t.co/zCpUDx6UAo

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@kateweikert Nice!

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@CatGQFreeman Well done !!

[Lynn Abrams @Lynncabrams]

And here it is.... Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings and the Self in Post-War Britain. Thanks to @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic and the community of friends who helped to make it happen including @UofGGenderHist @UofGHumanities and all the women who generously shared their stories.

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@Lynncabrams @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic @UofGGenderHist @UofGHumanities This looks terrific! Look forward to reading it - congratulations!

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

Only one week left to apply for this job!

The University of London are hiring a researcher to work with the university archives and produce readable, public-facing history material.

Deadline: 28th August 2023

https://t.co/WC2kzEJkns

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@CatGQFreeman Ah but once they’ve read it they will understand!

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

Our Peter Gosden Fellow (@ElenaFranRossi) is organising a conference all about the experience of women in worlds of learning with a fantastic team of PhD students! A great opportunity for #histed scholars, including a #PGR poster session. Deadline: 1st September 2023

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@Fabio_Pruneri So sorry not to be joining you

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@caitbeaumont @MaryMcAuliffe4 That is also my experience as well as identity crisis - am I a historian or an educationist????

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

@sharon_l_smith All good - back at UoW today to do keynote for postgrad conference - such interesting new projects underway - keep going

[prof stephanie spencer @chwess]

We are looking forward to hearing it! @faithful_sue

[Dr. Catherine Freeman @CatGQFreeman]

I am enjoying having somewhere to put my excess research (i.e. couldn't put it in the thesis) on girls learning to swim from the 1890s! I hope the seminar I am presenting the paper to enjoy it too.

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

What's that you hear? Oh, it's the call for papers for this year's @HistEdSocUK's annual conference!

Don't forget to send in your #histed abstracts for 'Senses, Emotions and Experience in the History of Education'!

Find out more here:
https://t.co/1PcGC7UbnF

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

We are VERY excited about this year's @HistEdSocUK's annual conference - it's got us all emotional!

Don't forget to send in your abstracts for 'Senses, Emotions and Experience in the History of Education'!

Find out more here:
https://t.co/1PcGC7UbnF