Lucie Matthews-Jones

@luciejones83

Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK She/ her Dyslexic - Dyspraxic Shares her office with cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

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Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 6d

For #internationalcatday here’s a snap of my snuggle cuddle monster, hoping I’ll abandon my book (with has a feline protagonist) and give her some much-deserved head rubs instead.

A black and white cat leaning over into a women’s leg and resting their head in the book The Road to Tender Hearts (a illustration of a man pushing a car with two people sitting instead and a girl on top with a ginger cat behind). You can see a white. women’s legs, black shorts and a grey jumper

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 8d

There probably still the same! 🤭 for the excitement of your tractor on my feed, here’s a Cromer tractor in action.

A seaside view looking into the sea with a tractor pushing a boat into the water. Three white men. One sitting on a tractor and two looking on

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 13d

I’m v grateful to Professor Alison Espach’s wonderful ‘The Wedding People’ for introducing the job titles ‘Victorianist’ / ‘nineteenth-centuryist’ to everyone. I will now be even more comfortable introducing myself as a Victorianist to one&all. (Also, this is a v good read&a clever campus-ish novel)

Book cover of two hands coming out of the sea with a champagne bottles. Text reads THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Utterly charming'
PANDORA
SYKES
The
'Best read of the year so far'
THE TIMES
Wedding
ALISON ESPACH

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 20d

Today I went to a Mayor of London Loved and Wanted art fair at St Hilda’s East in Shoreditch. It was so lovely because creative work that I’ve been involved in was displayed. I genuinely feel that the zine making & sewing workshops have been a highlight of my career.

A banner made up of various panels and jar show how people connect with st Hilda’s east and its history.

Text reads

Exploring Belonging at
St Hilda's East
Past and Present
The project began with Lucie Matthews-Jones, a historian from Liverpool John Moore's University, sharing the remarkable 137-year history of St Hilda's East and the surrounding neighbourhood, bringing to life the stories of the many people who have come through our doors in search of connection, opportunity, and belonging. Using archive photographs and historical documents, participants reflected on how the centre has evolved while considering their own place within its continuing story.

Inspired by this history, participants from across St Hilda's East's adult community programmes explored the question of what it means for them to belong at the centre and created a collective portrait of belonging through a tapestry and small zine booklets.

For Lucie, whose research explores the history of settlements and communities, this project addresses an important gap in the historical record. While archives often preserve the perspectives of leaders, organisations, and decision-makers, they rarely capture the lived experiences of the people who use community spaces every day. These artworks are more than a reflection of today's community; they are a lasting historical record. Preserved alongside the stories and archives of St Hilda's East, they will enable future historians, researchers, and community members to understand what belonging meant to the people who shaped this place in the twenty-first century. In one hundred years' time, it is our hope that these voices will continue to tell the story of St Hilda's East through this creative work you see today. Liverpool John Moores University has generously supported and funded this project.

A display of a banner, the zine table and a banner with text that reads St. Hilda's East
St. Hilda's East Community Centre
18 Club Row, E2 7EY
www.sthildas.org.uk

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 24d

Sometimes it’s really hard to capture how incredible it is to see your students graduate at Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, but today has been special. It was very cool to process. I’ve so enjoyed speaking to my students and their families. I wish them all them all the best

A photographer onto the altar of Liverpool Cathedral worth staff in a range of gown looking down

Looking from a stage with staff dressed in various gown

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 26d

Oh goodness Andrew. I hope you’re okay. Sending you positive vibes. I had a butterfly come and say hello to me last week at work while I was sending emails- that was heartwarming. Take care.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 28d

& now Bluebell’s sister Poppy is getting in on the act.

A black and white cat stretched out on a desk with her head on a key board

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 28d

When your cat thinks they’re the main actor… *which of course they are*… #proofofcats

A black and white English short hair cat laying on the edge of desk with their head on notepad filled with notes. You can see a white shirt and shorts. Cups on the table and a key board

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· 29d

My book club WhatsApp is currently talking about how cats were considered bourgeois decadence in the past and it’s taking all my restraint to not roll up my cultural historian sleeves and say have you heard of the great cat massacre. Well have I got a story for you…

Book front page with the French flag colours and a early 1700s black and white illustration with the text The Great
Cat Massacre
and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
ROBERT DARNTON

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jul 13

Monday #tinyjoys I’ve picked up an award for the Promotion of EDI in research and knowledge exchange for work done by the Disabled Researchers Network at LJMU. My first ever trophy too. I hope I never drop it…

A glass trophy. It’s hard to read because it’s see through but the text read Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool Institute for Education (LIFE) Awards 2026 award for the promotion of EDI in research and knowledge exchange. Held against the river Mersey and love locks on railings

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jul 8

When I was a knowledge exchange fellow on a project about the Diocese of London there were records on SLAG vicars in the ecclesiastical court records, esp after the introduction of the Church Discipline Act. Are you looking at this from a secular angle? Outside c19th but have you seen this?

Book front cover

LATAURIS
Religion,
Enligitenment and thr Sexual Revolution
SEX
AND THE
CHURCH
in the
LONG EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
WILLIAM GIBSON AND
JOANNE BEGIATO

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jul 6

Thank you to @vpfa.bsky.social for inviting me to give my 1st (pedagogy focused) keynote where I playful thought about What the Victorians Taught Me About Teaching? I focused on creative production, emotion, sociability&wellbeing. I shared some of my students creative work too. #vpfapublics

A lecture theatre environment. Looking onto a PowerPoint screen with a slide that reads What the Victorians Taught Me About Teaching?: Creative Pedagogy in the Classroom. In the front three desks with creative work on them.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 11

This morning I got to met members of St Hilda’s East Community Centre’s over 50s group called Chit, Chat, Chai. We started a banner project together. I discussed history & shared sources. We thought about belonging. I’m making a banner square celebrating what goes on behind the centre’s front door!

A selection of visual sources of st Hilda’s east on a square piece of green fabric with white stitching showing leaves and vines.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 10

Kicked started an exciting zine making project today at Shoreditch’s St Hilda’s East. I shared photographs & titbits I have collected from my archive adventures at Tower Hamlets Local Library and Archives. Over the next 3 weeks we’re going to make a zine that explores belonging & history.

A photograph looking fine with image worksheets and pencil and pens

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 9

Thought this ghost sign on Shoreditch’s Old Road was amazing. Reads: The Salvation Army Hostel for Working Men. Cheap beds and food. A reminder to always look up!

A tall building side with a red and white painted sign. Reads: The Salvation Army Hostel for Working Men. Cheap beds and food.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 9

Visiting Toynbee Hall, a charity I have researched for nearly two decades, for an event. I’m currently eating my packed lunch in their very sunny courtyard thinking I’ve written about this place and somehow that feels super-historian-cool 👌🏻

A court yard court with a Victorian St Anne’s style building to the left and newer buildings to the right and behind. Sunny background.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 5

I’ve never seen a Victorian organisation run a ‘Father’s Club’ before. But, St Hilda’s East did because lots of ‘quiet middle-aged…rather tired men’ were not being served by the too active men’s clubs. Instead, they invited Shoreditch’s older men to sing a few songs in their garden. Strangely, cute.

A black and white illustration of a Victorian culling that has 4 levels. People around the building

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 2

Today, with a notebook in hand, I took a stroll through some of Liverpool’s Georgian streets as part of an event where Sonia Overall encouraged us to think of walking as a part of the research process. It was fun after the marking session to think about my book ideas & to hang out with colleagues.

People set around a table backs to photographer

A woman standing by a projected slide that reads

A BIGGER RESEARCH QUESTION
psychogeography meets pilgrimage
• deep topography
• place and text
• weird encounters
• lone woman walking
field notes / ambulatory writing / reflective

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Jun 1

Whenever @jovanevery.bsky.social asks in Meeting with your Writing what your distractions might be, one of my cats always decides to head over to my office. Today I got to have a lovely snuggly lap cat who only sometimes demanded big head rubs #proofofcat

A black and white cat in my lap with their head being stroked. A desk behind with key board, cups and a book.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 27

Today I went to London & saw ‘The Last Princesses of Punjab’ exhib at Kensington Palace. It told the life story of Princesses Bamba, Sophia & Catherine, their mother Bamba Muller & grandmother Jind Kaur. It was fully of fascinating objects & stories. I went away learning a lot&wanting to know more.

