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Episode 1: Brighter Futures - Bodies, Hearts & Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future for Young Women

Episode 1: Brighter Futures - Bodies, Hearts & Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future for Young Women

With speaker Professor Tracey Loughran

Professor Jules Pretty, Professor Tracey Loughran

06 June 2022

Blog post

Does heritage have a role in addressing the climate crisis?

Does heritage have a role in addressing the climate crisis?

Fulbright scholar and public historian Donna Graves explains how heritage and culture sites can be used to engage the public in the debate around climate change.

Donna Graves

26 May 2022

Podcast

Public History Mends Lives

Professor Tracey Loughran

12 May 2022

Blog post

Episode 1 - A Warm Shoulder: Using History to Empower Young Women - Brighter Futures

This blog was written by Professor Tracey Loughran with Kate Mahoney and Daisy Payling from the Body, Self, and Family project. We recently launched the toolkit – Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future. The toolkit uses historical sources to help young people think differently about their emotional and bodily wellbeing in the present, and their capacity to make change in the future.

Professor Tracey Loughran

12 May 2022

Blog post

Theatre and Black History

Theatre and Black History

Theatre can engage audiences with key events in Black History, uncover previously unheard voices and encourage discussions around issues. It can also challenge conventional views on history.

Professor Jeremy Krikler, Dr Holly Maples

10 February 2022

Podcast

Marconi unknown stories of the man who brought us wireless communication

Marconi unknown stories of the man who brought us wireless communication

Listen to the latest episode of the Louder Than Words Podcast to discover the story of inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. Essex historians are now helping uncover new materials in the Marconi archive and finding new ways to engage the community in their discoveries.

Professor Jules Pretty

30 September 2021

Podcast

The Warner Textile Archive: Uncovering Forgotten Pieces of Britain’s Industrial and Creative Past

The Warner Textile Archive: Uncovering Forgotten Pieces of Britain’s Industrial and Creative Past

Listen to the latest episode of the Louder Than Words Podcast to discover the story of the Warner Textile Archive and how historians are helping the public understand the impact of a pioneering manufacturing company.

Professor Jules Pretty

23 September 2021

Podcast

Inequality - The Louder Than Words Podcast

Inequality - The Louder Than Words Podcast

The latest episode of the Louder Than Words Podcast is lookat inequality. What happens to people who end up at the wrong end of an unequal society? How do we help them? Professor Jules Pretty and Martha Dixon will look at research taking the long view and finding out how history can help us break cycles of poverty and depravation. They will also look at simple solutions which narrow the gap.

Professor Jules Pretty

24 June 2021

Blog post

Our historians need you to tell your health story

Our historians need you to tell your health story

The Body, Self and Family Project team in the University of Essex Department of History are interviewing women aged between 50 and 80 about their everyday health experiences, to paint a picture of how women in postwar Britain tried to stay healthy, coped with pain, and looked after their health.

Professor Tracey Loughran

18 December 2020

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The Berlin Shadow: public monuments and engagement

The Berlin Shadow: public monuments and engagement

The Berlin Shadow is a moving account of a journey taken by a father and son as they travelled to Berlin, which the father fled in 1939.

Professor Jonathan Lichtenstein

27 November 2020

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