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Sophia Lambert

@sophialambert100.bsky.social
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PhD student and budding historian of Anglo-Jewish history; Leeds history; cemeteries; social, urban and spatial history; writer; museums. LBU alumni.

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Sophia Lambert @sophialambert100.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm giving a paper at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social on Tuesday 28th April at 4:15pm based on my research into the early history of cremation in the Bradford Reform Jewish community. The talk will also be live streamed. Please message me if you'd like the link to join!
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
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Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online
This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Chag Pesach Sameach 🎉 Passover begins this week, when Jewish people take part in the seder, reading their Haggadah, which sets out the order for the meal. Read about six Haggadahs from our network's collections here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/pesach-... #Passover #JewishFestivals
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Pesach/Passover: Show us your Haggadah! - hiddentreasurenew
To celebrate Passover, we asked the organisations in our Hidden Treasures network to send us a favourite Haggadah from their collections.
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Sophia Lambert @sophialambert100.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Delighted to share that my latest blog post for the @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social is live. The post sheds light on a treasure trove of material relating to the Bradford Reform Jewry that I uncovered at the community's synagogue. @jewishhistorical.bsky.social
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Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Looking for sources relating to verticality and/or extractive penetration (queer focus) on #MiningHist #EnvHist Any suggestions most happily welcome!
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
📣New blog! Sophia Lambert (@sophialambert100.bsky.social) on 'Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935' #History #Memorial #Migration #Bradford 19thc 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
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Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935
Until reading this blog, many of you have probably never heard of the Bradford Reform Jewish community. They are Britain’s third oldest Reform Jewish community and are still active today. Bra…
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Hampshire Archives Trust @harchivestrust.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨New blog post!🚨 Learn more about #Hampshire’s #Jewish community in this piece by Immy Tozer, who writes about the Historic Jewish Hampshire project as part of her fellowship with with @parkesinstitute.bsky.social ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/blog...
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Historic Jewish Hampshire – Exploring the Hidden Jewish History on your Doorstep - Hampshire Archive Trust
When considering Jewish sites in the UK, both religious and historical, most people would think of London or Manchester as the most significant locations. The
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Sophia Lambert @sophialambert100.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Read my latest blog about the German epitaphs on the headstones in Yorkshire's oldest Reform Jewish cemetery. My findings are based on my current research into the headstones of German Jewish immigrants in Bradford. tinyurl.com/2wv5kecc @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social
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Crossing Borders: Expressing National Identity Through Headstones in the Bradford Reform Jewish Cemetery, 1877 to 1935
Until reading this blog, many of you have probably never heard of the Bradford Reform Jewish community. They are Britain’s third oldest Reform Jewish community and are still active today. Bra…
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Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hanukkah Sameach! For the fifth night of Hanukkah, University of Leeds Library Special Collections have got some party invites for us 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 📷 Leeds Jewish History #Hanukkah #Archives
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JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📣 CfP: New Generation Group Conference “Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation”, UCL, Mon 11 May 2026. 20-min papers on how Jewish lives & stories are voiced, imagined & recorded. 300-word abstract + 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 Feb 2026. #JewishStudies
Call for Papers poster for the New Generation Group, Jewish Historical Society of England, at UCL. Conference title: ‘Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation’, 11 May 2026. Text notes themes around how Jewish lives and stories are told, plus sample topics and instructions to submit a 300-word abstract and 100-word bio to jhse.ngg@gmail.com by 15 February 2026.
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