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Our Center for Museum Cultures, together with @bisa-bkk.bsky.social and the V&A have organised an event

'Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars'

4 February from 6:30pm. Tickets are free but you must book: www.vam.ac.uk/event/jwGPQk...
January 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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It was so wonderful to see so many of our students cross the stage at graduation in Senate House yesterday! Congrats to all our brilliant grads!
Prof Jen Baird and BA Archaeology student celebrate graduation, wearing ceremonial robes and hats
December 4, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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Night at the museum! On Friday night, Prof Jen Baird's Roman archaeology students were treated to a visit to the study room of the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum
Blue-gloved hands holding ancient ceramic vessel Wooden tray holding ancient Roman styli
November 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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It's a glorious autumn day in Bloomsbury, where we're looking forward to welcoming our students to inductions next week!
Terrace buildings on Russell Square in the sunshine
September 17, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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How should historians research and write the history of blindness? How can historians recover the lived experiences of Victorian blind people from archives? Join Selina Mills and Heather Tilley for a discussion at @rshc.bsky.social on November 20, 6-7pm.
Image contains long text describing the event, plus biographies of the participants. Here is a summary, with apologies for length: Touching the Past: Questions, Methods and Approaches to the History of Blindness As part of Disability History Month this workshop covers the work of author and journalist Selina Mills, author of a memoir and history, Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness (2023), in conversation with Dr Heather Tilley (Imperial College, London). We'll discuss the author's background, her book, research methods, archives, intersectionality and researcher biases. Dr Tilley will then reflect on the challenges of recovering lived experiences of Victorian blind people from archives, and the role material culture can play in the absence of extensive written records.
November 7, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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What methods can archaeologists use to gather information on sites they are unable to visit?
Birkbeck student Conor Murtagh reflects on Palmyra and Dura-Europos during the Syrian Civil War in the latest
@historiansmag

thehistoriansmagazine.com/archaeology-...
Syrian banknotes featuring Queen Zenobia and Palmyra (1998)
October 26, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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Birkbeck is hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on #WrittenWorlds in 17th-century England, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and @Brodie_Waddell (CI), focusing on non-elite writers.
£42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov.
Apply by 22 Oct:
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Vermeer - Woman writing a letter with her maid
October 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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It's nice to be on @bsky.app ... Follow us to find the latest news about research and events taking place in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
October 17, 2023 at 3:29 PM