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@drgfrance.bsky.social

Lecturer in academic skills / historian of Moral Re-Armament

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Hannah with megaphone

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€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Christian Chameleon”: 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: β€˜β€œThe Christian Chameleon”: How Moral Re-Armament utilized mass-media to speak to a changing Twentieth Century Britain’.

5.30pm UK time, online only. to book:
www.history.ac.uk/events/chris...

#skystorians

12.02.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Christian Chameleon”: 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

University management emphasising how we need to close the attainment gap of students, improve pass rates, support our students…

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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ‘‡

#history #skystorians #AcademicSky #WW2 #RAF

22.01.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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 I’m somehow indirectly part of that open.spotify.com/episode/7nog...

30.01.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally jumped the twitter ship. It’s nice over here.

30.01.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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