Ben Griffin
@history_griffin
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Associate Professor in modern British history at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (CUP 2012)
Cambridge
Joined June 2016
My P&P article has just made it into print. It problematizes the persistence of sexual inequality by examining the intellectual work performed by judges as they sought to preserve men's paternal rights from new challenges in the C19th. @PastPresentSoc 1/2
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RT @scope: "These people are, frankly, parasites." Isabel Oakeshott's views on people who claim benefits belong in the past. This kind of…
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RT @ProfMHewitt: Well, it would seem that Darwinism's Generations is actually 'published' in its e-version, and available to anyone whose i…
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RT @Zero_4: Victoria Derbyshire to Tory MP Helen Whately: “A few years ago Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into Harriet Harman’s website a d…
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RT @TehilaSasson: 🚨This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open 🚨 If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article in modern British history and/o…
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@Nick_Pettigrew The episode of ER that showed what happened to Lucy. The way that the camera fell to the ground as a POV shot at the end …. One of my housemates spent three hours on the phone trying to comfort his sobbing girlfriend who was distraught after seeing it. I have never got over it.
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RT @LukeBlaxill: Proud to have this article (on which I am lead author) on Electoral Violence in Britain published in Past & Present. It'…
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RT @dustshoveller: After an awful lot of hard work by an awful lot of people since 2013, it's finally here! St Stephen's Chapel and the Pal…
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RT @MichaelLCrick: This was such a crass, insensitive remark by Kemi Badenoch. It shows no sympathy or appreciation for care home staff wh…
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