Vibrant coloured illustration of Sophia and the Suffragette newspaper surrounded by her sister with banners written deeds not words and give me a voice

Photographs filtered green with the words Custodian, agitator, heir

Collage of photographs with words lesbian icon, suffragist and shelterer

Collage of images filtered purple with the words suffragette , socialite and goddaughter

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 20

The second part of our Creative History in the Classroom series is coming together for @hisjournalha.bsky.social. Here’s a new early view piece by @housing-jill.bsky.social & Zoe Hendon on using ‘learning walks’ when teaching Housing History & how they can be creative tools! @cathfeely.bsky.social

Walking Through Housing History: Creative
Histories Beyond the Classroom
ZOË HENDON
Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
JILL STEWART D
University of Greenwich, London, UK
Abstract
How might walking be used to support a creative and historically informed approach to learning about public health, environmental health and housing and take students beyond the traditional contines of the classroom? In this article, we discuss the development and delivery of a North London walking tour close to a university campus. We build upon critical pedagogies of walking and the development of a historical awareness of housing as a method for teaching students on Public and Environmental Health and Housing courses. We argue firstly for the importance of developing a creative approach to learning, and secondly for the use of 'learning walks' as a pedagogical tool for exploring, observing and paying attention to the environment, using these to increase students' historical awareness of housing and public health to inform their future professional practice.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 20

Cut, glue, stick, natter. I had a really fun time at the Appreciating Neurodiversity event at my university where I made a zine page on the joys and self judgement of being a ND researcher.

A zine page. Collaged with images and text on a desk

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 18

Had a really lovely day reconnecting with my book project by reading chapters I’ve already written and going through some copy editor comments. I was by good weather and my cat. I can tell that my brain is starting to sparkle with book thoughts now marking has ended!

A black cat on a desk with a window slightly ajar in front with pen pot, keyboard and screen next door

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 13

I’ve had a really lovely afternoon making a snakes and ladders styled board game focusing on the joys and pressures of being a neurodivergent historian. I haven’t finished it yet, but lots of fun was had and it a lovely brain break. A real reminder that being creative is good for the soul…

A board game divide into square with text outlining researching, writing and teaching roles on a white table with stuff around like stickers, glue, pens

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 6

I visited @nationaltrust.org.uk’s Standen House in West Sussex over the weekend. Famous for being an arts & craft interiors, it was the handmade bedspread that I thought was wonderful. It was sewn in 1898 for the marriage of Maria Hope&Charles Jones. Corner says ‘Fair thoughts be your sweet pillow’

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 4

Made all the more poignant by the inclusion of the three local men who represented the armed forces in the Christ in Glory artwork. Cpl Douglas Hemming, the son of the local railway master, would die in France in June 1944. Turning this artwork into a memorial

Three men in WW2 uniforms kneeling down. Painting

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· May 4

I visited Berwick Church in Sussex Downs yesterday and saw Bloomsbury artist paintings including Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. It was decorated in 1944, with local people posing for religious scenes. It was quite striking to stand in a medieval church looking at 1940s decoration.

A church interior with 1940s paintings. Benches at the front. Colour photo

Looking on jesus’s birth’s in a stable. Wooden benches and arches

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Apr 23

Term is done and dusted. I’ve had such a splendid finial teaching day which has included a creative writing workshop with a Liverpool novelist, a ghost walking tour, some bunches of flowers and a couple of thank you letters and cards. All helped by the glorious sunshine…

A sunny public space with glass work reflected into the group. Looking onto John Foster building

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Apr 22

I’ve printed of my dissertations and done that thing where you head to the acknowledgements. I always find them the most joyful of things to read. Somehow they always capture something that’s missing from module evaluations. This one is especially was delightful to my teacher’s soul…

Acknowledgements
would like to thank my supervisor, Dr. Lucie Matthews-Jones, for her expertise and encouragement throughout my time at university. While I have always loved history, it was her module on gender that helped me connect with an area that mattered to me most. I also respect Lucie for teaching the histories that I wished to see represented in my school
classroom but never did. I can clearly trace my passion back to her and I am grateful that she
gave me the opportunity to explore this further; it truly shaped my degree.

Lucie Matthews-Jones@luciejones83· Apr 20

Just finished marking some lovely research papers from my 3rd year students taking my Victorian Cities modules. My v impassioned discussions on washing lines & separately on working-class mantlepieces has yield 4 essays on these topics. I must have been especially zealous in my lecture this year!