Alana Harris

Beautifully documented short clip on Instagram, drawing on John Davis's excellent chapter on gentrification, in our Modern British City book now well and truly launched. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The IHR Women's History Seminar programme for Winter 2026 is now available. All sessions hybrid. Join us.
Free registration: tinyurl.com/24pxj5we Join us live and online.
@carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

Behind me lie over 9,000 forgotten lives. Horton Cemetery holds a powerful part of our history - one that deserves remembrance and respect. I’m campaigning with Friends of Horton for a national memo... Behind me lie over 9,000 forgotten lives. Horton Cemetery holds a powerful part of our history - one that deserves remembrance and respect. I’m campaigning with Friends of Horton for a national...

A cause close to my heart (see www.thehortonninethousand.org) If you are a UK resident, please consider signing the petition! www.facebook.com/reel/1565743...

King's launches new Modern World History MA | King's College London Apply to study at the Department of History at King's.

🌍 King's Department of History has launched a new Modern World History MA, now open for September 2026 intake.

Find out more👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Leatherhead disability group recreates Victorian hospital images Freewheelers is working with Surrey History Centre and King's College London to recreate the images.

Great publicity for the next phase of 'Us and Them' with Freewheelers, @kingshistory.bsky.social and Surrey History Centre: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.

👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next:

Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.

🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online

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DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery' The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay

Thank you so much @djrgrey.bsky.social - I would be so delighted if people could teach with it!

Thanks so much @lisamorriss.bsky.social for your comments!

Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org

Ep 351: Lost Souls - an investigation into the fate of Britain's mental asylum graves YouTube video by Mick Coyle

@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...

Such a pleasure! And let's put a date in the diary soon for some celebratory bubbles and a forward-focused chat!

Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel.

Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2

Thank you, Australia.

Thanks for being there and your excellent commentary! Sorry not to catch up over a coffee ... next time!

Women awaiting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

IHR Women's HIstory Seminar
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation
Please join us live or online.
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

Slide with text: 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society' New fully Open Access book series from the Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press. Proposals now invited.'

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture?

We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.

Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians

UK universities spend more than £200 million on severance pay THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year

'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23.

The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4

@graceheaton.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain at Durham University Discover a PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

Or would you like to explore "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", working with @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and alongside the amazing Prof. Julie-Marie Strange, Dr. David Minto, @leannemccormick.bsky.social.
More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...

We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:

go.bsky.app/ArYba4T

Let me know if you'd like to be added!

#EarlyModern

Image of paper documents in archive with header text: "Ministry of Justice abandons plans to digitise and destroy print copies of post-1858 wills The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has abandoned a proposal, made by the previous government, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation."

We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8

This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians

A degree in the Humanities 'ought surely to leave a student with a notion of why we do what we do. And that requires greater visibility of the research we do, the complexity of the process by which we arrive at knowledge.' 1/3

More detail will appear at projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Opening plenary is on ‘Writing the history of Britain today’. Thrilled to have Alana Harris, Sarah Crook, Miles Taylor and Mike Braddick participating. @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth-Century Britain

Looking forward to launching @mariacpower.bsky.social and Jonathan Bush's fantastic edited volume next Wednesday, 11th December, 17:30. In person and online - details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/lay-c...

‘I have told her that it was neglected, and asked her why’ | 16 | Work On 20 November 1871, Susan King, aged 44, was tried at the Central Criminal Court in London for the manslaughter of Alice Butcher, a seven-month-old infant who

Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “For disability, see infirmities” — Archives & Records Association In this guest blog Professor Lucy Delap reflects on the challenges even experienced users of archives faced when searching for disability and Deaf histories.  Currently completing a book project ...

'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries.
#dishist #disability
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