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Dr Philippa Read

@PipLRead

Historian of women, France and histories of gender and trauma in the C19th/20th. Teaching Associate @UoNFrench.

 Leeds
Joined November 2013
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‘I am expected to say something. I know not what’ (Vivanti 1918, 146): silence and working through...

‘I am expected to say something. I know not what’ (Vivanti 1918, 146): silence and working through...

This article contributes to scholarly debates about sexual violence in the First World War, providing a psychoanalytic reading of silence as a topos in wartime narratives that portray the rape and ...

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Every year our community celebrates Black history, culture, and achievements during #BlackHistoryMonth. The theme, Reclaiming Narratives, marks a significant shift towards recognising and correcting narratives of Black history and culture. ➡️ ow.ly/zXAe50Tz0Y2 #WeAreUoN
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Lucy Moore@lucyajmmoore29 Sep 2024
It's a good day to be in Leeds. Celebrating the city's anti fascist heritage & raising the profile of the Battle of Holbeck Moor - 30,000 people turned out to tell Oswald Mosley to shift off & a good they did too
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The ribbon and button department of a Copenhagen store in 1904. Københavns Museum
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BPAS@BPAS196829 Sep 2024
The reason 'people were having more babies' before 1911 was because modern contraception hadn't been invented and abortion was illegal. Maternal mortality was 26x higher than today and 10% of babies died at or soon after birth. It's a cautionary tale, not an aspiration.
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Ben Marsh@MarshBen122 Mar 2024
Commenting in a personal capacity. It is not merely 'tragic'. It is GROTESQUE. When we reach this point, the system has rotted beyond the well-known unresolved structural flaws in HE politics and financing. 1/7
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Tragic.
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Margaret Atack obituary | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/f…
Margaret Atack obituary

Margaret Atack obituary

Other lives: Leading scholar of French literature of and about the second world war

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It’s very rare a tweet makes me actually laugh out loud, but this one did.
Madeline Grant (@Madz_Grant) profile pictureMadeline Grant@Madz_Grant15 Feb 2024
As wedding pictures go it doesn't get much better than Queen Victoria insisting on photobombing her son and his wife, by sitting between them wearing full mourning dress and staring at a bust of her dead husband
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Hannah Scott@DrHannahScott6 Feb 2024
📢PhD funding klaxon📢 Do you like Paris? Do you know someone who does? Would you/they like to do a PhD on it? Fully-funded doctorate on any aspect of Parisian Cultural History in the Long Nineteenth Century with me at @SML_Newcastle (deadline April 10th) ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-…
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How can #ModernLanguages not be ‘core portfolio’ at a university with a campus in Paris? @UCFLangs Solidarity with everyone fighting redundancy @UniKent
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Phrygian brioche. That’s my 2024 made. – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
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LAST CHANCE! 📢 There are only five days left to apply for a @leedsahri Postdoctoral Fellowship working with our world-class Special Collections @uollibrary All the info and how to apply here 👇👇 lahri.leeds.ac.uk/support-an… lahri.leeds.ac.uk/support-an…
Two illustrations side by side, separated by a diagonal black line. On the left is a black and white etching of a sphinx and on the right is a black and purple print of three women, one holding a striped umbrella and one knelt on the ground.

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James Stark@KingTekkers1 Jan 2024
This policy is pig-headed and wrong. All the evidence shows that international students enrich our country and economy. We are all impoverished by this, which makes the UK a still less welcoming place for precisely the skilled and ambitious people we need.
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We are fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration. From today, new overseas students will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK. Postgraduate research or government-funded scholarships students will be exempt.
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We are very sorry to bring you the sad news that our colleague, Emerita Professor Margaret Atack, died this week. Margaret was renowned in the UK and internationally as a major scholar in French Studies.
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The University has published a tribute to our colleague Margaret Atack on their website: secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/home… @LCSLeeds
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sarah waters@waterssarah5629 Nov 2023
I struggle for words. The intense cruelty in the name of a school inspection theguardian.com/education/20…

Ruth Perry told husband lead Ofsted inspector was a bully, inquest hears

Jonathan Perry says his wife said on first morning of inspection it was going badly and she was traumatised

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On behalf of @UCFLangs and as a passionate advocate for the teaching and learning of languages, cultures and societies at HE level, I implore @aberdeenuni to find an alternative solution. The languages community are happy to help.
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BREAKING: @aberdeenuni's Modern Languages department could be axed due to declining student numbers, senior managers told "aghast" staffers Monday. The move comes as news of a £15 million budget shortfall was announced yesterday. gaudie.co.uk/post/modern-lan…
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APPG Modern Languages@APPGML18 Oct 2023
Baroness Coussins quoted in today's Independent: "Languages for all, throughout all stages of schooling, should be a no-brainer": independent.co.uk/news/uk/pe… #LanguagePolicyUK
Majority of adults support compulsory language learning in schools – poll

Majority of adults support compulsory language learning in schools – poll

Only one in five said they can have a conversation in a modern language that is not their mother tongue, survey found.

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