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Durham University's History Department is located in the historic heart of Durham close to the World Heritage site of Cathedral and Castle.
Durham
Joined September 2014
As of 10.03.2025 this account will be paused for a while. You can keep up to date with our research, teaching, and job postings via LinkedIn, Instagram, and 🦋. Just search for Durham History and we'll be there!
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We are advertising for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern History. The deadline for applications for this open-ended, full time post is 27th March 2025. For full details see the link below. https://t.co/qyiPn2IQLL
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For more details about this talk and the Hidden Heritage Workshops series please visit our website:
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On Friday 28th February at 5.15pm the CEO of @HistoricEngland, Duncan Wilson, will deliver a talk on ‘The Value of Heritage’ at Prior’s Hall, @durhamcathedral. This event is free and open to all, but please book using the link to secure your seat. Link: https://t.co/9MrkUgEfu1
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Quite incredibly, *Music in Colonial Punjab* has made the Shortlist for the Karwaan Book Award! Excited/honoured/a bit numb to be in such exalted company. 🙏🏽 Karwaan for your brilliant work platforming historical research 4 a wider public https://t.co/F4OvNesApo
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Congratulations to all the incredible authors shortlisted for the Karwaan Book Award 2024! 🎉 Your outstanding works are a true contribution to the history of South Asia. 🏆 The winner will be announced on 8th February 2025 at 9 PM IST. Stay tuned! 👏📚 #KarwaanBookAward2024
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Are you interested in doing an MA with us? Want to learn more about the research, teaching, and resources that we can offer postgraduates? Then come along to the next @durham_uni online open day on 10th-11th February 2025. More details available at: https://t.co/544Yh27zFh
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There's just 1 week left to apply for the Collaborative PhD studentship to study "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", with @SalvArmyArchive, @Leannemcck, Julie-Marie Strange, and David Minto. Don't miss out! https://t.co/NSNKpx4A0R
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Only one week left to apply for our collaborative PhD with @durham_history. Working with David Minto, Julie-Marie Strange and @Leannemcck. https://t.co/YphnGlB9zZ
We are delighted to kick off 2025 by advertising for two PhD Studentships! 🥳 The first of these will explore AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain, working in collaboration with @SalvArmyArchive.➡️ https://t.co/NSNKpx42bj
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The second focuses on 'Images and Empire in British Military Collections: The Photographic Archive of the Durham Light Infantry (DLI)' with Prof. Christina Riggs and Prof. Jonathan Saha as well as Carolyn Ball and Gillian Kirkbride @TheStoryDurham! ➡️ https://t.co/4OKmAJ2Sio
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We are delighted to kick off 2025 by advertising for two PhD Studentships! 🥳 The first of these will explore AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain, working in collaboration with @SalvArmyArchive.➡️ https://t.co/NSNKpx42bj
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We're very grateful to former British diplomat, Ian Proud, who came to talk to our students and those from @MLACdurham as part of a foreign policy workshop last week. Find out more on our website ➡️ https://t.co/LtoGj83Fw4
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Check out this fabulous podcast episode from our very own @RichardHuzzey and @HansardSociety discussing petitions, parliament, and public engagement!
Episode 56 of Parliament Matters podcast from @HansardSociety sees me fulfil a life goal of speaking with @RuthFox01 & @DArcyTiP about research on petitioning that me @estrangeirada Anna Bocking-Welch and Henry Miller did for our @ahrcpress project
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This morning our very own Dr Chris Courtney appeared on BBC's The Long View to discuss the politics of natural disasters in the wake of the recent flooding in Valencia. Click below to listen now. https://t.co/U7t69GWvzs
bbc.co.uk
Jonathan Freedland and guests compare floods in Valencia with events in China in 1931.
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New article: Philip Williamson and Natalie Mears @durham_history on 'The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving' https://t.co/vp1vV59HrK
academic.oup.com
Abstract. Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeent
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Looking forward to my talk this evening at the Osteuropakolloquium @uni_tue on 'Moderne Europäer, moderne Karpaten: Tourismus, Infrastruktur und Karpatenvereine, 1870-1920' @durham_history.
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Looking forward to finding out more about these puddings in a research seminar later in the year!
I’ve spent the last couple days in the British Library pondering transnational pudding exchange in the 1890s… Cue this lovely image from a cookbook published in Lahore of Victorian sweet dishes above a conversion chart for weights and measures.
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Looking forward to our department research seminar this afternoon with Daniel E. Bender (Toronto) on 'Stewards, Drinkers, and the Jokes They Told', one of several events in Dan's @LeverhulmeTrust visiting professorship: it's happening at 3.30–5pm in PG21 🍷
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Are you interested in doing a Masters degree? Not ready to stop studying yet or simply want to broaden your historical knowledge? Then come and explore what we can offer you during the @durham_uni PG open day this Nov 13th. Scan the QR code to learn more and book your place now.
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Thank you Diane Roussel and Criminocorpus for such an interesting conversation!
A découvrir dans la revue Criminocorpus l’entretien de Diane Roussel et @Tom_Hamilton_ à l’occasion de la publication de son ouvrage " A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion. Gender and Justice in Renaissance France". https://t.co/8rA57hqByD
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It's that time of year again... here is the Call for Papers for next year's Fifteenth Century Conference, hosted by Prof. Christian Liddy @durham_history, 4-6th September 2025. Closing date 31st Jan 2025. Please share!
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