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Have you seen the video about @AstonHistory yet? Click below
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H-Diplo Review 657
Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio, eds. Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future
“consider how emotions have generated the very stuff of archives: the documents, the organization and construction of finding aids and collections, the archive’s creation and existence (or indeed, its destruction and/or absence).” –Madelyn Lugli
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Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/aston… @AstonPress @AstonUniversity
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Looking forward to this talk tonight! alpineclub.org/event/ilaria-…
Fantastic work by @AstonHistory student Ben Cooper at the Birmingham People History Archive! Read all about it here: bpha.online/2026/01/29/franc…
Come on down today to the Students Union building @AstonUniversity and talk to us about our History programmes. Find out about our university's history too and learn about the origin (and the taste) of Cadbury Roses at the same time! #openday #AstonUniversity #History
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Honoured to be featured on the blog of the United Nations Archives in Geneva, on re-reading my book after a pandemic and great change indeed.
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Our colleague Dr Joseph Yannielli ran a session on Black History and history-related VREs at Redditch Library today for @blackhistoryuk Black HistoryMonth. Thanks to @WorcsLibraries for your hospitality!
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Only 8 days to go until the launch of our Seeking the Pioneers Exhibition! Join us at the Library of Birmingham, where the exhibition will run until November. We’re excited to share these powerful stories of anti-racism pioneers and activists with you.
Book now to learn about runaway advertisements, Jack the Ripper and more!
JOIN US on November 7th for the latest in our 'Forensic Linguistics AND...' symposium series. Next up is FL AND...History. Sign up for online or in person here: tinyurl.com/4ru5f28v
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Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with us at Redditch Library. Free admission – no booking required!
ALT Virtual Reality and Digital History
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I have no words to express how honored @ValeriaVanesio and I are to receive this prestigious award from @archivists_org! Inspiring contributors and support from @BloomsburyAcad, @AstonUniversity @UMmalta. Truly looking forward to further conversations @AstonUnArchives and beyond!
🏆|@AstonUniversity's @IlariaScaglia1 and @UMmalta's @ValeriaVanesio have won the @archivists_org Waldo Gifford Leland Award
📖 The award was for their book, Archives and Emotions
🤝It aims to bridge the gap between historians and archivists
👉tinyurl.com/552vsy3f
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Great congrats from me and from all of @AstonHistory to our splendid colleagues and partners in @AstonPhotonics. Loved our chats about historical aspects and relevance of what they do, to many more to come! youtube.com/watch?v=LPbnhGTd…
Congratulations @AstonPhotonics research institute team for hosting this important international symposium titled: Machine Learning Meets Photonics. Wonderful to see some of our greatest minds come together to share knowledge and collaborate. @AstonUniversity
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15th May: check out the history of @AstonUniversity exhibition in the middle of campus that was launched today. Follow the voices of the University's last 130 via the QR codes
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Wonderful to see up the exhibition by @AstonHistory, curated by @Brian_Sudlow, and realised together with @AstonUnArchives! Email [email protected] for guided tours!
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Uncover the origins of racism at the Race History Detectives Training with Joseph Yannielli.
Join us on 30 April, 6PM at BRIG Cafe, Birmingham, to explore how the legacy of the slave trade still shapes today’s world.
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Call to all, esp. #Birmingham area: we have old SONY U-matic S SP video cassettes, which we believe may contain valuable material relating to the history of the university. Do you have, or do you know who might have, a machine that can play them?
A new PhD studentship in History is available at @AstonUniversity "Refugees and ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Britain, 1914-1923: Between Humanitarianism and Internal Security" supervised by @StefanManz2 and Dr Volker Prott. Details here FindAPhD.com
Dr David Turner and Dr Ilaria Scaglia tonight opened a series of events to mark the 200th anniversary of the railways. @TurnipRail @IlariaScaglia1 The first lecture was delivered by Prof Felix Schmid. On display were records from Aston University Archives.
Recently, students in History Workshop had the pleasure of listening to Mr John Dyson of @KEVICHB speaking to them about history and teaching, and the best ways to encouraging learning in the classroom. Thank you, Mr Dyson!
