Rob Ellis

A picture of a restaurant called Taqueria. The words in the post refer to lyrics from a song by the Arctic Monkeys.

Put one of these on a roof once. It was well reviewed. Four stars out of five. And that’s unheard of.

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The entrance to the London Archive in Clerkenwell, London.

Signs for the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Museum of the Mind in south London.

A former hospital building from the 1930s which now houses the Museum of the Mind at Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Been on a bit of a world tour of London as part of the Asylum: Refugees and Mental Health project. Really looking forward to uncovering some new histories and working with our partners on the various engagement and impact opportunities.

Announcement for a post grad training session on how to become a University Lecturer. Posted by the careers service at the University of Huddersfield which had just announced 300 redundancies.

Fair bit of tone deaf content coming out at the moment, considering the UoH has just announced 300 redundancies.

The canal at Hebden Bridge. An old mill is reflected in its still, calm waters.

Always nice to escape to Hebden Bridge and the KTP project with Pennine Heritage. At least there are calmer waters here!

University of Huddersfield student research team stand in front of the exhibition they co-curated with the team at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Also there is Jane Powell, former England cricketer.

The introductory panel for the co curated project on the history of women’s cricket

Another challenging year and more change coming but another great student collaboration wrapped up. On a personal level, a highlight to get a mention in Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Long Room. The exhibition will be be there all season and will be seen by a lot of cricket fans.

Four University of Huddersfield students at Pennine Heritage. They are stood in front of a screen showing a black and white photo. They have their thumbs up and have very big smiles.

As part of the @PennineHeritage #ktp we’ve been working with an intellectual disability group. VERY proud of @HistoryatHud students, Leonie, Lockie, Milly and Noah. Great contributions from the start but taking the lead with a fun activity today. @AHHuddersfield @WeLoveResearch

Entrance to Heritage Quay, the archive at the University of Huddersfield with a sign for the Museums and Beyond event.

Presentation at the Museums and Beyond event at the University event.

Presentation at the Mental Health Museum as part of the Museums and Beyond event.

Close up of the Museums and beyond sign which included logos and a ‘sampler’ sewed by an asylum patient in the nineteenth century as an act of resistance.

Busy couple of weeks organising and hosting the Museums and Beyond event this week with the Mental Health Museum. Not easy in the current climate but such great speakers made it worthwhile. Thanks to everyone who made it to Huddersfield and Wakefield.

Original call for papers for the museums and beyond symposium, organised by Rob Ellis and Jane Stockdale.

We are nearly ready to go @hudunipress.bsky.social. We’ve got an interesting inter- and cross-disciplinary line up, a keynote from Dr Verusca Calabria to look forward to, and a chance to catch up with friends old and new! Should be fun! #museumsandbeyond

A dog sits in the corner of the boardroom at Pennine Heritage, Hebden Bridge. He is on a cushion and behind him are glass-fronted cupboards with archive boxes in them.

Much KTP activity in the last couple of weeks including the quarterly management meeting @PennineHeritage. We welcomed a new member to the team. This was a brief quiet moment before he introduced himself and became active in discussions. He was VERY pleased to see us.

Leonie smiles over some clay based sculptures including at teacup that her friend Milly has made.

Posted with permission. As part of my KTP project, I’m working on an inclusive LD project and involving history undergrads. They’ve learned about the history of LD and now they are working with service users too! This image captures some of the joy of the project. More to follow.

A still from the New Vic’s production of Yizkor.

A still from the New Vic’s production of Yizkor.

Marketing materials for the New Vic’s production of Yizkor.

Good to see the New Vic team back on campus this week @hudunipress.bsky.social. Thanks to @rpiggott.bsky.social for organising and the invite.

The Birchcliffe Centre, home to Pennine Heritage.

In the midst of all the HE pain had a joyous day at Pennine Heritage yesterday. As part of the KTP we ran a first session with a local LD group. A chance to explore heritage, punctuated by rounds of spontaneous and communal singing. Great support (and harmonies) from our student research team!

Entrance to Pontefract Castle with ruins in the background. An English/St George’s flag flies above.

Lovely project meeting at Pontefract Castle today. Cold but bright.

Good to see @mctom.bsky.social, congrats!!

Did a project with Leeds Mencap a few years ago and any excuse to post this pic from their archives. Have a new LD project on the horizon to look forward to too.

Sad to see. We went through a similar process at the University of Huddersfield earlier in the year. VSS was open to all staff and not just academics. For us, it was the latest round of, er, ‘strategic reorganisation’ with more good people pushed out of route sector.

Details of the plans for REF2029.

Big news on the next REF and a recognition of, er, ‘Institutional complexities’. An interesting way of assessing the current situation in HE.

Double header with the brilliant @rpiggott.bsky.social today!

The initials RE adorned with Santa hats and a cartoon reindeer.

Two teaching weeks to go and three weeks to the holidays! Seems like a good time to change my profile pic.

Entrance to the National Coal Mining Museum for England with pit head winding wheel in the background against a blue sky. In the foreground there is snow, which has partly melted.

Cold today but the National Coal Mining Museum for England is a fantastic resource and offers a mean underground tour.

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Small groups of students listening to staff at the Mental Health Museum, Wakefield, learning about collections and collecting.

Student trip to to the Mental Health Museum yesterday as part of my third-year module, Mindsets. Small group sessions with Jane and Sally and lots of interest in the Museum and the hospital site, then and now. A good chance to see some theory in action.

Job ad for post of Postdoctoral Research Assistant on AHRC-funded project, ‘Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities and Empire in the UK’, led by Dr Wendy Ugolini, University of Edinburgh (PI), has gone live:

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Image: IWM SE 1019

The platform at Hebden Bridge railway station in northern England, including some original (?) signage.

Hebden Bridge station always looks good - even on a wet November day.

Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

Draft programme for this ready to go. Should be a good few days.

A commemorative plate marking times when the villagers of Denby Dale in Yorkshire produced celebratory pies to mark key events.

The first Denby Dale pie was baked by villagers to celebrate George III’s recovery from madness. Approx ten miles from Huddersfield, pies have been made infrequently since to mark key events.

The letter ‘R’ sprayed in white paint onto a patch of tarmac. The patch is a different colour to the tarmac that surrounds it, presumably because it is newer.

Spotted earlier today. What can it mean? Re-do? Re-done? Re-histories?

No escape? 😬