Parkes Institute

07/08/2026

We are very pleased to announce that new collections descriptions for Holocaust-related material at University of Southampton Special Collections at University of Southampton have been added to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure portal! Thanks to the team at Hartley Library Archives and Special Collections and to our partners at The National Archives who added this metadata to the EHRI portal, making dozens of important collections more findable and searchable for Holocaust researchers. Explore the new collections descriptions here: https://portal.ehri-project.eu/institutions/gb-003350

10/07/2026

Our Summer 2026 Newsletter is live!

Inside: new research, EHRI-UK updates, reflections from our Visiting Fellow, details about recent events, and much more.

View here: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/Wm9jPo9atisYjpL4?ref=Link

26/06/2026

The Muddy Frogs have crossed the finish line! 🐸🐸🏅🏅
Claire Le Foll and Noëmie Duhaut completed the Southampton Pretty Muddy 5k Race for Life last Saturday, though they're a little sad to report the mud was nowhere near as muddy as promised. More Pretty than Muddy this year!
The important thing: thanks to your incredible generosity, they raised just over £600 for Cancer Research UK. 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who donated and cheered them on.

Cancer Research UK Race for Life

19/06/2026

19/06/2026

Tomorrow is the day! Parkes Institute members Claire Le Foll and Noëmie Duhaut — aka the Muddy Frogs — are taking on the Southampton Pretty Muddy 5k Race for Life on 20 June. If you haven't donated yet to support Cancer Research UK, there's still time!
https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/the-muddy-frogs-1

Parkes Institute members Claire Le Foll and Noëmie Duhaut don't just chat in Yiddish — they also run in the mud for cancer research!

On 20 June, their team the Muddy Frogs will be taking on the Southampton Pretty Muddy 5k 2026 – Race for Life.

Consider donating to support Cancer Research UK! 🐸🐸💪💪

Claire's fundraising page: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/claires-race-for-life-1407320314811
Noëmie's fundraising page: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/nomies-race-for-life-1

15/06/2026

This Wednesday, join Parkes Institute Honorary Fellow Professor Bryan Cheyette in conversation with Professor Becky Taylor on the displacement of Gypsy communities, with a focus on Janina Bauman's pioneering work on this subject. Part of the Bauman Memorial Conversation series.

🔗 More info and registration:

The Bauman Institute is delighted to host the second event in our online Bauman Memorial Conversations series, Thinking Displacement, with an intervention by Professor Becky Taylor, esteemed historian of the relationship between the British state and marginalised peoples and places.

15/06/2026

Just two days to go!
Join Parkes alumnus Joseph Finlay for the launch of his new book on the history of HIAS + JCORE
🗓️17 June, 7 pm, in person or online
📍 JW3
🔗 hiasjcore.org/events/celebrate-jcores-50th-anniversary-not-only-ourselves/

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