Caitríona Beaumont

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Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi

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Yay, the keynote at the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast Regional CSA conference! Corsets at the Centennial: Showcasing Women Inventors, Dress Reform, and American Industry, from Kristina Haugland. 🗃️🪡

A title slide reading Corsets at the Centennial: Showcasing Women Inventors, Dress Reform, and American Industry. Kristina Haugland.
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Several thousand people have gathered in Dublin City centre for a national demonstration in support of Palestine

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Applications to join the Society's Fellowship and Membership are welcome at any time. Our next closing date is 14 December with further details here: bit.ly/3VojFPL

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In the 1950s and 1960s, sociologist Peter Townsend returned to the estate as part of his research on poverty, inequality, and working class community. Now a dilapidated anachronism awaiting demolition, it was inhabited only by white residents (British, Irish and Maltese).

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Fights over Jewish immigration and Home Rule for Ireland coexisted with everyday kindnesses and powerful solidarities. Residents of different backgrounds lent each other money, helped each other find work, flirted and married across religious and national divides.

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But they also illustrate the rich social life of the estate, across ethnic, national and religious differences: Eastern European Jews, Irish Catholics, French, German, Turkish, Indian and Caribbean residents lived alongside migrants from across Britain.

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It didn’t turn out as intended. Notes kept by two early collectors - Beatrice Potter (later Webb) and Ella Pycroft - detail resident complaints about the design, protests against ‘improving’ rules and schemes, and the rapid turnover of tenants.

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Built near the docks in 1885, Katharine Buildings was a philanthropic experiment in housing the poorest east Londoners. Residents rented basic, unfurnished rooms, overseen by ‘lady rent collectors’ who sought to encourage ‘respectable’ habits and good morals.

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👋 Introducing Revisiting Katharine Buildings! - a historical research project exploring migration, difference and inequality at a Victorian housing estate in east London.

Black and white photo showing balconies along the side of Katharine Buildings in east London. Photo taken by the GLC in 1970, shortly before the demolition of the estate.
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