Sorry why is “economics” deemed “career related” in comparison to history?? Both of these topics have direct careers that follow from their study, and both send students into a wide range of future jobs (how many economics graduates become economists, exactly?)

Second World War > World War II > the Guardian's insistence on using all lower-case and writing it as "second world war" 😤

We are recruiting for a job at KCL History! 3-year early career development fellowship in Modern Britain & the World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND023/e...

What are you up to today? Anything interesting? Or are you just at work, and actually it's quite a run-of-the-mill day for you? Either way, we want to hear about it! Today is our annual diary day where we ask people to record their day and send it to us! 🗃 #writing

Six funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

New blog post by Will Sanders on 'Aerial Threat and the City' Sanders discusses his doctoral research on aerial warfare during the Second World War, the importance of #UrbanHistory approaches, and the work of the Lviv Center for Urban History in documenting the invasion of Ukraine

Now that the thesis is free for anyone to read, it feels like a good time to do a little update and say I passed my viva last month! Feeling extremely chuffed to be #PhDone, and even more grateful for all the lovely people who helped me get there ✨

The #UHG2025 Call for Papers is now live! Make sure you follow @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social for updates The Urban Commons: Rights and Citizenship in the City from the Medieval to the Modern 🗓️ 4-5 September 📍 University of Leicester 🔗 urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/c...

2. The Second World War Research Group has collaborated with @moffski.bsky.social (University of Otago) to bring together esteemed scholars from 3 different continents for what promises to be a fascinating discussion of SWW home fronts. 6 Dec UK/Eur/US 7 Dec NZ/Aus Registration is required!

Excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social War, Society and Culture seminar tomorrow evening! If you want to hear more about home-loss in the SWW and how it shaped understandings of wartime citizenship, then you can find all the details here! 👇 www.history.ac.uk/events/a-hea...