Prof Tim Thornton
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Historian Huddersfield, THE Uni of Year 2013 TEF Gold, Global Teaching Excellence Award: 22k students, 100+ countries, gt employability
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https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-thornton 12-04-2011 17:20:38
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A great pleasure to show Dr Milton Brown of Kirklees Local TV round the Daphne Steele Building at the University of Huddersfield National Health Innovation Campus - real potential to work together on health, care, & wellbeing innovation and skills with regional and local impact

Campus University of Huddersfield looking great this morning - bookings for #HudOpenDay Saturday 23 November well up on last year, and I'm looking forward to meeting all our visitors and applicants tomorrow hud.ac.uk/open-days/

Excellent event last evening in Manchester to launch Prof Anne Curry's important new volume for the Chetham Society - Henry V and the Earldom of Chester, 1399-1422. Cheshire Archives Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Cheshire Local History Association ChesterArchSoc The National Archives Further details at chethamsociety.org.uk/publications/t…

Many thanks to friends in Jersey for support at the launch of my 'Royal Charters of Jersey' from Boydell & Brewer yesterday, with the Jersey Legal Information Board Jersey Law at the Jersey Heritage Archive, & esp to Bailiff of Jersey Sir Timothy le Coq boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651214/…
Good to see colleagues Société Jersiaise during my visit to Jersey last week to launch The Royal Charters of Jersey boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651214/… - sorry not to be able to stay for this week's launch of The Assize Roll of 1299, edited by Simon Harris societe.je/societe-jersia…

Just gone live on The Times and The Sunday Times website - exclusive report on my latest research on Richard III & the 'princes in the Tower', out soon in History, the journal of the Historical Association Historical Assoc The National Archives Historic Royal Palaces #RichardIII #princesinthetower thetimes.com/uk/history/art…
Lots of interest today in my research on #RichardIII and the #princesintheTower just published in History, journal of the Historical Association Historical Assoc - e.g. in The Times and The Sunday Times editorial. The underlying research is freely accessible to all via the story at hud.ac.uk/news/2024/nove…
Looking forward to this evening's screening of the Channel 5 / LionTelevision documentary featuring my research on #RichardIII and the #princesintheTower My earlier work on this topic, featured on Lucy Worsley Investigates, is still available bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b…
Anyone wanting to read further on my earlier research on Thomas More, #RichardIII & the #princesintheTower after last night's fascinating Channel 5 LionTelevision documentary with Jason Watkins & Tracy Borman OBE can find it available at History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
Good to see the publication of the second Postgraduate Researcher edition of #Fields the journal of University of Huddersfield student research - making the best of research-student papers available to a global audience HudResearch Huddersfield Uni Press - no longer active on X Hud Graduate School fieldsjournal.org.uk/issue/current/
January 2025 issue of historyextra now out - with discoveries on #RichardIII and #princesintheTower from Channel 5 LionTelevision & Historical Assoc History on the front page

Great story in today's The Guardian from Chris Osuh on University of Huddersfield National Health Innovation Campus & the inspiring figure whose name its 1st building carries: Daphne Steele, the NHS first black matron Kirklees Council West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership @westyorkshireca theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
Great launch event last Wednesday on campus here University of Huddersfield for West Yorkshire Creative Health Hub, a first for West Yorkshire - with Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire and great partners Kirklees Council Calderdale Council Wakefield Council Bradford 2025 SouthWestYorkshire Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Arts Council England, North and many others

The University of Huddersfield journal of taught student research - Fields - is ten years old. A pioneer in expanding publishing opportunities for undergrad researchers, now widely emulated elsewhere. Huddersfield Uni Press - no longer active on X HudResearch fieldsjournal.org.uk/issue/49/info/
Very moving scenes from the Auschwitz event yesterday #HMD2025 - this evening we will be marking the commemorations here University of Huddersfield with our partners Holocaust Centre North & others holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/events/holocau…
Now out this week in paperback - our book on the illegitimate children and relationships of the northern gentry and nobility, from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, with Manchester University Press - great value at just £25! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114075/
My blog with Boydell & Brewer Proofed has just been published, following the publication of my work on the Royal Charters of #Jersey boydellandbrewer.com/blog/medieval-…
My latest, in Law & History Review, is now out on FirstView - on 'The Isle of Man, Channel Islands & Statutes of the English Parliament, to 1640: Development & Change in Territorial Extent' Thanks to the team at CUP for their help @cambridgeup Gautham Rao doi.org/10.1017/S07382…
For those with subscriptions to National Geographic - many thanks to Rosemary Counter for a positive write-up of recent discoveries on the #PrincesintheTower and #RichardIII - nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…