Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson
rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social
Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson
@rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum looking into the memory of colonial warfare through war memorials and museum collections | PhD in Archaeology at the University of Oxford looking at country houses, empire & the National Trust
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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One week to go until ‘Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall’ organised by the brilliant @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social, Oliver Godsmark and @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains
India tries to halt auction of Piprahwa gems found with Buddha’s remains
Ministers claim sale in Hong Kong is unlawful and are demanding repatriation of relics buried in third-century BC
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
www.newyorker.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Very special to see this in its physical form! Congratulations again @profdanhicks.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Looking forward to speaking among great company at this workshop next week - come hear from researchers working on contested heritage at the @ox.ac.uk and on the fab Cast in Stone project! Sign up here: www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/contes...
Contested Heritage: A Discussion
This discussion brings together experts from a variety of heritage-related sectors, to discuss how these developments have shaped their own work and vision.
www.stx.ox.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Thanks to my department for combining my and my colleague's Leverhulme Trust teaching buy out into an almost full time (0.9) 1 year post 👇

- Application deadline 16th April

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...
Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern History (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Ever had a “404 page not found” message?

Link rot is widespread and according to recent research nearly 40% of 2013 websites are now inaccessible www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

It's all part of #DigitalPreservation to ensure the historical record is preserved, regardless of format

#404Day
April 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Please do feel free to get in touch with the editors with questions about this position! #FrenchRevolution #18thC 🗃️
The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist.
The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...
Associate Editor of the journal French History – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So lovely to be back on campus at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social speaking with final year global sustainable development students about rural heritage tourism in the UK, just as spring finally arrives! 🪻🌻🌷
March 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The Society welcomes applications to join from those who research and practice history.

Our professional historians work in higher education (in and outside #History depts) as well as sectors such as archives, museums and heritage bit.ly/45lOzr0

Next deadlines for applications: 24 March & 26 May.
March 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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📣 Final call for abstracts for this exciting workshop! 📣 We want to hear from people with a wide range of expertise so please share widely.

See the CFP for further details - closing this Friday. Feel free to contact me or @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or send us an email if you have any questions!
4 days to go! 📢

If you have something to say about imperial collecting, frontier warfare, statesmanship or any of the other themes listed on our CFP, we want to hear from you! We're looking for 20-30 minute research papers and 10 minute context talks. Send us an abstract by Friday to be considered!
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I’m hosting a day of lectures, discussion & support for people in the educational, heritage or cultural sectors involved in educating about slavery, colonialism & Empire, or anyone else who wants hear about the scholarship. Sat 21 June, Sussex. Book here:

onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...
Educating People About British Colonial History and Confronting the Backlash: Info and Support | University of Sussex Online Shop
For teachers and heritage and cultural workers. This day-long event consists of a series of lectures from Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography an
onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Our IHR 2025 internships are now live! This year we are offering two opportunities: Reviews in History Taxonomy Internship and Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) Internship. Applications open until 31st March. #internship #skystorians
IHR Internships
IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.
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March 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 Final call for abstracts for this exciting workshop! 📣 We want to hear from people with a wide range of expertise so please share widely.

See the CFP for further details - closing this Friday. Feel free to contact me or @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or send us an email if you have any questions!
4 days to go! 📢

If you have something to say about imperial collecting, frontier warfare, statesmanship or any of the other themes listed on our CFP, we want to hear from you! We're looking for 20-30 minute research papers and 10 minute context talks. Send us an abstract by Friday to be considered!
March 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Part-time qualitative postdoctoral research fellow sought for Race & Class in UK Religious Studies & Theology Project. Grade 6 scale (£37,999–45,163) per annum pro rata negotiable; an average of 3.5 hours per week). Based at University of Aberdeen. 10 March deadline. www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/discipl...
February 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History
University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...
Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History at University of Oxford
Discover Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Did you know that we have an online ‘archive’ of recordings of our seminars, events & training sessions? It’s full of great stuff about #people, #place & #community. Check it out here: www.history.ac.uk/chppc-traini...
CHPPC Training & Events Archive
The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community Training and Events Archive includes our past workshops, seminars, training sessions and lectures.
www.history.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Are you putting in a paper for the 2025 @anzamems.bsky.social conference? (Deadline Friday!) Is your research related to historiography or political power/legitimation?

@elisabethrolston.bsky.social and I are looking for another person to be in a panel - DM one of us if you're interested!
February 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Fellowship opportunities!📢

MUP and the Society for the Study of French History have announced TWO book development fellowships for early-career researchers preparing their first book for publication.

Includes:

- Mentoring from editors
- £1000 grant

Apply now: tinyurl.com/53amvrv7
December 19, 2024 at 12:24 PM
1 month left to send us an abstract for the workshop Curzon, Contacts & Contexts: Engaging with Imperial Histories at Kedleston Hall.
If you have any questions feel free to send us an email or contact @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or myself directly.

Please share widely!
1 month left to submit an abstract for our workshop!

We want to hear from experts in material culture, imperial politics, the histories of collecting and display, colonial frontiers & more. See the call for papers for more details and get in touch at curzoncentenarysymposium@gmail.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I thought it was already a bit on the nose that a major monument of the USA was created by disfiguring a sacred natural edifice with high explosive, compromising its integrity and leaving a vast spoil heap
H.R.792 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

filed by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
January 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Do you have a proposal for an innovative new seminar to join the IHR Research Seminar programme? We are looking for 3 fresh seminar series to launch in 2025-26. Applications are open now - deadline of 31 March. Full details of what we are looking for and how to apply here:
IHR Research Seminars - New Series (2025)
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January 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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What might be found in 'the insides of history', the knotty details of a life that don't make it into the archives?

Joe Moran imagines the voice of his grandfather, questioning what histories might be lost and writing the histories left behind:

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Lost Voices: The Insides of History
Joe Moran on what is lost and what is left behind in history, through imagining the voice of his grandfather.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Shaping the Future Together: join us to explore how museums can be reimagined as co-created, people-focussed, community-led organisations in a time of growing inequality, environmental emergency and political crisis museum-id.com/museum-ideas... #MuseumIdeas
Museum Ideas 2025 Conference, London – 9 Oct - Museum-iD
Connect with like-minded museum colleagues from around the world, share experiences, and gather actionable ideas to enrich your work
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January 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM