Helen Sunderland
@helenlsunderland.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain working on childhood, education & young people's politics | Leverhulme ECF at University of Oxford | she/her
Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
'School Girls at the House of Commons' (including Michael Joseph Flavin) - National Portrait Gallery
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print
22 July 1909
© National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Can anyone help me identify these schoolgirls who visited Parliament in July 1909? I'm writing about them in my book and would LOVE to be able to say who they are! www.npg.org.uk/collections/... #histed #histchild
Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001?
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain!
Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
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Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
This year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium is on my favourite topic Children & politics! Monday 24 June at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Send us your abstracts by midday Friday 8 March
January 23, 2024 at 10:47 AM
This year's Centre for the History of Childhood colloquium is on my favourite topic Children & politics! Monday 24 June at Magdalen College Oxford & online. Send us your abstracts by midday Friday 8 March
Reposted by Helen Sunderland
Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...
Ewen Green Memorial Lecture
The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Duelling in the archive: labour quotas for disabled Britons, 1944-1995 will be given by Lucy Delap on Thursday 12 October 20...
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November 2, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Just released online, my Oct 2023 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, on the labour of disabled people in Britain, 1944-1995. So pleased to be able to share this with folks who couldn't be there in person. #DisHist
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZn...
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Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Teaching Trans History Reading List & Resources
Teaching Trans History Reading List and Resources This non-exhaustive reading list is intended to offer practical tools and resources to academics wanting to include more trans history in university...
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November 2, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Slow to the party but hi! Just a postdoc trying to rebuild a semblance of online community 👋 (& spare my non-academic friends from any more complaints about my badly timed BL research plans this week!)
November 1, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Slow to the party but hi! Just a postdoc trying to rebuild a semblance of online community 👋 (& spare my non-academic friends from any more complaints about my badly timed BL research plans this week!)