Rob Ellis

The Voices volume has arrived! @DrSarahKendal @Steve_J_Taylor @CathyColeborne @mpcsmith Thanks to all the contributors for their fresh insights that stretch from the early modern period to the c21st and include case studies from four continents. Voices II, anyone?

For International Women's Day: a plaque in Marsden to the remarkable Dora Marsden: suffragette, writer, teacher, modernist, philosopher and long stay patient at the Crichton Royal. Congratulations to Roger Logue and Marsden, long campaigning to honour her. crichton.co.uk/the-crichton-w…

Out on the 6th of March with @ProfileBooks Huge thanks to @MichaelWoodMV for the endorsement, and the team at Profile for the gorgeous design. If you are interested in finding out more about the history of pilgrimage, you can pre-order now #pilgrimage #pilgrimage2025 #publishing

Woo-hoo, the project we co-produced with @YCCC_YCF is now online. It complements the physical exhibition which launched earlier this year and is a forerunner to this year’s project with @ManMetUni @HistoryManMet. Huge thanks to the wonderful @CLH1192. yorkshireccc.com/community/york…

Excited that my first trade book, Holy Places, will be out with Profile in March 2025. Too early for Christmas, but you are very welcome to pre-order for some springtime reading! profilebooks.com/work/holy-plac… #pilgrimage #pilgrims #tradebook

This is the consultation on the future of @LeedsMuseums Abbey House #Museum which is threatened with closure to save £160,000. Please do respond if you can: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...

Sending big thanks to Rob Ellis for working with us again for the second year of a partnership in telling hidden stories of Yorkshire Cricket. We can't wait to get started with our student team! #Yorkshirefamily

Great to be working with @YCCC_YCF and @YorkshireCCC again. This year’s focus is Disability and Sport, with input from @ManMetUni @HistoryManMet History students Ellya, Ethan, Jamie and Rosie. Thanks to Charlotte for the tour and inspiration.

Exciting! We have fully-funded PhD Studentships available at the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @StirUni in Scotland. Apply now to start in Mar/Apr 2025. Interdisciplinary and dynamic researchers wanted. Details here: placememory.net/apply-now-for-…

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Find me on the other place at @re-histories.bsky.social.

@Crichton_Royal @HistoryManMet Thanks so much 😊 Hope to be able to visit the CR at some point!!

@RE_histories @HistoryManMet How exciting! Looking forward to hearing more about your projects, new and continuing. They are lucky to have you within the team there👏

After an eventful few months, I’m now happy to have joined the team @HistoryManMet and continuing with funded and other projects.

Indoor fireworks (using an app) @PennineHeritage. Inspired stuff from @123McTom for Bonfire Night.

Seen at the Birchcliffe Centre @PennineHeritage

Thanks to the team for an excellent overview of the painstaking research behind this project. Their exhibition is at the HCN until November.

@profbarrydoyle @Verusca @RE_histories @LivUniArch "Layers of history" (and paint and wallpaper.....) in the Infirmary and the Workhouse, from this morning's visit @NTWorkhouse!

@Christina_C20 @profbarrydoyle @Verusca @LivUniArch So sorry to be missing this. Sure to be a great couple of days. All the best to everyone involved. Wrap up warm! 😂

In Nottingham for our first WG5 hybrid skills-sharing event for #EuroHealthHist (cost.eu/actions/CA2215…) and autumn seems to have arrived (early)! #Arboretum @profbarrydoyle @Verusca @RE_histories @LivUniArch

Thank you to @RoyalHistSoc for putting @Dawnyprawnypie @sundaegirl and myself's call for papers on their website: Sixty years on from the London County Council: Legacy, Impact, Learning – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS (royalhistsoc.org)

Call for papers: ‘Sixty years on from the London County Council: legacy, impact, learning’. Organising with @sundaegirl @Dawnyprawnypie and held at @LSofARCH @TheLdnArchives in March 2025. DM me for the full call for papers. Deadline for abstracts is 16th October 2024 #LCC60

Look forward to Doors Open Day 7th September: we'll welcome guests in Grierson House. Heritage Officer @Val_Bold talks about 'The Crichton & War'; @CrichtonTrust Head of Research @JennifChallinor guides a building tour. Refreshments provided. All free: doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/dumfri…