Now available: @camhistory.bsky.social anniversary lectures in original video and revised texts @historicaljnl.bsky.social, both found at www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/how-his.... Not just about Cambridge but about the development of History: as a profession, a degree subject, a literature.

In the wake of Wes Streeting’s announcement of a review of mental health ‘over-diagnosis’ we have published this new policy paper by Prof Lucy Delap arguing that the government’s priority should be to address the historic stigma against sick & disabled people. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Los esperamos en la @filguadalajara.bsky.social este jueves 4 de diciembre, 19 hrs @granodesal.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing my newest article, published at the Journal of International Public History I wrote about Mexico’s new Christian right and their use/misuse of history via social media. Article is open access! 🔓

An interview with HAHR author Paulo Drinot about the origins and evolution of Peru's APRA party. youtu.be/i_Nx-sjKrdE?...

For @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, here's my interview with Daniel Morales about his new book on Mexican migration in the early twentieth century. Take a listen to get a sense of this sweeping work, or order a copy for your library! newbooksnetwork.com/between-here...

XVII Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México...en Veracruz Sept 2026 😍 www.uv.mx/xvii-reunion... Accepting symposia, panels, & papers!

Take a listen to Mila Burns on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussing her new book, Dictatorship Across Borders (@uncpress.bsky.social) newbooksnetwork.com/dictatorship...

How much do you know about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Learn more about how the crisis was made by hemispheric politics with @renatakeller.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. This interview was so much fun--thanks for a great read & great chat, Renata! newbooksnetwork.com/the-fate-of-...

Va a estar difícil que nos quedemos “calladitas”. La belleza cambió de bando: está en la voz, no el silencio. @ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social denuncia y analiza las violencias contra @cathandrews.bsky.social por parte del director del #CIDE. revistacomun.com/blog/calladi...

We're website official! Coming in May 2026 @ucpress.bsky.social... www.ucpress.edu/books/the-fu...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Cuando intentan silenciar a algunas, aquí estamos todas. Sobre trabajadoras en el CIDE en @revistacomun.bsky.social revistacomun.com/blog/calladi...

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

👉 Este proyecto ha sido posible gracias a The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) y a The UCLA Film and television Archive. 'Público' ha contado con el apoyo de la Generalitat de Catalunya y del Comisionado para la Celebración de los 50 años de España @50enlibertad.bsky.social

🎥 TVE se hace eco de la serie 'La Guerra Civil como nunca la habías visto', que rescata imágenes inéditas de la Guerra Civil proyectadas en los noticiarios de EEUU.

The Brief History of Violence in Mexico is out! uncpress.org/978146968994...

Gorda, la codiciada ajolote que hizo que dejaran de circular 10 millones de billetes de 50 pesos en México dozz.es/l4cth6

Public Lecture: 'The French Revolution and the Magic of Transformation' with Camil Francisc Roman, author of 'The French Revolution and Its Legacy: Leaping Democracy Into the Unlimited'. 📆 Mon 1 December 🕔 5pm - 6pm 📍 Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College All welcome. Drinks reception to follow.

En lugar de cuestionar su organización jerárquica y excluyente, adoptamos, como si fuera parte de nuestro ethos, una forma de evaluación que reproduce lo peor del capitalismo y del colonialismo en la academia. Mónica López Rivas sobre el #SNII. revistacomun.com/blog/de-pira...

c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New book from @uncpress.bsky.social: Money Isn't Everything: Buying and Selling Sex in Twentieth-Century Argentina by Patricio Simonetto and translated by Sarah Booker uncpress.org/book/9781469...

‘Socioeconomic changes of recent decades have enabled the right to shape its own version of “the people”, providing a willing foundation for the kinds of authoritarianism that used to be imposed by force.’ Tony Wood on Latin America’s rightward drift: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Exciting CfP for historians working on motherhood, gender, work and politics in a global or transnational frame in the early 20th century: sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...

Hay un gaslighting sistémico que está acabando con el propósito de la academia... un sistema que genera evidencias sobre patrones de diferencia de género para después no hacer nada con ellas. En #Opinión, Abril Saldaña Tejeda sobre el #SNII. revistacomun.com/blog/flotar-...

If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...

Proud to see this report out in the world today. After 10+ years of market experiments in UK HE, the data is clear: leaving what is taught in our universities solely up to the market has left students with less choice, fewer opportunities and more regional inequality. Read the deep dive below 👇

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

Emotion, agency and identity. Professor Nadine Rossol examines flag conflicts in Germany during the 1920s and 30s, and what we can learn from history about current English 'flag wars'. Read the @royalhistsoc.org article: brnw.ch/21wVYZq

"Our purpose in The Modern British City is not merely to describe urban change but to explain why British cities, in all their extraordinary multifariousness, look and feel the way they do today" Really excited for this expansive new book coming out in November www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...

‘World-class research capacity at risk from cuts to staff time’. University leader warns institutions rowing back on research time could lead to “tipping points”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Dear Friends of the ITSH, Please join us on Monday, 29 September 3-5pm online via Microsoft Teams for a lecture by Dr. Chika Tonooka titled: ‘Authenticity and Fascism in the Age of Global Capital: A Transnational History.’

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Next October 30, I will be discussing A Brief History of Violence in Mexico with my friends Thomas Rath, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, Paulo Drinot and Ben Smith www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

This is near Windsor Castle where Trump will be.

NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥 Want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network? Join us for informal events to connect. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections

One of our exciting new books this month is "A Wide Net of Solidarity," by @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, which shows how the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA) provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

My new book ‘Hispanic Technocracy: From Fascism to Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile' with @CambridgeUP is out now! cambridge.org/9781009603041

I am honoured to share this news!

'Female Football Foiled!' As the WSL goes from strength to strength, a look back to 1922, when 'The Empire Citizen' magazine (strapline – “Down with the Bolshies – For Britain and Empire”) had Views on the FA’s 1921 ban on women playing on their grounds, a prohibition only lifted in 1971

What was the Swedish ”docent grade”? In a new article in Minerva, @isakhammar.bsky.social and I explore evaluative cultures in the history of the humanities: link.springer.com/article/10.1... This will be part of an upcoming special issue on the history of peer review in the humanities.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...