Hannah Elias
@hannahelias.bsky.social
Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Academic Engagement Officer, Royal Historical Society.
📧 enquiries: [email protected]
📧 enquiries: [email protected]
Saying goodbye to the matriarch of the Elias family today, one of my role models. My great-auntie Gwen, a deeply intelligent, curious & adventurous woman, who was responsible for bringing our clan from Sri Lanka to England in the 1960s. She threw the best parties, knew everyone’s news. RIP Auntie.
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Saying goodbye to the matriarch of the Elias family today, one of my role models. My great-auntie Gwen, a deeply intelligent, curious & adventurous woman, who was responsible for bringing our clan from Sri Lanka to England in the 1960s. She threw the best parties, knew everyone’s news. RIP Auntie.
Started my new part-time role as an officer of @royalhistsoc.org today!
I’ll be working with the RHS on events, academic engagement and helping deliver the new 2026-8 strategy advocating for the value of history.
Still pursuing my career as a historian of race, faith & culture, writing half-time
I’ll be working with the RHS on events, academic engagement and helping deliver the new 2026-8 strategy advocating for the value of history.
Still pursuing my career as a historian of race, faith & culture, writing half-time
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Started my new part-time role as an officer of @royalhistsoc.org today!
I’ll be working with the RHS on events, academic engagement and helping deliver the new 2026-8 strategy advocating for the value of history.
Still pursuing my career as a historian of race, faith & culture, writing half-time
I’ll be working with the RHS on events, academic engagement and helping deliver the new 2026-8 strategy advocating for the value of history.
Still pursuing my career as a historian of race, faith & culture, writing half-time
Reached the end of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk fellowship, and it was such a generative and creative time. Words were put on pages, and it was brilliant to put research at the forefront of my mind. Glad I got one last early morning walk around Christ Church meadow in today.
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reached the end of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk fellowship, and it was such a generative and creative time. Words were put on pages, and it was brilliant to put research at the forefront of my mind. Glad I got one last early morning walk around Christ Church meadow in today.
That plan, which has been widely quoted by senior leadership at the Office for Students and has clearly shaped Labour’s planning for the sector, is available here: assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
That plan, which has been widely quoted by senior leadership at the Office for Students and has clearly shaped Labour’s planning for the sector, is available here: assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/...
Fantastic final panel of #NACBS25 exploring the polycrisis facing history today and the collective actions we can take to protect history in all its forms of practice, w/ @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Philip Carter, Brian Lewis, Amanda Perry
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Fantastic final panel of #NACBS25 exploring the polycrisis facing history today and the collective actions we can take to protect history in all its forms of practice, w/ @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Philip Carter, Brian Lewis, Amanda Perry
Looking forward to the first full day of conference proceedings at #NACBS2025 today, and sharing new research with @saimanasar.bsky.social @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social & Rob Waters. So many brilliant panels to chose from, but come along if you can!
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Looking forward to the first full day of conference proceedings at #NACBS2025 today, and sharing new research with @saimanasar.bsky.social @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social & Rob Waters. So many brilliant panels to chose from, but come along if you can!
Week 3 in Oxford, enjoying these hives of reading.
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Week 3 in Oxford, enjoying these hives of reading.
Turn on the caps? 100% yes, for the benefit of everyone at every level of UK higher education’s system
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Turn on the caps? 100% yes, for the benefit of everyone at every level of UK higher education’s system
Among the thoughtful things I’m grateful for on arrival: a little room of my own in the Weston Library.
October 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Among the thoughtful things I’m grateful for on arrival: a little room of my own in the Weston Library.
My first week in Oxford as a visiting fellow is underway! Coming from one of the ‘have-not’ universities, the disparity in UK higher ed feels pretty overwhelmingly stark. I just wish the former polytechnics and the post-92s could resource care for students and researchers like they can here.
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My first week in Oxford as a visiting fellow is underway! Coming from one of the ‘have-not’ universities, the disparity in UK higher ed feels pretty overwhelmingly stark. I just wish the former polytechnics and the post-92s could resource care for students and researchers like they can here.
