Work @ahrcpress by day and am a writer of #history, #archaeology, #heritage and #museums by night. PhD. Interested in #histchild & #archchild.
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Online and open access - fill your #histchild #histyouth boots, some great chapters in there!
A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age, edited by @Slowhistorian and @KristineAlexand, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day, covering themes including education, the body and agency: bloomsburycollections.com/bo…
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I've managed to get place in the 2025 London Marathon! My charity is @HealthPoverty. Link below if you would like to support me. Huge thanks to all that help. 😄
2025tcslondonmarathon.enthus…
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So looking forward to working with the new @MobCommAssets projects in this exciting phase of the programme. Congratulations to all the winners & thanks to colleagues @UKRI_News @ahrcpress @TheNCCH @SharonBrookshaw @AhrcLucy @JaiGupte @JamesCSanderson who helped make this happen. – at Islington, London
Today @ahrcpress are launching Phase 3 of our programme to tackle #health #inequalities through community assets. A wonderful array of projects, large and small, spread across the country, and working together towards common goals. Watch our programme director @h_chatterjee and Board chair @JamesCSanderson explain more about the challenge of health inequality and what the programme hopes to achieve.
You can also read more about the @UKRI_News programme, run in partnership with @TheNCCH and the grants we are announcing today here: ukri.org/news/projects-to-he…
youtube.com/watch?v=nvrgEPCR…
@rometostandrews @ESRC @The_MRC @BBSRC @NERCscience @Pers_Care @AhrcLucy
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Improving health through access to culture, nature and community.
The Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme aims to address entrenched health inequalities in some of Britain’s poorest communities.
orlo.uk/9U26z
More info on our website.
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The second round of our AHRC Innovation Scholars secondments in design is opening soon!
We welcome interdisciplinary and practice based proposals.
Find out more about the opportunity: orlo.uk/GcpkV
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Anger as prehistoric stones destroyed for French DIY store - around 39 stones are believed to have been lost. 😱 f24.my/9YZ3.T via @FRANCE24
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#OnThisDay in 1215, King John agreed to accept the terms of Magna Carta at Runnymede. This monument to the moment was installed in 1957.
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New #ahrchealth call just launched! Join our webinar on 10th May to learn more - details below 👇
Collaborative community research is key to tackling health inequalities.
Our latest funding call brings together arts, humanities, social, medical and biological researchers to create improvements in health inequalities in the UK.
Get involved: ukri.org/opportunity/collabo…
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Pre-announcement ⬇️
£25m in funding will be available for collaborative community research grants.
The grants will test and copy collaborative models for integrating community assets within the structures of health and social care in the UK - ukri.org/opportunity/collabo…
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This is a very special & hugely important Iron Age site.
But they still want to build a large housing estate in Old #Oswestry hillfort's setting. Pls join the #campaign
Plans here tinyurl.com/3mdpa5ft
Respond by: Wed 15 Feb
#SaveOurSetting #ShropshireCouncil #heritage
It's out, it's finally out! 🤩
The volume, part of a 6-part series edited by @Olsensid & @MorrisonHeidi, features an all-star #HistChild #HistYouth cast including @nicholas_syrett, @C_PascoeLeahy, @dylan_baun, @TebbuttMelanie, @SharonBrookshaw, @IshitaPande2, @karenvallgarda, @HoneckMischa, & @aaronwmoore
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Sharon Brookshaw 💙 retweeted
Thanks to @CRSH_SSHRC for funding the open access publication of A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (edited by yours truly & the excellent @slowhistorian) which is available online now, through @BloomsburyAcad:
bloomsburycollections.com/bo…
A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age, edited by @Slowhistorian and @KristineAlexand, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day, covering themes including education, the body and agency: bloomsburycollections.com/bo…
Sharon Brookshaw 💙 retweeted
A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age, edited by @Slowhistorian and @KristineAlexand, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day, covering themes including education, the body and agency: bloomsburycollections.com/bo…
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Shout out for interviewees! I am looking to speak to British Pagans who have conducted any kind of ritual or magical/spiritual practice at @thechalicewell in Glastonbury. If you might be interested in taking part in my doctoral research please get in touch on [email protected].
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⏩ #CollaborativeDoctoralAward 🎓
Material Cultures of the NHS Hospital: Exploring Hospital Spaces through Historical Objects
A #PhD with @SmgResearch @sciencemuseum @UoBrisHistory
Details: bit.ly/3gnJ7k5
@hospital_senses @UofESPA #Doctoral #Humanities #FundedPhD
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#BeingHuman2022 starts today! 🥳
220 free events will take place in 51 towns and cities across the UK over the next 10 days, all bringing brilliant #humanities research to life.
Led by @SASNews in partnership with @ahrcpress and @BritishAcademy_.
beinghumanfestival.org/festi…
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In 2023, the NHS turns 75. The @ahrcpress, in partnership with the @BFI , are funding emerging filmmakers to create new films in response to the BFI National Archive’s NHS on Film collection on BFI Player.
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We’re proud to support @BeingHumanFest, the UK’s national festival of the humanities. 10 days of free, public events will take place across the country from 10
to 19 November 2022. Take a look at the programme here:
orlo.uk/F4LmA
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Is it weird to enjoy reading your proofs? With multiple months of distance from the time I did the thing, I'm always left surprised by the fact that it was me that wrote it.
A good way to use a day of leave, and well done to past me, I guess.
You can still sign up for tomorrow's @ahrcpress #ahrchealth webinar to learn more about our new call. Registration closes at 5pm. 👇
The new Build community research consortia to address health disparities call opens on 3 May- orlo.uk/er8oR
Supported by @ahrcpress, @nercscience, @the_mrc and @esrc. In partnership with @TheNCCH. Find out more by joining our webinars on:
▶️4 May at 1pm
▶️24 May at 1pm
