Dr Ellen Smith

Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc @ University of Bristol (@ellencssmith.bsky.social)

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

So happy to hear that my @GenderHistory article has been awarded the 2024 @RoyalHistSoc Alexander Prize. Started as a Masters thesis and refined into an article with the wonderful support of @sysgak & Kate Smith @historyleic. Judges are far too kind here: https://t.co/2gFArtLAig

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

@WestMidRailway @NetworkRailBHM Are the trains from new st to Bristol and back going to be affected today please? I can’t tell on the app! Thanks!

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

Also now on @ellencssmith.bsky.social
https://t.co/jxJuLFvZEx

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

@UoBrisHistory @bristoluniv @RS4VP

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

My latest article on correspondence and the 1857 Indian Rebellion is out now with @JBritishStudies @cambUP_History open access and free to view for all. Lots in there about letter writing, newspapers, colonial anxiety and archives https://t.co/Dmlorp5Gie

[Professor Clare Anderson FBA FAcSS @sysgak]

I am *so* happy for our @Midlands4Cities funded PhD student Charlotte Johnson, who has published a brilliant *open access* article on Lord Curzon's Asian collection. https://t.co/Bg2USzQ51y @ahrcpress @nationaltrust @historyleic @History_Bham

[Dr Freya Gowrley @Freya_Gowrley]

I’m on @NewBooksNetwork this week, talking about my forthcoming book, Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage ✂️✨💚

Listen here - https://t.co/u2lCiousTy

[Bloomsbury History @BloomsburyHist]

This #openaccess book outlines the ways in which smell can be used as a research tool for historians, uncovering an olfactory experience of archives to better understand historical narratives and arguments.
Smell and the Past by @WillTullett is out in PBK
https://t.co/MhAhIW2x49

[HistoryLab @IHRHistoryLab]

🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History

We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...
#OlivetteOtelePrize
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[Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @WSGUK]

Our bursary scheme is now open for applications! £750 available to early career researchers, independent scholars, or PhD students working on women's studies in our period (1558-1837). Deadline: 15 Dec 2024. Please spread the word! #funding #ECR #PhD https://t.co/EtjobeLgNi

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change by Elías J. Palti.
This study reassesses the main concepts of Intellectual History, offering a new framework for understanding past systems of knowledge.
📚 https://t.co/s22ZuUQQyK

#intellectualhistory #historyofideas

[The Historical Journal @HistoricalJnl]

📣From our latest issue, 'Global Social History: Class and Social Transformation in World History'

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (@UWM) on 'Gender, Intersectionality, and Global Social History'

#Social #Gender #Hierarchy #Race #Class

👉Read open access here: https://t.co/UtmiBCfYQF

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

Had a blast this summer researching @wolfsonian in Miami Beach, as part of their fellowship programme. They interviewed me about my findings here: https://t.co/reoQ281WLv

[Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea @Maritime1400]

📢Looking for a book series to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? @AmsterdamUPress 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology https://t.co/ZoWxydja2T

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

New profile info for my @UoBrisHistory post https://t.co/SUz9D2alch

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

@UoBrisHistory Thank you! :)

[Dr Ellen Smith @EllenCSSmith]

Not the best weather, but reflecting on a warm welcome from my new academic home @UoBrisHistory last week, to mark the start of my research postdoc. Project explores the social, economic and cultural value/experience of writing in colonial South Asia

[Professor Clare Anderson FBA FAcSS @sysgak]

Our latest @LeverhulmeTrust project blog presents Part 1 of our exhibition on Vietnamese prisoners and their descendants in New Caledonia.
https://t.co/ckkEMSiW5o @historyleic @LeicesterCSSAH @LeverhulmeTrust #twitterstorians

[Miles Ogborn @MilesOgborn]

Very pleased that this is now published open access. “Fire in Jamaica, 1831-32” in Journal of British Studies https://t.co/Hm8baq2OG8. The politics of fire and habitation in the largest uprising in the British Caribbean colonies.