A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

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...

📢 Applications are now open for our Winter Meeting on 10 January (online)! Deadline: 31 October 2025 Don’t miss the chance to connect, share ideas, and kick off 2026 with fresh inspiration. Apply now 👉 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me... #Skystorians

Congratulations to Professor Lucy Delap, appointed new Chair of Cambridge's History Faculty, to succeed Professor Mary Laven on 1 October 2025. Lucy is Professor of Modern British & Gender History at @cam.ac.uk and a Fellow of Murray Edwards College. @lucydelap.bsky.social @marylaven.bsky.social

ALUMNI EVENT: What if we could bring major figures from the past into conversation with each other? Listen to 'reanimated' former presidents debate on key themes in American policy. ➡️AI Roosevelt vs Reagan Debate 📅26 Sept ⏲️11-12 🏢Sidgwick Site 🔗Book now: web-eur.cvent.com/event/b02398...

NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥 Want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network? Join us for informal events to connect. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

📖Join us for the launch of "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?", the latest book by political scientist and author Professor James Fishkin. 📆Thurs 18 Sept 🕠5:30 - 7PM 📍Provost's Lodge, King’s College Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #Democracy @kingscollege.bsky.social

Earliest extant portrait of an English king: Aethelstan (r. 924–927) with St Cuthbert from the Parker Library copy of Bede's two Lives of St Cuthbert (CCCC MS 183) Prof David Woodman of @camhistory.bsky.social highlights Aethelstan's impact on England's history www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/new...

📢 Congratulations to Fernanda Gallo, Associate Professor in History and Politics (@fernandag.bsky.social), recognised by @ecpr.bsky.social in the prestigious Political Theory Book Prize 2025. Her "stunningly written" book 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought' was awarded an Honourable Mention.

Check out this fascinating new research from King's PhD student Jacob Forward 👇

Something really big happened #OnThisDay 1,100 years ago! 🏰 @davidwoodman45.bsky.social from @robinsoncollege.bsky.social ‬and @camhistory.bsky.social thinks someone in English history deserves far greater fame. Find out why in our full film 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhj...

📢 How one Cambridge historian is harnessing AI to scrutinise over three decades of presidential language - with extraordinary results. Find out how PhD student Jacob Forward is using LLMs to analyse a scale of sources seldom attempted in historical research ⬇️ 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/history...

📢 Groundbreaking new biography of Æthelstan – England’s forgotten first king – marks 1,100 years since his coronation in 925AD. Author and Cambridge historian @davidwoodman45.bsky.social explains why he isn’t better known and why he's campaigning for greater recognition for the overlooked king.

Beautifully illustrated and breathtaking in scope, The First King of England by @davidwoodman45.bsky.social is the most comprehensive, up-to-date biography of Æthelstan available. Out now! Learn more and order your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Athelstan1100

Introducing our new @gatescambridge.bsky.social Scholar: Kar Yern Chin is moving from #Malaysia to join us as a World History MPhil student this year, coinciding with 25th anniversary of the creation of the #GatesCambridge Trust: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/...#Malaysia#GatesCambridge@eilisf.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is back — MPhil and PhD students from all universities are welcome to apply! @camhistory.bsky.social

📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26 Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social Apply by 1 Oct 2025 buff.ly/tQABBo4

📢NEW BOOK: Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge by History PhD student @malikalnasir.bsky.social. Using forgotten records dating back to 1763, Al Nasir exposes the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties.

How @malikalnasir.bsky.social (@camhistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at Catz) is linked to one of the largest slave-owning families in Britain & people they enslaved is revealed in 'Searching For My Slave Roots' & a @theul.bsky.social digital collection: cam.ac.uk/stories/sandbach-tinne-collection

🔎 New research identifies 19th-century welfare cuts as a major cause of rise in early-childhood mortality. The findings - from researchers incl. @camhistory.bsky.social's Prof Simon Szreter - reveal a politically-induced cause of the irregular drop in survival rates during this period. Read more⬇️

Last week we welcomed 18 students to the Faculty for our Sutton Trust Summer School. Thank you to @chuarchives.bsky.social, @theul.bsky.social, the Fitzwilliam Museum, our PhD students, and our student ambassadors for all their help and hard work throughout the week!

