Thrilled to share that I’m starting a fellowship in Applied History at the Institute of Historical Research, in partnership with The Social History Archive. TSHA has a vast and fascinating digital archive that I’ll be curating, alongside working on my own research. Can’t wait! @ihr.bsky.social

Happy to say I'm now an associate editor for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. I'm particularly interested in pitches on the intersections between health and the built environment, but would love to hear from anyone who wants to write about their #medhums work! More info: thepolyphony.org/get-involved/

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Thrilled to say that I passed my viva last week! Thank you to my examiners @tomhulme.bsky.social and Keir Waddington for such an enjoyable and constructive conversation, and to my brilliant supervisors @erikahanna.bsky.social and Tom Allbeson

Really excited to present with the brilliant James Thompson and @michellehenning.bsky.social tomorrow at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference. Details of panel below:

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!

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

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...

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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

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.

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12 | 2026 – Bound Histories: Memories, Materialities, and Meanings ...

Co-editors Carolin Görgen, Associate Professor of American Studies, Sorbonne Université Alice Morin, Media and Photo historian, Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen Marie-Eve Bouillon,...

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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!