Freya Marshall Payne

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

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Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

@peteapps.bsky.social could I please DM you? Will email also but it is important. Thank you

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Thinking about the Barbara Hepworth sculptures hidden away in Oxford

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

NEW!
In Liverpool for Labour Conference...

Starmer is concentrating on Reform but Labour shouldn't mistake their threat on the right, even in Leave voting heartlands.

Our new analysis w/ @martamiori.bsky.social explains:

politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Read this:

Is substack still enabling Nazi newsletters? I've been wanting to share some longer ideas in a semi-informal space; what are ppl using for this? WordPress / Medium have been good at different times for various projects, but I don't know about the personal blog in 2025...

I'm supervising a great History student who's looking at policy related to homelessness in postwar England. He's doing oral history interviews with ppl who've experienced homelessness and/or provided support. He's especially interested in what they think about govt. Can you help?

'Widening the web': the latter years and afterlives of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (1981-2000...

I'm delighted to be giving a paper at the @ihr.bsky.social Contemporary British History seminar tomorrow evening on the latter years of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, thinking about the endurance of feminist activism & connections with 1990s environmentalism in particular.

Register here

PhD Student Funding The IHR offers funding opportunities for students to undertake a postgraduate research degree at the Institute.

Applications for the Veale-Straschnov Doctoral Studentship are now live for new doctoral students. This award provides support for mature students, aged 25 and over, seeking to begin a research degree at the Institute. Deadline 31 July 2024 buff.ly/3wdqLJY

The 2024 Orwell Prizes are open - including the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, which returns for a second year! I'm very happy to be on the judging panel and look forward to getting reading. Please submit work on homelessness in all its forms: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...

Many congratulations!

The 2024 Orwell Prizes are open - including the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness, which returns for a second year! I'm very happy to be on the judging panel and look forward to getting reading. Please submit work on homelessness in all its forms: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...