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Issue 12 is now published!🥳If you can't wait for the online version to be uploaded, pop in to @durham_history for a free copy! https://t.co/JRUivNIB6Q

Gorgeous photo! We're so lucky to be based in such a beautiful city 💜 #Durham2025 #CityOfCulture2025

🏳️‍🌈📣 Volunteers needed! Do you have some time to volunteer at this year's @Durham_Pride this weekend? Find out more and get involved 🌈👉 https://t.co/8Q0myB0hou @DUEDI7 #DurhamPrideUK

Issue 12 will be available very soon! We have a special cover star this year🐈‍⬛ (This issue’s bookshelf belongs to Dr Nadine Viermann) @NViermann @durham_history

Kelly Clarke-Neish is an early medieval historian and part-time tutor. Her research explores economic, social, and cultural connections in north-west Europe. She uses textual and material evidence to analyse trading networks, kingdom formation, religious change, and identity.

@racheljclamp is a third-year PhD student. Her research looks at plague workers and the impact of plague in early modern England and Scotland. She is particularly interested in the role of female care workers and where they fit into broader social histories of health and healing

@LilyChadwick13 is a historian of gender, authority, and faith in the early modern British Atlantic world. Her thesis explores the development of Quaker Women's Meetings across England and the North American colonies.

@DanielEAdamson is a third-year PhD student. His research focuses on British Holocaust education, and he is interested in wider questions of historical memory and heritage. Daniel is a veteran of Symeon Magazine, and manages the @SymeonMagazine account.

Nicola McNeil is a second-year PhD student. Her research focuses on landscape and gender in early medieval England. Specifically, she is interested in how landscape was implicated in the construction, maintenance and subversion of early English gender norms.

You can now watch this lecture on 'Understanding Ukraine' by my brilliant colleague Markian Prokopovych @durham_history via Youtube: https://t.co/l7Lrsa2xxJ

The Miners’ Strike in County Durham: A Family and Community Conversation - join @RobertGildea and the Wray family for this public event next Tuesday 24 May at 6pm in Durham Town Hall, organised with @durham_history #MinersStrike #CountyDurham

Our panel—Diaspora, Contested Homelands, and International Connection: The Creation of Ethnic and Communal Identity Among Russian Germans in Europe and North America—will feature papers from myself, @Amber_N_Nickell and Dr Jan Musekamp with comments from Dr James Casteel

Joyous day @NationalGallery yesterday hearing from our @durham_history @OxfordHistory @CUHistArchRel @uclhjs PhD students on art & antiquity collectors, early photography, Dutch JCHs, Jewish philanthropy & the 'New Jewish Woman'. Thanks to all the team!

Sign up to listen to two of our academics talk about the history of science @DurhamARC, from the Middle Ages to women in twentieth-century physics #HistSci

We are delighted to announce that Dr Laura Channing will be joining us as Assistant Professor of Economic History (since 1750)! Her research is on taxation and imperialism in modern west Africa, and modern charitable activity in African perspective #econhist #AfricanHistory

Next Monday (9th May) come and hear @VeraSmnSchulz talk to us on 'A Case Study of Transcultural Entanglements across the Early Modern Globe' 7pm at 7 Owengate @CVACinDURHAM

Understanding Ukraine: Entanglements and Conflict in the History of East European ‘Bloodlands’ - a talk by Markian Prokopovych in the History Now! series organised between @durham_history and @GalaDurham, 5.30pm on Tues 3 May - both in person and online. All welcome!

Linda Godden (née Jefferson) graduated from Durham in 1982 with a BA in Modern History. After a career in computing and web development, she returned to academia to complete an MSc in History at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. She is now involved in the @GoughMap project.