Eugenie Sellers Nearly as Bad handwriting didn't help matters (except for the content, which was Excellent)

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Another one! Dr Jennifer Wexler Debbie Challis (Dr) Dr. Katy Soar 🏺🏛📷👻

Loving this slide - part of the conclusion to Adam Chapman's lecture this evening, looking at the formative role Victoria County History has played in historians' careers - then and now.

Book club potential twitter.com/RachLouDriscol… Dr Jennifer Wexler Dr. Katy Soar 🏺🏛📷👻 Debbie Challis (Dr)

Our LAST @CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the semester. Please join us to round off what has been a fantastic year! With papers from the incredible Dr Amara Thornton Dr Joanne Norcup Dr Renée Landell Tré (he/him) 🇬🇩🇯🇲 Olivier Marboeuf Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/caribbe…

My talk, 'Re-presenting representation: complicated identities of celebrated figures' is now on Heritage and Colonialism Discussion Group's channel.
I discuss the eminent Australian scientist, EC Stirling, & explore why narratives about him don't reference his African-Jamaican heritage:
youtu.be/wfU9PhVXx64?si…

Critical and creative engagement with historical data
Sloane_Lab & HDSM Seminar Series 2024
With international speakers who work on collections as data, cataloguing histories & critical archival studies, critical digital heritage & info science
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

So glad the recording of this fab event is available online so others can enjoy it and hear all about the work of the @beyondnotability team. And if you'd like to hear me talk about reimagining history and myth for children then the blog will point you in the right direction.

'A letter lists “suitable men of the professor type” who could be recruited for intelligence work at Bletchley Park. It then casually includes a woman, Fiona Ede, a Newnham college graduate.' Great piece by Donna Ferguson about this revealing new exhibition Newnham College

Happy Friday! Here's our latest blog post, with a link to the recording of our #IWD2024 event Society of Antiquaries of London, with a list of timecodes for each presentation, and a link to all of Vanessa Woolf ✨Storyteller's posts on the story creation process! beyondnotability.org/events/stories…

Here’s a new blog post about cattle, colonialism, land, Maasai communities, and The Museum of English Rural Life.

merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2024/03/c…

Hew Locke talks about Armada, his stunning flotilla of boats, past and present.

It's strange to say this, but sometimes the most enchanting and mesmerising stories are about VERY ordinary or even 'boring' things.

For example...
londondreamtime.com/international-…

With just under a month to go a quick reminder that I'll be reflecting on the interconnectivity of @vch_london and archives for British Records Association Events Maurice Bond Lecture on 11 April.

I hope to see some of you there.

I enjoyed this much more than I appear to be doing in this photograph 🤣 What better way to spend #internationalwomensday than with a group of awesome women working to give voice to women of the past. #StoryTellingWomen

If you didn't manage to join us on #InternationalWomensDay Friday, our #Storytellingwomen event is available to watch on YouTube. The link to the channel & programme is on the event page.

🙏to everyone who came, the speakers & Society of Antiquaries of London for hosting.
sal.org.uk/event/stories-…

Delighted Debbie has turned Mary Ann Severn Newton's entertaining drawings into a graphic novel-like blog post!!!