Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!

Join us for the book launch of McGill in History at the McGill Faculty Club in Montreal on Thursday, November 6th! The talk will be followed by a Q&A and reception, with copies of the book available for purchase. Refreshments will be provided. This is a hybrid event, registration required.

Come and join us at History of Education! We're looking for a new editor for our special section 'Workspace'. Deadline is 30 October. More information here: historyofeducation.org.uk/e:oi_special... @lottiehoare.bsky.social @stephanieolsen.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social #histed

A belated, warm welcome to Laura Nys, History of Education's new book reviews ed, and a huge thank you to @histosaurusbex.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lottiehoare.bsky.social @heatherlwellis.bsky.social

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation I feel privileged to prepare my first lecture on the history of Canadian residential schools for Tampere University students. We will also read an article on Sámi experiences in Finland, which I hope will give all of us an opportunity to reflect.

Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky

Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders

And from earlier this summer, Tessa Whitehouse on digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/....

New on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

New open access article, based on my keynote at the HES conference in Sheffield : Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hexhistory.bsky.social

Lovely to see this! Leo - my son - had a fantastic time at the conference, especially listening to @stephanieolsen.bsky.social's keynote. Thank you to everyone for welcoming him.

Check out this wonderful report of my keynote on school children’s dreams by 15-year-old Leo Clarkson. Such a privilege to get your perspective! eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

Hello #skystorians, it would be much appreciated if you could sign & share this petition to end unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University. Pictured: Maddy & other picket dogs showing their support! 🗃https://chng.it/KT5F6jrzVy

With double the submissions to our CFP compared to last year, #NACBS2025 is shaping up to be one for the books! Don’t miss out on what is sure to be a fantastic conference! More info here: www.nacbs.org/conference

Thanks so much to @joakimlandahl.bsky.social and Johanna Ringarp and team for a wonderful and stimulating conference. I had so much fun! And thanks @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social for the photo, and for organizing the Meet the Eds panel. See you all again soon, I hope! @hexhistory.bsky.social

Keynote 2 at the Nordic conference! @stephanieolsen.bsky.social !

Looking forward to next week's 9th Nordic HistEd conference in Stockholm, organized by @joakimlandahl.bsky.social and @ringarp.bsky.social ! Feat. keynotes by Marcelo Caruso and @stephanieolsen.bsky.social ! Program etc available here: www.su.se/department-o...

Taking part in a journal editors' roundtable at #NEHC2025 with @stephanieolsen.bsky.social representing History of Education, The journal of @histedsocuk.bsky.social! #histed

Very much looking forward to this!

Support for historians at mid-career: the Society invites applications for its 'Funded Book Workshop' programme bit.ly/4fYQcRC Workshops enable authors of a 2nd or 3rd monograph to hold a day-long discussion of a book MS with 6 readers of their choosing. Closing date: Friday 11 July #Skystorians

Had a marvellous time in Vienna at the music and history of experience workshop! Thanks so much for the invitation @mariehs.bsky.social

Research Fellow: Voices of Motherhood - working on ‘Voices of Motherhood: A History of Maternal Activism from the Women's Co-operative Guild to Pregnant then Screwed’ a UKRI-funded Future Leaders’ Fellowship (FLF) #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Thanks, Heather, it was my pleasure! Such a great project! @hexhistory.bsky.social

This arrived. Strong recommend from me. Historians of emotion, childhood, pain and medicine take note.

CANADIAN REPORTER: Trump's tone on Canada has shifted. He stopped talking about Canada becoming the 51st state. LEAVITT: I would reject that the president's position on Canada has shifted. Perhaps he just hasn't been asked about it. He believes Canadians would benefit from becoming the 51st state.

Not only did these 31 rich men take out a full page ad in the Globe. The Globe then published a story about these, ehem "business leaders" who took out an ad in their paper. Even though it's not news that rich people want a gov't that will serve their interests www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

@mark-carney.bsky.social called Trump's bluff by bringing together a coalition of the willing - the EU, Japan, and others - who were prepared to dump #USTreasuryBonds & #sinkthedollar if Trump refused to back down. Kier Atkinson explains it all & brings the receipts. substack.com/@kieratkinso...

Poillieve: "I'm not MAGA!" CPC platform: End to the “imposition of woke ideology”! Direct research funding “away from ideology”! .... and prohibit research using embryos for three years 👀

Wonderful to have colleagues from @hexhistory.bsky.social here with us today at #LSBU #EverydayWelfare symposium to share with us their work on history of experiences.

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform: "Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

The Helsinki Collegium is looking for 2–3 trainees to support the HCAS fellows as research assistants. The positions are open to master’s students affiliated with the University of Helsinki. Deadline for applications: 28.4. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

In the second wave of significant staff cuts and course closures, #ucu will be demanding #nocompulsoryredundancies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

So frustrating to realise that I will probably not get my postal ballot in time to vote in the Canadian federal election. I would bet that when the voting rules were created, there were far more efficient postal systems in Canada and Finland. Elections Canada needs to revise the rules pronto.

In the absence of any statement or indication at all that @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social or @mark-carney.bsky.social is even aware that it is Equal 🟰 Pay Day in Canada 🍁, here is our former Prime Minister speaking about it. In a trade war, this should be on politicians’ radar. #cdnpoli #EqualPayDay

Congress has no leg to stand on regarding insider trading. There are either rules or there aren't and they have made it clear, again and again, that there aren't.

Very happy that you are here!

Just published - ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Right on.

Interesting CFP for the Society of Architectural Historians 79th international conference on Redefining Agency in Global Architectural Historiography. Details here: www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...

This probably deserves some attention in English Canada.

Research Council of Finland preparing call for universities to invite foreign researchers to Finland

New book! I explore how voluntary organisations, psychologists, and policymakers have sought to identify "gifted children", and to mobilise these perceivedly hyperintelligent individuals to benefit (various visions of) "the world". . . global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The brand new European Chapter of the History of Emotions, under the auspices of the Society for the History of Emotions, is now on Bluesky. Do check it out! @echoes-she.bsky.social

Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing

Bonus episode! We’re talking about Canadian heroine Mona Parsons, who went from Nova Scotia to the Ziegfield Follies to marrying a millionaire to La Resistance to a prisoner of war camp to escaping by foot and back to Nova Scotia. Because Canadians are not to be messed with!! pod.link/1489560920

The whole Trump 'the liberals are better to deal with' thing (and Polievre's eager response) is a good example of foreign interference in my opinion. It is an obvious attempt to undermine the same liberals (who are running against Trump) going into the election.

The last day @hexhistory.bsky.social Conference. Keynote by Professor Karen McCluskey (Notre Dame, Australia). Opening words by HEX Researcher Godelinde Perk.

@hexhistory.bsky.social Conference day 2. Keynote by professor Stefan Berger. Opening words by former HEX director (2018-2022) Pertti Haapala.