
Dr. Philippa Hellawell
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Historian | Head of Collections Research @UkNatArchives | Maritime & colonial history | #HistSciMed | Research on Royal African Company.
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📢Reminder: we are offering a funded PhD studentship on global commodities in #EarlyModern wills! This post shows the scope a student would have to shape their research & the other resources at their disposal - pls share! #PhD #twitterstorians #History sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…


Exciting new PhD project researching the role and perception of disabled seafarers and workers in the Stuart navy. Fully funded under Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme. Supervised by Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social, Dr Robert Blyth (Royal Museums Greenwich) and I. findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship at University of Central Lancashire @UCLAN and The British Library British Library: 'Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections' jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF582/ahr…

Job opportunity! We are looking for no less than 3 PhD candidates investigating histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through early modern court records from across the early modern European colonial (French, Portuguese and Spanish empires)👇iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/3-phd-…


Thrilled to announce a new opportunity for postgrads to present papers at Cambridge University! Our Cambridge History workshop on the Long Eighteenth Century invites PhD & Master's students from any institution to present their work. See our call for papers & please help us spread the word!


700 years of the Thames: a document display & talks Drop in to our site in Kew to explore records charting what life, work & play looked like beside London's iconic river. From Chaucer to the Empire Windrush in 1948. Being Human Festival 7 November, 3-7pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/700-years-of…


After reading Corinne Fowler's Our Island Stories and attending The National Archives Research Methodologies event with her, I embarked on the "The Labourers’ Walk" at The National Archives . Along the way, I was joined by colleague historians to unpick and reveal some records. tinyurl.com/bdne767a




I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading The National Archives PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. shorturl.at/XLyC8