Dr Ellen Smith

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/alexand…

@WestMidRailway @NetworkRailBHM Are the trains from new st to Bristol and back going to be affected today please? I can’t tell on the app! Thanks!

📣 #WMRInfo CONTINUED DISRUPTION- BIRMINGHAM NEW STREET (03/07) 🚧 Disruption through Birmingham New Street is expected to continue into Thursday morning so please allow plenty of time for your journeys 🎟️ 🚌 Alternative transport options and ticket acceptances to follow

Also now on @ellencssmith.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ellenc…

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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/…

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. #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @ahrcpress @nationaltrust @historyleic @History_Bham

I’m on @NewBooksNetwork this week, talking about my forthcoming book, Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage ✂️✨💚 Listen here - open.spotify.com/episode/6m4Qij…

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

🏆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 (1)

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/bursary/

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

📣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/

📢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/mari…

New profile info for my @UoBrisHistory post research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/ell…

@UoBrisHistory Thank you! :)

@EllenCSSmith Welcome Ellen! ☺️

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

Our latest @LeverhulmeTrust project blog presents Part 1 of our exhibition on Vietnamese prisoners and their descendants in New Caledonia. convictscc.le.ac.uk/2024/09/30/exh… @historyleic @LeicesterCSSAH @LeverhulmeTrust #twitterstorians

Very pleased that this is now published open access. “Fire in Jamaica, 1831-32” in Journal of British Studies doi.org/10.1017/jbr.20…. The politics of fire and habitation in the largest uprising in the British Caribbean colonies.