👋 Historians! The IHR Modern Religious History Seminar is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our 2025-6 programme. Up next: Aleph Ross (Birmingham) on Sex, Health and the Anglo-Jewish Body. 🗓️ 15 OCT 2025 5:30pm 📍 @ihr.bsky.social and online Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #WorldMentalHealthDay

Just landed - various strands of my research and activism collected: www.thehortonninethousand.org

@Friends of Horton Cemetery and @OutofSightOutofMindEpsom - www.youtube.com/watch?v=swGI...

Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel. Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2

Thank you, Australia.

IHR Women's HIstory Seminar Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/wake-women-women-activism-and-engagement-queen-elizabeth-iis-coronation Please join us live or online. @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question. Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇 #Skystorians

'Across 103 universities to have posted financial accounts so far this year with relevant figures, £210 million was spent on compensation for loss of office last year. This was a 67 per cent increase on...2022-23. The severance payments...affected about 10,300 employees'. 1/4

@graceheaton.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

Or would you like to explore "AIDS, Inequality and Religious Ethics of Care in 1980s and 90s Britain", working with @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and alongside the amazing Prof. Julie-Marie Strange, Dr. David Minto, @leannemccormick.bsky.social. More details at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ476/p...

We've now created a starter pack for those whose work/interests include early modern religious radicalism: go.bsky.app/ArYba4T Let me know if you'd like to be added! #EarlyModern

We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8 This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians

A degree in the Humanities 'ought surely to leave a student with a notion of why we do what we do. And that requires greater visibility of the research we do, the complexity of the process by which we arrive at knowledge.' 1/3

More detail will appear at projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Opening plenary is on ‘Writing the history of Britain today’. Thrilled to have Alana Harris, Sarah Crook, Miles Taylor and Mike Braddick participating. @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

Looking forward to launching @mariacpower.bsky.social and Jonathan Bush's fantastic edited volume next Wednesday, 11th December, 17:30. In person and online - details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/lay-c...

Delighted to see my latest essay is now out! This deals with the representation of working-class women in England and Wales as 'bad mothers' between 1870 and 1939. Thanks to editors Laura Price, Laura Harrison & Oli Betts for bringing it together 🥳🌟 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries. #dishist #disability www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...

Quick reminder about our conference, 'British History Today, 1-2 May 2025. Further details will appear on projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/. Deadline for papers is 24 January 2025. There have been many great ideas for panels, papers and novel formats already

www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-... - delighted to have led collaboratively on these projects!

remembering my Wednesday evening while working on my Saturday morning - Bellowhead, Oxford

I also get precious little writing time, alas, but have been hawking this chapter today as my main recent bit of work peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...

Here for the craic