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/
Great publicity for the next phase of 'Us and Them' with Freewheelers, @kingshistory.bsky.social and Surrey History Centre: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leatherhead disability group recreates Victorian hospital images
Freewheelers is working with Surrey History Centre and King's College London to recreate the images.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Great publicity for the next phase of 'Us and Them' with Freewheelers, @kingshistory.bsky.social and Surrey History Centre: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Alana Harris
👋 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/...
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.
www.history.ac.uk
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/...
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
'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
www.youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
Thank you, Australia.
May 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thank you, Australia.
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Please join us live or online.
@ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
'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
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
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.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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...
Reposted by Alana Harris
We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism:
go.bsky.app/ArYba4T
Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
go.bsky.app/ArYba4T
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:
go.bsky.app/ArYba4T
Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
go.bsky.app/ArYba4T
Let me know if you'd like to be added!
#EarlyModern
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/b...
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…
anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com
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
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
www.history.ac.uk
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...
Reposted by Alana Harris
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
www.taylorfrancis.com
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...
Reposted by Alana Harris
'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...
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...
Reposted by Alana Harris
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