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Sarah Longair

@scl1979.bsky.social
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Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.

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Sasha Smith @sashasmith.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Huge thanks to @scl1979.bsky.social for organising a wonderful day at @kewgardens.bsky.social Herbarium and Library. Amazing papers from historians, and great to see how material culture is being used in more schools, particularly from our HA series. Exploring their archive of objects was so special
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Pleased to see our @htenuk.bsky.social call for minimum bursary payments for all #ITT students gaining some attention. Equity of access to the profession is important for the health of our education system. www.tes.com/magazine/new... #historyteacher #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation
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Teacher supply: why 5 subjects face gloomier forecasts
Why are drama, history, RE, PE and Classics having trainee recruitment targets hiked up when overall teacher supply is improving? Tes speaks to experts to find out
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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me
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Placements for PhD Students
We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract. We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 20/03/2025
We're delighted to announce publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle The Shadow of a Young Woman', by Rachel E Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB Rachel's is latest title in our 'New Historical Perspectives' series with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social 1/3 👇
Book cover of Rachel E. Johnson's 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle. The Shadow of a Young Woman.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 17/03/2025
The Society welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions. Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in museums, heritage, publishing, teaching or public history. For more see bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians
Image of museum curator  with text: 'Associate Fellowship of the 
Royal Historical Society. Applications invited. Next closing dates 
24 March and 26 May 2025'
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Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚨Funding alert🚨: The British Institute in Eastern Africa - where I am part of the research committee - 2025 grant programme is now open for applications! There are opportunities for Writing Fellowships, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants, Workshop Grants, ... biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...
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Call for Applications: BIEA Grant Opportunities 2025-2026  - BIEA
Postdoctoral Writing Grants, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants,  Workshop Grants, Impact Grants, Graduate Attachment Scheme
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New post-doc opportunity at the University of Utrecht researching colonial history of botanical gardens. Looks fascinating www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Good to see this statement from the various professional associations for History about the current crisis in HE, and their support for my department in particular royalhistsoc.org/more-than-ev...
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‘More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach’: a statement | RHS
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We would welcome support from #history colleagues to help @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social hear the absence of #ITT bursaries is a threat to the future of history in schools! @carolinepennock.bsky.social @drfernriddell.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @scl1979.bsky.social
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
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An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/02/2025
'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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Loot and Plunder @andrewheavens.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Another lootplunder review in four posts Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4
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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and...
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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Great to see HA conference programme now available for May 9/10 in Liverpool. I'm delighted to see that Michael Riley is delivering the keynote education lecture on 'Why teaching about the historic environment matters more than ever' www.haconference.com
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Historical Association Conference 2025
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This is all really interesting. Bringing back student number controls won't cost anything, will work to stabilise the hugely-unstable HE sector, and help a lot with other parts of Labour's agenda (as suggested below). But the Government just doesn't seem interested, for no obvious reason at all.
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Carmel Bones @carmelbones.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
@scl1979.bsky.social @sashasmith.bsky.social will get @alcs-uk.bsky.social Reteach History Podcast Series 3 off to a flying start in the spring with their ‘Objects of Empire’ episode! Loved 🥰 the chat! 🎧
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Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/
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Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in History of British Architecture in its Global Contexts 1660-1900 in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/12/2024
The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections. All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
Image of 20 book covers from the Royal Historical Society's New Historical perspectives book series for early career historians.
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Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Very excited about the publication of the 20th book in the RHS New Historical Perspective series, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z ed. by @mariacannon.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social. See their blog about the book here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/11/28/h...
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Histories of Adulthood in Britain and the United States | Historical Transactions
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Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
'State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions,' by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, & Niti Acharya @hisjournalha.bsky.social 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions
This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the present pie...
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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It also links to work History-UK are doing with @histassoc.bsky.social & @htenuk.bsky.social & inc. academics eg. @scl1979.bsky.social. This goes deeper than outreach projects into schools & is about trying to strengthen mutual cross-phase understanding. www.history-uk.ac.uk/collaboratio... 3/
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Collaborations between universities and schools
History UK have been fostering collaborations between universities and schools. The working group are producing support and guidance for those interesting in starting and sustaining collaborations …
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE
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There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision
New British Academy interactive maps reveal cold spots in social sciences, humanities and arts in UK higher education – especially affecting disadvantaged students. Ruairi Cullen explains
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Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...
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Towards a Tibetan Material Culture of Dissent
Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance t...
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Claire Wintle @clairewintle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Looking forward to speaking at this #exhibitions and #museumhistory event from @mghg.bsky.social later this month
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Although reintroduction of student number controls won't solve the crisis, even the very modest step of reintroducing SNCs into the discussion would improve its quality. The resounding silence on this issue impoverishes both systematic understanding of how HE actually works and policy-making. 3/3
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Clemens Villinger @clemensvillinger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The @ghilondon.bsky.social is hiring! Two positions 3+3 years: 1.) Medieval history with a focus on Britain. 2.) Colonial history of the British Empire/Commonwealth. For questions about the positions, please contact the GHI-Director. For detailed job descriptions: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie...
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Vacancies
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Our new blog is with Professor Rachel E. Johnson, whose #OpenAccess book in the New Historical Perspectives series publishes in early 2025. Her book examines the life and death of Masabata Loate, a young woman activist in #SouthAfrica. #OAWeek @ihr.bsky.social uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/refl...
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Reflecting on publishing and research culture - with Professor Rachel E. Johnson - University of London Press
At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the ...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
'we...need to talk about museums, whose opening times are constantly being hacked back, while staff numbers are falling away. Even people who talk up a long record of resilience and creative thinking now fear widespread closures.'
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British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues | John Harris
Brutal cuts to council budgets have decimated museums and forced some to close. We’re at risk of losing our shared memory, writes Guardian columnist John Harris
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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Hi all. We are still looking for teachers to complete our "Teaching Indigenous Presence..." survey. Will build into the exciting project we are doing to develop resources for schools. Please do share if you can #historyteacher #EduSky urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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a cartoon girl is sitting on a bed with the words pretty please written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon girl is sitting on a bed with the words pretty please written on the bottom
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Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
A quick blog on the remains of two long-closed museums on display in a third one: markliebenrood.com/museums/the-... 🗃️
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The Imperial and Commonwealth Institutes at the Design Museum | Mark Liebenrood
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Kew Gardens Library and Archive has a brand new catalogue. www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/
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Kew Archive Catalogue
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
The latest book in our #OpenAccess series with the Royal Historical Society and @ihr.bsky.social, #NewHistoricalPerspectives, is out today. Mapping the State by Martin Spychal rethinks the 1832 Reform Act in the light of a significant new archival discovery. uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping...
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Mapping the State - University of London Press
The 1832 Reform Act was a landmark moment in the development of modern British politics. By overhauling the country’s ancient representative system, the legislation reshaped constitutional arrangement...
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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
This is such a cool idea: Wiley are asking people to nominate their Research Heroes. So, #skystorians why not nominate someone in your department or field. It might help with promotion, be an esteem indicator or simply make someone's day! m.info.wiley.com/webApp/Resea...
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Wiley Research Heroes Prize
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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Good to see @histassoc.bsky.social arrive.
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
The 'high-tariff' University practice of gobbling up as many students as possible puts depts like mine at risk and really limits options for a range of students who e.g. can't move away, have perfectly decent, but not stellar grades, and who need the support we offer. 1/
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Why will no one in a position to do anything about it talk about capping numbers per institution?
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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Really delighted to see this article challenging #historyeducation at university & school #historyteacher s to rethink assessment from UoN's Sarah Holland. #EastMids history teachers who attend our #SIG in March may remember this from our conversations there. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...
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Rethinking assessment: the potential of ‘innovative’ or ‘creative’ assessments in history
Assessment forms an integral part of history education at all levels, throughout school, college and university. The process of assessing and being assessed occupies much time and attention of staff a...
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Uttara @uttara.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Anniversary of the launch of the Quit India movement in 1942. Watching this Fox Movietone newsreel from then. The voiceover and music are a study in themselves. youtu.be/hRvAaNWBQd0?...
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Quit India Movement - 1942 August 9 (footage 1)
YouTube video by PIB India
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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Out now: a new Royal Historical Society blog post by the author of 'Designed for Play', Dr Jon Winder, giving an overview of his #OpenAcess book on the #history of children's playgrounds, published in association with @ihr.bsky.social and the RHS. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/07/11/d...
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Designed for Play: Children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space | Historical Transactions
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.
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Zanzibar coral: How Mnemba islanders are restoring their reef
Conservationists have found a way to restore a reef off one of Zanzibar's islands.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
I highly recommend visiting the excellent 'Paper Cuts' exhibition at Birkbeck's Peltz Gallery, curated by @suryabowyer.bsky.social and open until 12 July. I reviewed it for Apollo magazine here: www.apollo-magazine.com/turnbull-wat...
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Who should we believe about the British Empire? | Apollo Magazine
Drawings and watercolours of India belonging to a Scottish railway engineer take on new meaning if we look for what they don’t show, writes William Carruthers
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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
University crisis. The national media taking more interest now (finally). But still little mention of the removal of the Student Cap in 2015. This is a major cause of the crisis & its reintroduction should be a key part of the solution. And our Union needs to shout much more about this.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
Rich hunting grounds here for those who research English material culture. English Heritage's Architectural Study Collection (some records of which are being digitised):
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The English Heritage collection that is archiving lost London
From door knockers to dado rails, the Architectural Study Collection has more than 7,000 items gathered from London buildings — and it is opening for public tours this year
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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
A kind-of-creepy-but-beautifully-carved bone model of a guillotine, made by a French POW during the Napoleonic Wars. It's on display at The Box, Plymouth's (UK) museum and archive. Unfortunately it was too low for my creaky knees, so I couldn't get a closer photo through the glass case.
A photo of an intricately carved bone model of a guillotine on wheels, showing soldiers along the bottom and top galleries.
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral
Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary...
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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
"The British Empire was an empire OF things and we can effectively explore it THROUGH things." @scl1979.bsky.social 12/
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
"The distinct histories of the devolved nations of the United Kingdom have undergirded their relationships with the broader British imperial project..."
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Traces of Empire in Scotland's Museums
What stories can be told from the material traces of empire in Scotland's museums? Emma Bond on the decolonising initiatives shaping the Scottish heritage sector.
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Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
I'll be speaking on this History UK panel on 6th March with history teacher Sam Jones, teacher trainer David Ingeldew and historian Natasha Hodgson about school-university collaborations. Please join us! www.history-uk.ac.uk/2024/02/08/h...
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History UK Pedagogy Forum – Collaborations Between Schools and Universities
Wednesday 6 March 2024, 4-5.30pm, via Zoom Collaborations between schools and universities are important to both sectors and can take many different forms. Colleagues at schools and universities ha…
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Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Some great PhD opportunities here - including one on place identity and the colonial legacy of street names in in four cities wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
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