- SOHC November Seminar -

Join us on Monday the 6th of November as we host GCU PhD student GfB 📚 for a presentation on Neds, the ensuing moral panic and the criminalisation of working class youth in Glasgow.

If you're joining remotely, DM this account for zoom details

Funded PhD opportunity with me & Steve Brown to uncover the role hairdressers have played in the long history of inpatient mental health care.

#oralhistory #mentalhealthcare #memorystudies #medicalhumanities

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Special events, student trips, awards, graduations, publications and all sorts of public and community history in our UHI Centre for History Autumn 2023 newsletter: uhi.ac.uk/en/t4-media/on… #ThinkUHI

November/December  issue of History Scotland - now available from our online store!

This is a special themed issue on the topic of Scotland between revolution and union (1689-1707)

Order your copy at bit.ly/3rBLc1q #history

#ScottishHistory is such a broad and fascinating field. Congratulations to all the shortlistees! 👏🏽

Which one is your favourite?

*Book event* Tue 7 Nov, 7-8pm online.

We are excited to host a book launch event for 'Bringing Life to Aberdeen' with one of the editors our very own Dr Alison McCall.

This event is free. Book your place here: tinyurl.com/y55bjh3y

⚓️Read about Professor Marjory Harper's recent Transatlantic 🚢 journey as guest lecturer aboard the Queen Mary 2
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Book your place now for this interesting workshop with our Lucinda Dean and Culture Perth & Kinross Libraries to explore early modern archival materials! For full details and booking, see original tweet ⬇️ UHI Research

We're kicking off our yearly seminar series with a talk on Oral History practice by joint Strathclyde-Edinburgh PhD student Niamh Coffey🌞🌛 - join us next Monday (23rd of October).

Applications now invited for 2024 Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize: bit.ly/3tHfosL Awarded for an article/chapter published by a PhD student or early career historian in 2023. Closing date 31 Dec.

Submissions for RHS book prizes 2024 are also now invited from publishers.

November/December  issue of History Scotland - now available from our online store!

This is a special themed issue on the topic of Scotland between revolution and union (1689-1707)

Order your copy at bit.ly/3rBLc1q #history

📜👇 Thanks to everyone who already sent in their proposals for our Gender, Family and Deindustrialization conference! There's plenty of time left to apply if you're still interested, check out our call for papers: bit.ly/3Rmosgj

Bilbo’s delighted to join the UHI_UCU picket line today to protest job cuts and protect our students’ education #ucurising #saveUHI

A majority of the UK public would support making modern language learning compulsory in primary and secondary school, according to a new YouGov poll commissioned by the British Academy:
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New in 'Transactions Royal Historical Society': 'Decolonising the History of Internationalism: Transnational Activism across the South', by Su Lin Lewis bit.ly/3FklJg2

What does internationalism look like when seen from the viewpoint of the decolonising South?

#twitterstorians

Join us, online, at 5pm next Tuesday (24 October) for 'Black British History. Where Now, Where Next?' - a panel and audience discussion bit.ly/44ZchJx

With Dr Hannah Elias, Dr Kesewa John, Liam Liburd
and Bill Schwarz. Booking now.

#twitterstorians Young Historians Project Black History Month 2023

Calling all our interviewees and supporters in Harrogate and surrounding areas - come along on Saturday to this fascinating session including our Director Stephanie Stephanie Snow

“Swimming is unique as a sport. As well as being a life skill, it is a life–enhancing skill giving children the confidence they need to flourish and achieve their potential”

On Monday, we hosted ‘Everyone Can Swim’ at the SNP conference

Full story 👉 tinyurl.com/5eedxwh5

This afternoon we hosted an ‘Everyone Can Swim’ event at the SNP Party Conference in Aberdeen 🗣

We want to spread the cross-political party message that swimming is not just a life skill, but a life enhancing skill 💙

#EveryoneCanSwim

Join David Worthington this Tue 17 Oct 7.30pm for a talk for Cromarty History Society! 'A New perspective on the Highlands Before Culloden,' the talk will focus on the sources left by #curiouscleric Rev James Fraser (1634‐1709). For full details & prices visit bit.ly/3LVGhiF