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Online research project on Working-Class #Autobiography by final-year English students @LJMU. Visit our blog for #memoirs + resources #writinglives
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I've just had the call. I've refused entry. This is an interesting phone call. Doing this for everyone for our school staff everywhere! @Ofstednews
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A glimpse of some of the work by @sbriercliffe for @BCLivingMuseum ‘Forging Ahead’ project - new book out next month! ‘Never-before-seen pictures show how the Black Country looked during the post-war boom’
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Old pictures show how life changed rapidly following world peace
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Also on our Dickens MA blog, you can see posts from some of our past students on their research and experience. First up is David Stockman discussing what the Dickens MA meant for him: https://t.co/a4bRKgScuY 1/
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David Stockman successfully completed his MA in Charles Dickens Studies in 2017. His thesis ‘ Charles Dickens Hounds his publishers: Harassment and Intellectual Property 1835-1844’ exam…
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Did you know we hold over 10,000 diaries of everyday folk in the Great Diary Project #archives @BishopsgateInst? Volumes & stories that might not find a home elsewhere. Here’s some lovely diaries waiting for the magic touch of our in-house Diary Guru Dr Polly North!
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Our new issue is now published, with articles on agrarian capitalism, convict corpses, sodomite conspiracies, immoral seamen, female music students, and English radicalism! Read all the new articles here: https://t.co/gBq1zzjUGw
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22 June, 8pm: free online concert with performances of millworkers' poems and songs, come join us! https://t.co/KAvExrDuUv
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Hosted by Strathclyde university, with New Lanark and Stanley Mills, join us for an evening of song and verse by Victorian millworkers
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#RT @BrunelSpecColl: RT @Writing__Lives: Frank William Bealey, Prof of Politics at LSE asked his secretary to type out his mother Nora's memoir! Those were the days 😜 @BrunelSpecColl @emilymcuming @DrLauraKing @EmmaGriffinHist @JBHist @JuliaLaite @JMUEnglish
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#RT @BrunelSpecColl: RT @Writing__Lives: Entry on Lucy Luck in the Bibliography of Working Class Autobiography edited by Burnett, Vincent and Mayall. The copy of her memoir is held by @BrunelSpecColl
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Madleine Linford reviews the film "Sons of the Empire" in the Manchester Guardian on 25th May 1917. " I t is a curious fact that in picture-houses, commonly considered the lightest and least serious form of amusement, there is far the greatest evidence of the shadow of war.
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Important statement from RHS on closures @LSBU and elsewhere. Thank you for the support.
The Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on recent closures to UK History departments https://t.co/F5nIwBIbZ2
@histassoc @ihr_history @history_uk @IHRHistoryLab @socialhistsoc @EcHistSoc @PastPresentSoc @timeshighered
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A message from our patron to all supporters of the SAVE THE BETHNAL GREEN MULBERRY campaign following Friday's joyous High Court verdict that it cannot be dug up. "A great cause for rejoicing…..What wonderful news! With love, Judi"
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We are delighted to announce the extension of our long-term partnership with the @britishlibrary. Since 2011 we have digitised over 42 million newspaper pages together, and we look forward to publishing millions more. Read more here: https://t.co/5KBySsMV4c
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It seems workplace parties have been around for a while! In 1866, Old Gang Smelt Mills hosted a tea party with brass bands and amusements for their workers and families, to celebrate improved working conditions [ZLB]. #HBAHHospitality
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Two of this project's team @bronterre1 & @jenniferballads have combined for this event. Shoddy Court regulars may remember discussing Stafford's songs in our first series. Here's your chance to hear them sung! https://t.co/XV2vyioJOu
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Presented by Jennifer Reid and Mike Sanders, this event focuses on two working-class poets, John Stafford and Joseph Chapman, who were active radicals and poets in Ashton-under-Lyne in the first half...
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The Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on recent closures to UK History departments https://t.co/F5nIwBIbZ2
@histassoc @ihr_history @history_uk @IHRHistoryLab @socialhistsoc @EcHistSoc @PastPresentSoc @timeshighered
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Check out all these amazing speakers (ft. yours truly) at "Telling Small Stories, Telling Big Stories: Family History Workshop Event" on 16th & 17th June https://t.co/A5taUKkr75
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Family History Workshop Symposium, 16-17 June 2021
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Good evening everyone! I found a first-edition copy of 'Jesus and the Otherworld' which A. Gordon James had written and published in 1914. This will be making an appearance in my final blog, which will be live tomorrow!
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