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Professor of Second World Studies (Edinburgh Uni); PI on AHRC-funded project, Beyond Borders; RSE-funded SWW Network; author of 'Wales in England 1914-1945'.

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Prof Wendy Ugolini
1 year
Delighted that - with @martinjohnes & Nadine Wright @I_W_M - have received an @ahrcpress research grant for a major 4-nation project, Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities & Empire in the UK. Two 3 yr post doc posts (Edinburgh/Swansea)
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Delighted to announce that I have been promoted to Professor of Second World War Studies @HCAatEdinburgh Thanks to everyone who had faith in me along the way and gave me so much support!
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Many years ago, when I left @BBC , I asked my lovely (bemused) colleagues for a copy of this book. Today, I have been promoted to Professor of Second World War Studies @EdinburghUni . A long & winding road!
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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My @OUPHistory book is out in the wild & available for pre-order! It "provides a wholly new perspective on the social, cultural, and military history of Britain at war". Prospective book cover @HCAatEdinburgh :
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#twitterstorians Delighted to have signed contract with @OUPHistory for my book, Wales in England 1914-1945. It examines how ideas of Wales and Welshness were performed & mobilised within English society during the two world wars. #SWW #FWW (Photo c/o Shrewsbury House Archive)
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Our job ad for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) for AHRC-project, ‘Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities and Empire in the UK’ @HCAatEdinburgh has gone live: PDRA post (Swansea) soon! Image © IWM SE 1019
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Publication day for my @OUPAcademic book, ‘Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural & Military History’. It addresses the mobilisation of Welshness in England during the two world wars, e.g. via military hybrid units 1/6
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
My daughter Holly has won an award at the Paolozzi Prize for Art Awards 2021 for this wonderful portrait of her brother Alex. He was her 'on-site' model during the whole of lockdown. V.proud. #paolozziprize #paolozzi
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4 years
Looking out photographs for my mum's funeral. This was one of her favourites: with my late dad at the time of their engagement (on right). RIP my lovely, generous-hearted mum.
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1 year
My artistic daughter has jazzed up my Powerpoint slides in preparation for my talk on #SWW British Italian soldiers @NAM_London on Friday:
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1 year
Final checks done! My book Wales in England 1914-45. A Social, Cultural & Military History is submitted to @OUPHistory I appreciate their patience when I suspended writing due to stint as PG Director @HCAatEdinburgh during pandemic. On mobilisation of Welshness in wartime England
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8 months
A pleasure to be at the launch of the wonderful @NtlMuseumsScot exhibition, 'Maps: Memories from the Second World War'. Also got to see this rather apposite painting en route: Ian Eadie, 51st Highland Division Plans El Alamein (1949)
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5 years
"Good lecture Mum" my undergrad son comments from bed as I finish delivering my remote seminar on British memory of the Second World War in our hallway...
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Am delighted to have been awarded a Visiting Scholarship to @StJohnsOx to undertake #SWW research over the summer. My visit will take in @bodleianlibs @oxfordMec and the riverside bars frequented by Morse.
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First full day of my Visiting Scholarship @StJohnsOx
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5 years
#OTD 1944 artist Rex Whistler, serving as a Tank Commander, was killed in action nr Caen. Many of his paintings capture fellow members of @WelshGuards e.g. Officers' Mess Tent, c. 1942 © Estate of Rex Whistler
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7 months
Final book cover for 'Wales in England 1914-1945' approved. Due out next month. Cheapest pre-order available here:
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1 year
Very excited to announce the programme for the joint @SWWStudiesEdin & @SWWresearch conference taking place @HCAatEdinburgh 9-10 June 2023 #SWW :
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3 years
Today is my 25th wedding anniversary and, as a historian, I feel I can't let the day pass unremarked! Here are photos my husband and I took of each other while on honeymoon in New Orleans - pre-smart phone and pre-selfie...
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Thanks to the wonderful @argonaut_books for hosting the launch of my @OUPHistory book, 'Wales in England 1914-1945. A Social, Cultural, & Military History'. And thanks to everyone who came along and made it really special!
