Sadie Levy Gale
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Sadie Levy Gale
@slevygale.bsky.social
4th year PhD candidate at Cardiff University with Historic England and University of Bristol. | Social welfare, urban space and photography in C20 Britain.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/levygales
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My debut article, the outcome of a 3-month research project in Canada, is out! It's about the 1901 royal tour of Canada and the limits of locating 'agency' in colonial photographic collections
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hiding in Plain Sight: Indigenous Repression and Resistance in Photographs of the 1901 Royal Tour of Canada
Photographs taken by William James Topley and William McFarlane Notman of the 1901 royal tour of Canada reflect the intersection of technological and political changes shaping the dominion at the t...
www.tandfonline.com
Really excited to present with the brilliant James Thompson and @michellehenning.bsky.social tomorrow at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference. Details of panel below:
May 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Bluesky architectural historians! Can anyone help? I'm trying to identify some of the modernist buildings in the photographs pinned on the wall in this image. Context: this is the New Homes for Old exhibition held in 1935 by the Housing Centre in London. it's grainy but you can zoom in a bit!
February 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A little insight into my PhD research today: I'm thinking about visual representations of model factory villages in the early 20th-century illustrated press... and how they might operate as a form of visual rhetoric for a quasi-welfare state funded by private capital
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My debut article, the outcome of a 3-month research project in Canada, is out! It's about the 1901 royal tour of Canada and the limits of locating 'agency' in colonial photographic collections
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hiding in Plain Sight: Indigenous Repression and Resistance in Photographs of the 1901 Royal Tour of Canada
Photographs taken by William James Topley and William McFarlane Notman of the 1901 royal tour of Canada reflect the intersection of technological and political changes shaping the dominion at the t...
www.tandfonline.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I'm always looking to connect with other historians working on visual culture & urban history - if you're out there get in touch! I look particularly at photography and the picturing of healthy/unhealthy spaces in the city in early 20th-century Britain
November 26, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Sadie Levy Gale
CFP: Urban History Group Conference 2025
The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 4th & 5th Sept. 2025, University of Leicester. urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...
We are back. Special sessions for New Researchers & PGs, as usual.
November 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Migrating over from X... I'm a final year PhD student at Cardiff Uni interested in all things to do with urban history, photographic history and the social history of medicine!
November 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM