Alana Harris
@dralanagharris.bsky.social
Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
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👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next:
Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.
🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online
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Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.
🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online
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Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body
This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next:
Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.
🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body.
🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm
📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory
DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…
cstonline.net
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory
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See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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#WorldMentalHealthDay
'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'
The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org
The Horton Nine Thousand
www.thehortonninethousand.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org
@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...
Ep 351: Lost Souls - an investigation into the fate of Britain's mental asylum graves
YouTube video by Mick Coyle
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July 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...
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Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel.
Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2
Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2
June 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel.
Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2
Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2
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Thank you, Australia.
May 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thank you, Australia.
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IHR Women's HIstory Seminar
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation
Please join us live or online.
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation
Please join us live or online.
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
IHR Women's HIstory Seminar
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation
Please join us live or online.
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation
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What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture?
We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.
Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians
We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.
Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians
January 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture?
We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.
Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians
We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with
@cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question.
Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇
#Skystorians
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'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23.
The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4
The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4
UK universities spend more than £200 million on severance pay
THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23.
The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4
The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4
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This term @ihr.bsky.social Modern Religious #History...
we have sessions on local/global in British Christianity; Moral Re-Armament; Faith, race & politics in UK humanitarianism; Anti-Catholicism in Post-1945 England & Wales; Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford.
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...
we have sessions on local/global in British Christianity; Moral Re-Armament; Faith, race & politics in UK humanitarianism; Anti-Catholicism in Post-1945 England & Wales; Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford.
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/mod...
Modern Religious History
www.history.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Or would you like to explore "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", working with @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and alongside the amazing Prof. Julie-Marie Strange, Dr. David Minto, @leannemccormick.bsky.social.
More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...
More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...
PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain at Durham University
Discover a PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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January 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Or would you like to explore "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", working with @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and alongside the amazing Prof. Julie-Marie Strange, Dr. David Minto, @leannemccormick.bsky.social.
More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...
More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...
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We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:
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Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
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Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
January 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:
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Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
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Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
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We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8
This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians
This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians
January 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8
This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians
This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians
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A degree in the Humanities 'ought surely to leave a student with a notion of why we do what we do. And that requires greater visibility of the research we do, the complexity of the process by which we arrive at knowledge.' 1/3
The study of humanities, and all of science, is a space in which to learn how to learn.
Blog 4: Why research-led teaching is essential in arts and humanities and why we need to recognise the costs of our laboratory, the library.
@rluk.bsky.social
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Blog 4: Why research-led teaching is essential in arts and humanities and why we need to recognise the costs of our laboratory, the library.
@rluk.bsky.social
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/b...
Building a space in which to learn how to learn.
How do we learn in the humanities? It’s certainly not the case that a degree in humanities will make you humane; it may not even incline you to think positively about the humanities. But it ought…
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December 29, 2024 at 1:53 PM
A degree in the Humanities 'ought surely to leave a student with a notion of why we do what we do. And that requires greater visibility of the research we do, the complexity of the process by which we arrive at knowledge.' 1/3
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More detail will appear at projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Opening plenary is on ‘Writing the history of Britain today’. Thrilled to have Alana Harris, Sarah Crook, Miles Taylor and Mike Braddick participating. @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
projects.history.qmul.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
More detail will appear at projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Opening plenary is on ‘Writing the history of Britain today’. Thrilled to have Alana Harris, Sarah Crook, Miles Taylor and Mike Braddick participating. @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social
Looking forward to launching @mariacpower.bsky.social and Jonathan Bush's fantastic edited volume next Wednesday, 11th December, 17:30. In person and online - details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/lay-c...
Lay Catholic Societies in Twentieth-Century Britain
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December 6, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Looking forward to launching @mariacpower.bsky.social and Jonathan Bush's fantastic edited volume next Wednesday, 11th December, 17:30. In person and online - details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/lay-c...
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Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
‘I have told her that it was neglected, and asked her why’ | 16 | Work
On 20 November 1871, Susan King, aged 44, was tried at the Central Criminal Court in London for the manslaughter of Alice Butcher, a seven-month-old infant who
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December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries.
#dishist #disability
www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...
#dishist #disability
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Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “For disability, see infirmities” — Archives & Records Association
In this guest blog Professor Lucy Delap reflects on the challenges even experienced users of archives faced when searching for disability and Deaf histories. Currently completing a book project ...
www.archives.org.uk
November 30, 2024 at 11:14 AM
'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries.
#dishist #disability
www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...
#dishist #disability
www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...
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Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already
November 22, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already
www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-... - delighted to have led collaboratively on these projects!
November 28, 2024 at 2:51 PM
www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-... - delighted to have led collaboratively on these projects!
remembering my Wednesday evening while working on my Saturday morning - Bellowhead, Oxford
November 16, 2024 at 12:59 PM
remembering my Wednesday evening while working on my Saturday morning - Bellowhead, Oxford
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I also get precious little writing time, alas, but have been hawking this chapter today as my main recent bit of work
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Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century
Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way of seeing how communities of thought and disc…
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November 15, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I also get precious little writing time, alas, but have been hawking this chapter today as my main recent bit of work
peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...
peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...