There's just a day to go until @manchesterup.bsky.social publish my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I thought I should explain a bit about where the book came from. 1/15

The Society now invites applications for its Workshop Grants programme 2026: bit.ly/4oPyUdZ Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project. Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

Happening tonight! There is still time to sign up and join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl who will kick off our autumn/winter series: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu.... Please note that due to our renovation works the event will take place at Swedenborg House.

The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP

📣Out now on #firstview! Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy' #FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️ 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IT'S US!!!! New open access article on food and masculinity. I love collaborating, especially with @adamcrymble.bsky.social @historybeagle.bsky.social, and Rachel Rich. They are some of my favourite people and pretty excellent academics, actually! #skystorians #18thC 🗃

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular. University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered. "Beware employers bearing yoga mats..." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

We are in the process of working our way through HUNDREDS (no exaggeration) of fabulous CFPs. If you have submitted a proposal for #BSECS2026, we will be in touch on or before the ***15 October 2025*** to let you know if you've been successful. #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Chimney Stacks and Winding Ways, Whitby, 1936, painting by Fred Cecil Jones, 1891-1956 (Tate). #NorthernArt

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

How many snacks are required to survive Welcome Week you ask....? Turns out the answer is: more than this.... #skystorians #academicsky

I should still be frantically preparing to welcome our new first years next week, but instead I'm finishing my week by reading this. And I don't regret it, even though I know I'm going to have to open my laptop on Sunday as a result! #skystorians

Mute Swans, looking angry, and owned.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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:

It was true in 2024 when I took this pic, and it is even more true now Taken at #ipres2024 in Ghent

This is your friendly reminder to VOTE in the @royalhistsoc.org Council elections. Not necessarily for me (though if you felt moved in that direction it would be appreciated), but for any candidates you feel represent you and your experiences of 'doing' History. #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

Today I have mostly sent e-mails. Intentions to review an article and prepare a module handbook have flown out of the window... ...AND YET.... ...I currently have more e-mails in my inbox than I had when I started 😬 #skystorians #academicsky #18thC #academicnewyear

OMG I can't remember what I've done with my work ID or my office keys and I have a vague memory of changing my computer password in late July...😬

Full disclosure, I have worked on annual leave. Submitted #thekingsdinner + an article + a fun bit of filming. Some e-mails have been answered. But also eating, sleeping, lounging around reading terrible fiction, arguing with teens, & watching terrible telly. #academicsky #skystorians #historian

This is it! The out of office gets turned off tomorrow and I have to try and remember what my actual job is... #historian #skystorians #academicsky #18thC

Later, FRHists will see that I've put my name down for election to Council. Just hopping on here to say that I feel quite strongly about academic precarity, & history as a vehicle for lifelong study & social mobility, & if you do too then I would really appreciate your vote. Thanks #skystorians 🗃️

Caffeine and biscuits - the ONLY way to get through the final stages of book footnotes (ESPECIALLY when four authors have worked on those footnotes at various points in the writing process!) #thekingsdinner #amwriting #18thC #foodhist #skystorians

Breakfast reading (MUCH better than the back of the cereal packet!)...

It's A level results day! So this message is going out to all those students getting their results: What are you doing on Bluesky? You're 18 years old! Get back to discord or snapchat or whatever. Let us make our terrible dad jokes in peace.

Jumping on the Jane Austen bandwagon and offering a short course from Halloween to her birthday (approx!) - join me! Or help me spread the word! Please and thank you!!

It's a terrible picture, but I can report that Elizabeth Raffald's heavily plagiarised 'to barbecue a leg of pork' is incredible. (It's 90% in the sauce, and of that, quite a lot lies in the quality of your lime pickle). Obviously it's a complete and utter bastardisation of the original concept 1/

Congratulations on publication day @emilymayvine.bsky.social! 🎉🥳🎉🥳 I can't wait to read it! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', edited by Alice Rio bit.ly/46WkC5j New in 'Transactions', a special essay celebrating the work of medieval historian Jinty Nelson (1942-2024). Thirteen historians choose articles (1977-2016) that have had a lasting impression on their own careers #Skystorians

👑 VICTORIA’S SECRET 👑 We’re delighted to announce that Dr Matthew Sweet will chair our exciting event with Dr Fern Riddell this Thursday at the British Library! ▪️7pm, Thurs 24 July ▪️book now (£6-£12) histfest.org/victorias-se...

After yesterday's revelation that I'm the only person in our dept to not own a presentation clicker, I am starting my weekend slowly by slurping tea & searching the Internet for a hugely decorative & ostentatious clicker preferably history themed. Drawing a blank so far. Any suggestions #skystorians

Oh, I had SUCH a lovely day yesterday working on final revisions to our book @leedsbeckett.bsky.social Final manuscript submission in 38 days! #KingsDinner #AmWriting #18thC #FoodHistory 🗃️

A Palestinian chef’s quest to preserve his heritage, one dish at a time: ‘This is a political act’ My interview with Sami Tamimi whose new cookbook Boustany, my garden in Arabic, is both a culinary delight and an act of resistance. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On this day in 1934, crowds massed as Manchester Central Library was officially opened by King George V, a startling expression of civic confidence during the depression.

Thanks to a dance performance at school last night, I have fallen down a Gloria Estefan-shaped rabbit hole. Sorry to those of you that are expecting me to do any work, I shall be spending most of today dancing embarrassingly in the kitchen... #amwriting #80schild

We are thrilled to announce the eight writers shortlisted for Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence in 2026! Read about the shortlisted titles here: buff.ly/S7V0rmH Thank you Damian Barr (@damianbarr.bsky.social) for having the inspiration for Gladstone's Library Writers in Residence! 📚 1/3

Bilston enamel patch box from 1790. The motto reads "May America be/ For ever kept free." Good luck with that, guys!

Our Associate Fellowship category is for those at an earlier stage their research careers - for example, completion of a #History PhD - or History professionals (teachers, curators, archivists etc.) who make research possible. Applications are welcome at any time bit.ly/44r8NTg #Skystorians

Job alert! We're advertising for a full-time, permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in 20thC American History at Edge Hill. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX206/l...

Right, @royalhistsoc.org, stands at all graduations to hand out these badges & leaflets so our graduants have the perfect accessory for their job interviews? files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

<taps the Royal Historical Society briefing, once again> Both quantitative and qualitative data showing that History is a verrrrry valuable degree. But will university managers and market departments listen, or continue the vibes-based approach? files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

‪ So, I came on here to promote a job @edgehist.bsky.social but have been distracted by this one! Research fellow @unibirmingham.bsky.social, 1yr, paid at an appropriate scale for a postdoc, and a fab-sounding project! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT294/r... #skystorians 🗃️ #earlymodern #18thC #19thC

Still plenty of time to sign up for this! 👇 Come and join like-minded volunteers & help towards transcribing 25,000 Tudor, Stuart, & Georgian wills 📜✍️ @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience

We are delighted to say that #SHSConf2025 was an immense success! Please read more about it here - and stay tuned for more information and announcements from the conference!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/10/s...