1886 COLONIAL & INDIAN EXHIBITION: objects, questions, repercussions. FREE conference online/in-person @StHughesCollege University of Oxford Jun 24 2024 Speakers inc Kate Nichols Uni of Birmingham & Little Shark The University of Manchester Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1886-col… Kew Gardens Library and Archives MGHG

And of course George Eliot visited Broadstairs - 'I shall not ruin myself by staying a month unless I commit excesses in coffee and sugar.' kent-maps.online/19c/19c-eliot-…

An interesting resource, esp. for those who enjoyed Ruth Livesey’s #FindingMiddlemarch 🔎project…

Our second doctoral focal call launches in 2025 and we're seeking ideas for the theme.

We want to hear from a range of people in the research landscape across sectors, roles and career stages.

Share your idea here: orlo.uk/2nkot

Don't forget the CFP deadline is this Thursday (1 Feb)! This year BAVS is participating in EVENT2024 rather than holding its usual annual conference - UK hubs are spread across the country, come present in Belfast, Cardiff, Hawarden, Lancaster, or Stirling in September.

The deadline for proposal submissions is quickly approaching! Submit a proposal for the September face-to-face hub events by February 1, 2024 at EVENT2024.org/call-for-papers.

#SEED #DIPLOMACY : THE MILLENNIUM SEED BANK & THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING #SUSTAINABLY Supervised by Klaus Dodds RHULGeography & Dr Elinor Breman Kew Science Overseas fieldwork & placements. More: royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/… EOIs by 22 Dec 2023

Please do spread the word. I regard this as one of the most important pieces of research of my career and delighted to be collaborating with Judith Harford and Dr Deirdre Foley on this work. We're interested in speaking with family members as well as women personally affected

Noreen Masud Oxford Brookes Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) and affiliates are writing to OBU governors, but this will keep happening. We need to support colleagues, and get the right information about our subjects over to the public. Arts and Hums lead to great jobs and are inherently worthwhile #EnglishCreates

I’m so grateful to Open Library of Humanities all 19_Birkbeck & esp Dr Nicola Kirkby for this ed & everything this journal continues to represent for our field. My article on a strange affinity between reading Trollope’s Barchester & living through change management in 2021…

Fully-funded PhD for UK/international applicants: 'Goods inwards, goods outwards: mapping plant mobilities using Kew Gardens’ historic records'. Superb supervisory team & big research questions combining digital humanities & global history. Closes 22 Jan: sww-ahdtp.ac.uk/collaborative-…

We’re delighted to introduce the latest issue of 19: ‘Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures’.

Guest edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Nicola Kirkby, this issue brings C19th projects into dialogue w/ critical infrastructure studies

Read it here:

19.bbk.ac.uk

Buzzing to introduce our issue of 19 on Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures
19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/info/
Joanna Hofer-Robinson 19_Birkbeck Ana Parejo Vadillo David McAllister

This was a fantastic event bringing together #ECR colleagues from across the University for a collective voice & identifying what matters in building our future & our research culture. Massive thx Maryammjd Jonny Paul Marcela Acuna Rivera & all @royalholloway

🎥Royal Holloway’s innovative storytelling unit, StoryFutures and partner University of Surrey named as a new UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in AI for Digital Media Inclusion | Royal Holloway royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/…

Coming later this month - this amazing-looking event featuring our CVC colleague James. Booking via the The Eccles Centre.

The conference might seem niche, but it brings together many themes and questions, from periodical studies, journalism studies, literature, cultural history, cultural geography, art history ...

And remember, it's magazines not newspapers, and regional, not local or national!

Serious joy tonight: talk, exhibition & exceptional concert Royal College of Music result of Arts and Humanities Research Council collab w Royal Holloway RHUL GeoHumanities Peter Adey on Music, Mobility & Migration. Research & practice showing musicians as makers in and of society. musicmigrationmobility.com

We don’t have favourite alumna, but if we did Margaret Partridge would totally be in a medal position. A founding member of the Women's Engineering Society and the Electrical Association for Women, she not only helped change the law, she also changed lives.

Would be delighted if you could join me at noon on Saturday 1 Oct, for a walk ‘n’ talk on how the Old Nichol morphed into the Boundary St housing estate. £10. Meet at Brick Lane Books
Full deets here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/sunday…