Hannah with megaphone
New member @1hannahharvey.bsky.social who has supported members as a @ucu.org.uk buddy addresses our lunchtime lobby of the @mybcu.bsky.social governors today, bringing attention to the importance academic skills members bring for students - disbanding these teams will hit students hard
16.07.2025 14:03 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Please support BCU staff fighting against cuts! We're repeatedly told these are not financially driven yet they have been rushed through with little planning or fairness.
16.07.2025 14:08 β π 5 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe Christian Chameleonβ: How Moral Re-Armament utilized mass-media to speak to a changing Twentieth Century Britain
@ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious History seminar this evening is Grace France: ββThe Christian Chameleonβ: How Moral Re-Armament utilized mass-media to speak to a changing Twentieth Century Britainβ.
5.30pm UK time, online only. to book:
www.history.ac.uk/events/chris...
#skystorians
12.02.2025 09:23 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe Christian Chameleonβ: How Moral Re-Armament utilized mass-media to speak to a changing Twentieth Century Britain
Excited to be speaking at @ihr.bsky.social modern religious history seminar on 12th Feb about the weird and wonderful media campaigns of Moral Re-Armament www.history.ac.uk/events/chris...
30.01.2025 22:43 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Anyway as a side note and dose of positivity the current run of my module has the most wonderful bunch of mature students and it is honestly food for the soul
30.01.2025 22:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
University management emphasising how we need to close the attainment gap of students, improve pass rates, support our studentsβ¦
which is my job to do. Support our wonderful students. Seeing hundreds of them per month
a job which they keep on a fixed term contract and is at risk
??
30.01.2025 22:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nose Art in RAF Bomber Command, 1939-1945
Nose art, a popular practice amongst flying personnel in the Second World War, is part of a long tradition of modifying and personalising we
From Past Issues:
In Issue 07: Eleni Eldridge-Tull explored the WW2 nose art in RAF Bomber Command.
Nose art wasn't just decoration - it was a powerful outlet for RAF Bomber Command airmen to express themselves.
Read it here π
#history #skystorians #AcademicSky #WW2 #RAF
22.01.2025 15:19 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Modern Religious History
This term @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious #History...
we have sessions on local/global in British Christianity; Moral Re-Armament; Faith, race & politics in UK humanitarianism; Anti-Catholicism in Post-1945 England & Wales; Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford.
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...
14.01.2025 16:01 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1
Something Borrowed, Something New: How a Faith Movement Spoke to a Secular Age
IofC UK Insight Β· Episode
Lots of exciting research stuff happening. My chat with initiatives of change (who my PhD focussed on) is now on their Spotify. Finding it funny as I had a whole chapter about how they used media to campaign and now Iβm somehow indirectly part of that open.spotify.com/episode/7nog...
30.01.2025 22:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Finally jumped the twitter ship. Itβs nice over here.
30.01.2025 22:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
Birmingham City University branch of the University and College Union
Live Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday!
www.youtube.com/@H3Podcast
πππππΈβοΈπ π΄π¦© π©Ί
The world's leading history magazine publishing emergent historians.
Read Issue 22 Now: https://epoch-magazine.com
Submit: http://epoch-magazine.com/submit
The Institute of Historical Research is the UKβs national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Historian of modern Christianity; Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies; Director of Evangelical Studies Program. Researching charismatic renewal on island of Ireland; writing biography of Michael Harper. In spare time frustrated by Manchester United. Manc.
Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
Was a transnational historian of complexion modification, beauty, and race. Now an Education Manager for Impress fighting mis/disinformation and improving media literacy.
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
official Bluesky account (check usernameπ)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app