SESC Public Engagement Coordinator
We are hiring a Public Engagement Coordinator to join our team from 1 September 2019. The role will be part-time, fixed-term, for 24 months. The postholder will organize a series…
We are hiring a Public Engagement Coordinator to join our team from 1 September 2019. The role will be part-time, fixed-term, for 24 months. The postholder will organize a series…
We're looking forward to running a workshop in collaboration with Cambridge Digital Humanities’ Learning Programme in Cambridge on 17 June, exploring the possibilities and challenges of using vernacular material posted on social…
By Laura Tisdall // Dr Laura Tisdall has just completed the first year of a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in History at Queen Mary, University of London. She specialises…
By Bernard Barker Bernard Barker is a former comprehensive school headteacher and emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Leicester. He was the first comprehensive school student to become…
By Natalie Thomlinson // Natalie Thomlinson is Lecturer of Modern British Cultural History at the University of Reading. Natalie is currently Co-Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project, Women in the Miners’ Strike,…
By Richard Hall Richard has recently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working with SESC Advisory Board member Dr Lucy Delap. His thesis is entitled The Emotional Lives…
By Laura Carter Over the past month I have been travelling around England and Wales visiting Local Authority (LA) archives – Glamorgan, Bristol, Tyne and Wear, and North Yorkshire –…
By Laura Carter, Peter Mandler, and Chris Jeppesen Last month the SESC team attended the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Providence, Rhode Island. As is always the…
By Harry Gibbins Harry is a third year undergraduate student in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge, working on a dissertation with Dr Chris Jeppesen entitled The Experience of Secondary School Amalgamation in…
By Laura Carter This summer Chris Jeppesen and I have begun working in the archives of the 1958 and 1946 British birth cohort studies, respectively. This involves us collecting qualitative…