Grace Heaton
@graceheaton.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain 💫 interested in all things women, activism, and religion. Based at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
This paper is going to be fab! Aleph Ross on ‘Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish body’. Do come along tomorrow 5.30pm (online and in person at the IHR). Details below:
👋 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
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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 2:47 PM
This paper is going to be fab! Aleph Ross on ‘Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish body’. Do come along tomorrow 5.30pm (online and in person at the IHR). Details below:
This is going to be fab! CfP closing today…
Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is going to be fab! CfP closing today…
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Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged
June 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged
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Amazing evening to celebrate the @phm.org.uk at the House of Lords tonight. As well as showcasing their wonderful archival collections, it was also so wonderful to hear Jan Royall and Neil Kinnock to speak with such passion about the museum, and about labour movement history.
June 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Amazing evening to celebrate the @phm.org.uk at the House of Lords tonight. As well as showcasing their wonderful archival collections, it was also so wonderful to hear Jan Royall and Neil Kinnock to speak with such passion about the museum, and about labour movement history.
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If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
womenshistorynetwork.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
May 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Please share this far and wide - we're working on something special!
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Historian on sabbatical or funded research leave for some of 25-26? You might like to eye this Oxford visiting fellowship at Mansfield College: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
Visiting Fellowship 2025-26 - Mansfield College
Mansfield College proposes to elect up to four Visiting Fellowships for all or part of the academic year October 2025 – September...
www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Historian on sabbatical or funded research leave for some of 25-26? You might like to eye this Oxford visiting fellowship at Mansfield College: www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
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Doing a new kind of history where I talk to people. Aiming to learn more about women’s experiences of work in North London since the 1960s. If you are, or know, a woman over 65 from this part of the world, then please get in touch!
April 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Doing a new kind of history where I talk to people. Aiming to learn more about women’s experiences of work in North London since the 1960s. If you are, or know, a woman over 65 from this part of the world, then please get in touch!
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📢 Wowzers 😮! What a line up we have for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social Term 3. Fab speakers incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social Lucy Robinson Lukas Herde + Jennifer Wallis. Join us via link below 👇 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/con...
April 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
📢 Wowzers 😮! What a line up we have for @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social Term 3. Fab speakers incl: @racheljcollett.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social Lucy Robinson Lukas Herde + Jennifer Wallis. Join us via link below 👇 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/con...
Excited to hear the brilliant Aleena Din give this paper at 5.30pm tomorrow. Online and in person - more details below!
So looking forward to 'Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford: Approaches to Community History' at the IHR live and online www.history.ac.uk/events/archi... @graceheaton.bsky.social
Archiving a Muslim History of Oxford: Approaches to Community History
www.history.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Excited to hear the brilliant Aleena Din give this paper at 5.30pm tomorrow. Online and in person - more details below!
So looking forward to Matthew Hilton’s IHR Modern Religious History paper on ‘Faith, race and politics in British Humanitarianism since 1945’. Next Weds 26th Feb 5.30 - in person and online! Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/faith...
Faith, race and politics in British charitable humanitarianism since 1945
www.history.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
So looking forward to Matthew Hilton’s IHR Modern Religious History paper on ‘Faith, race and politics in British Humanitarianism since 1945’. Next Weds 26th Feb 5.30 - in person and online! Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/faith...
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'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2
January 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century', bit.ly/4js1vE4 with lead authors @lottelydia.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2
New Roundtable article now available, Open Access, in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'
#Skystorians 1/2