Also good to see this conference report published today by my PhD student Will Sanders: ‘Conference report: ‘The state of urban history: past, present, future’, Leicester, 11–13 July 2023’, in @urbanhistory.bsky.socialwww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Good to see this article on ‘Waterworks, municipal government and the environment in twentieth-century Britain’ published open access in @urbanhistory.bsky.social@mctom.bsky.socialwww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lovely module visit to Gipton’s former fire station today for our Public History Project. Excited to start the research and share the stories 👍🏻

Great to meet my third years and discuss women’s history, public history and all things AFS. Good to get this HLF project started with Space2 and the Old Fire Station at Gipton. Research-driven teaching for sure.

Prompted by seeing Kate Winslet’s portrayal of Lee Miller (actually, more so Andrea Riseborough as Vogue editor Audrey Withers), I dipped into the Vogue archive today and found a few useful articles on women’s civil defence fashion. Straight onto my module primary source list! And do watch Lee.

📢 Very exciting news! 🔓 All research articles accepted for publication after today will be open access (published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online). ℹ️ Find out more about Cambridge University Press' Open Access policies here: cambridge.org/core/open-re...

Re-upping for the Monday crowd: The first instalment of a two-part piece on the overarching plot themes of Ealing films and their ideological underpinnings, focusing here on the studio's wartime output and the war films it made after 1945. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated.

Ealing Plots (Part I)

The Second World War was the formative period for Ealing Studios under Michael Balcon, and the nascent mythologisation of the conflict became embedded in its mode of storytelling.

All set up for Heritage Open Days at Gipton Old Fire Station

Woof! It’s fat dog!

Thanks for sharing John and Mike. Useful for my students’ thinking in research women volunteers to the AFS at the start of the Second World War.