Co-production, Crowd-sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties

by | 12 Nov 2019 | Guest Posts

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has been  using crowd-sourcing and working with volunteers to co-produce research questions and topics. In this post for the RHS, the project team of Karen Baker, Mike Esbester and Helen Ford share a great example of how...

Bloody Bunce: A Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Sierra Leone

by | 29 Oct 2019 | Guest Posts

Four hundred years ago, in 1619, the first African slaves landed in the United States. The 1619 Project has made an important contribution to our understanding of the legacy of slavery in the United States, but there has been less conversation about the places where...

Beyond Peterloo: The Founding of the Manchester Guardian

by | 16 Aug 2019 | Guest Posts

It is well-known that the events of the Peterloo Massacre, which occurred two hundred years ago today, on 16 August 1819, inspired the founding of the Manchester Guardian. These roots are today still recognised by the Guardian (which the Manchester Guardian would...

Beyond This Day – 8 August 1940: Popular History and the Power Sisters

by lc449 | 08 Aug 2019 | Guest Posts

The historian Eileen Power died on 8 August 1940. In this blog post, Dr Laura Carter examines the historical legacy of Rhoda Power, Eileen’s younger sister (pictured above). In the decades following Eileen’s death, Rhoda continued to shape popular social...

Insta-Research: Social Media and the Historian

by kstrasdin | 23 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts

As a scholar working in a rural UK university, far from peers in her field of study, Kate Strasdin decided to embrace Instagram and Twitter as a means of professional engagement, and to explore the potential for virtual communication when travel to conferences and...