Hidden Venice with 3 stories, and we've pushed the format further with a true crime trail set in 1730. A pleasure curating this new piece of mobile public history with superb colleagues Dr Celeste McNamara Fabrizio Nevola rmsalzberg (also [email protected]) Unive Ca' Foscari VeDPH

President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black, has delivered an urgent intervention on the power and value of the humanities during a speech at the University of Birmingham. Read in full here: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/humanitie…

Join us on Thursday 12 September for the launch of Kit Kowol's Blue Jerusalem. British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War (OUP History 2024)! Register here for tickets: buytickets.at/kingscontempor…

Job in King's CHOSTM/History! kcl.ac.uk/jobs/089145-le…

Charlotte Despard: Mother of Battersea, suffragette, and socialist, rebel, supporter of the cause of Irish freedom – finally gets a commemorative plaque londonnewsonline.co.uk/lifestyle/memo…

Oh, this is so good… #WeAreOvercowded

Lecturer in Modern Economic History (fixed term contract until 31 August 2025) kcl.ac.uk/jobs/090926-le…

📢Just a week to go now to our last @IHR_ContBritHist Institute of Historical Research seminar for 2023/24. We end with an important roundtable focussing on the challenges posed by ethical consideration & practice in historical research. Join us for this free online event by registering via link below:

Alana Harris Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University

This comes weeks after publication of an Royal Historical Society report on race and ethnic equality which identified Goldsmiths MA Black British History as 'exactly the profile of degree course, student body and department that UK Higher Education needs to exist and to champion.' #twitterstorians

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V. good to receive copies of Jon Winder's new book, 'Designed for Play', the latest (18th) title in Royal Historical Society's New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians. Jon's book is available free OA and in print University of London Press bit.ly/3VBUN4V 1/2

Are you a UK-based postgrad or ECR working on London? Interested on putting together a panel on a London-related topic for a conference? Then you could be eligible for one of Conference Panel Bursaries! thelondonjournal.org/bursary.html

On the 18th May 1925, The Symphonic String Players played their first concert in Hove Town Hall. Founded by conductor Herbert Menges and his mother, Kate, this was the beginning of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. 🎶

Our research on employment rates features in The Times and The Sunday Times today in this piece on the data driven case for studying the humanities. It echoes our call for a broad and balanced curriculum, to turn the tide on the narrowing of subject choices post-16. thetimes.com/comment/column…

The hymn for the LOUDfence "Ribbons of Hope" is now available for download from roseconlonmusic.co.uk The recording of the hymn/prayer will be ready by Sunday. It will be sung by the parish safeguarding representative from Roybridge near Fort William who saw the LOUDfence in

This this this…so totally made my day. ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Scenes of Father Basil Lee Jellicoe, clergyman of the Church of England, at the Anchor pub, Somers Town (now Chalton St, St Pancras, NW) explaining why people gather in a pub. Whitbread’s brewery had given Jellicoe the control of

I wrote part of a chapter in a book about founding the LOUDfence UK, sexual abuse and it's impact on me and the church around me with Alana Harris. I've never written anything before and I'm certainly not an expert or a University professor. I hope it helps everyone a little.

Sr Miriam McNulty Brian Devlin Anne Davies Alana Harris Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University Massimo Faggioli RC Birmingham Northampton Diocese Archdiocese of Southwark Hexham & Newcastle Diocese of Lancaster TutelaMinorum Brendan Walsh