Historian | Head of Collections Research @UkNatArchives | Maritime & colonial history | #HistSciMed | Research on Royal African Company.
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Joined May 2012
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I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading @UkNatArchives PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.
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The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. historians.org/community-car…
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Join us for a lived experience focus group on LGBTQ+ history at The National Archives! 🌈📚
🗓 Jan 31, 2025
🕒 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM GMT
📍 Kew, Surrey
Funding available.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/focus-gro…
#LGBTQHistory #Archives #Research #QueerHistory
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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.
@BeingHumanFest
7 November, 3-7pm
eventbrite.co.uk/e/700-years…
ALT A map of the Thames from 1662, split in two: the top half, titled 'The Prospect of London', is a painting of the city, and the bottom half shows a map of the river. Catalogue reference: WORK 38/331.
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After reading @corinne_fowler's Our Island Stories and attending @UkNatArcRes Methodologies event with her, I embarked on the "The Labourers’ Walk" at @UkNatArchives . Along the way, I was joined by colleague historians to unpick and reveal some records.
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Thrilled to announce a new opportunity for postgrads to present papers at @Cambridge_Uni! Our @CamHistory 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!
We have an exciting one-year post at The National Archives for an 18th century researcher to shape our public engagement programme in the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Please share and get in touch if you have questions! civilservicejobs.service.gov…
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Registration is now open for Age and Health 1500-1800
🗓️24 June 2024
Open to All
#histmed
📢 Registration OPEN
We are very excited to release our full programme for Age & Health, 1500-1800 🥳
Our PGR/ECR conference is open to scholars at any career stage.
Free! Hybrid! Please register to attend:
🗓️ in-person by 14 June
🗓️ online by 23 June
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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…
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AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship at University of Central Lancashire @UCLAN and The British Library @britishlibrary:
'Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections'
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF582/ahrc-c…
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Exciting new PhD project researching the role and perception of disabled seafarers and workers in the Stuart navy.
Fully funded under @ahrcpress Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme. Supervised by @clairejowitt, Dr Robert Blyth (@RMGreenwich) and I.
findaphd.com/phds/project/di…
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Find out about Ravenser Odd. ⤵️
Join Dr Katheryn Maude from @UKNatArchives and Dr Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex for their talk "Ravenser Odd: Revisiting Hull's Sunken Twin".
📅 9 April
⏰ 12:30 – 1:30pm
📍 Hull History Centre
@hullhistorynews
ALT Artists impression of Ravenser Odd by Gareth Sleightholme
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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/materialc…
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS! #twitterhistorians
The Workshop for the Early Modern Period invites applications for Easter Term (April-June 2024) from postgraduate students working on any aspect of of the early modern period (c. 1450-1800).
Deadline: 15 April 2024
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Please do share this opportunity far and wide - there's lots of scope for the successful candidate to take this studentship in the direction that interests them the most
📢We have just re-advertised our PhD studentship on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills📢
The successful student has lots of scope to shape it: this post outlines some themes they might explore. Please share!
#History #PhDChat #twitterstorians
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialc…
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I am *extremely* excited about this. Please share with anyone who might be keen: we're offering a FULLY FUNDED PhD studentship, exploring:
Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean.
There are some important stories to tell here
ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students…
I'll be leading the workshop on early modern colonial history, so if you want to know more about our colonial office records, do consider signing up!
Looking forward to our online training @UkNatArchives - still some places available! Join us for sessions on Black History , tracing people’s lives through the past, modern health and the state, hidden medieval voices and early modern colonial history! nationalarchives.gov.uk/abou…