Hello all! I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊

Guy Fawkes took the brilliantly original pseudonym “John Johnson” for his attempt to blow up Parliament today in 1605 We should make sure that anyone of that surname should not be allowed within a mile of the building.

Hello all! I have made an Instagram account for all things history/research related! I’ll still be on here, but do give me a follow on the other place if you wish. I’ll be posting on there every now and again! 😊

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of West Africa revealed a complex network spanning four continents. 🔒 This feature from the October issue is available in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Going to present a chapter of my book manuscript on October 24, 12:30 PM EST. It is a detailed look on the European market for sugar and tobacco over 120 years that tries to break with methodological nationalism through multisited, multilanguage research on dozens of archives. On zoom as well.

Exciting trans-Atlantic collaboration between the libraries at Universities of Rochester and Leeds: 🌎 Archives across the Atlantic: Unearthing Black History. A conversation with the University of Rochester ( 🗓️ Thursday 23 October at 🕓 4pm BST / 🕚 11am EDT) leeds.libcal.com/calendar/ope...

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

Today's MEMOries archived blog post from guest contributor L.H. Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) takes a look at Tangier and the problems it posed for the English crown: memorients.com/articles/tan...

Not gonna lie: I'm so stressed by the state of the world that my eye is twitching. Disasters are on my mind, so let me leave you with this... The menu booklet for what would be the final lunch onboard the Titanic.

In the next couple of weeks, we have more posts coming. Another from Decklan Wilkerson, we will be welcoming @noorhashmi.bsky.social to @globalmarhist.bsky.social staff, and we're going to be starting to have some of the first Academic Process & Digital Humanities posts

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

"These are the facts of American history. They are not distortions, nor is displaying this information at national parks ideologically motivated. These and similar facts explain much about our nation." slate.com/news-and-pol...

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

🏴‍☠️ Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay #Pirates #History #Historical #Piracy

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'. In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...

"writing what you don’t know is made up of research, speculation, and imagination. I wrestled with the incomplete – and possibly inaccurate – facts presented in my poem." — Christine Wu. I love this piece on writing into 'shadow histories' in complex families, using multiple ways of knowing.

Calling all #historyteachers excited to 🚀 this new for 2026 GCSE AQA Historic Environment! can’t wait to welcome 🙏 you to the first performance! 🎭 please retweet & spread the word! 🤗 scholarship @tracyborman.bsky.social 🙌🏻🥳

Hi everyone! I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Yet another blow for people who think the history of slavery is over *there*, and the history of industrialisation over *there*, and the history of poverty over *there*, and the history of wealth over *there*, and their job is to keep them as far apart as possible…

How the “liberation” of slaves by 19th-century European imperial powers actually resulted in hundreds of thousands of them being held to forced labour…

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" Well, have you consulted a historian who says ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’ and gives you an overly detailed narrative of the last 800 years?

Paperback day!

🚂 All Aboard for an Unforgettable Ride Through History and into the Future! Join us at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool (5–7pm) for talks, discussions & future-focused ideas on how rail can transform again. 💡 Free event book ahead! bit.ly/AllAboardPan...

Oh 😮 ! In Our Time is a programme solely committed to intellectual broadcasting, and it’s enormously popular. Melvyn Bragg is a titan, and his stepping down is the end of an era

Just repeating my appeal for historians & teachers to stop using the terminology of colonial or imperial “legacies”: alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

Opicinus was a 14th C. papal scribe who (likely) had a stroke and woke up 2 weeks later with a new sense of spiritual understanding of the world. He drew a series of maps to explain his vision, and they're amazing. Here's one:

Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

🚨 Our episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about the lives of Viking Women is now available worldwide on all podcast apps — featuring very funny comedian Chloe Petts and Viking expert Dr Eleanor Barraclough

Galleys for The Crown’s Silence (forthcoming Jan.) are here! Pub day may be months out, but pre-orders help spread the word to booksellers. This is esp important for non-fiction books in our age of misinformation & disregard for the brutal realities of slavery. www.brookennewman.com/the-crowns-s...

Hi everyone! I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

The gradual inclusion of truth about the experience of slavery in American museums has been one of the most deeply researched and considered and consequential developments in public history over the last half century. Enraging we have to defend it in this way.

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

As Terry Eagleton pointed out, a statement can be ideological even if it’s true. When people point out that slavery has been practiced by many societies, they’re using a factually correct statement to conceal a morally repugnant idea: that transatlantic slavery was therefore normal and forgivable.

Thinking about how slave censuses from 1850 & 1860 tell us how many people owned other human beings, but don't account for how many people hired out enslaved people. I'm struck by how many of the supposed poisonings I've found involve enslaved people accused of poisoning the person renting them.

Have to say, if this were an undergraduate essay, it would not be getting top marks. Quite a random assortment of assertions, stats & predictions, much of it running ahead of the evidence. Not in any way to detract from the baleful state of HE, I'd postpone existential despair til the dust settles.

Is it possible to survive a violent system without becoming part of it? Drivers—enslaved people forced to discipline others—walked this tightrope every day. Historian @randybrowne.bsky.social brings us into their world. 🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/418 #SlaveryStudies #EarlyAmerica #History

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

Historic chattel slavery still shapes how we see incarceration and liberty and citizenship and skin color and the legal system and housing and employment and human rights and religion and all types of value. Never forget that.

If anyone has any words of wisdom about writing my MA dissertation, please send them my way🙃

Studying history is the quickest way to disabuse you of the notion that the universe naturally progresses toward justice without us compelling change. Just look at this brutal headline from 1920 about the arrest and eventual deportation of people because of their politics during the Palmer Raids.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

history isn't written by winners it's written by nerds

77 years ago, the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Dock. Today on #WindrushDay, we would like to invite all our members to join us in reflecting on the vital contribution of the Windrush generation which shaped nursing in this country, and their ongoing fight for justice and fairness.

The QS World University Rankings 2026 have just been released and we’ve placed 92nd within the World Top 100! Huge congratulations and thanks to everyone in the University of Sheffield community for this achievement; from staff and students to alumni, supporters and friends around the world!

Hi Bluesky! I'm Noor! I’m an MA Early Modern History student at The University of Sheffield, specialising in Caribbean slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. My research to date has focused on diseases and medicine, as well as Manchester’s industrial links to slavery. #Skystorian