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AHRC Funded Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship
Visual and Cultural Representations of the St John Ambulance Brigade in the Twentieth Century. University of Huddersfield, Museum of the Order of St John and the Heritage Consortium The Heritage Consortium is offering a fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship with the Museum of the Order of St John and the…
Read MoreThe Feminist Archive North
The Feminist Archive North is housed in Special Collections in The Brotherton Library at The University of Leeds, which has been host to the collection since 2001. The Archive is a registered charity and is run entirely by volunteers, some of whom have been active in the Women’s Liberation Movement since the 1970’s and 1980’s…
Read MoreVoices of Culture: Skills, Training and Knowledge Transfer in Cultural Heritage
In June and September 2017 the Heritage Consortium participated in the Voices of Culture brainstorming meeting and structured dialogue opened by the European Commission with selected stakeholders on the topic “Skills, Training and Knowledge Transfer: traditional and emerging heritage”. The structured dialogue resulted in the production of an advisory report for the European Commission…
Read MoreModern Conflict Research Symposium, 3 Feb. 2018, University of Bradford
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Read MorePolicy engagement at a local level: a workshop for historians by Mike Reeve
On Friday 8 September, I attended a fantastic workshop at the University of Leeds, focussed on equipping historians with the skills required for effective engagement with public policy and policy-makers. This was organised by academics from the University of Leeds, in partnership with History & Policy, a national network that promotes the application of…
Read MoreUniversity of Bradford/AHRC Heritage Consortium PhD student works with Japanese woodblock print masterpieces in advance of exhibition at the British Museum
An upcoming exhibition at the British Museum, ‘Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave’ will include works analysed by University of Bradford/Heritage Consortium PhD student Peter McElhinney. Peter completed analysis on several Japanese woodblock prints during a Heritage Consortium placement within the British Museum’s Department of Scientific Research. These included the iconic prints ‘Under the wave off…
Read MoreThe Heritage Consortium & NECAH conference 2017: A Time and A Place
University of Hull and Hull History Centre 6-7 June 2017 HC&NECAH conference programme
Read MoreGrim up North? Northern Identity, History & Heritage symposium review
The Leeds Library, 16 September 2016 Michael Reeve and Andrew McTominey A suitably grim and rainy day greeted us on the morning of 16 September, as attendees and presenters from across the UK descended upon the city of Leeds for the inaugural Grim up North? Symposium. After taking over ten months of organisation and preparation,…
Read MoreGothic Heritage Study Day, Northumbria University, 8 October 2015
On the 8th October 2015, Northumbria University welcomed several students from the AHRC Heritage Consortium, as well as a number of PhD candidates from our own institution and further afield. The Gothic Heritage Study Day aimed to introduce students to issues surrounding public-facing heritage research, as well as the relationship between academic research and the…
Read MoreHeritage Public Policy Engagement Training, 3 September 2015, Leeds
Photograph by Daniel Bron, CC BY-SA 3.0 Thursday 3 September 2015, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds City Centre Organised by Heritage Consortium AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training (Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds Beckett, Northumbria, Sheffield Hallam and Teesside Universities) SEAHA Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts Heritage and Archaeology (EPSRC-funded, UCL, University of…
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