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My article,'“The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in Second World War Britain' is published today @JBritishStudies . It highlights the functioning of dual identifications across nations within #SWW Britain. Image of 'Liverpool Welsh' @TheShewsy
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 months
Time to again wheel out the letter from Harold Wilson to my grandad, John Herbertson, thanking him for his work as an election agent in Wilson's Huyton constituency in the 1966 election:
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Campaigning in a heatwave… 🌞 Harold Wilson on the streets of Liverpool in 1970.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
5 years
Delighted to announce that @SWWStudiesEdin has received funding from @news_RSE to establish the Second World War Studies Network (Scotland). More info here © IWM (A 30987):
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6 years
Preparing for our @SWWStudiesEdin workshop on Fri @HCAatEdinburgh . Delighted there are so many ECR participants addressing #NewDirectionsSWW
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7 years
Our final half hour on the picket line... #USSstrikes #Day14 @ucuedinburgh
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3 years
My article '"The Band of Brothers”: The Mobilization of English Welsh Dual Identities in SWW Britain' has been published by @JBritishStudies as FirstView: I can offer a small no. of free downloads so get in touch if you're interested. Image c/o @TheShewsy
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
6 years
Looking forward to reviewing Wendy Webster's new book on diversity in Second World War Britain #twitterstorians
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4 years
My sister has found a 1966 letter from Harold Wilson to our grandad, thanking him for his work as an election agent in Wilson's Huyton constituency:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
6 years
Have received proofs for my @CultSocHistory article on Richard Llewellyn in #SWW Britain. 1st publication on my research re: English Welsh duality in wartime.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
7 years
Thanks to all the lovely students who brought coffee, cupcakes, cookies and porridge (!) to the @ucuedinburgh picket line this morning #solidarity #ucustrike #ussstrikes
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
Very happy that my article on the mobilisation of English Welsh dualities in Second World War Britain has been accepted by @JBritishStudies . Thanks to @martinjohnes & the reviewers for their invaluable advice. To celebrate, here are the London Welsh Territorials © J Kassman:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
6 years
Delighted to have contributed a chapter on Italians in this new volume in honour of Colin Holmes:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
1 year
Changi Museum illuminates POW/ civilian internee experience in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation & has replicas of murals produced by POW Stanley Warren. He later said that the strength to work on the religious images gave him 'an ecstasy which I had not known before'.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
1 year
I've just given a paper on David Graves, son of poet Robert Graves, who was killed in action (1943) & is commemorated here. His @CWGC registration reads: 'Son of Capt. Robert Graves, formerly of The Royal Welch Fusiliers' enclasping the two men in their shared regimental identity
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Commonwealth War Graves
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Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar (formerly Burma). This memorial commemorates approximately 27,000 men of the Commonwealth forces who died serving in World War Two and have no known grave.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
5 years
Final half hour of Day 8 @ucuedinburgh picket line at Old Medical School. Thanks to passersby for the thumbs up, the quiet words of encouragement and the sausage rolls... #UCUStrikesBack
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
As part of our 'Second World War Conversations' series, we are hosting a panel on East Asia on 4 June with @Andrew_Levidis & @jeremyyellen on Japan's empire and @lodilas on Japanese-occupied China. Discussant is @FBoecking . Register free here:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 years
My dad would have been 80 today. On his 72nd birthday, in hospital, he ate coffee creams and reminisced about his parents. He died the next day. Still miss you Dad.
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2 years
Delighted to announce the CFP for the joint conference betw @SWWStudiesEdin & @SWWresearch which takes place on 9-10 June 2023: 'From the Personal to the Global: Lived Experiences of the Second World War'. Full details below:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
5 years
The (strike) beats go on @ucuedinburgh . Thank you for the music @crowleyblab #UCUstrikesback
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
Happy to announce our @ahrcpress funded PhD studentship @NtlMuseumsScot & @HCAatEdinburgh : 'Imperial Flights & Encounters: recovering the experiences of People of Colour in Scottish wartime aviation 1914-45': #SWW #PoC #RAF
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
1 year
It happened! Thanks to the wonderful team at @NAM_London for being such wonderful hosts and everyone who came to my talk on #SWW British Italian soldiers:
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The start of my sabbatical...
