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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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linkhttp://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20041/school_of_history/person/1779/laura_king calendar_today17-11-2011 09:04:58

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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

Rebellion To Romance our 2022 ode to 2nd generation West Indians in 70s &amp; 80s #Leeds lives on @ Leodis the city's photo archive w. a selection of images curated by <a href="/susanpitter/">susan pitter</a> and portraits by the great <a href="/vanleyburke/">Vanley Burke</a>
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tinyurl.com/23ys26y2
#heritagefund #outofmanyfestival
Register of Qualified Genealogists (@regqualgenes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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

Last call for tickets for the RQG Conference 20 April 2024 at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds qualifiedgenealogists.org <a href="/RegQualGenes/">Register of Qualified Genealogists</a> #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Genealogists #Storytelling #AncestryHour
Laura King (@drlauraking) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really delighted to be here at the #RQGconf24 today. A great start to the day with a keynote by Alison Light. I'm very honoured to be a keynote later in the day alongside her and Michael Tobias.

History at Leeds (@leedsunihistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Erik Linstrum (@eriklinstrum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨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

JamaicaSocietyLeeds (@jamaicaleeds) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!!! Tues 18th June 6pm-8pm, come along to our ‘In Conversation Session’ with Windrush generation nurses who will share their recollection of their times in the NHS & their fight for health equalities for Black Britons. Get tickets here ticketsource.co.uk/jamaicasociety…

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
Tues 18th June 6pm-8pm, come along to our ‘In Conversation Session’ with Windrush generation nurses who will share their recollection of their times in the NHS &amp; their fight for health equalities for Black Britons. Get tickets here
ticketsource.co.uk/jamaicasociety…
LAHRI (@leedsahri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Polite Rebellion (@polite_rebel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our new Website full of new projects is coming soon. We’re changing our name to Polite Rebellion so if you see us pop up in your feed it’s still Ellie & the gang. We’ll still update you with grief related news & events so don’t worry, there’s plenty of griefy goodness to be had.

Dr Ann-Marie Foster (@amfoster_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

Ashley Barnwell (@ash_barnwell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

Bristol University Press Journals (@bup_journals) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/…