Prof. Catriona Pennell

Research | Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall | University of Exeter

You can watch the full series of videos at our website here: hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/research/

@exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social

YouTube video by University of Exeter Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics

'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.

At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.

Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

You’re wasted as a historian. Off to the Edinburgh Festival with you! 😂

YouTube video by University of Exeter Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...

Mousehole remains as unfazed as always.

Thank you! Hoping I don’t break anything…

And so it begins…first day today as APVC Research & Impact for the Faculty of HASS. Looking forward to working with colleagues across all our ten departments to support their research and impact work. Here’s to a curious, supportive, and kind research culture.

Our problems are not a shortage of money. Our problems are a shortage of humanity.

I think I’ve just vomited a little bit in my mouth.

Very well done on your successful upgrade, Rob! @richardtoye.bsky.social and I will see you next in September.

RHS badges alert!

Sorry not to be there!

Good Letter of the Day in @thetimes.com this morning:

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years Newly restored material from vast archive destroyed in civil war takes in Anglo-Norman conquest and 1798 rebellion

'A pioneering project to fill gaps in Irish history is making 175,000 more records and millions more words of searchable content freely available to researchers and members of the public.' 1/2

The Iraq War at 20: Anniversary Journalism, British Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Closure War anniversaries are important milestones that enable certain understandings of the violent past to be naturalized in the present. This article is the first qualitative analysis of British press c...

Earlier this year @teachlearnwar.bsky.social and myself published an article examining the British media coverage of the Iraq War at the 20th anniversary. I imagine it'll make for some relevant reading today...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#booksky #writingcommunity

Following our visit from the @royalhistsoc.org last month, one of our brilliant students was invited to write a reflective piece on her time studying History and Politics in our interdisciplinary Department of Humanities and Social Sciences @hass-cornwall.bsky.social - what a lovely write-up!

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’ Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

Marci Shore on her emigration from the US:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ah thanks Gary. Was lovely to see you and show you my favourite bookshop. Hope you found a copy of The Mousehole Cat! 🎣🐈‍⬛⛵️

‘They are making young people ill’: is it time to scrap GCSEs? They have shaped the fortunes of young people in the UK for four decades. But now even the former education secretary who introduced these exams wants to see them abolished ...

'“GCSEs are failing the fairness test,” says Lee Elliot Major, a professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter. “We must face up to the stark truth that they reward children not just for what they know, but for the resources their families can draw upon'.

Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel.

Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2

Excellent news.

Very sorry to read this. Stephen Badsey has let Bill know, and it’s gone out via @fwwsoc.bsky.social

‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free

The Belfast News Letter is digitised! If you ignore the bit where someone seems to forget desperate poverty lives with us still, a lovely ode to a newspaper

We were delighted to visit historians @hass-cornwall.bsky.social last week to learn about their many initiative and public partnerships.

Our thanks to @exeter.ac.uk staff and students who attended, and especially Prof Catriona Pennell for hosting the visit. @teachlearnwar.bsky.social #skystorians

Royal Historical Society praise for University’s Cornwall historians The Royal Historical Society (RHS) has praised the quality of history research and teaching taking place at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus in Penryn. The RHS – the UK’s largest and oldest ...

The RHS – the UK’s largest and oldest membership organisation for professional historians – spent two days visiting the University Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall (HaSS Cornwall), last week, meeting staff and students. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

It was a pleasure to showcase the excellent work of our History and Humanities colleagues @hass-cornwall.bsky.social this week during our ‘royal’ visit from @royalhistsoc.org. Particularly lovely that some of our UG finalists in BA (Hons) History and Politics joined us, making us all very proud.

We’re looking forward to welcoming @lucynoakes1.bsky.social and the @royalhistsoc.org to @hass-cornwall.bsky.social - safe travels!

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.

This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell.

Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT

All are very welcome #skystorians