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Ruth Slatter

@ruthslatter.bsky.social
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Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vch-home.bsky.social | www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatt…

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Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive. 'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒
Montage of front covers from Salvation Army newspapers, The War Cry and The Social Gazette
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Really pleased to see another part of @hannahworthen.bsky.social & my research into #Methodist #women published. This article is all about Over the Rainbow. A craft-led anti-apartheid campaign organised by Methodist women www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain
Between 1989 and 1990 grassroots members of the Methodist women’s movement in Britain made, displayed, and exchanged an anti-apartheid ribbon. Constructed of hundreds of individual panels made by l...
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Really looking forward to being part of this event about Women & Methodism (past & present) at Wesley Memorial Church, Ox, in May. Everyone welcome, more info & registration link here: woxresearch.co.uk/events/
19th century photo of female students in large Victorian dresses, with name of the event: Women & Methodism: Contested Identities, Past & Present.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This looks like a fantastic seminar using GIS to reconstruct forgotten #volunteer networks in 19th C #London. Online, 6pm, 09.02.26 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Mapping the invisible: Using GIS to reconstruct forgotten volunteer networks in 19th-century London
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This looks like a fantastic PhD opportunity, engaging with amazing historical archives & exploring such important questions. Please share with anyone interested in #genderhistory history of #livedexperience, history of #religion www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you’re in the London and love the study of local histories, this looks very cool
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Have you researched a place’s history? Would you like support to turn your research material into a video? Check out these 2 free events in @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @ihr.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit... www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/digit...
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Digital Storytelling for Local History (London)
Are you interested in local history? Do you have photographs, stories, archival material, memories about somewhere - perhaps a local pub, church, school, or area. In this workshop you will be taught h...
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research. Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Geography #AREAjournal
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...
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Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online   - On History
In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British…
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A new VCH volume available @bho.bsky.social - for more detail, please have a read of this blog from our co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social:
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Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online   - On History
In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British Histo...
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Historic Environment:London Senate House
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Brilliant news as my exceptional colleague, @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, is made Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social. It's a privilege to work with Claire as she ensures the IHR is a supportive, inspiring & inclusive home for all #historians www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow
IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries. Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more: #Skystorians #LocalHistory
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Learn about the Victoria County History of Kent.
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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"You Can't Sit With Us": Austen's Lady Karens and the British Slave Trade
CHPPC Layers of London Map
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events
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RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK
Events | RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
*NEW BOOK* (yes, the second in a fortnight). Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social. #LocalHistory #Skystorians
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Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre, edited by Jean Morrin — Hobnob Press
Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
You can buy Cradley online from @uolpress.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic... But not only from there! [cont.]
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The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Cradley - University of London Press
Scenic and rural, the parish of Cradley stretches down westwards from the Malvern Hills, bordered by Worcestershire to the north and east. It is one of the largest parishes in Herefordshire, and from ...
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening. The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience. We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]
A book, 'Cradley', by Anastaisia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes, with a cover featuring a timber framed building in an autumnal landscape. The gable end of the same building, Cradley parish hall, formerly the church ale hall, built in the 15th century is the backdrop, below a deep blue sky.The authors, Anastasia Stylianou (left), in a long dress, smiling, and Fergus Eskola-Oakes, wearing a blue shirt and black jeans, holding their book against the backdrop of Cradley parish hall, a timber framed building which is also on the cover.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
In Herefordshire, like all out VCH counties, work is dependent on the support of volunteers and donations. To learn more about the project and how to support it, please see our website. #Skystorians
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Herefordshire
Learn about the Victoria County History of Herefordshire.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW BOOK! We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest book from our colleagues in Herefordshire - Cradley is a large parish beneath the Malvern hills, joining VCH Shorts on Eastnor, Colwall, and Bosbury. Buy direct from @uolpress.bsky.social, or (soon!) from bookshops in #Ledbury. 🗃️
Cover of The Victoria History of Herefordshire, Cradley. Grey title band with, below, an image of a timber framed building against a backdrop of trees in autumn yellows.
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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
For all you locals, the archivist at the Diocese of Cleveland is really nice and has been extremely helpful for my grad students doing research on old Irish history in Cleveland and the like.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This was a brilliant session. I learnt so much about how Catholic archives have(n’t) been curated & where to look for documents for place-based research. Hugely grateful to @catholicrs.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social & #LawrenceGregory for sharing their wisdom.
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇
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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My @vchlondon.bsky.social #PartnershipPublication on the history of Langley Burrell, Wilts has been called ‘excellent’ by the reviewer!!! Out July. It threw me so many great anecdotes, not least the lust loving c17 church minister who I absolutely loved writing about (maybe a bit too much). 😁
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A little window into a distant past courtesy of a bit of editing I'm doing on a book for @vchlondon.bsky.social on #Loughborough. Women's internationals were played at Loughborough for five years ending in 2013. A lot of familiar names, some still playing today, but what a different context.
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ENG-W vs PAK-W Cricket Scorecard, 2nd ODI at Loughborough, July 03, 2013
Get cricket scorecard of 2nd ODI, ENG-W vs PAK-W, Pakistan Women tour of England 2013 at Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough dated July 03, 2013.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The lengths our researchers go to…!
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’m really looking forward to chairing this session in a couple of weeks time. Tre is an innovative ECR who is asking important new questions across various aspects of his research into Black communities in the history of Britain’s rural spaces.
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is happening tomorrow 28.05.25. Online only. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Always amazing to celebrate the work of our @vchlondon.bsky.social network. Sarah’s hard work recruiting & training VCH volunteers & researching & writing VCH histories is just one of many examples of how the VCH increasing uses collaborative methods to produce authoritative & trusted histories.
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
So exciting to see @lrylandepton.bsky.social ‘s hard work collaborating with local communities to simultaneously produce @vchlondon.bsky.social red books & community focused publications recognised & celebrated last week.
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Sarah is the sort of person that makes @vchlondon.bsky.social a special outfit to work for. She's a fine scholar, indefatigable organiser, patient and generous with her support to volunteers, fellow authors and the project more generally (yes, she's also a friend). [1/2]
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#DidYouKnow - we rely on a lot of hidden labour to support volunteers, research, write, edit, fundraise and to keep the show on the road. As such, we have awards for outstanding achievement. Among this year's recipients, Dr Sarah Rose of @lancasteruni.bsky.social, for her work with VCH Cumbria. 🗃️
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Lancaster historian honoured with VCH Outstanding Contribution Award - Lancaster University
Dr Sarah Rose has received a prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award from the Victoria County History (VCH) of England in recognition of her transformative work with the VCH of Cumbria.
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A pleasure to share this wonderful news - and a lovely photo of a very happy occasion. Congratulations to Dr Sarah Rose of @lancasteruni.bsky.social & VCH #Cumbria on her #VCH Outstanding Contribution Award - the 'Gold Blue Peter Badge' of @vchlondon.bsky.social. It was an honour to make the award.
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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
For some reason @vchlondon.bsky.social have decided I have made an ‘outstanding contribution’ 😱 to the project and awarded me 👇
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It was an honour to make this award to Louise, in recognition of her wonderful work for the Victoria County #History in #Gloucestershire and #Wiltshire, and her generosity in mentoring and supporting others across the project. Congratulations, Louise! @vchlondon.bsky.social
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Hobnob Press @hobnobpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We could not be prouder to publish this fantastic book on behalf of our friends at Hampshire VCH! A huge congratulations to them for this great piece of local history. #VCHPartnershipPublications @vchlondon.bsky.social www.hobnobpress.co.uk/books/p/basi...
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Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre, edited by Jean Morrin — Hobnob Press
Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We first covered Basingstoke in 1907 when, as was the pattern at that time, we were concerned with the lord or the manor, church and charities. This book tracks the 19th century transformation of the town from a market town, to an industrial and transport hub more recognisable to modern residents.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Really looking forward to this online event. My PhD student #JustinMuchnick will be sharing brand new research into the classical curriculum at Phillips Andover & Exeter Academies in the late 18th & 19th centuries. Exciting discoveries with practical implications for those teaching classics today.
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social
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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: Thames Barge Stories
A fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship between the National Maritime Museum and Royal College of Art from October 2025, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme.
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"The rise and decline of mainstream churches in Cambridge since the 1800s" lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/t... I wrote this back in 2016 - a little piece of local 'town' history. #LostCambridge.
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The rise and decline of mainstream churches in Cambridge since the 1800s
Summary Looking locally at a national trend over the decades – and how this was reflected in Cambridge. I’m attempting to examine this from the perspective of an historian rather than t…
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The closure of churches is such a difficult topic fraught with emotion. But when church closures are necessary how could/should their histories be preserved? This & much more was discussed in this round table 👇Recording now available!
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Inspired by the #ChurchofScotlands plans to sell 40-50% of its church buildings by 2027, this session brought together researchers & those at the front line of church closure across the UK to discuss how histories & stories of churches & their communities could/should be preserved. Worth a watch.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We’re really looking forward to the next FREE training session in our series about placed-based #religious #history beyond the parish church. Join us & the @catholicrs.bsky.social online next Wednesday 7th May 2-4pm. Sign up using the link below 👇
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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Fantastic day yesterday in #Newcastle with colleagues from @uhihistory.bsky.social, @newcastleuni.bsky.social, @vchlondon.bsky.social, public & community history groups from Scotland & England.
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