We have published a new Policy Paper by @jmoss88.bsky.social & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They argue that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social should be revived with state funding to help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

If you're in London on 21 October there are still a few tickets available for the launch of my new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social about all things history.

Delighted to see the latest article in special issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social ed. [email protected]; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! 🌟 Greg Downs investigates the experiences of Black rural working women at elections in South Carolina 1874-1895 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The next closing dates for Fellowship applications are Mondays 13 October and 15 December. Full details of the benefits of Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society are available here: bit.ly/4iOu51g

We are so much looking forward to this conference. Do share widely

EDICa is teaming up with the Community Wellbeing Collective in #WesterHailes Edinburgh for #BeingHuman2025. Participants can craft personal pages for a zine inspired by experiences of periods/(peri)menopause, thinking about gaps in support in the workplace & healthcare. go.hw.ac.uk/PeriodTalk

Join us for a guided tour of Eileen Gray: The Making of Modernism with #IrishSignLanguage interpretation Discover one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects. 📅 Sun 28 Sept, 15:30 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ No booking required 🔗 museum.ie/.../Irish-Si...

📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations! Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨ More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...

This year’s programme for our IHR seminar in Contemporary British History is coming together This side of Xmas we’re excited to welcome @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @garylove.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dohertyta.bsky.social If you’d like to present next spring/summer, drop me a line!

Fellows of the Society are recognised for their contribution to historical understanding and knowledge. We welcome invitations to join the Fellowship at any time from historians working in Higher Education and other sectors, as well as independent researchers bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Really looking forward to this visit, my last one as a Councillor for @royalhistsoc.org. These visits are one of my favourite duties on Council & we learn, in equal measure, about the passion & the challenges of colleagues doing history in UKHE. #historymatters

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

Finally, on 3rd December Daniel Frost and @evansmithhist.bsky.social, editors of another @manchesterup.bsky.social book - In Solidarity and Under Suspicion - will be joined by some of their contributors to discuss the book. 5.30pm UK time, online. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

On 19th November at 5.30pm @garylove.bsky.social will be presenting online on Researching Conservatism and Christian Democracy in Britain and North-West Europe, 1945-91: comparative and transnational perspectives, part of his recent co-edited volume manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176851/

On 22nd October @dohertyta.bsky.social will join us to discuss 'The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections'. You can attend in-person at @ihr.bsky.social or join us on zoom at 5.30pm.

[email protected] will be speaking on 8th October at 5.30pm on work arising from her soon-to-be-released book! Join us for “Public space and popular protest in 20th century England: enclosure, resistance and commoning”. This is a hybrid event. reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

A new academic year is here, and so is our autumn term programme! A thread of our speakers follows. Sign-up links available soon but note dates in diaries now! 📆

New this week in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. "Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography", by Alana Harris and Laura Mitchison bit.ly/4gH9e0f #Skystorians 1/2

Excited to give the @royalhistsoc.org's public lecture this December: 'Hunger, Health and Hope: A History of School Meals in Britain' @sheffielduni.bsky.social @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social #histed 📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm 🎟️ Free, all welcome. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunger-hea...

‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’ Great intervention from Gary Younge at our @britishacademy.bsky.social panel this evening on the future of humanities and social sciences

Throughout the 20th Century, unmarried mothers endured shame and institutionalisation. In Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain, @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to Britain. Out now: https://bit.ly/4lAg9cf

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.

We’re delighted to publish a new Policy Paper today by Jonathan Moss & @emilyrobinson.bsky.social. They suggest that Mass Observation @massobsarchive.bsky.social - founded in the 1930s - can help us understand the reasons behind contemporary voter apathy. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

📢 The CfP is out for the next annual @hexhistory.bsky.social conference. Deadline 30 November + conference in March 2026. Highly recommend this conference, brilliant people, ideas, conversations & saunas, being involved with HEX has been transformative for me 🥰. events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

#womenshistory #militaryhistory #occupation #secondworldwar #thehome #family #japan #germany

Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny. Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism dflw.ie/power-gender...

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wrote something quite personal about what use trans history In These Times:

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Video and audio recordings of last week's RHS Lecture by Prof. Yasmin Khan - 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' - are now available: bit.ly/4pw5B15 Yasmin's is one of many lectures available to watch or listen to again via our Events Archive bit.ly/3IaWtOG #Skystorians

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...

I didn’t forget to bring my @royalhistsoc.org badges along to #PostCivilWarSocieties symposium here @helsinki.fi & reminder that RHS membership is international. Interested in becoming a fellow or member? Visit the website 😊.

New academic year, new round of seminars on ‘Women’s Intellectual History’, run by the International Society for Intellectual History. Join us by signing up via this link for the online seminars, we start on 02 Oct: forms.office.com/e/c1vecwHxjS

‘Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".’ FFS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

About to kick off here at #PostCivilWarSocieties symposium in Helsinki & looking forward to our panel later with @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @profingrid.bsky.social. @ucddublin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

BECAUSE WE ARE ALL EQUAL On International #EqualPayDay, we raise global awareness about the persistent gender pay gap & promote equal pay for equal work. We highlight the persistent differences in pay between men & women, which is a key issue for human rights. #GenderEquality ##SoroptimistBristol

Our great thanks to Matthew J. Smith who gave our public lecture yesterday evening at the University of Aberdeen. Matthew's lecture, which explored new digital histories of Caribbean families and kinship networks, is part of the Society's visit to historians at Aberdeen bit.ly/4miT3aB #Skystorians

The Society's 2025 events programme continues this autumn with lectures, October-December, by Tim Grady, Daniel Finkelstein, Jane Ohlmeyer and Heather Ellis. Further details and booking for each of these lectures is now available bit.ly/4mobBGe. Events are public and all are welcome #Skystorians

Nice one @theguardian.com front page & Carol Ann Duffy ❤️. 

✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us at New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland! Your research, enthusiasm, and supportive spirit made the day a real success 🙏 If you are not yet a member, we invite you to join our community 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/membership/

Thanks @caitbeaumont.bsky.social for interesting talk last night on WI activism that led to Public Lavatories (Turnstiles) Act 1963 & that their environmental activism started in 1927 with call on the govt to clear the seas of oil. All to be found in WI archives held in The Women's Library at LSE.

All set to travel to fabulous #Finland to present at @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for War Studies @erc.europa.eu symposium on Post-Civil-War Societies. Re-grouping with members of #Afterlives team @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social & @tiinalintunen.bsky.social always a pleasure 😍.

@royalhistsoc.org members, check email today for one from 'Choice Voting' (& in junk) to vote for 3 x RHS Council members. 15 x top history citizens are standing this year so don't forget to vote & help promote & safeguard history & history profession. #historymatters #skystorians (please re-post).