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Alana Harris

@dralanagharris.bsky.social
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Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. www.thehortonninethousand.org

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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Freewheelers have collaborated with Surrey History Centre, our colleague @dralanagharris.bsky.social, photographic artist Emma Brown, and filmmaker Stefan Pollack to create a collection of nearly 100 tintype portraits thehortonepsom.org/events/us-th...
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Us & Them Exhibition 2026 - Immersive Photographic Exhibition - Freewheelers - The Horton Epsom
Us & Them - Immersive Photographic Exhibition
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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our colleague Alana Harris's work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award! You can even vote for her project. Have a look! www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...
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Find Your Ancestors & Family History - Genealogy & Ancestry | Findmypast.co.uk
Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more - over 10 billion records - start today!
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Please vote for Horton Cemetery - www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians
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Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
LAST CALL! Proposals for 20-minute papers (consisting of a title, 300-word abstract and 50-word author biography) should be forwarded to alana.harris@kcl.ac.uk by 19 June 2026.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #WomensArt
Photo featuring a red older three storey building with lace pattern mural on a street
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Looking forward to attending the @fotwl.bsky.social annual lecture & hearing the always worth hearing @teadevotee.bsky.social & @graceheaton.bsky.social speak faith, feminism & politics. Free tickets still available in-person & online…
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‘A Magnificent Failure’? Una Kroll: Faith, Feminism, and Politics
Join us for a discussion of Una Kroll’s campaigning through faith, feminism, and politics.
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
CFP: The Everyday Heritage and Afterlives of Asylum Burial Grounds in Britain and Ireland, 27 October (online ZOOM, Chairs: Alana Harris and Julie Rugg) See: www.thehortonninethousand.org/news-and-eve.... @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social @deathstudiespod.bsky.social @cemeteryclub.bsky.social
The Stone Bench in the Asylum at Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Great new article out by @dralanagharris.bsky.social on English Catholic youth activists and ecumenical work in Northern Ireland during the 'long 1970s' 😊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Brixton and Belfast: The English Young Christian Students Movement and Grassroots, Liberatory Theologies in post-1968 Britain - Professor Alana Harris, 2026
This article considers the activities of a generation of young English Catholics – mostly middle-class convent and grammar school students – who belonged to the...
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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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...
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About Buildings & Cities on Instagram: "Where was the first place in London to go through gentrification? In an essay in ‘The Modern British City’, out now from Lund Humphries, the historian John Davi...
3,470 likes, 40 comments - about_buildings on January 8, 2026: "Where was the first place in London to go through gentrification? In an essay in ‘The Modern British City’, out now from Lund Humphries,...
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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...
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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...
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🌍 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...
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King's launches new Modern World History MA | King's College London
Apply to study at the Department of History at King's.
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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...
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Leatherhead disability group recreates Victorian hospital images
Freewheelers is working with Surrey History Centre and King's College London to recreate the images.
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IHR Modern Religious History Seminar @ihrmodernrelighist.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
👋 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 Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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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.
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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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
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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…
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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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'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.
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org
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The Horton Nine Thousand
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...
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Ep 351: Lost Souls - an investigation into the fate of Britain's mental asylum graves
YouTube video by Mick Coyle
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/06/2025
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
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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thank you, Australia.
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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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
Women awaiting the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 30/01/2025
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
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.'
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
'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
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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
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John Maiden @johnmaiden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
@graceheaton.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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...
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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.
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/01/2025
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
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."
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
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
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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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
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Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth-Century Britain
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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...
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‘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
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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries. #dishist #disability www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...
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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 ...
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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-... - delighted to have led collaboratively on these projects!
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
remembering my Wednesday evening while working on my Saturday morning - Bellowhead, Oxford
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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I also get precious little writing time, alas, but have been hawking this chapter today as my main recent bit of work peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...
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Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century
Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way of seeing how communities of thought and disc…
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Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here for the craic
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