Our postgraduate Public History Prize is back!

This year's prize is one year’s free membership of the SHS, a showcase on our Community Exchange and a £300 cash prize.

The deadline is 17 May 2024. Full details in the link:

socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/public-…

Amazing to visit UVA, one inspirational model for @UCL in the 1820s, esp the secular, neo-classical academical village. History taken seriously here including recent acknowledgment of the role of enslaved labour in constructing and running the university UCL Alumni IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society

Are you a London student with a collection of books, magazines, or other printed and/or manuscript items you’re passionate about?

Then apply for the Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize by May 5th and win £600!

Find out more: ucl.ac.uk/library/collec…

The Burgon Society James I and VI invited the English universities to send burgesses to parliament, a practice which lasted 350 years. In its final form, graduates had a extra vote for university constituencies using proportional representation to chose MPs.

wonkhe.com/blogs/the-hist…

Now online: a review dossier dedicated to Daniel Laqua’s book Activism across Borders since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (London, 2023), featuring comments by four historians and a response from the author. t.ly/iTYWt

Good to see the International Review of Social History review dossier about Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders come out on FirstView, with Georgina Brewis, Constance Bantman, Mark Hurst, Nicole Robertson & of course Daniel Laqua HistoriesOfActivism - cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#twitterstorians !

Is this you thinking about what to do next?
DOES consultancy hold the answer?!

Join us online @ 6-8pm on 12-13 March to find out!

See shorturl.at/fikLS for more details and to register, and shorturl.at/bfguA to meet some of our lovely speakers.

New post: On International Women's Day, historian and local resident, Jane Skelding considers the history of the Canning Town Women's Settlement - important precursor to E7's Durning Hall. E7-NowandThen.org

We are launching a new EDI role as part of our executive committee. Members can nominate themselves for this and other positions now.

There is more detail here: socialhistory.org.uk/2024/02/12/edi…

Discover UCL's collection of student magazines dating back to 1830, some of which are on display in the Generation UCL exhibition in the Octagon Gallery
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-collec…

We were pleased to contribute scans of some SSEES student magazine covers to this exhibition... Do look out for them if you are visiting. :)

Call for papers! ICHRE’s 10th free summer conference will be held on 20 June IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society. If you would like to speak on education and social change during any 10 year period, in any international context, see call here. #histed #histchild
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ichre/events/

'...volunteer involvement, requires a principled, theory-driven approach based on knowledge, data and evidence, educational, research and practical skills, as well as on systematic and strategic planning.' link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
Georgina Brewis Dafydd Rhys jones Alasdair Rutherford UEA

Next Wednesday 24 January come along to hear Prof Mark Freeman’s inaugural lecture IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society with response by Georgina Brewis ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202…

Is the British Empire taught about in your school or classroom?
Friends @portraitemb are calling on teacher colleagues in English secondary schools to share their experiences in landmark research.
Pls take part in their UCL University of Oxford national survey redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33… RT

“But, for those who rely on the B.L.’s collections, and, more broadly, its distribution of free, digital information to the British educational system, the ramifications of the cyberattack have been dire.”
Once again, where is the UK in-depth coverage? newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

Merry Christmas from the Generation UCL project! We reflect on the invention of (festive, student) tradition in this blog IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society UCL Alumni Students' Union UCL UCL Special Collections UCL Culture UCL News
studentsunionucl.org/articles/chris…

The link has changed - here is the correct link: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…+

📢Job alert! A wonderful post UCL East campus - Culture Lab and Curator: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/re… 📢