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Helen Sunderland

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Historian of modern Britain working on childhood, education & young people's politics | Leverhulme ECF at University of Oxford | she/her

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Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · 1d

I've tried EVERYTHING - local newspaper searches, Benjamin Stone's diaries & publications, histories of school uniform... Does anyone recognise the uniform? I'm starting to wonder whether they might be from outside the UK - Ireland given the MP in the photo, or from the continent? Thank you!!

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Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild

'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery

by Benjamin Stone platinum print 22 July 1909 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · 11d

For more information, please contact Dr Helen Sunderland at the University of Oxford Faculty of History at [email protected]
Thank you!
Relevant project information:
University of Oxford Ethics Approval Reference: 1934055
Project Title: Practising Democracy in Modern Britain

Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · 11d

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?

Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!

Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Research Volunteers Needed for a project on the history of young people and democracy in modern Britain. We would like to hear from people who took part in a mock election at their UK school between 1983 and 2001. Write to us about your experiences here: https://forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · Jan 30

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

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Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · Jan 23

This year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium is on my favourite topic Children & politics! Monday 24 June at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Send us your abstracts by midday Friday 8 March

Call for Papers for one day colloquium on Children and politics organised by the Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford. Monday 24 June 2024 at Magdalen College Oxford UK and online. We welcome papers that explore the political actions of children and young people in any historical time period and place. We also encourage papers that consider the political actions of children and young people beyond the sphere of formal politics. We hope that all participants will place the experiences and perspectives of children and young people at the heart of their analysis. We welcome papers from any disciplinary or professional background and career stage, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Please send abstracts of c. 250 words and a brief bio to sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk by midday on Friday 8 March 2024. Full details at https://history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/cd-events-cfp-children-and-politics-colloquium-oxford-24-june-2024.pdf

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Nov 2

Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...

Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Duelling in the archive: labour quotas for disabled Britons, 1944-1995 will be given by Lucy Delap on Thursday 12 October 20...

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Nov 2

Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Teaching Trans History Reading List & Resources

Teaching Trans History Reading List and Resources This non-exhaustive reading list is intended to offer practical tools and resources to academics wanting to include more trans history in university...

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Helen Sunderland @helenlsunderland.bsky.social · Nov 1

Slow to the party but hi! Just a postdoc trying to rebuild a semblance of online community 👋 (& spare my non-academic friends from any more complaints about my badly timed BL research plans this week!)

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