Gemma Allen

Snr Lecturer @OpenUniversity. Historian of 16th and 17th century women: religion, politics and texts. BBC #expertwoman. Series consultant #ArtThatMadeUs.

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

A film about 17th century witchcraft that I made with @bbcideas, in collaboration with @OpenUniversity, is out now.

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

Editors of 'Transactions @RoyalHistSoc' invite submissions for a new regular feature in the journal - 'The Common Room': https://t.co/uNhkK8EoaM

Common Room articles are shorter pieces (c.5000 words) on historiographies, methods, debates and new scholarship #twitterstorians

[Neil Younger @NeilYounger1]

Delighted to receive copies of my new book! Read all about one of Elizabeth I's most unusual and neglected courtiers and ministers, how he rose from Midland obscurity to Lord Chancellor, why people said he was a Catholic and how he outmanoeuvred Burghley on religious policy

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

@NeilYounger1 Fantastic news, Neil - huge congratulations!

[HistoryOU @history_ou]

@DrGemmaAllen If the Halloween gremlins are mucking up the sound on the tiktok version, try it on the IG 🧙‍♀️

https://t.co/arkL1JM6OF

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

Halloween is here 🎃

Many of us associate this time of year with witches wearing pointy hats, holding broomsticks, and a black cat as their companion. But where do these ideas come from?

Dr Gemma Allen, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, tells us more 👇 @history_ou

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

Black cats and witches are a duo that have long been associated with each other during the spooky season, but why are they so frequently depicted together?

OU historian Dr Gemma Allen reveals how the association began! 🐈‍⬛

Find out more here:
https://t.co/YkfAEAPK3x

[rosalindcrone @rosalindcrone]

A reminder that applications for the post of Lecturer in Early Modern History @history_ou - that's a full time, permanent post, in an amazing department which specialises in innovative approaches to teaching history - close on Friday, 9 September, at noon. https://t.co/nRkKFYUyP7

[rosalindcrone @rosalindcrone]

Great thread 👇showing the tenacity & aptitude of @OpenUniversity students, and the high value of history degrees. Congrats on your results @CristionaMaire 🍾

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

@misswalsingham @UniLeiden @LeidenHum @LUCAS_Leiden Wonderful news, Nadine! Congratulations!

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

@jeales1 This is wonderful! Thanks so much, Jackie, for letting me know about it.

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

Do please vote for #ArtThatMadeUs for Best Factual show! 🙏🗳️

(and perhaps a nostalgic/end-of-an-era vote for Neighbours for Best Soap wouldn't go amiss either��)

[Russell Barnes @Barnes_Russell]

Calling all #ArtThatMadeUs friends & fans - the series has been long listed for the #TVChoiceAwards & you can vote for it at the link below. Deadline is 24 June. You have to click through to page 13 for the factual shows. Please pass it on. https://t.co/HeXFUjPk8M

[Gemma Allen @DrGemmaAllen]

@RacAgain @UCLEnglishUsage @OU_LAL @OU_WELS @MariaLeedham @akhultgren I’m very excited about this! So delighted that we’ll be able to meet up a lot more regularly!

[Trish Gibson @patriciagibson4]

#ArtThatMadeUs without a shadow of a doubt one of the best art/culture series of programs I have ever watched. It should be deemed essential viewing for an artists/creatives from here forward. 10 out of 10 #BBC2

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

You'll see Chila Kumari Singh Burman explore the career of artist and founder of the British Pop art movement Pauline Boty in tonight's 'Art That Made Us'.

@AmyJaneBarnes explains Boty's importance to British art:

https://t.co/T6Hd1y7VVo

@DrGemmaAllen @OU_FASS

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

Explore the stories of 9 women, all of whom possessed brilliant creativity that challenged the norms and conventions of their day.

Each one chosen by our academics consultants who worked on our BBC co-pro 'Art That Made Us'.

https://t.co/T6Hd1y7VVo

@AmyJaneBarnes @DrGemmaAllen

[The Open University @OpenUniversity]

Tonight's final episode of Art That Made Us explores how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war, gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across Britain.

Series academic consultant @AmyJaneBarnes:

https://t.co/T6Hd1y7VVo

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

In 15 minutes, don't miss the final OU/@BBCTwo Art That Made Us with the explosion of postwar artistic rebellion, protest and popular culture from Larkin to Stormzy via punk and Harry Potter...

And afterwards, explore our amazing extra content 👇
https://t.co/UMm2NbFUvB

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

Tonight at 21:00, don't miss the final OU/@BBCTwo Art That Made Us - the Brilliant Isles of postwar artistic rebellion and popular culture from Larkin to Stormzy via punk and Harry Potter...

And don't miss our amazing extra content 👇
https://t.co/UMm2NbFUvB

[Russell Barnes @Barnes_Russell]

#ArtThatMadeUs 9pm @BBCTwo also starring Shelagh Delaney, Pauline Boty, Philip Larkin, Hanif Kureishi, Charlie Phillips, Emic, Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Harry Potter, Passion of Port Talbot and Stormzy. Shout out to brilliant director @judeyho & editor #gregpittard

[Joanna Paul @joannapaul]

TODAY! I'm really excited to be hosting this event which will take you behind the scenes of this brilliant OU-BBC co-production and explore some bigger questions about why arts, humanities and creativity matter... join us at 1.30 or catch up on YouTube afterwards!