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At the department of history, we offer a wide range of modules to choose from over the course of your degree. Stay tuned for information about indicative modules that you can study here @UonHistory.
For more details, please visit:
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Five outdoor activities from British folklore to try with your friends this summer to connect with the natural world around you. 🌻
Jessica Lloyd May, History PhD Candidate, writes for @conversationuk
@UoNHistory @UoNHumanities @EngagedArts_UoN
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Robot tours at our exhibition! @UoNPressOffice @UonHistory @NottinghamsPast @ahrcpress @UoNHumanities
✨🤖 Today until Sunday, you may spot a robot in the Counter Culture galleries leading tours and sharing exhibit insights! Curators have partnered with @UoNComputerSci and @Robotics4Good to provide a unique exhibition experience, click below to learn more: sway.cloud.microsoft/Ar4gB8f…
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The second panel will explore the discourse on "Pedagogic Peripheries" which will be chaired by Dr Arun Kumar, Assistant Professor @UonHistory.
Kajal Reji (@ucl), Cheta Sheth (@TISSpeak) and Dr. @trishantsimlai (@CamSociology) will be presenting their research in this panel.
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Excited to be chairing a panel at this thought-stimulating symposium at the University of Oxford on education & inequity. @UniofOxford
More details about the event, registration, and programme here:
some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
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A new exhibition, marking the 175th anniversary of the very first Boots store, opens @LakesideArts this Friday.
'Counter Culture' explores the transformation of Boots and the shifting dynamics of high-street healthcare 🔽
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@EngagedArts_UoN @UoNHistory
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Join us for the #Byron200 Lecture! To mark the bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death six guest speakers will share their views on the life and legacy of #LordByron from different perspectives as part of this lively panel discussion @LakesideArts.
Visit bit.ly/4bqr3ww
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We are very proud to have collaborated with @NottmLibraries to put together a programme of public engagement to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death.
Tickets for the first two events with @UonHistory here:
nottinghamcitylibraries.co.u…
@ColetteMDavies @DrAnnaWalas
The Department of History at the University of Nottingham is looking to appoint a Teaching Associate in the History of Medicine.
Last Date: 13 May 2024
Job details in the advert:
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHE108/teachi…
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Very excited to have been awarded a @BritishAcademy_
Knowledge Frontiers International Interdisciplinary Research grant w/ @drhannahrobbins @Tanika_R @uditi_sen & Dr Nicole Burrowes for our project on Inter-Minority Relations between Asian and Black communities in the UK & US
For today's Seminar, we have two great papers by
Dr Rob Lutton: ‘The Many Meanings of the Name of Jesus in Late Medieval England’
&
Dr Sascha Auerbach: 'Maladies of Humanity': Medical Authority, Slavery, and the Origins of Public Health in the early 19th c. British Caribbean'
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Arun Kumar @arunk_patel @UonHistory @UniofNottinghamdiscusses that #capitalism relies on contracts, which are state-led legal regimes that guarantee free exchange of goods and property rights.
FULL INSIGHT: ▶️ faculti.net/life-of-contract…
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A new report by @RussellGroup universities found that UoN’s research activity contributed more than £1.3bn to the East Midlands economy and £37.6bn across the UK.
Discover more ➡️ bit.ly/432dWyC
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📢⌛️ Only one week left to submit! ⚡Paper proposals for the 'Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long Twentieth Century' workshop are due 28 March. Details👇 networks.h-net.org/group/ann… 😷💄@UoNHumanities @EngagedArts_UoN #cfp #retailhistory #histpharm #healthhist #histbeauty
📢 Join us on 14 June 2024 for the one-day workshop 'Selling Health, Hygiene and Beauty in the Long Twentieth Century' organised by @OTglobalcounter at @UniofNottingham. Submit your proposal by 28 March. Details👇 networks.h-net.org/group/ann… #CFP #retailhistory #histpharm #healthhist
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It's almost here! Our new free exhibition, #DearSisters, is opening tomorrow, Thursday 21 March, at Weston Gallery, @LakesideArts!
We're so excited to share all our hard work, and that of our project partners, the Nottingham Feminist Archive Group, with everyone!🎉
Our today's speakers are:
Dr John Condren: The Swiss Confederacy, Protestant Identity, & the Business of War in the Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries
Dr Samuel Cardwell: The Missionary Life? Understanding 'Mission' & Evangelisation in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages.
UoN History is pleased to share Arun Kumar's @arunk_patel recently published review of Upal Chakrabarti's book "Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India" in the American Historical Review.
@AmHistReview
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As part of this year's Sustainability Action Week, @UoNSustain will be hosting a public lecture to discuss and explore the complex interactions between humans and whales.
The lecture is happening on 19th March, and you're welcome to join!
👉forms.office.com/e/hsZmgdKqu…
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Our latest blog explores the many-faceted life of Audrey Beecham, Warden of Nightingale Hall: historian, poet, anarchist & feminist, whose life encompassed everything from involvement in the #SpanishCivilWar to shooting her pistol at unruly students! ➡ blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/manus…
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Today's WiP is a roundtable conversation about archive work. Have you struggled with funding + paperwork for your trip? Found exciting sources but aren't sure what comes next? Felt isolated + frustrated after days in the archive reading room?
Let's talk! @UoNHumanities A22, 5pm
