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Department of History

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Why our links with Essex researchers benefit local communities

Why our links with Essex researchers benefit local communities

Louise Willsher from Community 360 explains why the organisation she works for called on Essex researchers to collaborate on a project together and what it taught her about supporting communities.

Louise Willsher

27 September 2021

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Capturing the voices of Colchester’s charities and volunteers in the pandemic

Capturing the voices of Colchester’s charities and volunteers in the pandemic

Research student Sam Woodward explains her role in an oral history project recording the voices of Colchester's charitable and voluntary community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Woodward

27 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

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Five things children want to know about the census

Five things children want to know about the census

Professor Edward Higgs, an expert in the history of the British census, explains what children at Radyr Comprehensive School in south Wales asked him about the census in a recent Q&A.

Professor Edward Higgs

24 March 2021

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Revealing Marconi's photographs

Revealing Marconi's photographs

PhD student and graduate teaching assistant Lewis Smith writes about his work at the Marconi Archives, where he has helped develop a strategy for public engagement.

Lewis Smith

17 March 2021

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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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Meet Student Ambassador: Afroditi Sakellaropoulou

Department of History

09 November 2020

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History and Memory

Department of History

09 November 2020

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