Just found this in my pigeonhole! Perfect timing to accompany this month’s blogpost. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2024/…

This month’s blogpost reflects on an event celebrating the life of the renowned historian and ‘model citizen’ John Pocock, who died in December 2023. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2024/…

Really enjoyed recording this and honoured to join a great series on the radical north - thanks Biographicon

So very well deserved Leanne. I am absolutely delighted for you. You have persevered through Covid and much more. I hope you take lots of opportunities to celebrate your achievement.

Yesterday I passed my Viva🥳! Thank you Dr Katie East & Dr. Rachel Foxley for a great discussion which, despite my nerves, I did enjoy. Massive thanks to my supervisors Rachel Hammersley & Dr Adam Morton for your endless support throughout my journey #PhDone

I’m going to be insufferable this week: because THE BOOK FORGER comes out on Thursday!! Order it now and you’ll have 321 pages of bookish skulduggery and detection to enjoy over the weekend. Some early praise (my ego needs it): x.com/JosephHone_/st…

It was an absolute pleasure Tom. A rich, scholarly thesis and an eloquent defence. I am delighted for you and honoured to have participated. I hope you are able to appreciate your immense achievement as it sinks in.

Though it has happened as a fluke of train timetables and though I am only passing through, spending half an hour in Geneva, where my late husband lived as a child, feels special. Hope to return one day with our children.

With a general election due this year, I have been thinking, in my latest blog, about how our current political system compares to C18 reform proposals. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2024/…

What do citizens need to know and how can history contribute to citizenship education? My blogpost this month reflects on a workshop held at Newcastle University on this theme. Dr Katie East rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2024/…

Very grateful to the participants at yesterday's Political Education workshop - & to those who helped facilitate the event. The discussions were fantastic - even better - we have plans for our next steps. Dr Katie East HA_Palin LambHeartTea (she/her) Speaking Citizens Dr Leanne Smith

It is indeed! The timing is great too as the workshops relating to the exhibition are now available to book via Eventbright: Images of Power > eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-ima…
Books as Physical Objects > eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-boo…

In the new year spirit, January's blogpost looks back to the exhibition that brings an end to our Experiencing Political Texts project & forward to what comes next. tinyurl.com/2v9v596s Dr Katie East National Library of Scotland Arts and Humanities Research Council History at Newcastle

Very excited to be visiting our exhibition National Library of Scotland The purple cushions made me smile. Dr Katie East Arts and Humanities Research Council History at Newcastle

Advance notice of the Encountering Political Texts exhibition that opens next week at the National Library of Scotland - and a little taster, especially for fans of Thomas Hollis tinyurl.com/32966m3w

This book arose out of some of the most productive workshops I have experienced, organised by ⁦Dr Gaby Mahlberg⁩ & Thomas Munck. I can’t wait to see it in print. routledge.com/Ideas-Across-B…

An exciting cfp from my excellent colleague Adam Morton on visual and material culture in early modern British history networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

Is ignorance used to perpetrate oppression? This month's blogpost considers Edmund Burke's dismissive reference to a swinish multitude & its subsequent subversion by radicals to advocate for political education. rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2023/…

Great to hear Professor Ann Laura Hughes, and Ken Loach & Sixteen Films discussing Winstanley on Radio 4’s Great Lives - having been alerted to it by Pick of the Week. Will be recommending it to my students.

How does living in a digital age affect how we experience early modern political texts? This month's blogpost summarises our 3rd Experiencing Political Texts workshop at which we explored this theme & enjoyed delicious EPT cakes! tinyurl.com/kvr5nbzn Dr Katie East