In light of Lucy Letby's conviction and the sometimes disturbing turn that discussion of it have taken, the 1st known case of a qualified nurse killing child patients - in SE London in 1918 - was considered similarly baffling and horrific at the time: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/80…

One of the children afflicted, James Smith, died shortly afterwards. Fellow nurses at Sydenham Infant Welfare Centre, who had fought to save these babies when their condition deteriorated, were baffled and distressed. They noted all had happened during Thompson's night shifts.

We created a thread to help scholars share their research and find people working on similar topics. If you are interested in taking part in Women and Worlds of Learning Conference, why not share you work here and find potential panel organisers!

New on All Things Georgian, Guest post by Bibi Cox O’Brien - ‘To Myself’: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’s newly discovered poem - wp.me/p3JTNy-6cq #MondayBlogs . Amanda Foreman 💙 🇺🇦 - FYI

In our latest blog post, Giacomo Savani looks at 'Gender and Bathing in Antiquity', which addresses the role of gender in ancient bathing and focuses on the experience of unwell women and their long pilgrimages to find a cure. Read it here: womenshistorynetwork.org/gender-and-bat…

Find out more about life on campus in the past! This is the fifth part of our series of post about the Royal Holloway archive. In this video Anne-Marie Purcell shows curious old photographs and talks about student magazines. Royal Holloway Library and Archives

Reading Paterson’s Joseph’s ‘The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho’ at this v moment. It is excellent - a model of historical fiction writing, imo

I wrote a short article about Annie Parker, a Victorian woman who embroidered using her own hair during her approx. 400 stints in prison. Her needlework tells us much about her life and the suffering she faced due to addiction. Check it out here: historytoday.com/archive/miscel…

Writer & suffragist Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was born in 1856 #OTD. She was daughter of women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Read more about some of the women upon whose shoulders every one of us stands. womenshistorynetwork.org/standing-on-th… #WomensHistory #GenderHist

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Valentine's Day in the Georgian Era' - wp.me/p3JTNy-CI #ValentinesDay

#twitterstorians Do check this out!

16th or 17th century precedent for the divorced, beheaded, died rhyme. Folger MS V.b.303

A bit late for Valentines, but still love the idea of men gifting a box of C18 beauty patches to a sweetheart even if ‘out of fashion’.

#OTD in 1909, Muriel Matters flew a hot air balloon over Westminster. “Votes for Women” was painted on the balloon, and she planned to drop leaflets over London, but she was blown off course. Her stunt made headlines across the world.

This is the blog post about hurt feelings in 19th-century divorce I mentioned in Q&A last night Feelings, Health, and Cruelty in 19th-Century Divorce Cases emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/2013/05/feelin…

I knew the Bank of England prosecuted female forgers, but not that they paid each convict on a transport ship £5 to ‘alleviate in some degree the distresses and wants brought upon them by their prosecution’.