Dr. Rachel K. Bright
@rachelkbright.bsky.social
Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
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This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.
Then share. Thank you.
secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power.
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025
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TES article on our ESIS report after Natasha and I were interviewed, and featuring great examples of curricula change from history teachers across the country. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Why are women missing from school history?
The extent to which history lessons ignore female figures has been revealed by new research. Here, teachers share the changes they are making to address this gender imbalance
www.tes.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
TES article on our ESIS report after Natasha and I were interviewed, and featuring great examples of curricula change from history teachers across the country. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇
Even great code has some bugs!
Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.
Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started.
Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.
September 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇
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Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...
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![3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicdr4m3a7s2i232wlvcu7dkwytnrh3tlqfbojtmyg3pzr7a6ibxra@jpeg)
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Today is World Refugee Day.
✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.
www.historyworkshop....
#WorldRefugeeDay
✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.
www.historyworkshop....
#WorldRefugeeDay
Creating Refugee Archives
How can historians and archivists best document, preserve, and make accessible the voices and artifacts of refugee and migration experience?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Today is World Refugee Day.
✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.
www.historyworkshop....
#WorldRefugeeDay
✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives.
www.historyworkshop....
#WorldRefugeeDay
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I can't be outside but I'll be there! Join me and other #disabled folk fighting for our rights! I'm joining at noon tomorrow! #NoKings
Join our ONLINE NO KINGS PROTEST PARTY
Saturday, Jun 14 –
Monday, Jun 16
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: meet.google.com/vbg-fadp-jxt
Saturday, Jun 14 –
Monday, Jun 16
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: meet.google.com/vbg-fadp-jxt
Meet
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June 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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There is a No Kings protest happening within hours near YOU and we will be there too. Find your closest location and do what you can to speak up against the horribleness. www.nokings.org#map This is a link to locations...
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
June 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
There is a No Kings protest happening within hours near YOU and we will be there too. Find your closest location and do what you can to speak up against the horribleness. www.nokings.org#map This is a link to locations...
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Applications close 5pm tomorrow for our first research and knowledge exchange workshop at Imperial War Museums on 4th July!
If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility.
@edicaucus.bsky.social
If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility.
@edicaucus.bsky.social
🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility workshop! 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Apply for our first 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshop at Imperial War Museums, London, on 4th July!
Microsoft Forms
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June 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Applications close 5pm tomorrow for our first research and knowledge exchange workshop at Imperial War Museums on 4th July!
If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility.
@edicaucus.bsky.social
If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility.
@edicaucus.bsky.social
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This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
May 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
May 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 9 fellowship and funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4jWMCcQ
Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian
Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian
May 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 9 fellowship and funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4jWMCcQ
Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian
Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian
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If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.
Digital Journeys: Preserving & Sharing Migration Collections
Join us for our first Migration Network event dedicated to exploring collections - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.
'When you have an invisible disability and look like everyone else, there is an onus on you... Telling people you have different or additional needs can be perceived as a sense of entitlement, as though you’re asking for special treatment...
May 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
'When you have an invisible disability and look like everyone else, there is an onus on you... Telling people you have different or additional needs can be perceived as a sense of entitlement, as though you’re asking for special treatment...
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Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...
@dgb-history.bsky.social
@dgb-history.bsky.social
Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...
@dgb-history.bsky.social
@dgb-history.bsky.social
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Hey, Adjuncts!!!
The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. 🗃️
AHA Surveys: Historians Teaching Off the Tenure Track - AHA
Goals of the Surveys The Professional Division of the American Historical Association seeks to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty...
www.historians.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Hey, Adjuncts!!!
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Interested in promoting Humanities (including Languages) as well as Arts? Here's the British Academy's take on the interim report on the DfE's curriculum review:
Curriculum Review: The case for broadening - not abolishing - EBacc
Would removing EBacc increase access to arts and other SHAPE subjects? It’s not clear that it would.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Interested in promoting Humanities (including Languages) as well as Arts? Here's the British Academy's take on the interim report on the DfE's curriculum review:
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The UK has just increased the naturalisation fee to £1735.
In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
March 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The UK has just increased the naturalisation fee to £1735.
In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp).
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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As universities contract radically, academic mental health is now a serious concern. Experts in these matters recommend: say no to new work; find some meaning in what you do; look after your body and your mind. Advice below. 👇
jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...
jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...
jovanevery.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
As universities contract radically, academic mental health is now a serious concern. Experts in these matters recommend: say no to new work; find some meaning in what you do; look after your body and your mind. Advice below. 👇
jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...
jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...