🤖 Meet our 'I'm Kingsley Hall' chatbot! Explore our charity's base history and aid future planning to transform it into a hub for young people facing homelessness: ow.ly/CGzw50QZuj5 Thanks to #NationalLottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and Historic England for your support.

The extended Protest display, which includes the toppled statue of Colston, has opened at M Shed today.

This comes after community engagement where around 80% of Bristol residents agreed the best place for it was in one of our museums.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/2s4e5vht

Guardian news For some background to this decision see this excellent (free to access) Journal of Historical Geography article by Professor Tim Cole Tim Cole
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Great to see the new display on protest including the toppling of the colston statue M Shed and the way that it represents the voices of the thousands who responded to the survey when the statue was put on temporary display

Call for papers - Mapping the Holocaust

We're excited to launch this new call for papers today, for a workshop at Institute of Historical Research on mapping the Holocaust with Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies HCRInstitute Cailee Davis Niamh Hanrahan.

Hiring at Bristol -- History of Health pe-1900: any geographical area: Asianists, Africanists please nb. Come join this thriving and stimulating community Historians @ Bristol now on Mastodon too
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‘After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures’, by Tim Cole.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.…

(Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 82)

Only 1 week left to nominate for the 2024 Dan David Prize: dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Deadline: Oct 11⏳

If you have a great candidate whose work is pushing boundaries & producing outstanding research related to the study of the human past, now is the time to nominate them!

The Dan David Prize offers up to 9 annual prizes of $300K each to outstanding early/midcareer scholars working in any of these fields. There are just over two weeks left to nominate your amazing colleagues. Find the simple and concise nomination form at dandavidprize.org/nominate

The look, the feel & even the smell of #medieval manuscripts can inform us about their makers & their users, explains #2022DanDavidPrize winner Kristina Richardson 👇

Know an outstanding early or midcareer medievalist? Nominate them for the 2024 Prize: dandavidprize.org/nominate/

📢 We're looking for a part-time Research Coordinator with admin experience and an interest in research to join our friendly team as soon as possible for three months! Closing for applications on the 27th of August careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_ga…

The Dan David Foundation, which endows the Dan David Prize, has today issued the following statement regarding the political situation in Israel, further to its statement issued on 6 March, 2023: dandavid.org/#News

As #2023DanDavidPrize winner Chao Tayiana Maina explains, #DigitalHumanities enable us to 'do History' in new ways.

Know someone doing excellent work in the digital humanities space? Nominate them for the 2024 Dan David Prize: dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Deadline: 11 Oct, 2023 ⏳

Do you know someone who is pushing boundaries and producing outstanding research related to the study of the human past?

Nominate them for the 2024 Dan David Prize!

Up to 9 early and midcareer scholars and practitioners will be awarded $300,000: dandavidprize.org/nominate/

“I want my grandchildren to find their answers in my work” Headstrong Historian in The Guardian

#2023DanDavidPrize winner Chao Tayiana Maina on her work, which fills in gaps in the historical narrative & centers African stories within digital spaces:

theguardian.com/global-develop…

Ever thought of your mouth as an archaeological site? Neither had we, until #HistoryDay2023

In the panel 'History Under the Microscope: Science, Medicine & Past Societies' Anita Radini, Elise Burton & Ana Antic discussed how history & science intersect: youtube.com/watch?v=zWxRJb…

I had exactly the same conversation today…

Nominations for the 2024 Dan David Prize are open📢

Nominate exceptional early or midcareer scholars & practitioners in any discipline whose work illuminates the past in bold and creative ways

Winners will be awarded $300K each
⏳Deadline: Oct 11, 2023
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London, 2 June - 21 July: #2022DanDavidPrize winner Natalia's Romik's exhibition 'Hand and Trapdoor' at the Ben Hunter Gallery.

Featuring part of her award-winning exhibition 'Hideouts', this work explores spaces used as hiding places by Jews in WW2👇

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This was a fascinating conversation that I recently had about ways of working in the digital humanities. Worth a watch if you have an hour!