Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc @ University of Bristol (@ellencssmith.bsky.social)
Birmingham
Joined June 2017
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Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
🏆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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Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
📣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/…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
📢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…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
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.
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
How should historians name and describe historical figures in their research?
New article in 'Transactions @RoyalHistSoc': 'Naming and Shaming? Telling Bad Bridget® Stories' by @Elaineffarrell and @Leannemcck: bit.ly/3XKhNyh
Now available #openaccess #twitterstorians
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
The intro for our special issue of Emotions & Society is now online! From the Inheriting the Family team @KatieEBarclay @JBHist @TanyaEvans14 @DrLauraKing
Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things doi.org/10.1332/26316897Y202…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
📢Out now on #firstview!
Bethany Rebisz (@BRebisz) (@UoBrisHistory) on 'Mapping Women’s Memories of Britain’s Forced Resettlement Scheme in Late Colonial Kenya, c. 1953–1960'
#Colonialism #Kenya #20thc #OralHistory 🇰🇪
👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
Our Director, Prof Margaretta Jolly @SussexUniMAH, will give one of the keynote lectures at the 32nd @WomensHistNet Annual Conference Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024: Curating the Female Self
Registration closes 27 August! womenshistorynetwork.org/cur…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
Interested in history, archives & the untold stories of colonialism? 📚
@COVUNI_CAMC is offering a fully-funded #PhD exploring the legacies of England’s transatlantic past through the collections of the Bodleian Libraries (1650-1800) 🌎
Apply now⤵️ coventry.ac.uk/research/rese…
ALT Bodleian library
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
It’s release day for READING PRACTICE! I’m so proud of this book & so grateful to all who helped along the way to its publication. FWIW, the paperback price is very reasonable—just one of many reasons I’m so glad to have published with @UChicagoPress.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
So excited for this upcoming talk and discussion with longtime friend and interlocutor, @AsheeshKSi! RSVP to join us online @TheNACBS on 17 October. nacbs.org/event-details/arch…
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
Sophia Duleep Singh, princess and suffragette, was born #OTD 8 August 1876.
Sophia was an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union and Women's Tax Resistance League.
#WomensHistory
Dr Ellen Smith retweeted
Congratulations to Ellen Smith who was co-winner of the Royal Historical Society's 2024 Alexander Prize for her article - Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926.
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