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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · 14d

Excited about helping with the Hannah More Herstory Walking tour from The Georgian House Museum and finishing at the M Shed’s new Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans Gallery. Such a great programme of different events planned in Nov @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 14d

💥 The @beinghumanfest.bsky.social returns 6-15 Nov at venues across Bristol!

We have EIGHT events on everything from beer & music with @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social & @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to LEGO printing with @johnjoemctague.bsky.social

For more 👇

www.beinghumanfestival.org/being-human-...

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · 28d

Huge congratulations Kerri!

Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Jul 2

And excited to unbox this new textbook for the Cambridge 9489/9981 syllabus! With grateful thanks to @davidandress.bsky.social Colin Storer and Christopher Read for their help, and to Will for making it happen @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

New textbook for Cambridge International Modern Europe 9489/9981 syllabus from Hachette

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Jul 2

Finally enough exams marked to start planning my new ContEd course for Sept, starting with this rather brilliant stick of dynamite from @davidandress.bsky.social to set things off.

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Jun 9

Huge thanks to the always excellent @catlodge.bsky.social for being our speaker to celebrate 50 years of Nailsea & District Local History Society. Brilliant to hear of all the projects included in Cat’s remit as Regional Archaeologist @nattrustarch.bsky.social. Thanks for always supporting us!

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · May 21

Many thanks for continuing to champion our local history and heritage, Sadik.

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Apr 25

Oh man Kerri. Horrific on hand, fabulous on the other! Finally got to listen to you on the Plodcast, really enjoyed it. Think you should narrate your own audio for books.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · Apr 3

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 22

Flâneusing around Dublin

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Castle, The Long Room Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 18thc buildings

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 22

A grand day out #eighteenthcenturyists

The Long Room, Trinity College Dublin with Gaia by Luke Jerram

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 18

Sunny Bristol with a walk via Windsor Terrace, No.4 home to Hannah More and No. 5 abolitionist clergyman Rev Peter Guillebaud in the 1830s #HannahMoreLetters

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 13

Congratulations, Kerri! Looking forward to reading it.

Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 9

Miss you loads too!!! 🩷

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 8

A shoutout on #IWD for a couple of real champions of others. I’m indebted to @katiehall.bsky.social and @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social for their mentorship and encouragement, & opportunities for which I am extremely thankful. Brilliant people. I’m proud to know you both and hope to pay it forward!

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 5

Sunny cargo cranes and the replica of ‘The Matthew’. Always seems a bit small to me for a Newfoundland trip …

Bristol harbourside industrial heritage and replica of Cabot’s ship The Matthew

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Mar 4

Absolutely agree. I teach a history adult ed class. Oldest student is 86, average 70yo. Mostly all have degrees already, many scientists, former GPs who always liked the idea of a hums degree. Just finished Russian rev. No one skips a session. They *all* do *all* the reading. It’s brilliant.

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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · Feb 24

*NEW COURSE*

Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America

Starts: Thurs 17 April
Duration: 4-week online course
Fee: £40 (+ booking fee)
Tutor: Rebecca Rideal
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...

Course poster. Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America. An online course with Rebecca Rideal. Starts Thursday 17 April.

The top of the poster has a woodcut image of witches, a still from The Crucible and a Victorian imagining of the Salem Witch Trials . The bottom right of the poster has a picture of Rebecca Rideal.

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · Feb 24

On the anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine we have made out Historian 'Ukraine edition' open access - learn about culture and history as well as politics of conflict. www.history.org.uk/publications...

The Historian 163: Ukraine

www.history.org.uk

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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · Feb 22

Waterstones are offering 25% off pre-orders of my upcoming book Pathfinding from NOW until midnight on Monday! Just use the code PREORDER25 here: bit.ly/3O4ZPlw #WPreorder

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Feb 22

We really enjoyed having the team from STV with us, who did a fantastic job and were huge fun with it.

Joanna Barker and Jo Edwards from the Hannah More Trust with Irita and Danny from Antiques Road Trip

Filming in the Hannah More Room at Nailsea Tithe Barn

Blue plaque describing Nailsea Tithe Barn, one of Hannah More’s Somerset schools for boys and girls opened in 1792 in the medieval tithe barn.

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Feb 22

We had fun filming this section about Hannah More and the Hannah More letters project last summer with the Antiques Road Trip team. Now available on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Antiques Road Trip - Series 30: 7. West Country Antiques Haul

Rookie road tripper Danny Sebastian challenges Irita Marriott to round two. The competitive pair are both determined to win, but will Danny be derailed by his large bench buy?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Feb 17

My entry on Hannah More in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing has been published online. (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access) link.springer.com/referencewor... Many thanks to Natasha Duquette for inviting me to contribute.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women's Writing

link.springer.com

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Feb 15

Yes absolutely, and taught almost entirely through bible stories and Isaac Watts hymns!

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Dr Jo Edwards @joedwards.bsky.social · Feb 15

Hannah More (key activist partner of WW) had great deal of wealth/status/social mobility and influence herself but didn’t advocate it for others. She did receive a lot of abuse by men of all classes for her female ‘interference’. Henry Hunt hated her and called her ‘that old bishop in petticoats’.

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