Dr. Philippa Hellawell

Historian | Head of Collections Research @UkNatArchives | Maritime & colonial history | #HistSciMed | Research on Royal African Company.

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading @UkNatArchives PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.
https://t.co/nYSz4Rmc3o

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

The AHA seeks to collect information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent faculty. We hope the survey results will empower faculty to engage in evidence-based negotiations about their working conditions. https://t.co/2eHarZMn3F

[Vicky Iglikowski-Broad 💙 @vicky_ig]

Join us for a lived experience focus group on LGBTQ+ history at The National Archives! 🌈📚

🗓 Jan 31, 2025
🕒 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM GMT
📍 Kew, Surrey

Funding available.

https://t.co/D8Fcz9x9sr

#LGBTQHistory #Archives #Research #QueerHistory

[The National Archives Research @UkNatArcRes]

700 years of the Thames: a document display & talks

Drop in to our site in Kew to explore records charting what life, work & play looked like beside London's iconic river. From Chaucer to the Empire Windrush in 1948.

@BeingHumanFest
7 November, 3-7pm
https://t.co/JGOwtXIAg7

[Giorgia Tolfo @giorgiatolfo]

After reading @corinne_fowler's Our Island Stories and attending @UkNatArcRes Methodologies event with her, I embarked on the "The Labourers’ Walk" at @UkNatArchives . Along the way, I was joined by colleague historians to unpick and reveal some records.
https://t.co/6d0iRuZ1Ws

[Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcentury_cam]

Thrilled to announce a new opportunity for postgrads to present papers at @Cambridge_Uni! Our @CamHistory workshop on the Long Eighteenth Century invites PhD & Master's students from any institution to present their work. See our call for papers & please help us spread the word!

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

@jamesofputney @UkNatArchives @USNatArchives Thanks, a point I should have made myself!

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

We have an exciting one-year post at The National Archives for an 18th century researcher to shape our public engagement programme in the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Please share and get in touch if you have questions! https://t.co/JXxwcN8tzl

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

@LHaasis @Oj_finn @Prize_Papers @UkNatArchives @OIEAHC That would be great! Be interesting if you could do an American Revolution themed session!

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

@LHaasis @Oj_finn @Prize_Papers @UkNatArchives @OIEAHC I wish I could hear all these papers! I imagine there is no way to join online?

[SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) @SSHMedicine]

Registration is now open for Age and Health 1500-1800
🗓️24 June 2024
Open to All
#histmed

[Dr. Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell]

@agnesjuliet I foolishly presumed my little boy would be sleeping through the night by the time I returned to work... How wrong I was! I feel you.

[Sanne Muurling 🟥 @smuurling]

Job opportunity! We are looking for no less than 3 PhD candidates investigating histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through early modern court records from across the early modern European colonial (French, Portuguese and Spanish empires)👇https://t.co/4WBCcE9XJx

[Dr Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social @alicemarples]

AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship at University of Central Lancashire @UCLAN and The British Library @britishlibrary:

'Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections'

https://t.co/QR8Blit9RG

[Benjamin Redding - @benjaminredding.bsky.social @BenjaminRedding]

Exciting new PhD project researching the role and perception of disabled seafarers and workers in the Stuart navy.
Fully funded under @ahrcpress Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme. Supervised by @clairejowitt, Dr Robert Blyth (@RMGreenwich) and I.
https://t.co/Ae67f6uZ5P

[Hull Maritime @HullMaritime]

Find out about Ravenser Odd. ⤵️

Join Dr Katheryn Maude from @UKNatArchives and Dr Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex for their talk "Ravenser Odd: Revisiting Hull's Sunken Twin".

📅 9 April
⏰ 12:30 – 1:30pm
📍 Hull History Centre

@hullhistorynews

[The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills]

📢Reminder: we are offering a funded PhD studentship on global commodities in #EarlyModern wills!

This post shows the scope a student would have to shape their research & the other resources at their disposal - pls share!

#PhD #twitterstorians #History https://t.co/Ik8L5HV1S0

[Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @EMGSCam]

📢CALL FOR PAPERS! #twitterhistorians

The Workshop for the Early Modern Period invites applications for Easter Term (April-June 2024) from postgraduate students working on any aspect of of the early modern period (c. 1450-1800).

Deadline: 15 April 2024
👇