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Alana Harris

@dralanagharris.bsky.social

Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/

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King's College London, History Department@kingshistory.bsky.social · last wk.

Our colleague Alana Harris's work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award! You can even vote for her project. Have a look! www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...

Find Your Ancestors & Family History - Genealogy & Ancestry | Findmypast.co.uk

Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more - over 10 billion records - start today!

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Alana Harris@dralanagharris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

LAST CALL! Proposals for 20-minute papers (consisting of a title, 300-word abstract and 50-word author biography) should be forwarded to alana.harris@kcl.ac.uk by 19 June 2026.

Alana Harris@dralanagharris.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CFP: The Everyday Heritage and Afterlives of Asylum Burial Grounds in Britain and Ireland, 27 October (online ZOOM, Chairs: Alana Harris and Julie Rugg) See: www.thehortonninethousand.org/news-and-eve.... @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social @deathstudiespod.bsky.social @cemeteryclub.bsky.social

The Stone Bench in the Asylum at Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Daniel Grey@djrgrey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great new article out by @dralanagharris.bsky.social on English Catholic youth activists and ecumenical work in Northern Ireland during the 'long 1970s' 😊 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Brixton and Belfast: The English Young Christian Students Movement and Grassroots, Liberatory Theologies in post-1968 Britain - Professor Alana Harris, 2026

This article considers the activities of a generation of young English Catholics – mostly middle-class convent and grammar school students – who belonged to the...

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Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Beautifully documented short clip on Instagram, drawing on John Davis's excellent chapter on gentrification, in our Modern British City book now well and truly launched. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

About Buildings & Cities on Instagram: "Where was the first place in London to go through gentrification? In an essay in ‘The Modern British City’, out now from Lund Humphries, the historian John Davi...

3,470 likes, 40 comments - about_buildings on January 8, 2026: "Where was the first place in London to go through gentrification? In an essay in ‘The Modern British City’, out now from Lund Humphries,...

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Lund Humphries@lhartbooks.bsky.social · 9mo ago

OUT NOW! The Modern British City 1945-2000, ed. by Simon Gunn, Peter Mandler and Otto Saumarez Smith, brings together architectural, urban and social historians, to chart the extraordinary changes that took place in British cities between the end of the Second World War and the early 21st century.

Alana Harris@dralanagharris.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A cause close to my heart (see www.thehortonninethousand.org) If you are a UK resident, please consider signing the petition! www.facebook.com/reel/1565743...

Behind me lie over 9,000 forgotten lives. Horton Cemetery holds a powerful part of our history - one that deserves remembrance and respect. I’m campaigning with Friends of Horton for a national memo...

Behind me lie over 9,000 forgotten lives. Horton Cemetery holds a powerful part of our history - one that deserves remembrance and respect. I’m campaigning with Friends of Horton for a national...

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IHR Modern Religious History Seminar@ihrmodernrelighist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next: Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body. 🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm 📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body

This paper will explore the history of discourses around sexual health in Britain's Jewish community across the 20th century.

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Jeannine Baker@nenieb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2y ago

'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23. The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4

UK universities spend more than £200 million on severance pay

THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year

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Durham History@durhamhistory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Or would you like to explore "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", working with @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and alongside the amazing Prof. Julie-Marie Strange, Dr. David Minto, @leannemccormick.bsky.social. More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...

PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain at Durham University

Discover a PhD Studentship - AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2y ago

A degree in the Humanities 'ought surely to leave a student with a notion of why we do what we do. And that requires greater visibility of the research we do, the complexity of the process by which we arrive at knowledge.' 1/3

Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

The study of humanities, and all of science, is a space in which to learn how to learn. Blog 4: Why research-led teaching is essential in arts and humanities and why we need to recognise the costs of our laboratory, the library. @rluk.bsky.social anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2024/12/29/b...