Sarah Crook
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Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothers' distress; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed @MBHJournal
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BBC world service saying “historians will have to put this into context”. Can I speak for all historians when I say WE’RE TIRED
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Our four year old just interrupted my partner’s zoom meeting and sang I can Sing a Rainbow in Welsh to about half the directors of education in Wales
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Hi, I’m a young female lecturer. You might know me from my greatest hits including: “it’s Dr, actually”, “no, it actually is Dr; I have a PhD”, and “yes, an actual PhD”.
Hello, I'm a zoology curator, you might know me from my greatest hits including: "yes, the animals are real", "no, they're not alive" and "no, I didn't kill them".
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A student has pointed out to me that one of the primary source packs I’ve uploaded to blackboard for my history of psychiatry module includes, at the very bottom, a recipe for an omelette.
Never explain, never capitulate.
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The woman opposite me in the British Library keeps shaking her head while reading and then sighing while she types.
Guys... I believe I have found Reviewer Two in her natural habitat.
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Not catching someone's name and having to spend the next three decades avoiding introducing them to anyone
#ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling
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For anyone who feels their work is invisible, know that the Lib Dems have been having a leadership contest this WHOLE TIME
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My mum has reminded me that my great great great grandfather was called Solomon Silverhammer and I honestly think that’s the name of the Jewish Marvel superhero we all need
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It’s a gloomy winter, but my wee family are delighted that our newest, smallest member, Elspeth, has joined us. I’ll be off work for a little bit, and look forward to getting familiar with 2am/3am/4am/5am twitter
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Well, a few weeks ago I interviewed for a job at Oxford that I then didn’t get. Putting this here because not getting jobs should be normalised! And I’m still pretty proud: I’ve got 3 children under 5, and I was breastfeeding my littlest immediately before & after the interview
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A weird thing about being from London is how people feel like it’s totally cool to enumerate the very many reasons they hate your hometown at you. It would be super rude if I went, “oh, you’re from Surrey? Here are all the reasons I think it’s shit.”
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The year is 2050. Your iPhone can teleport you but needs to be recharged every five minutes. Brexit debacle is ongoing. Banana bread in the British library costs the same as a flat in Hackney.
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A women’s rights activist who is PhD candidate at the University of Leeds and a mother of two (aged 4 and 6) has been jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia for tweeting about the need for reform in the country and god, how how how
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I don’t understand why the super rich want to control so much stuff. Why aren’t they happy sitting on beaches reading crime novels? I think they’re doing being super rich wrong
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For the love of god, academia, PLEASE stop organising events after 5pm. Yes, events during working hours will clash with some scheduled teaching, but that is at least random. Scheduling things for after 5pm SPECIFICALLY excludes parents & carers. It's not random. It's a choice.
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Academics do, in fact, live in the 'real world'.
What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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This, made by my Swansea colleague Maria Pretzler, sums up just how many jobs we do. We earn our pension and our precarious colleagues deserve security
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@SwanseaUcu
#UCUstrike
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Foucault has been dead for over 30 years and he's still more productive than me.
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This one arrived early and feet first and so far her hobbies include sleeping and snuggling
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Just had an article accepted with no revisions and both reviewers recommended it as it stands i’m going to run around hugging random strangers for a while
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On Tuesday we got to welcome lovely Alastair into the world ❤️
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Ah, men who have the magical superpower of telling if other men are rapists by having a quick chat with them and thinking, well, they seem sound
After visiting
#Assange
in prison I became even surer that this is an innocent man, a political prisoner,whose life is being taken from him day by day as a result of the acquiescence of the government to American dictat.All who believe in justice have a duty to demand his release
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Hello lovely people. Guess who got promoted to senior lecturer? (Am celebrating by being in bed in my pyjamas with the world service on at 9pm, like a rockstar)
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(made especially sweet by the fact that I'm English and my partner is Scottish and neither of us speak Welsh - so this is all the good work of her nursery!)
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I haven’t been this excited about a pair of shoes for ages - but these are made by Community Clothing and are cut and sewn in Bolton, keeping skilled manufacturing jobs alive. Plus i hugely enjoy the late 80s baby vibes.
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Dear Ridley Scott,
Please remake Black Hawk Down as Blackboard Down, the gripping tale of plucky academics everywhere trying to log on to do their marking against seemingly insurmountable technological odds.
Many thanks,
Sarah
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Parents. It’s happening.
They’re coming for CBeebies.
We gather at midnight.
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Lads, i'm just not sure academics are the right people to call Starmer out for writing words that no one will read
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Well the journalist on BBC news just said they were about to read out a tweet from Margaret Thatcher, so maybe the result won’t be the biggest surprise of the morning
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I hope
@wmarybeard
knows how important she is to young women scholars. Thank you, Mary, and so sorry people are so horrible.
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Man it’s going to be hard for historians to explain the “everything is cake” phase of the pandemic
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I’m totally ok with paying tax and then my kids paying tax if it means we have, you know, schools and hospitals and universities and parks and clean streets and libraries etc etc
Mum. Dad. Son. Daughter.
For every generation.
Year after year, Labour will tax you.
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You might be on the REF panel but I just cleared all the old milks out of the department fridge, so who is really performing service to the academy?
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This, from Robert Leighton in the New Yorker, is glorious
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Just got past the requisite Sex Scene with Decade Younger Female PhD Student in American Male Novelist's book. 20 pages in. A record.
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Maybe at the end of the lockdown I can submit homemade focaccia to the REF
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Going to stand on a proverbial chair and shout into the academic twitter void: PLEASE SCHEDULE WORK EVENTS FOR DURING WORK HOURS
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Feeling immensely guilty but also like I'm doing the right thing by my small kids by saying I can't work on Clearing over my son's 3rd birthday or over the weekend. I belong to my young children at weekends. That's... that's ok right?
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Lol at the idea of a female politician saying this about motherhood
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Guys I just got an out-of-the-blue email from an academic I really admire saying she really enjoyed an article of mine and now my day is made
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To all the women who, upon entering their 30s, realise they no longer need to spend New Year looking after a very drunk friend (or stranger) but can legit spend it in their pyjamas with a kir royale and the leftover Christmas chocolate: I see you
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Florence & the Machine’s new song is called Moderation. I look forward to the album, Exam Board, and the next single, Marking Criteria.
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Guys
#gardenersworld
is the most beautiful restful television place. Monty Don is making a topiary bush of his dog Nigel and gently teaching us how to take plant cuttings and this is the calmest show, nothing bad ever happens here
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In exciting news, I'm thrilled to be joining the brilliant folk at
@SwanseaHistory
as Lecturer in Post-1800 European Social and Cultural History in Sept. I've had a terrific 2 years as a Junior Fellow in Oxford & will always feel deep affection & gratitude to this fab community!
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Amongst everything, I find Johnson’s pathological lateness unspeakably rude and frustrating
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Man, imagine being someone who finds it in themselves to get really mad about young people doing well this year
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@jessicaelgot
This is offensive to the thousands of academics who have been working their asses off during the pandemic to organise innovative, exciting, inclusive blended learning ready for the autumn term. We care deeply for our students & want to give them the best possible experience
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My lovely neighbour - who works in support for disabled students at a Welsh university - has been made redundant and then hired back on a zero hour contract. They have a child, a house, and now have no security. Obscenely exploitative.
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A quick reminder that there’s a person behind academic blogs and twitter posts, and that often people are giving away their time and work and thoughts for free, and that being nice and supportive and polite is not being weak
I've found today very difficult. For the last couple of months, I've put together a quick blog every Sunday night about a (usually randomly selected) rebel song that I looked at in the course of my PhD research. Mainly I wanted to spread some knowledge of a topic I really...
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Simpkin absolutely terrorised my cat and now he has upscaled to the whole university
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Lovely academics, I've recently taken up the Directorship of Swansea's gender research centre, GENCAS. I'm keen to build our international networks and do some cool collaborative thinking and poss. events. Do you (or a pal) work within a gender research group & want to connect?
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I’m not saying this is why we should remain but the streets of Germany are literally paved with chocolate
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just received the nursery bill for March: £1849 (& that's with our son spending 4 days with grandparents). I love our nursery and don't begrudge them at all - the staff deserve MORE pay - but how is the underfunding of childcare not dragging us all out onto the streets in revolt
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Viva'ed! Pass with no corrections! Thank you to Sally Alexander and Stephen Brooke for such a fun afternoon!
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David Graeber is going to find himself in the very worst teaching rooms with no AV next year
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Can’t possibly imagine what that might look like, Gavin
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@KimAtiWagner
@TPointUK
Hi
@TPointUK
I’d like to report myself too. I teach the history of women demanding their rights (not neutral); the history of LGBTQ people demanding their rights (not neutral); the history of psychiatry (&sometimes psychiatry wasn’t great!). Let me know which slides you’d like x
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Man, how long is it practicable to live in a place you really don't want to live - with kids, and no close friends or family for support - just for work? I'm so grateful for a permanent job in academia, but this feels untenable
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How are you supposed to go to archives in cities where you don't have childcare but you also don't want to be away from your small kids for days on end I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
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You know, I think Meghan Markle’s birthday initiative is kinda cute. I have some established mentor relationships (I think I find them more inspiring than they find me helpful!) but if any ECRs would like to have a chat about academia, academia & parenting, etc, please DM me!
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This, from Koraly Dimitriadis's Love & Fuck Poems - oof
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Going to have to start work a bit late today because my son is asleep on me in this position and would YOU move him?
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incase anyone is having a bad day, please know that we ran out of dishwasher tablets in the department kitchen and I thought, eh, surely you can use washing up liquid, and the answer is NO YOU CANNOT, and there are bubbles EVERYWHERE
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Superb. From the New Yorker, of course (by Sofia Warren)
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Also was told yesterday that access to turnitin is put at risk from no deal brexit so every cloud eh
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UK academics: let’s all put the voter registration link in our email signature, yes?
#studentsvote
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Doing the deeply embarrassing thing of sharing that one of my articles is on OUP’s best of history 2020 list but hoping the cringeyness is offset by the fact I’m currently a) hating myself a bit for doing this and b) covered in baby sick
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Seeing Andy Burnham now is like running into an ex who was not very cool who suddenly got really hot and is now dating a model
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I loved Normal People and I like Conversation with Friends but Rooney’s female protagonists are always thin, thin, thin. Thin and vulnerable looking. They forget to eat because they are so clever and they are thin. It’s like Victorian authors coveted sickly women. Sort of icky.
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Brilliant interview about it on
@bbcworldservice
but gosh, in a better world it would be front page news. In a better world it would not happen.
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hate to be all ‘i’ve been hoarding soap since before it was cool’ but I have about a decade’s worth of tiny bars I’ve stashed from hotel bathrooms “just incase” and would like to point out that THIS IS MY TIME
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The toddler just pointed at The Economist and said “Mama’s comic” which is pure Reviewer 2 energy
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My 104-year old great aunt still climbs 3 flights of stairs to her apartment in Beijing twice a day and recently took a 12-hour train to Chengdu where she has a restaurant named after her and she’s still writing books (she’s an anthropologist).
I’m lying exhausted on the sofa.
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Doing that thing where you read 3 impenetrable books and 10 articles for one sentence and one footnote, kill me now
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Oh god, now women have to compete against microbes in the REF, too
History is written not only by men but also by microbes.
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Me, before I had children: of course, my children will only play with educational toys handmade from organic winter birch in Sweden, and I will look upon their play fondly as I read them the classics
Me, having had children: I’m not sure this red plastic is bright enough.
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If I bring a yoga mat into my office will people think I’m really into yoga rather than the truth which is that sometimes towards the end of term I’d quite like to lie down and close my eyes for 5 minutes at lunch
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Speaking just for me here, but to precarious academics: if going on strike would stop you from being able to buy food/pay your rent/afford childcare, then know you can not go on strike and that’s ok. There will be other ways you can show solidarity.
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Eee! Contract signed - so very happy to say that I'm working with the FAB
@DrSarahLKenny
to co-edit the The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary British History. We have wonderful scholars on the project & some more on our list to contact, & I am now going to dance around my office
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Enjoying these descriptions of academics at Warwick from 69/70, including the “tired look” in EP Thompson’s eyes
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In what can only be a Christmas miracle, I was accidentally two hours early for my train so the LOVELY, kind, sympathetic train manager let me on an earlier one and put tired me and my large pregnancy bump in first class. Thank you lovely train manager of joy and
@GWRHelp
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'Equal pay, equal rights'
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"No. I like you very much.
Just as you are.
With minor revisions.
Please see page 2, paragraph 1."
#AcademicValentines
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5pm: this is fine, I’m just going to send this email
5.10: I wonder if that email was ok
5.11: I wonder if my tone was a bit firm
5.15: they haven’t replied. Why haven’t they replied
5.20: WHY HAVENT THEY REPLIED
5.22: I should definitely email them again apologing for everything
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Delighted to see that my partner and I are both trying to work full time from home without childcare and a one year old in isolation to flatten the curve while *checks notes* people gather close together on Westminster Bridge to performatively virtue signal their ability to clap
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Finding the tweets about writing accountability and daily word counts acutely anxiety inducing while I’m home with a one-year old who can’t go into nursery for 14 days (probably much longer if it closes). Please, please don’t show off about your daily work accomplishments.
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Ok British academics. This is bullsh*t. What are we gonna do to support our non-British colleagues and to challenge this insanity?
#highered
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