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Final chance to apply for the two Postdoc positions on our @ahrcpress funded project, 'Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities & Empire in the UK'. Applics for @HCAatEdinburgh post close 8 Dec: Image © IWM SE 1019
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
Am delighted to announce that the next online @SWWStudiesEdin Round Table,'The British Empire and the Second World War' will take place on 23 March with leading experts @OxfordYasmin @chinra4 Ashley Jackson & Tarak Barkawi. Register free here:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
11 months
Was a privilege to be at the inaugural lecture of @Gayle_L_Davis last night @HCAatEdinburgh : it was moving, erudite, and inspirational. Thanks for the pic @angelabartie
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 years
Campus lockdown @HCAatEdinburgh
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
5 months
My new book, Wales in England 1914-1945, is out later this week! This Google Books word cloud gives a pretty good indication of its content:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
5 years
My lovely colleagues @ucuedinburgh Old Medical School picket line #Day7 #UCUStrikesBack
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Very proud to see my grandad, who died in 1995 but was the inspiration for my new @OUPHistory book, Wales in England 1914-1945, makes it into the index:
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On 8 Sept @SWWStudiesEdin will be hosting an Expert Round Table, 'New Texts/New Themes' on the history of SWW Britain with @Alan_Allport @jonathanfennell @LucyNoakes1 @berylpong @daniel_todman & Wendy Webster. @tobiaswkelly & I will facilitate: ©IWM D21909
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 months
Proud parents at our son Alex's graduation this afternoon @UofGSMLC @UofGlasgow
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4 years
Reviewer's booty. Thanks @ManchesterUP for such beautiful books:
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4 years
Early morning coffee.
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5 years
CFP @SWWStudiesEdin conference '1940', June 2020. Key themes include veteran identities; culture & media; politics; dissent; internment & detention; intelligence studies; island histories; myths and memories. More info here:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
2 years
Book now for our free @SWWStudiesEdin public event, 'Empire of the Dead' with @NtlMuseumsScot & @CWGC . @record_this will be speaking on the birth of modern commemoration 19 April Edinburgh:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
3 years
Prepping for our SWW Expert Round Table @SWWStudiesEdin on 8 Sept. In the back garden with @Alan_Allport @jonathanfennell @berylpong @LucyNoakes1 @daniel_todman & Wendy Webster...
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 years
First day back in the office @HCAatEdinburgh and Nicholas II is missing from my Russian nesting dolls set (purchased in St Petersburg in 1998). Another great Romanov mystery to be solved...
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Very much looking forward to participating in this veterans conference with Wendy Webster & @SilenceInPolish at Craiglockhart, relatively unchanged since Owen & Sassoon resided there in #FWW
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Forward Assist: Charity No. 1150408
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‘Identity, Purpose and Belonging: The First Scottish International Conference on Armed Forces in Society’ to be held at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart 2024
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We begin our @SWWStudiesEdin tour of @CWGC Comely Bank with Ldg Aircraftsman H M Hill #FromPersonalToGlobal
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Barbara Hepworth began experimenting with colour & strings when she moved with her children to Cornwall 5 days before the #SWW was declared: 'The strings were the tension I felt between myself & the sea...' Sculpture with Colour (1940) @NatGalleriesSco
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300 miles and 7 hrs travel for archival research @NLWales @LLGCymru and my laptop malfunctions. Now doing it old school #twitterstorians
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3 years
Lawn Road Flats where Agatha Christie was based during the #SWW , publishing her wartime spy thriller, N or M? (1941).
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5 years
Rainbow leading to new pot of USS gold? @ucuedinburgh #UCUstrikesback
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With our colleagues @NatGalleriesScotland , the Second World War Network (Scotland) is hosting 'Art in War. Painting and Exhibiting Culture in Second World War Britain'. The National, Edinburgh at 6pm on 16 May. Free tickets can be reserved here:
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Break from marking @HCAatEdinburgh
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CFP: '1940' conference organised by @SWWStudiesEdin June 2020 @HCAatEdinburgh to mark the 80th anniversary of the second year of the Second World War. Keynotes @jonathanfennell and Susan Grayzel. More info here:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
6 years
My grandparents' wedding day Sept 1939: war had been declared twenty days earlier.
