#Oliverscampaign We didn’t suddenly create more neurodivergent people. We finally started listening. Diagnosis is not a trend, it’s visibility, understanding, and long overdue recognition

👑 The King's Dinner 🍰 will be out this June. It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions. I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

Helen Esfandiary giving a great paper on elite maternal authority over the care of children in the context of the professional medical market place in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.

📣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...

The border between Cantwara rīce (Kingdom of the Kentish) & Sūþseaxna rīce (South Saxons) is still the border between the counties of Kent & Sussex A 1,400 year old ditch created to stop conflict, by marking the border to avoid confusion, is our southern woodland boundary

'In his new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Graham-Dixon puts forward a revolutionary theory about the work of an artist whose genius is rarely disputed. Right or wrong, it is a theory that will change the way people look at that famous pearl earring'.

It's not Masquerade Monday, BUT! 'The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue' is now available for pre-order & you can get 25% off through Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas... If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

The Southern History Society is holding a conference at Winchest on 18 October, on 'Poverty and the Parish'. It looks great. Registration is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poverty-an...

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

Join us in person or via Zoom on Friday, October 10 for a conversation about archives, civics, and history with Dr. Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States. This event is part of the JCB 2026 and Beyond initiative. Details at jcblibrary.org!

Our British History in the Long 18th Century seminar resumes on 24 September. It's hybrid, in London at the IHR and online. Daniel Gosling (TNA) on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield's "Judgment" on the Sex of the Chevalier d'Eon'. Register to attend (below). TikTok trailer is in 2/2. 1/2

@1goodtern.bsky.social have you seen this yet?

CfP now out for the Annual Workshop of the EHS Women’s Committee. Theme: Women & Entrepreneurship - Agency, Experience, and Enterprise Date: 12 Dec 2025 Venue: UCL History Deadline for proposals: 5 Sept 2025 For more details, see👇 ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

grateful for colleagues doing the goddess's work against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Join us, at 6.30pm on Friday 12 September, for 'Mars and Britannia: the Imperial Way of Warfare' with Professor Yasmin Khan bit.ly/3Hv2jK8 Yasmin's is the next in the Society's 2025 lecture programme and takes place at Mary Ward House, London and online. Booking now open: all welcome #Skystorians

The most interesting conversations I am hearing/reading about re: AI and implementation are coming from (drumroll please....) rhetoric and composition studies. Yes! Good ol' RhetComp. The journal Computers and Composition cconlinejournal.org is a must read over in this domain

Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory

Rarely does a news story get better with each sentence, from headline to last line. (And do read all the way to the end.) Pulitzer worthy.

This is a very fine and thought-provoking piece.

Looking for work if you need short-term help! Three colleagues wrote 'thank you for letting me complain to you' in my leaving card, if that helps to sell me to you

@kawulf.bsky.social reflects on losing her father—and the world she believed in, where #science, #history, and shared purpose mattered. Science needs history. #STEM alone isn’t enough. Read full article by @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

We are offering an online offer for the PGR/ECR @bsecs.bsky.social conference 30th-31st July to anyone who wants to join us! For just £10 you can join all paper panels + the keynote across the two days live via Zoom. To sign up register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/

I've got 4 weeks of work left. If anyone sees an education/3rd sector/HE professional services job (or any that might suit someone who's worked a lot with young people, or is genuinely open to someone without 5 years' experience) or knows of any open academic short-term grants, pls DM 🫶#skystorians

This entire thread is illuminating.

Did soldiers from the Central Powers get medals at the end of the First World War for taking part?

All this stuff about Britain is broken, all is terrible, there is no recourse, society is falling apart, if there was a war nobody would go, etc is beginning to irritate me. There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

Welcome to the archives.

On Tuesday 10 June. Prof. Pat Hudson will deliver the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture, on 'Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the Eighteenth Century'. It's at UCL at 5:30 PM and free to attend, but please register here.

Just discovered a relatively new digital map collection at the AG Regionalportale. Allmost 50.000 maps from multiple institutions. And all are available as IIF, so you can georeference them with Allmaps. 😀 👇 https://kartenspeicher.gbv.de/ https://editor.allmaps.org/

Join us next week at the third United Nations Ocean Conference (#UNOC3) #Nice #france 9-13 June, 2025 Talking about our work on #fishweirs, #IndigenousPeoples #maritimeheritage #oceanaction46159 #UNOceanDecade #oceandecadeheritage

Join us next Tuesday, 3 June, at 5:30pm for a lecture by Susanne Lachenicht (Uni Bayreuth) on 'Aliens in the City! Pop Culture, Media and, ‘Othering’ in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London'. 1/5

Many UK museums now formally accept there is no copyright (Tate, National Gallery Scotland), while others insist there still is (V&A, NPG). But in practice, the latter will not sue you if you use existing online images, for fear of losing. 2/2 More here: www.arthistorynews.com/articles/770...

Es ist so weit! Wir legen los mit den konkreten Vorbereitungen für das #histocamp2026 Entscheidend: ein Barcamp lebt vom Mitmachen. Stoßt zu uns! Das wird eine klasse Sache.

Digital (Asset Management) Archaeologist National Museum of the Royal Navy Salary: £ 29,933 – £ 37,070 per annum Closing Date: 17/06/25 Location: Portsmouth www.bajr.org/job-ad/digit...

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

Pleased to share that the first books of the new 'Courts and Courtiers' series from Brepols will soon emerge! Oskar Rojewski's monograph about Sittow, court painter to Isabella of Castile; and a collection of essays about Habsburg royal brothers, wives and bastards! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Join us next Wednesday (14 May) in room 243 of Senate House or online for our annual Lightning Talks event. This is our seminar’s flagship event where we hear rapid-fire three minute presentations from early-stage PhDs about their dissertation research. www.history.ac.uk/events/light...

Ring of Fire is out now! It’s like the Guns of August for a new generation: the opening weeks of WW1 through the eyes of ordinary men, women and children. And not just in Western Europe, but across the globe. It was bloody, terrifying and neutrality was a sham… geni.us/RingOfFire

Studying a PhD in #Maritimehistory ? The International Journal of Maritime History has several #openaccess articles and reviews which can provide helpful insights for your research! Did you know you can also gain opportunities to publish your research! Contact [email protected] for more info

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright. The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them. 🧵 1/2