Excited to read this new book on the case for reparations! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
September 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Excited to read this new book on the case for reparations! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
So glad to attend the launch of @cathamclarke.bsky.social’s thought provoking new History of England in 25 Poems last night, which explores the ‘polyvocality’ of England’s voices, truths, and agendas. A very insightful read so far from an outstanding scholar.
September 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So glad to attend the launch of @cathamclarke.bsky.social’s thought provoking new History of England in 25 Poems last night, which explores the ‘polyvocality’ of England’s voices, truths, and agendas. A very insightful read so far from an outstanding scholar.
A helpful graphic for No. 10.
September 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A helpful graphic for No. 10.
Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
Summer flu…. having a fever during a London heatwave is something I don’t recommend! Had a literal fever dream where my cat was directing episodes of a hit BBC show. She has great instincts as a filmmaker.
August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Summer flu…. having a fever during a London heatwave is something I don’t recommend! Had a literal fever dream where my cat was directing episodes of a hit BBC show. She has great instincts as a filmmaker.
This is an awfully nice place to visit.
Popping in for a quick trip ahead of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk visiting fellowship this year
Popping in for a quick trip ahead of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk visiting fellowship this year
July 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is an awfully nice place to visit.
Popping in for a quick trip ahead of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk visiting fellowship this year
Popping in for a quick trip ahead of my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk visiting fellowship this year
I was given the full collectors set of these wonderful @royalhistsoc.org badges today. The ultimate accessory for canvas library bags. Take that A.I.! You can try take our jobs, but you can’t take our badges. (Yet. I think.)
July 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I was given the full collectors set of these wonderful @royalhistsoc.org badges today. The ultimate accessory for canvas library bags. Take that A.I.! You can try take our jobs, but you can’t take our badges. (Yet. I think.)
Is… is he giving a pretext and justification for using nuclear weapons to ‘end war’?
This is not a safe road.
This is not a safe road.
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Is… is he giving a pretext and justification for using nuclear weapons to ‘end war’?
This is not a safe road.
This is not a safe road.
Immigrants aren’t the problem. Othering immigrants is a deliberate strategy to encourage people to hate each other rather than examine what severe wealth inequality is doing to our societies.
Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.
Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.
June 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Immigrants aren’t the problem. Othering immigrants is a deliberate strategy to encourage people to hate each other rather than examine what severe wealth inequality is doing to our societies.
Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.
Image from #SolidaritywithLA poster at US embassy bus stop in London.
Excellent profile on the brilliant @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and her important new book on Extinction!
June 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Excellent profile on the brilliant @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and her important new book on Extinction!
‘Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing- marketing for power.’ Wise words from Toni Morrison worth revisiting, from her essay on Racism and Fascism.
June 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
‘Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing- marketing for power.’ Wise words from Toni Morrison worth revisiting, from her essay on Racism and Fascism.
Essential, valuable social sciences and history education available for free from Harvard.
Years of arguments that these are ‘low value’ subjects has enabled anti-democratic politics. This knowledge and learning is essential for good citizenship.
Years of arguments that these are ‘low value’ subjects has enabled anti-democratic politics. This knowledge and learning is essential for good citizenship.
May 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Essential, valuable social sciences and history education available for free from Harvard.
Years of arguments that these are ‘low value’ subjects has enabled anti-democratic politics. This knowledge and learning is essential for good citizenship.
Years of arguments that these are ‘low value’ subjects has enabled anti-democratic politics. This knowledge and learning is essential for good citizenship.
Just going to leave this here.
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just going to leave this here.
Some actual imperialist nonsense posted by @economist.com today on Instagram. How about we don’t just capitulate to expansionist delusions?
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Some actual imperialist nonsense posted by @economist.com today on Instagram. How about we don’t just capitulate to expansionist delusions?
It’s the 60th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the cathedral is celebrating with a brilliant series of free events and workshops with writers, theologians and church leaders.
More information can be found here:
www.stpauls.co.uk/martin-luthe...
More information can be found here:
www.stpauls.co.uk/martin-luthe...
November 29, 2024 at 8:35 PM
It’s the 60th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the cathedral is celebrating with a brilliant series of free events and workshops with writers, theologians and church leaders.
More information can be found here:
www.stpauls.co.uk/martin-luthe...
More information can be found here:
www.stpauls.co.uk/martin-luthe...