Dr Becca Watterson (she/her)

Introducing Uncle Waldo. The 3-legged wonder rescue pug. 💜🥰 He’s named after Emerson & the drunk goose in the Aristocats. I will not be accepting questions at this time. 🤣

HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025
Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…

Grainne & Becca delivering the first (of hopefully many) workshops on community-based participatory research methods to PhD researchers from law, arts, humanities, heritage, life sciences and more! The change is happening! CHOICE IS LEADING A MOVEMENT.

The application deadline for these @historylabplus.bsky.social roles is BUT ONE WEEK AWAY!

WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference  Online via Zoom    Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."

More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

#WomensHistory #GLAM

#OtD 24 Jan 1919 staff and patients barricaded themselves inside the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum in Ireland and declared a soviet (workers' council). They also made demands on pay and working hours, including equal pay for women. They won in February stories.workingclasshistory.c...

Hoping to make this! It will be great!

Registration open for what should be an excellent talk @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social

Great to see @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social on Bluesky. Welcome! #hstm

Glad you enjoyed it Stuart! More to come :)

*Deadline looming!*
Teaching in a Time of Crisis CFP: exploring how history education can navigate & respond to contemporary crises.
Come & join @historylabplus.bsky.social, @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, & HistoryUK at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social in May! Bursaries available!

“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

Happy new year to everyone in this pack (and those who aren’t). I’m resharing because we’ve had new people added, so worth checking through (again?) for kindred researchers to follow.
go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD

Finally exiting the throes of the worst lurgy. Nearly 3 weeks I’ve been down. But I have started my 2025 reads list. Up first is The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Hoping to understand myself more after this one.

H is for... health - CPRE Bedfordshire CPRE Bedfordshire is working to enhance, promote and protect Bedfordshire's countryside. Love Bedfordshire's beautiful rural areas? Find out more and get involved.

In this feature I explore some of the places in Bedfordshire associated with health and healing, from medieval holy wells to Victorian innovations.
www.cprebeds.org.uk/discover/h-i...

#LocalHistory

Starting my Bluesky off
on 1st January 2025 ✨ here’s an overview of 2024… the year I finished my Scouloudi fellowship, became a Dr, got a job, hiked a mountain, and a lot more 💜 Happy New Year you lovely lot!