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Prof Tim Thornton

@hud_dvc

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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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

A great pleasure to show Dr Milton Brown of <a href="/KirkleesLocalTV/">Kirklees Local TV</a> round the Daphne Steele Building at the <a href="/HuddersfieldUni/">University of Huddersfield</a> National Health Innovation Campus - real potential to work together on health, care, &amp; wellbeing innovation and skills with regional and local impact
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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/

Campus <a href="/HuddersfieldUni/">University of Huddersfield</a> 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/
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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…

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. <a href="/CheshireRO/">Cheshire Archives</a> <a href="/HSLC1848/">Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire</a> <a href="/LocalCheshire/">Cheshire Local History Association</a> <a href="/ChesterArchSoc/">ChesterArchSoc</a> <a href="/UkNatArchives/">The National Archives</a> Further details at chethamsociety.org.uk/publications/t…
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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/…

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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…

Good to see colleagues <a href="/Soc_Jersiaise/">Société Jersiaise</a> 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…
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Channel 5 LionTelevision documentary on #RichardIII & the #princesintheTower still generating a lot of interest - available to catch up via channel5.com/show/princes-i…

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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/

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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…

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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/

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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…

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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/

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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-…

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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…

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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…