
Brian Ward
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Professor in American Studies, Northumbria University; working on She Loves Y'all - a book about the Beatles & the US South; long-suffering West Ham fan ⚒
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On this day, Aug 28 1963, civil rights history made as: Martin Luther King delivers his ‘I have a dream’ speech & 17 women in Dungannon occupy vacant prefab houses with their families in a successful act of civil disobedience A Way With Words Brian Ward eamonn mccann



Our colleague Daniel Laqua has just done an interview with the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) NB History 📚 podcast, discussing 'Activism Across Borders Since 1870: Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and Beyond Europe' (Bloomsbury History). Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/activism-acros…

Nice to have this handsome book arrive in the post today from Routledge Books! Delighted to have written the chapter on Irish Americans in #CivilWar and #Reconstruction. Kudos to Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen P. Costello Sullivan for conceiving the idea and pulling it all together.


So excited to be giving a keynote at the wonderful Medical Education Conference which has become an amazing annual event University of Sunderland School of Medicine. I'll be talking about Beyond Narrative Medicine and what else we might find in the study of literary medical humanities 🥳🥳🎉🎉

Out now: My new report for Human Rights First on far right threats to immigration lawyers in Britain humanrightsfirst.org/library/easy-t… Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC Margaret Satterthwaite Harjap Singh Bhangal Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei Zoe Bantleman Marc Owen Jones Stuart Russell Martin Flaherty 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇪🇺🇳 Colin Harvey


The semester 1 programme for the Institute of Humanities seminar series at Northumbria Uni is now live! Please share widely: everyone is welcome to attend, and contact [email protected] for weekly Teams links. NorthEnglishes Northumbria History American Studies @ Northumbria Northumbria Music





In English we are writing our newspaper reports telling the story of Mary Ann Macham New York Primary School


In step with the #BLM theme 'Reclaiming the Narratives' our Project North Star Black history resource highlights how Black history is British history. Useful for schools in the NE of England seeking to embed Black history in their curriculum all year round👇 projectnorthstar.co.uk/timeline