Petros Spanou
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Petros Spanou
@petros_spanou
Historian of Modern Britain
Oxford, England
Joined December 2015
- I’ve just received the examiners’ report: passed with no corrections!!
- Passed my DPhil viva! Thank you to my brilliant supervisors, Joshua Bennett and Alexander Morrison, and to my examiners, Jane Garnett and Eugenio Biagini!
- Absolutely delighted to receive the RHS Centenary Fellowship. I am very grateful to the @RoyalHistSoc and the @ihr_history And, of course, thank you to my supervisors, Dr Joshua Bennett and Dr Alexander Morrison, for all their wonderful support.A full list of 2021 RHS & @ihr_history Winners and Runners-Up, with judges' citations, is now available: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2021/07/23/rhs… The 2021 Awards video is also available to watch or, even, watch again: youtube.com/watch?v=2xDFm0… #RHSAwards21 #twitterstorians #historymatters
- Greatly enjoyed reviewing Lawrence Goldman’s magisterial ‘Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain’The Winter Issue of the @BAVS_UK Newsletter is out now (and our longest yet)! It's packed with reviews, reports, CFPs, and other things of Victorianist interest 📚 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed! bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
- Me on a Victorian medal jvc.oup.com/2024/08/14/com…
- Links to a journal article on Mr Freeman and a review of A. Stone’s ‘Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain’, if anyone’s interested!
- Replying to @JTasioulas @UniofOxford and @BalliolOxfordThank you, John!
- Replying to @ClareGS87 @andrewking2904 and @DrjmortonI also found this so useful!
- Replying to @yuanyi_zIt’s known for its massive burger! Used to go there when I was about 16
- Replying to @shaunvlog_ and @edinspotlightAmazing photo! It looks like the Mount - on left-hand side is where the building of the Scottish National Gallery can be found, and i think that’s the spire of Tolbooth Kirk