Join award-winning BBC journalist Fergal Keane, one of the most respected journalists of our time, for the Lenihan Memorial Lecture. 🔎Register for entry 📆18 Sept, 5:30-7pm 🏢Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lenihan-lecture-fergal-keane-tickets-1544948224729?aff=oddtdtcreator

Now online! Peter David Morgan (@camhistory.bsky.social) explores contestation as a heuristic in "The (non-)Globalisation of ideas Revisited", using the case study of the Peruvian Marxist writer José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for papers ✍️ The future of research in Bible Society collections From 26-27 Sept 2025, The future of research in Bible Society collections conference will bring together scholars and technical experts to learn from each other across disciplines Submit a paper by 15 August buff.ly/yr4Irvi

New #OpenAccess article on 'Colonial World-Making' from @magdalenecollege.bsky.social JRF & @camhistory.bsky.social Leverhulme, @gianamar97.bsky.social ! No need to search for it, read it for free on OUP site 🔎📑

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025 🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/

We've done it: 60 blogs over our 60th Anniversary Year! Check out all 60 #Campop blogs here www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/, and keep your eyes peeled for occasional blogs to follow in the same space! @camunicampop.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

Congratulations to Cambridge History's Annabel Brett (Prof of Political Thought and History) and Prof Jeremy Adelman (Director of the Global History Lab), both made Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social They are among 12 academics from @cam.ac.uk to be elected to the prestigious fellowship.

On Friday, Sept 26th, we'll be marking the retirement of @petermandler.bsky.social as Professor of Modern Cultural History at @camhistory.bsky.social with the launch of 'Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out', published by @uolpress.bsky.social. (Free) tickets available!

We'll be launching a book inspired by Peter's research on 26th September in Cambridge. Sign up for tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/democratis... @camhistory.bsky.social @cammbhw.bsky.social

It's been two very busy (and warm!) days as we welcomed prospective students to the Cambridge Open Days. We hope everyone who attended found the days beneficial and we look forward to receiving their applications later in the year.

➡️ What is it like to study History at Cambridge? ➡️ Why does History matter? ➡️ What are we looking for in potential students? Get an inside look at why History at the University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk stands out ⬇️ 🔎Interested? Here’s how to apply: www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/hist...

✏️ Call for papers Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career Submit by 30 August 2025 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47272...

so chuffed to see this out in the world! I have a piece on 'Race, Sexuality, and South Asian AIDS Activism in Britain, 1990–2000' muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

📢 OUT NOW: 'Transnational HIV/AIDS Activism in Europe, 1980-2000' - a special issue published in the Journal for the History of Sexuality, guest edited by Cambridge historian Dr Somak Biswas (@somakbiswas.bsky.social), and @npapadogian.bsky.social. 🔗 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

📢 JOB ALERT: PhD Studentship for UKRI-funded 5-year project, 'Colombo: Layered Histories in the Global South City', selected for funding by the ERC under its HORIZON programme. Fully funded full-time international studentship for 3 years, starting Jan 2026. 🔗Apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51920/

💥 CRASSH at 25! Be part of our 2026 anniversary programme! Submit your ideas in response to our anniversary open calls for a special annual lecture and a series of funded half-day events on the theme of 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' buff.ly/MdzMVzX

Our @jhistsex.bsky.social special issue on transnational histories of European HIV/AIDS activism is now out! Some wonderful new research coedited by me and @npapadogian.bsky.social. Shout out to our brilliant contributors and journal editors! @camhistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

NEW✨ Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms: Popular Culture in South Asia edited by @somakbiswas.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social, @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social and @churnjeet.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social. #Review by Lobsang Norbu Bhutia #PrideMonth #LGBTQ+

The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply. www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html

Senior Teaching Associate in European Social and Economic History, post-1800 [Temporary Cover], 4 years, full time, linked to @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social and @camhistory.bsky.social Job description and how to apply here: www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/se...

JOB!!! Four-year full-time job in Modern European History (Social/Economic) at Cambridge. By today's standards, it's pretty good! Split between Trinity Hall College and History Faculty. It's also widely defined so do apply, deadline July 27. @camhistory.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...

Job alert! @camhistory.bsky.social and @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social have teamed up to hire a Social and/or Economic Historian of Europe post-1800. translating Cambridge jargon, a full time 4-year post, duties shared between Faculty and college. Closing date: 13 July! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51802/

'Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution' - co-edited by @camhistory.bsky.social's @pramospinto.bsky.social - goes beyond the limits of national history to locate the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena. A new global approach to this still understudied event ⬇️

Always nice to get the opportunity to share my story @camhistory.bsky.social www.hist.cam.ac.uk/graduate-des...

And a great chance to hear our brilliant colleagues @julieb534.bsky.social @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Sujit Sivasundaram speaking about why History matters.

Wondering what it is like to study history at Cambridge, and what we are looking for in potential students? Watch this! www.youtube.com/channel/UC6T... More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...