📘From our latest issue! Karen Harvey (Professor Karen Harvey) (History Department) and Emily Vine (Dr Emily Vine) (Exeter History) on 'Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain' #Writing #Devotion #Material 🙏📜 🔓Read OA: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

*CALL FOR PAPERS* Join us in Rome, on December 5 and 6, for the 3rd international conference: "Circulation of Written Heritage: Networks, policies, and promotion (15th-18th centuries)". Proposals must be submitted by 15 September. #BookHistory #History

Looking for a Postdoc and 2 PhD researchers to come and work with me on a new ERC funded project on young refugees Links below : euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/243995 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/243992#wo…

Join us on 18/6/24 from 17:30 to hear Dr Heather Ellis  & Dr Isabelle Carter of ESRC School Meals Service 🍽 present new oral histories focussing on the subject of school meals. This includes considering the interplay of memory and temporality in oral history. history.ac.uk/events/oral-hi…

Tomorrow (18/6/24) at 17:30 (BST)! We welcome Dr Heather Ellis  & Dr Isabelle Carter to the IHR basement to present on their oral history aspect of the ESRC School Meals Service 🍽 project. Join us through Zoom or in the room for an interesting evening. history.ac.uk/events/oral-hi…

Join us this evening from 17:30 BST, through Zoom or in person, to hear Dr Heather Ellis  & Dr Isabelle Carter talk about their oral history research into the School Meal Service as part of the ESRC School Meals Service 🍽 project. history.ac.uk/events/oral-hi…

Our latest podcast is out! It was great talking to rosalindcrone about her book Illiterate Inmates and her fascinating exploration of criminal education in the 19th century. Thanks to Oliver Mumford our Ruth Watts Fellow for making this possible! Do have a listen! #HistEd

Just over one week left to get in abstracts for the Symposium Institutional Care or Control: Past & Present - See all the details below Dr Emma D. Watkins Buxi Duan

Many thanks to everyone who presented a paper and/or attended one of our seminars this year. Hours of fascinating research and discussion! I am starting to compile the diary for the next academic year. Would you like to speak? Do you know someone who might like to? Let me know!

Call for Proposals for the special issue of the Journal of Youth Studies! The deadline is 31/07/2024.

I know this is a *brilliant* time to be asking this, but if anyone knows of any hourly paid teaching or research assistant work available from the autumn, whether that be in modern history, politics, media, sociology etc, please do let me know. All reposts much appreciated. X

Wow - I'm quite astonished by the response to the cfp! It is great to receive such interest. Thanks. If you have contacted me and not had a response, I'm really sorry. Just tell me again.

Applications for the IHR Fellowship 2024 are now open! 🏛️ If you're a historian looking to strengthen your network and want to be part of our community, check out our fellowship opportunities. Discover more and apply here: buff.ly/4d58WNY ✍️#IHRFellowships

#histed #histchild query: looking for readings on young people being encouraged to/ finding the space to express themselves in writing/art/music etc in 1960s - I'm finding this in sources, looking for the context. articles welcome as I'm a mum in school hols so libraries tricky!

Short-term RA post available working with Dr Heather Ellis  as part of our Sheffield team #histed @educationsheff ICHRE at UCL IOE History of Education Details below 👇🏻jobs.ac.uk/job/DJA826/res…

📢 Calling all PGRs / PhD students!! We are pleased to invite you to our PGR Skills Day at Wellcome Collection on Wednesday 18th of September! A FREE event on teaching, fellowships, outreach and CV opportunities! Sign up and learn more: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/ #phd #pgr #histed

Well, some exciting news. The ebook version of my book is now available. Actual book due out in hard copy in September. With huge thanks to The London Archives Surrey History Centre National Justice Museum and The National Archives, on whose collections I worked! More here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

My review of Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain for Women's History Review @educationsheff tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Bloomsbury books currently have 30% off academic books to celebrate going back to University 💫💫💫 My book can be purchased 30% cheaper for a limited time & only on Bloomsbury Books UK website below. bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-gir…

Call for papers: ‘Sixty years on from the London County Council: legacy, impact, learning’. Organising with Ruth Lang Dr Dawn Pereira and held at The London School of Architecture The London Archives in March 2025. DM me for the full call for papers. Deadline for abstracts is 16th October 2024 #LCC60