
Laura King
@drlauraking
Historian of everyday life in modern Britain. Working on families' remembrance of the dead and family history practices. Based @LeedsUniHistory. She/her.
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Join our keynote speaker Dr Laura King at the RQG Conference 20 April, Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Tickets via qualifiedgenealogists.org Laura King Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies IHGS - The School of Family History APG apgenealogists.bsky.social/ Society of Genealogists Family Tree #RQGConf24 Register of Qualified Genealogists


🌟 April Talks West Sussex Record Office Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research Graham Bandy 🌳 Else Churchill Goldie May Laura King Herefordshire Genealogy Janet Braund Few Sophie Kay LambethPalaceLibrary Michelle Leonard Nicholas Dixon @genesblog Amelia (Mia) Bennett Fiona Brooker Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her 💻 Info at tinyurl.com/yc6ba4t4


Rebellion To Romance our 2022 ode to 2nd generation West Indians in 70s & 80s #Leeds lives on @ Leodis the city's photo archive w. a selection of images curated by susan pitter and portraits by the great Vanley Burke ⬇️⬇️ tinyurl.com/23ys26y2 #heritagefund #outofmanyfestival


Last call for tickets for the RQG Conference 20 April 2024 at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds qualifiedgenealogists.org Register of Qualified Genealogists #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genealogists #Storytelling #AncestryHour



Hello #genealogy Twitter. Something you might be interested in 🙂 That's Genealogy, Baby! Register of Qualified Genealogists Lifelines Research Family History UK Laura King x

Our next Research Seminar is on Wednesday 1 May, 3-4.30pm in the Baines Wing, SR2.14. Dr Kit Heyam; also on 🧵s & the sky site , project lead for 'Forgotten Battles: Gender in the Armouries', will lead a discussion of what makes a successful collaboration between academics and museums ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/events…

🚨The inaugural issue of Modern British History is out now and it's a blockbuster! There's a field-defining editorial; forums on the future of the field, Four Nations, and teaching; and reflections on classic articles from the TCBH Journal archives academic.oup.com/tcbh/issue/35/1

We're supporting three fabulous projects with the Arts and Humanities Impact Acceleration Account - on radical family history, objects valued by people with dementia, and the use of arts activism for climate justice mobilisation Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds #impact ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/2…


Did you see this? Nice 😃👍 Jackie Depelle Society of Genealogists Natalie Pithers / Genealogy Stories Sylvia Valentine M.Litt, Q.G., FSAScot. Laura King Julia Laite ([email protected]) Tanya Evans Katie Barclay Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her 'It can be life-changing': How exploring ancestry helps mental health bbc.com/future/article… via BBC Future


Next Wednesday at 5pm BST FWW Studies Society (Account Inactive) are kindly hosting a book launch for my monograph! We're being joined by Laura King OldRailwayAccidents and Dr Ian Isherwood who are going to be talking all things family history, death, disaster, accident, and war. Please do come!

The intro for our special issue of Emotions & Society is now online! From the Inheriting the Family team Katie Barclay Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her Tanya Evans Laura King Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things doi.org/10.1332/263168…

New special issue from Emotions and Society ‘Inheriting the Family: Emotions, Identities and Things’ Guest edited by Katie Barclay, Ashley Barnwell, Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her, Tanya Evans & Laura King bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…