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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

Many thank yous to @ed-brookes.bsky.social, who has really made this special section possible, really taking the lead while I was ill during pregnancy and on maternity leave over the past couple of months. Huge congratulations Ed, this is a testament to your commitment to participatory research!

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

9/ Finally Juliette Desportes reflects on interviews with academics, heritage professionals, and community historians in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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While historical geographers and historians increasingly recognise the benefits of and need for participatory research, the rigid structures regimenting academic practice have acted as barriers to su...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

8/ There are then 2 shorter articles with specific reflections on short-term participatory projects. 1st @hannahworthen.bsky.social and Claire Weatherall on a participatory workshop titled ‘Watery Archives’: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

7/ In the last of the full-length articles in the section @aledsingleton.bsky.social , @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I explore the potential for participatory theatre to engage local communities in the long-term impact of mid-century urban re-design rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper considers the potential for collaborations between geographers and theatre makers that focus on urban renewal histories. The article reflects critically on the methodological, ethical and ...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

6/ Next up: Briony McDonagh, Kate Smith and Sukhmandeep Dhillon consider the impact of co-created performance and history as a way of engaging audiences and participants with climate challenges: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper presents our experiences of the participatory, co-creative collaboration with the National Youth Theatre, culminating in a site-specific performance at COP26. In exploring the performance'...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

5/ Lucy Thompson takes us somewhere totally different, exploring the possibilities of understanding the movement of dance within the archive. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Many congrats to Lucy, as this paper was highly commended in the annual Area ECR article prize.

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This paper considers the potential of participatory methods to address the methodological difficulties surrounding the historical geographies of dance, and moving bodies, within archival research. Ex...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

4/ Then Sarah Linn, Jina Lee, Mariam Zorba, Cailin Nun and Jennifer Cromwell examine the entangled mobilities of ancient objects and contemporary migrants through participatory map-making methods. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper examines how creative counter-maps can be a valuable participatory historical geography tool in their capacity to render visible multiple pasts, presents, and futures, and offer new possib....

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

3/ In the 1st article, I reflect on @vch-home.bsky.social as participatory historical geography, arguing that the VCH's current emphasis on participatory methods shows how long-standing research projects can adopt these developing ways of working rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This article critically reflects on the Victoria County History's (VCH) relationship with participatory historical geography approaches. Telling a story of change, it argues that it is not only possi....

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

2/ First up @ed-brookes.bsky.social and I have written an introduction outlining what participatory historical geography is/could be and why it's important. Read more here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · 2d

1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!

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Ed Brookes @ed-brookes.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to share our AREA special issue on Participatory Historical Geographies 🎉 Co-edited with the brilliant @ruthslatter.bsky.social - exploring the rewards & challenges of collaborative historical research.

Read 👉 rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#Geography #AREAjournal

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

Over the past two decades, historical geographers have increasingly embraced participatory methods to challenge dominant narratives and engage communities in the production of historical knowledge. T...

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jul 21

New #OnHistory blog post fro @ruthslatter.bsky.social updating us on progress of the @vchlondon.bsky.social and @bho.bsky.social digitisation project. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/digi...

Digitising the Victoria County History: first new volume added to British History Online - On History

In this blog post, Dr Ruth Slatter (Co-General Editor of the Victoria County History and the VCH Digitisation Project Manager) celebrates the publication of new digitised VCH material on British…

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jul 22

A new VCH volume available @bho.bsky.social - for more detail, please have a read of this blog from our co-General Editor, @ruthslatter.bsky.social:

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Jul 18

#Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team @ihr.bsky.social. We're seeking a fixed-term #Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on @vchlondon.bsky.social projects & more. Closing date 29 August. Please share!
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Historic Environment:London Senate House

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · Jul 18

Brilliant news as my exceptional colleague, @ihr.bsky.social Director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, is made Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social. It's a privilege to work with Claire as she ensures the IHR is a supportive, inspiring & inclusive home for all #historians
www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Claire Langhamer confirmed as new British Academy Fellow

IHR Professor Claire Langhamer has been appointed a British Academy Fellow

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jul 14

We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:

#Skystorians #LocalHistory

Kent

Learn about the Victoria County History of Kent.

www.history.ac.uk

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Jul 3

It was brilliant to host Tre Ventour-Griffiths in our seminar series earlier this term, talking about the ways in which adaptations of #Austen novels have overlooked her female characters’ role as (absentee) enslavers. The recording is now available here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"You Can't Sit With Us": Austen's Lady Karens and the British Slave Trade

CHPPC Layers of London Map

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jun 25

Are you interested in the history of #London? #Francisboorman from #VCH London will be giving a lecture on the development of #Mayfair as a London Suburb on 15.07.25 for the Residents’ Society of Mayfair & St James’s. More info here www.rsmsj.com/events

RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK

Events | RSMSJ events in Mayfair & St James, London, UK

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · Jun 24

This was a really warm & collaborative event, which highlighted the value of historians working in all sectors coming together & sharing their experiences of the joys & challenges of collaborative research. Thank you to everyone who came along & generously engaged in the workshop in this spirit!

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Jun 24

It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...

Place-Based Public and Community History - On History

In this blog post, Ruth Slatter (from the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community) and Iain Robertson (from the University of Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History) reflect on ...

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jun 24

Great to see this blog post mention several members of the #VCH community who attended the workshop & shared their practical experiences of engaging in #placebased #publichistory

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Jun 24

It was a pleasure to collaborate with @uhihistory.bsky.social colleagues in April to run a workshop on place-based public history & share our ongoing research into public history in the Highlands & Islands. You can now read more about this here blog.history.ac.uk/2025/06/plac...

Place-Based Public and Community History - On History

In this blog post, Ruth Slatter (from the IHR’s Centre for the History of People, Place and Community) and Iain Robertson (from the University of Highlands and Islands’ Centre for History) reflect on ...

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · Jun 21

They are now redeveloping it again, largely sparked by the mass closure of shops & banks in the town centre in the 21st C.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jun 18

*NEW BOOK* (yes, the second in a fortnight).

Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre is the latest in our 'Partnership Publications' series, this title in collaboration with @hobnobpress.bsky.social.

#LocalHistory #Skystorians

Basingstoke Reinvented, 1800–1925: from Agricultural Town to Manufacturing Centre, edited by Jean Morrin — Hobnob Press

Basingstoke is frequently seen as a modern town, the product of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, rich and prosperous history dating from the medieval period. This study ...

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jun 19

You can buy Cradley online from @uolpress.bsky.social:

uolpress.co.uk/book/the-vic...

But not only from there! [cont.]

The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Cradley - University of London Press

Scenic and rural, the parish of Cradley stretches down westwards from the Malvern Hills, bordered by Worcestershire to the north and east. It is one of the largest parishes in Herefordshire, and from ...

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our latest book from #Herefordshire, Cradley, was launched last night on a beautiful summer evening.

The authors, Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes and our director, @cathamclarke.bsky.social joined an appreciative audience.

We sold plenty of copies, but if you would like one [cont.]

A book, 'Cradley', by Anastaisia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes, with a cover featuring a timber framed building in an autumnal landscape. The gable end of the same building, Cradley parish hall, formerly the church ale hall, built in the 15th century is the backdrop, below a deep blue sky.

The authors, Anastasia Stylianou (left), in a long dress, smiling, and Fergus Eskola-Oakes, wearing a blue shirt and black jeans, holding their book against the backdrop of Cradley parish hall, a timber framed building which is also on the cover.

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Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social · Jun 12

Many thanks to Tre for sharing in such an open & personal way in this seminar last night. So much food for thought in his reflections on how the representation of white women in Austen screen adaptations is another way of dismissing the violence & trauma of enslavement. Recording coming soon.

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · May 29

The next event in our summer events series will take place 11.06.25, 5.30-7pm (BST), online only. Tre Ventour-Griffiths will explore female absentee enslavers in #JaneAusten ‘s novels. Everyone is welcome. Use the link below to sign up 👇

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · Mar 26

11.06.25 Tre Ventour-Griffiths will share his research into the often overlooked place of the #slavetrade in #JaneAustens novels. This is another online only event www.history.ac.uk/events/you-c...

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