Hi, I’m Kirsty.

I am the Social Media Manager for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The History of Parliament. Prior to this, my background has been in public engagement, heritage and education including qualifications in Teaching and Learning. I have also worked and volunteered in ‘digital’ including as a digital ambassador, as a Production Assistant and Audio Performer for York Festival of Ideas and Explore York Archives, as a Podcast Developer for Wessex Museums, and I digitised archival documents for multiple projects on ‘Zooniverse’.

I have a BA in History from the University of Chester where I was awarded the Dissertation Prize for my dissertation ‘“For those who are oppressed in song you can protest”: Irish Rebel Music as a counternarrative to British postcolonial discourse’. In 2022, I graduated from the University of York with an MA in Public History, my dissertation looked at the representations of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ in English war and military museums. Throughout both degrees, I conducted research on eugenics, nationalism, colonialism, post-genocide reconciliation, political history, and public history in practice.