Charlotte Bennett

Recent PhD from Oxford @OxfordHistory | Childhood and Youth | First World War | New Zealand and Ireland | Boys' Culture | History of Education

[Charlotte Bennett @cjsbennett]

Thrilled to have received a @MarsdenFund grant for my research project on children in the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic!

[Marsden Fund @MarsdenFund]

How did children experience the 1918-19 influenza pandemic? Dr Charlotte Bennett @cjsbennett at @AucklandUni has a #MarsdenFund #FastStart grant to investigate children's voices on the pandemic in Aotearoa, Ireland & Canada #childhistory #transnational
https://t.co/6rMrdY4KWL

[Edward Madigan @MadiganEdward]

New Historians for History post! Read @pennystreeter2's fascinating account of the keepsake jewellery worn by families of service personnel during the Great War. Please also consider the appeal from the author! @greg_jenner @FWWsoc @ihr_history https://t.co/JR9W7IVoy4

[Helen Sunderland @hl_sunderland]

With the new academic year now well under way, take a read of our latest piece by Georgia Oman on the history and gendering of academic dress

[Children's History Society @histchild]

Great thread on childhood in the archives: @TheMERL on one boy's maths book -
https://t.co/peuXq8HWsX

[Children's History Society @histchild]

Become a Writing Fellow @ULethICYS - open to childhood & youth studies folks at all levels in academia:
https://t.co/mQFgghNpnj

[André Brett @DrDreHistorian]

The first two paragraphs of Stuart Strachan's 1979 overview of New Zealand's archival holdings remain devastating reading (in the NZ Journal of History 13:1): https://t.co/7kR3BLFLzr

[National Library of New Zealand @NLNZ]

Story time. https://t.co/jBs36FM7Hq #tbreaktweets

[Auckland Weekly News : 100 years ago @AkWeeklyNews]

Boy Scout movement in New Zealand: 'Rally' of the troops at the Auckland domain last Saturday. #WW100 https://t.co/kGPj9cJUJq

[National Library of New Zealand @NLNZ]

Kei konei ngā kohinga kōrero e whakaatu ana i te kōkiri a te iwi kia mana ai te reo Māori hei reo ōkawa ā-ture nei, kia whakarauoratia hoki tēnei taonga.https://t.co/nLonBynlAp @reomaori #tereo #teWikioTeReoMaori #tbreaktweets

[The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary]

#ItemOfTheWeek: Index card for Lily Abraham who arrived on the Kindertransport in 1939. This card, completed by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children, detailed her circumstances in Germany; "Expelled from home, nothing to eat. Most urgent."

[Children's History Society @histchild]

Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland: call for reviewers...
https://t.co/ZdXpFKCCh1

[Bodleian Rare Books @RareBooksOfBod]

Everyone knows that twitter exists mainly so #miniature book fans can get their #tiny fix. So here we present the Bodleian's smallest book, a German ABC published in 1971. At just 3 x 2.5 mm it was once the smallest book in the world.

Shelfmark: Ryder 832 #miniaturebook

[Caroline Scott @CScottBooks]

‘How the Girl Guides of Britain are helping in the War’: teaching little refugees English; taking wounded soldiers for a row; taking care of soldiers’ children. The War Pictorial, August 1918. #WW1 #WW1athome #Homefront @Girlguiding

[Auckland Weekly News : 100 years ago @AkWeeklyNews]

Some of the New Zealanders who were wounded in the recent fighting on the Somme: photograph taken at the Brockenhurst hospital, London. #WW100 https://t.co/pukZLdAMjE

[Charlotte Bennett @cjsbennett]

@erinmillions Congratulations @erinmillions - that's brilliant!! Such important work.

[Dr Lois Burke @LoisMBurke]

Doing archival research in London, accruing more evidence that late-Victorian girl writers were awesome. #histchild

[Alice Kelly @DrAliceKelly]

The blog piece I wrote about my @BritishAcademy_ @cultcommwar series is now online. Thank you again to @RAIOxford @TORCHOxford and #IWMLondon for hosting the events, and to all of our wonderful participants! Looking forward to Year 2 of @cultcommwar! https://t.co/BPLayLqhxH

[Bonnie Wildie @BonnieWildie]

Precious field books part of enormous heritage project https://t.co/344yjMA4z5

[Marie Coleman @MarieMCole]

One woman named on QUB war memorial https://t.co/cqiYU58zBy