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Have accidentally managed to book into a hotel of huge #WW2 significance: Latimer House, site of CSDIC intelligence ops.
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Thank you to my @HCAatEdinburgh students for the @eusa teaching nominations (Gender Identities in Wartime Britain). Has made my day!
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Photo of my nana, Liz, who organised a private evacuation to Llanfair Talhaiarn during the Liverpool blitz. Pictured with her two older sons and twin babies 1941 #StDavidsDay
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Thank you to the thoughtful student from my Gender Identities in Wartime class @HCAatEdinburgh who nominated me for @eusa Teaching Award. Much appreciated.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Living my best life @bodleianlibs #Week2
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7 years
There is a PhD placement opportunity @britishlibrary (London) cataloguing a collection of French First World War posters. For more info, go to:
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4 years
My son by my daughter versus my son by me #lockdownart
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Our next 'Second World War Conversations' panel - 'Visuals, News & Propaganda in Wartime Britain' - will take place on 22 June @SWWStudiesEdin @HCAatEdinburgh Watch this space. © IWM 'War Artist at Work' IWM CH1879
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Turning the monthly page on our wall calendar (optimistically filled in at the start of 2020), is like seeing an alternative existence play out before my eyes...
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Please keep your distance @HCAatEdinburgh
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Walk in back garden... #Edinburgh
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Life on the @ucuedinburgh picket line #Day7 . Things are getting serious # doubleespressos #UCUStrikesBack
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Exhibition Launch: First World War Nursing Scrapbooks 1 Nov Edinburgh @RCNScot
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My lovely colleagues @HCAatEdinburgh introducing our new postgraduate students to the vibrant research culture within #History #Classics #Archaeology
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Excellent opportunity #twitterstorians @uniworchistory : applications are invited for a fully-funded full-time PhD studentship to broadly address the theme 'Women and the Wartime Home Fronts in Twentieth-Century Britain'. More info here:
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New profile pic?
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Am delighted to be speaking on English Welsh dualities in wartime as part of the inaugural lecture series @CHICAMatHud . Now I just need to decide whether to deliver the paper from my kitchen or the hallway...
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Centre for History, Culture and Memory
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Thrilling news! Our 2020/2021 Online Lecture Series is here! Look at the brilliant scholars discussing #history , #culture and #memory . The best part? All events are FREE. Join us by following @CHICAM and watching for updates. Tell friends! Coworkers! Random people on the street!
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
4 years
Another fab picture of my late father-in-law, Rolando "The Cat" Ugolini...
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Dr Tosh Warwick
4 years
Art of Ayresome: "Brought back lots of good memories". We've added some new works to the online @Boro art exhibition including this fantastic depiction of Rolando Ugolini by Richard Piers Rayner. Share your memories and feedback here #UTB #ArtOfAyresome :
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Major international #SWW conference @SWWStudiesEdin delivered ✅ Now prepping for Singapore trip with Teresa Lim's evocative book, 'The Interpreter's Daughter', which outlines the impact of the Japanese invasion on one Chinese Singaporean family.
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1 year
The #edfringe returns and our office lighting improves @HCAatEdinburgh @FollowTheCow
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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This new @EdinburghUP book by @Sir__Ian Writing the Radio War contains all my favourite themes: the BBC, the Second World War and constructions of Britishness:
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
7 years
Lovely to return on non-strike day to find this. To echo @earlymodatLancs , I miss teaching whilst on #USSstrike but also need to defend our right to a fair pension.
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Early start for @ucu picket line at Old Medical School @ucuedinburgh #UCUstrike #UCUStrikesBack
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Prof Wendy Ugolini
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Just been on @WeAreSTV talking about the Italian Chapel in Orkney as a 'site of reconciliation': via @The_Orcadian
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We may be entering a new phase of lockdown in Scotland but I can still find a decent place to have coffee ... #Holyrood
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Privileged to be at @CWGC #LightingTheirLegacy event @ScotWarMemorial , in the presence of two D-Day landings veterans, to see the symbolic passing of the torch to the new generation of memory agents
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