Melanie Tebbutt

Historian, UK. Children, youth, gender, media history, public history. Professor emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University.

[Kirsten Hesketh @kirsten_hesketh]

Excited to share I’ve been accepted to start a PhD at Oxford Brookes University, researching the Saga Girls, cultural memory & the ways women’s stories are remembered & retold. Beginning this journey at 63 feels incredible. I’m excited, grateful & more than slightly daunted! .

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Raising awareness of the signs of a first and recurrent heart attack

A public awareness video + infographic

We know that educating people about the early signs of a heart attack can save lives

Share this video on your channels, in clinic, and with your colleagues, to help raise awareness of the common and less common signs to look out for

The resources explain:

-Common/less common MI (+recurrent) symptoms
-Differing symptoms in women/elderly/diabetes/renal failure
-Why immediate action is critical
-Recovery is physical AND emotional

>> Developed with cardiologists Prof. Gilles Montalescot & Prof. Marco Valgimigli (@vlgmrc)

Endorsed by Fondazione Ticino Cuore & The Parole & Réaction patient group

📺 Video in this post

Supported by an Independent Educational Grant from Viatris

[SHCY (@shcy.bsky.social) @shcyhome]

Congratulations to Divya Kannan (@divkan1), this year's SHCY Grace Abbott Prize winner. Read more about her book, research, and thoughts in this week's interview on Digital Childhoods: https://t.co/rpX8qQZfFl

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

One of the sides of the 12th century Tournai font at Winchester Cathedral depicting the life of St. Nicholas. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #WinchesterCathedral

[Kenny Brophy @urbanprehisto]

Exciting news that this year’s Dalrymple lectures will be delivered by my colleague Prof Stephen Driscoll on the theme of Stones, Saints, Ships & Slaves: an archaeology of Glasgow for 850. Free to all 630pm on 20/21 November
#Glasgow #Glasgow850

https://t.co/4YBEHwt0GB

[The Historical Journal @HistoricalJnl]

📣Out now on #firstview!

Emily Chung (@emvchung) (@CamHistory) (@CamUniCampop) on 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester'

#Industrialisation #Class #Social #Wealth 19thc 🗃️🏠

👉Read open access: https://t.co/OfNjeDog4l

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Snow on The Old Wellington Inn, Manchester, February 1954, long before the building was relocated decades later (Mirrorpix/Getty).

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Happy publication day to @DominicMHinde, his book 'Drifting north: Finding a sustainable future in Scotland's past' is out now, available from all good bookshops & online.

Past & future collide in this engaging journey through Scotland, and the struggle for a sustainable world.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine

[Dr Heather Ellis  @HeatherLWEllis]

📢 Our first full-team article from the School Meals Project is now published!

"The UK School Meals Service 1944-Present: A Sensory and Emotional Experience"

Read it here: https://t.co/639xMvwoBZ

#histed

@EducationSheff @HistEdSocUK @ANZHistEdSoc
@sheffielduni @wlv_uni @ucl

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

Ever wondered what it really takes to get your book into the world?

Join us for an inspiring & practical discussion at @SELbookfest with leading voices from across the publishing industry including author & teacher @Lilydunnwriter - tickets here: https://t.co/kTzVEFbocb #London

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Fifth Pan-African Congress ended on this day 1945 at former Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall, Manchester. Sought independence for African countries, including future leaders such as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyatta lived in Manchester.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Child in pram, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 1953 (Mirrorpix/Getty).

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Demolition begins, Sheffield, 1960s, photo by Robert Blomfield.

[lyse doucet @bbclysedoucet]

Thank you ! 📚

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Medieval humor – The Peeker of Conques’ at Abbey of Sainte Foy, France ca. 1107.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Manchester, 1966, by Shirley Baker.

[Lost London @Lost___London]

London Underground, 1890

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Dolly Peel, fishwife and smuggler, South Shields, 1850. When her husband and son were press-ganged, she snuck on board ship and hid. Discovered, she was allowed to work as a nurse and stay with her family.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

The graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together, Holland, 1888.