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Our next free event coming up!
Whose South Downs? Creative and critical explorations of Sussex landscapes and seascapes.
Wed 30 Oct 2024 at 14:00, @SussexUni Meeting House. More info and tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-sou…
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Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research retweeted
We're still in #Eurovision2025 week, so:
Dear @Eurovision @EBU_HQ @EBU_Policy @bbceurovision...
a) well done!
b) you may like this Substack about the BBC's 1st voice Arthur Burrows his pre-WW2 #Eurovision vision
(c) psst... let's make a prog about him!)
open.substack.com/pub/paulke…
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23 May 2025
🗨️Join Professor Elizabeth Kiely (UCC), Chair of
@OralHist_ie in conversation with renowned lace maker Veronica Stuart at The Glucksman Gallery in Cork, discussing 'Lace, Life and Lore'.
Tuesday 27 May 2025, 1-2pm. Admission free.
@glucksman #UCC
glucksman.org/events/in-conv…
ALT Lace Miniature fans made by Veronica Stuart. Image from: https://www.glucksman.org Veronica Stuart in conversation with Professor Elizabeth Kiely, 27.05.2025 1pm The Glucksman.
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22 May 2025
🌱Engage with more-than-human entanglements in storytelling at this hybrid symposium
10–11 June
The Buttery @WolfsonCollege & Online
Register: shorturl.at/tfzvu🌱
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23 May 2025
Very pleased to be able to talk about this now. Along with several of my distinguished friends and colleagues in the colour world, I have contributed to this new podcast series #StoriesinColour by the @NationalGallery London. Launches 28 May 2025.
23 May 2025
How has colour changed the world? 'Stories in Colour' is a vibrant new podcast from the National Gallery ✨
Uncover the hidden mysteries woven into colour from antiquity to the present day. Launching 28 May, available wherever you get your podcasts: bit.ly/3H5LdC4
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23 May 2025
📢CALL FOR PAPERS: @PRONI_DFC will host an Irish Studies conference on 7 November in Belfast, marking 100 years of the 1925 Irish Boundary Commission Report. The event will also focus on the topic of partition, its roots and its impact. Learn more below.
nidirect.gov.uk/articles/192…
ALT CALL FOR PAPERS: To mark 100 years since the 1925 Irish Boundary Commission Report, PRONI (Public Record Office of Northern Ireland) will host an Irish Studies conference in Belfast on November 7 to discuss the 1925 report, the partition of Ireland, its origins, and its impact.
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23 Mar 2025
"I founded the association [to prove] that women are not the ‘ornamental and useless’ creatures men have pictured."
The British Ladies’ Football Club, founded by Nettie Honeyball, played its first public match #OnThisDay 1895 in front of 11,000 spectators at Crouch End, London.
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21 Mar 2025
💙🕊️ Join us for a symposium celebrating the life & work of Professor Catherine Will, who passed away in 2024. Her contributions shaped fields like health, sociology, social justice & more.
🗓 April 14 | ⏰ 11am-6:30pm | 📍 Attenborough Centre
🔗 Sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/catherine…
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19 Mar 2025
We've had a great response to our request for wedding dresses, wedding pictures etc for an exhibition being planned for the summer.
You have sent pictures, stories, all sorts of things - keep it up!
All emails and photos to office@rth.org.uk.
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Coming up on 27 March, Hove, Curious Histories: Charity History Talk:
A Moustache Makes Him More of a Man
Before the First World War, wearing a moustache was a vexed question in the UK's restaurant trade. Dr Rosalind Eyben takes up this hair-raising tale.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/heroes-an…
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21 Feb 2025
Neil Gower, internationally acclaimed graphic artist and literary cartographer who has created maps for works by Simon Armitage, Jilly Cooper and Kazuo Ishiguro among others, is our next speaker. Don’t miss him on Tuesday 25 Feb, All Saints Centre, Lewes, 7.30pm (doors 7pm.)
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20 Feb 2025
🚨Reminder: Registration for the Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop with Prof Colin Jones on 28 Feb closes tomorrow at 9:00 am. Don't miss out!🚨
📍 @engfac , 10:30–12:30
🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/Pl85L
@VoltaireOxford @MFOxford @OxfordModLangs @TORCHOxford
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14 Feb 2025
What a fab day I had @WarwickHistory @uniofwarwick helping local Coventry children with their learning about #lego #suffragette & #Coventry #Votesforwomen campaigners - printing bags, doing drama & a VR suffrage #museum. Thanks to brill colleagues for helping make this happen!
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16 Feb 2025
From Cold War Berlin to today, Susan Neiman shares her experiences as an American Jew in Germany. In conversation with Mary Fulbrook for OCLW’s Jewish Women’s Voices & @jlfbookweek 🗓 2 March, 17:00 📍 Kings Place, London 🎟 £15 shorturl.at/XGaav
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Free talk: ‘Lives in Colour: Pioneering Women in Colour History’ by Dr Alexandra Loske @Saschaloske
Friday, 10 January, 6–7pm, Kingston Museum
This accompanies the exhibition K-Women: Celebrating Korean Female Artists @4482_sasapari.
Info and booking: kingstonheritage.org.uk/home…
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6 Dec 2024
The Copper Family, Sussex’s folk singing dynasty, are celebrated in a new exhibition in partnership with Sussex Retold, a project led by Margaretta Jolly with the support of Sam Carroll, which explores the histories, heritage and landscapes of Sussex.
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/libraryco…
ALT Three people stood looking at the Scholars of Simplicity exhibition
ALT A lit lantern being held in the dark
ALT A group of people at The Swan Inn
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Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research retweeted
22 Nov 2024
1 week left to apply for our voluntary Digital Content Officer (Trustee) vacancy! Passionate about digital content? Wish to gain experience in governance and leadership? We would love to hear from you.
8 Nov 2024
Join our Board of Trustees as a Digital Content Officer!
Perfect for those aiming to grow their #digitalcontent career or gain governance and leadership experience.
Further info: ohs.org.uk/volunteering-oppo…
Closing Date: 29/11/24
#SocialMedia #VolunteerOpportunity
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24 Nov 2024
"Lost Villas of Georgian Brighton" The Regency Society invites you to the book launch of its latest publication.
Tuesday 26 Nov, 6pm - 7pm at Fabrica, Duke Street, BN1 1AG. Books on sale at £15.00. (Cover price £19.95) Pay bar.
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22 Nov 2024
A Century of Brighton History: From Our Archive
“Our Dad bought a loaf of bread for Uncle Charlie's children... and Father wept.”
Explore family and kindness in 1920s Brighton with Sid Manville’s Our Small Corner. 🏡
📖 Read here: rebrand.ly/QueenSparkArchive
#BrightonHistory
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Features the @CLHLWR @SussexUniMAH research project 'Lives in Colour: Pioneering women in colour history'. sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/research…
23 Nov 2024
My life in colour: On Tuesday 26 Nov (very early in the morning in England), I will be talking online about 'Fifteen years of spinning colour wheels and analysing dragons'
Canberra Colour Club/The Colour Society of Australia. More tickets just released coloursociety.org.au/event-5…
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22 Nov 2024
Black Histories: Vol 1, No 1-2 is out now! This includes my essay “When home is a hostile environment: voices of the Windrush generation and their descendants”, originally delivered at the Oral History Society’s annual conference on Home in 2022. tandfonline.com/toc/rbhi20/1…
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