Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc @ University of Bristol (@ellencssmith.bsky.social)
Birmingham
Joined June 2017
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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: royalhistsoc.org/prizes/alex…
Are the trains from new st to Bristol and back going to be affected today please? I can’t tell on the app! Thanks!
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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 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… @ahrcpress @nationaltrust @historyleic @History_Bham
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I’m on @NewBooksNetwork this week, talking about my forthcoming book, Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage ✂️✨💚
Listen here - open.spotify.com/episode/6m4…
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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
bit.ly/4eeRGpj
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🏆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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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 womensstudiesgroup.org/bursa…
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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.
📚 cup.org/3UmSfWU
#intellectualhistory #historyofideas
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📣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: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Had a blast this summer researching @wolfsonian in Miami Beach, as part of their fellowship programme. They interviewed me about my findings here: wolfsonian.org/blog/2024/11/
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📢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 aup.nl/en/series/maritime-hu…
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
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Our latest @LeverhulmeTrust project blog presents Part 1 of our exhibition on Vietnamese prisoners and their descendants in New Caledonia.
convictscc.le.ac.uk/2024/09/… @historyleic @LeicesterCSSAH @LeverhulmeTrust #twitterstorians
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Very pleased that this is now published open access. “Fire in Jamaica, 1831-32” in Journal of British Studies doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.88. The politics of fire and habitation in the largest uprising in the British Caribbean colonies.
