Christina Riggs
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
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If British or Hungarian, @britishacademy.bsky.social has grants for 'research on the antiquities/historical geography/early history/arts of those parts of Asia within the sphere of the ancient civilisations of India, China, Iran, including Central Asia’
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund
The Stein-Arnold Exploration Fund was established according to the terms of the will of Sir Aurel Stein FBA, to commemorate his friendship with Sir Thomas Arnold FBA, for 'the encouragement of researc...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If British or Hungarian, @britishacademy.bsky.social has grants for 'research on the antiquities/historical geography/early history/arts of those parts of Asia within the sphere of the ancient civilisations of India, China, Iran, including Central Asia’
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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I'm standing #TogetherWithRefugees. Are you?
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm standing #TogetherWithRefugees. Are you?
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Join me for an evidence-based guide to talking about the British Empire for teachers, heritage professionals & anyone else: www.linkedin.com/posts/sussex...
🏛️ 🗽 Join us for a CPD workshop, led by a leading specialist on British colonialism and its afterlives Alan Lester from University of Sussex School of Global Studies, and learn how to talk about… | Su...
🏛️ 🗽 Join us for a CPD workshop, led by a leading specialist on British colonialism and its afterlives Alan Lester from University of Sussex School of Global Studies, and learn how to talk about Brita...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Join me for an evidence-based guide to talking about the British Empire for teachers, heritage professionals & anyone else: www.linkedin.com/posts/sussex...
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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New Indian Express has chosen Vanished as a book of the year, and described it as a ‘breathtaking account of extinction as both an evolutionary process and a human act’.
Truly astonished that my roar has reached the land of tigers. 🐅 🐅 🐅
www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...
Truly astonished that my roar has reached the land of tigers. 🐅 🐅 🐅
www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...
From 'Vanished' to the 'Explorer’s Gene': Take a look at six best books on science, nature, released in 2025
'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by Sadiah QureshiThe book is a breathtaking account of extinction as both an evolutionary process and a human act
www.newindianexpress.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New Indian Express has chosen Vanished as a book of the year, and described it as a ‘breathtaking account of extinction as both an evolutionary process and a human act’.
Truly astonished that my roar has reached the land of tigers. 🐅 🐅 🐅
www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...
Truly astonished that my roar has reached the land of tigers. 🐅 🐅 🐅
www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/bo...
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2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre!
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/
Fellowship | The Image Centre
theimagecentre.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Final reminder that this incredible online seminar is on Monday! Join us to discuss all things related to consent and ethics in medical photography with Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Dr Arya Thampuran and Dr Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk/2025/11/07/o...
Online Seminar: ETHICS AND CONSENT IN MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY – The Ethics of Medical Photography Network
empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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At a time when visual literary couldn’t be more important, art history is in danger of becoming extinct in British schools. @helenbarrett.bsky.social makes the case for a subject that is too often seen as the preserve of the privileged.
Art history is too important to be the preserve of the privileged
The subject is endangered at A level just as it couldn’t be more essential or universal. Helen Barrett makes the case for its survival in British schools
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December 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
At a time when visual literary couldn’t be more important, art history is in danger of becoming extinct in British schools. @helenbarrett.bsky.social makes the case for a subject that is too often seen as the preserve of the privileged.
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A beautiful hairpin that belonged to Prince Alemayehu's mother - Empress Tiruwork - is going back to Ethiopia c. 160 years after it was taken by the British military doctor who treated her last illness. Congrats to all involved @alulapankhurst.bsky.social royalethiopiantrust.org/the-return-o...
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A beautiful hairpin that belonged to Prince Alemayehu's mother - Empress Tiruwork - is going back to Ethiopia c. 160 years after it was taken by the British military doctor who treated her last illness. Congrats to all involved @alulapankhurst.bsky.social royalethiopiantrust.org/the-return-o...
Unexpected feminist historian in this podcast episode: Alison Light, perfectly placed to speak about women and domestic service, from the viewpoint of employer and employee alike. 🗃️
The Servant Problem
Podcast Episode · Shedunnit · 15/10/2025 · 38m
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December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Unexpected feminist historian in this podcast episode: Alison Light, perfectly placed to speak about women and domestic service, from the viewpoint of employer and employee alike. 🗃️
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For anyone in Manchester next week, I'm speaking at the Department of History's research seminar about my research on racism in prisons in England during the 1970s to mid-1980s.
Speaking at the University of Manchester's History Department in early December about my work on prisons and racism if you're in town and interested.
Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain | Events at The University of Manchester
Department of History Guest Seminar
events.manchester.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For anyone in Manchester next week, I'm speaking at the Department of History's research seminar about my research on racism in prisons in England during the 1970s to mid-1980s.
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A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.
4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A quick thread about empire based on a long conversation in a hospital waiting room today. Like so many Brits, my family includes people from multiple heritages, including white elders raised in industrialised regions of North England and Wales which were not racially diverse when they were young.
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PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...
PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. 📜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🗃️
Yesterday Prof. Julie-Marie Strange organised an event to mark World AIDS Day with Dr Rupert Whitaker OBE, co-founder of Terrence Higgins Trust, here with Dr David Minto and colleagues from Durham County Council and The Story
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This was fantastic - moving, angering, and inspiring in turns. So proud of colleagues David and Julie-Marie, and the wonderful people at The Story, home of Durham archives - including archivist Victoria Oxberry (R), who is helping to build a community archive on HIV/AIDS in the county. 📜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🗃️
Friends and colleagues at Essex have been worried about this for a long time, having already been through voluntary redundancies schemes and hiring freezes. One of many great universities hammered by 15+ years of inadequate and invidious HE policy in the UK - and no solution anywhere in sight.
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Friends and colleagues at Essex have been worried about this for a long time, having already been through voluntary redundancies schemes and hiring freezes. One of many great universities hammered by 15+ years of inadequate and invidious HE policy in the UK - and no solution anywhere in sight.
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Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time.
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
Magic Rays season: members' booking - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time. You c...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just a reminder that BFI Members’ booking for the BFI Southbank Magic Rays of Light season opens today at midday. Booking for everyone else opens on Thursday at the same time.
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
More details and links here:
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
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Since writing Chopping Onions on my Heart, lots of people have told me or asked me about how to explore their own family’s stories so I gathered up everything I learned about it for @psyche.co.
This insightful Guide invites us to become the archivists of our own family’s memories: to gather letters, recipes, objects, photographs and fragments that hold our shared past together as a way of honouring the people we come from, noticing what has been silenced, and choosing what we pass on
How to be the archivist of your own family | Psyche Guides
By curating your family’s stories, rituals and relics, you’ll feel anchored – and create a bridge between the generations
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December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Since writing Chopping Onions on my Heart, lots of people have told me or asked me about how to explore their own family’s stories so I gathered up everything I learned about it for @psyche.co.
The magic of the internet: a commenter on my Wordpress identifies this as the Bridge of Feugh over the River Dee at Banchory, from a slightly different angle here:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Mystery solved! I can get on with a day of teaching now.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Mystery solved! I can get on with a day of teaching now.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The magic of the internet: a commenter on my Wordpress identifies this as the Bridge of Feugh over the River Dee at Banchory, from a slightly different angle here:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Mystery solved! I can get on with a day of teaching now.
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Mystery solved! I can get on with a day of teaching now.
Trying to get back into a regular writing habit, I revived my Wordpress this weekend (am not cool enough for Substack). It looks at Victorian photo souvenirs and the visual creation of heritage. 🗃️📜📷📸
I'd also love to know if anyone can identify this bridge!
christinariggs.com/2025/11/30/c...
I'd also love to know if anyone can identify this bridge!
christinariggs.com/2025/11/30/c...
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Trying to get back into a regular writing habit, I revived my Wordpress this weekend (am not cool enough for Substack). It looks at Victorian photo souvenirs and the visual creation of heritage. 🗃️📜📷📸
I'd also love to know if anyone can identify this bridge!
christinariggs.com/2025/11/30/c...
I'd also love to know if anyone can identify this bridge!
christinariggs.com/2025/11/30/c...
Unable to get up from the sofa because Mitzi is sleeping so peacefully next to me (the heated throw might have something to do with that). Them's the rules. #cats 🐈⬛
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Unable to get up from the sofa because Mitzi is sleeping so peacefully next to me (the heated throw might have something to do with that). Them's the rules. #cats 🐈⬛
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I love Mary Fedden (British | 1915 - 2012). Sheep in the Snow (1984, watercolour and gouache on paper).
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I love Mary Fedden (British | 1915 - 2012). Sheep in the Snow (1984, watercolour and gouache on paper).
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'Applicants who will be awarded their doctoral title before 30 September, 2026 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should normally be within 7 years of the award of their Ph.D.' All nationalities eligible; must be fluent in English.
The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”.
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
EN THP 2025 - Fondazione 1563
Turin Humanities Programme call for application 2025 "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations"
www.fondazione1563.it
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
'Applicants who will be awarded their doctoral title before 30 September, 2026 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should normally be within 7 years of the award of their Ph.D.' All nationalities eligible; must be fluent in English.
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It's not out yet, but I can still promote my book (I have the proofs!)
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Published a photography book recently? Submissions are now open Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2026. Deadline 31/1 free entry.
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Published a photography book recently? Submissions are now open Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2026. Deadline 31/1 free entry.
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/
kraszna-krausz.org.uk/book-awards/