This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. ππ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈποΈ
02.12.2025 18:41 β π 23 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Yesterday Prof. Julie-Marie Strange organised an event to mark World AIDS Day with Dr Rupert Whitaker OBE, co-founder of Terrence Higgins Trust, here with Dr David Minto and colleagues from Durham County Council and The Story
02.12.2025 13:58 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day β 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
24.11.2025 16:53 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
From sick leave to bereavement leave, Drs Alex Brown and @graceowen.bsky.social from our @durhamhistory.bsky.social have been exploring the surprising workplace benefits available in Medieval times. Find out more π www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...
26.11.2025 13:00 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
In conversation with Rupert Whitaker: a special event to mark World AIDS Day β 6pm 1 December 2025, Durham University Waterside Building
pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...
24.11.2025 16:53 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Prof @richardhuzzey.bsky.social & Dr David Minto, from @durhamhistory.bsky.social, have been researching the life & legacy of Sam Green, thought to be the first openly gay politician elected in the UK.
Now there's a blue plaque in his memory:
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
17.11.2025 16:06 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Cambridge Core - European Studies - The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
One for urban historians... The new Cambridge Urban History of Europe is out soon, including chapters by Durham historians Christian Liddy (vol. 2) and Markian Prokopovych (vol. 3):
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
@cambridge.org
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π§Our next History Department Research Seminar will be delivered by Dr Alexandra Sapoznik (Kings College London) on Wednesday 19 November, Elvet Riverside 142, 3.30β5pm. The title is 'Cheese in the Medieval Mediterranean: Environment, Trade, and Cultureβ. All welcome! π§
14.11.2025 16:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
p.s. Just spotted apologies for the typo Rachael! @latemedievalist.bsky.social
07.11.2025 12:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tom Hamilton reΓ§oit le prix Natalie Zemon Davis pour son trΓ¨s trΓ¨s grand livre. Un chef dβΕuvre dβanthropologie judiciaire qui Γ©claire la sortie des guerres de religion: palpitant et virtuose. On ne pouvait rΓͺver mieux pour ce beau prix !
03.11.2025 20:08 β π 36 π 17 π¬ 1 π 1
The chronological and geographical survival of manorial accounts, which include allowances for infirmity on the Ramsey Abbey estate.
'Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England' β new article by Grace Owen, Alex Brown, and Tudor Skinner in the Journal of British Studies bit.ly/4hrVxCs (with colourful charts too!)
28.10.2025 14:54 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Education for Preservation?
A groundbreaking new examination of federal Indian boarding schools in the New Deal era and the threats it posed to Indigenous sovereignty, from the old dang...
πΊ Congratulations to Gabby Treglia, it's publication day for her book *Education for Preservation: Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933β1945*! π
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
21.10.2025 13:47 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
AD-X2: When US Politicians Took on Science
Joe Martin has a new article out in History Today! The dismissal of a government scientist over the unproven battery additive AD-X2 galvanised the American scientific community in the 1950s
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
20.10.2025 10:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930sβ1970s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930sβ1970s - Volume 64
Massive congratulations to our wonderful @liamliburd.bsky.social for the publication of his new article "The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930sβ1970s" in The Journal of British Studies. πhttps://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2025.10129
17.10.2025 14:10 β π 20 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!
π28/10 15:00
@eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social
08.10.2025 15:33 β π 7 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life - Durham University
History and art combine to bring hidden stories of Black communities to life β featuring our colleagues Amanda Herbert and Liam Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social with Heworth Grange School in Gateshead
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
14.10.2025 14:32 β π 9 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya
Abstract. The colonial state in Kenya offered its African subjects a novel tool for imagining a future life. The Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) was meant
From the current issue: "Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya"
by Christian Velasco (CIDE, Ciudad de MΓ©xico) and Justin Willis (@durhamhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
04.08.2025 07:02 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Huge congratulations to @hibbertsalex.bsky.social for the publication of a new article in the @royalhistsoc.org journal 'Transactions'!
Alex's article is available here: doi.org/10.1017/S008...
See also the blog post that Alex has written to mark its release: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/07/27/f...
29.07.2025 09:29 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
DC Watt Prize β Transatlantic Studies Association
DC WATT PRIZE
Huge congratulations to our student Ben Sharp for winning the DC Watt Prize with the Transatlantic Studies Association (TSA). Ben's paper will now be published as an article in the TSA's Journal of Transatlantic Studies. π₯³
More info can be found here: www.transatlanticstudies.com/dc-watt-prize
27.07.2025 08:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The event will be followed by a postgraduate workshop on 'From the Archive to the Screen: The Opportunities, Process and Pitfalls of Performing History in Public', 10.00-11.30, Elvet Riverside ER152
24.06.2025 08:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We're excited that Amanda Vickery is coming to Durham this Thursday 26 June to talk about 'Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945β1970'
All welcome! Takes place at 15.30-17.00 in Elvet Riverside ER140
24.06.2025 08:37 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by BBC World Service
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? - BBC World Service
Why does Hitler still cast a shadow over the world? Benedetta Carnaghi (@benecarnaghi.bsky.social) features in this BBC feature: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXM...
16.06.2025 15:33 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Social and medical historian | pt PhD 16thC English medicine, networks and recipes. Tudor living history with Linstock and Pledget and garden enthusiast.
Nag Hammadi PhD-er at Durham. Currently working on the Tripartite Tractate (send help).
Usually found crying into a Coptic dictionary or trying to adopt my friendsβ pets.
Exploring Britainβs war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
She/her, fledgling postdoctoral medievalist based in Sheffield interested in loyalty, rebellion, rulership, protection, mobility, practices of law & materiality in the 14-15C.
Medievalist interested in 12th century frontiers, particularly Yorkshire and Northumberland. PhD from the University of Hull, Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hull City fan.
All views my own, not those of my employer.
Veteran, local historian and genealogist
Postgraduate Researcher @ University of Leeds. Interested in Britainβs Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 'Liberated Africans', St Helena, Migration and Atlantic History. Currently teaching 'Global Empires'.
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
History at Northumbria University combines quality teaching with a vibrant research culture. #TakeOnYesterday
Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Weather Reconstruction. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/alexander-hibberts/
PhD History student @QUB. Research incl. the Irish Diaspora in Wales, England and Zimbabwe, transnational networks within the Irish Carmelites + female Catholic religious institutions. Previously at Aberystwyth University
Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Fellow at CHAM, Lisbon | Alumni EUI | Historian of Eighteenth Century Iberian Worlds | Spanish Louisiana | Colonial Mozambique | #MobilityHistory, #PoliticalEcology, #GlobalHistory, #BlueHumanities, | My own views πΊπ¦π΅πΈ | He/him
PhD Researcher. Durham University.
Studying the readership of early modern English Catholic women, lay and religious, and their book networks. π
Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University⬠(mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Docteur en Histoire @EHESS_fr/@MondAmericains | lβAmΓ©rique latine dans les relations internationales au XXe siΓ¨cle / la Colombie dans la SociΓ©tΓ© des Nations. Histoire connectΓ©e des relations internationales 1919-1939
PhD Theology candidate at Durham University researching the paratext of Codex Amiatinus, exploring palaeography, philology and manuscript cultures.
