It makes me happy that the bronze cow at Medwards has been temporarily granted its heart's content of wild flowers. Cow Says Moo, Nicola Hicks Women's Art Collection

My new short article is now out in no. 3-4, vol. 59 of @pop-jrnl.bsky.social. In the piece, I reflect on the experience of designing & delivering what was *probably* the first module on whiteness in modern British history in a UK university history department. The module is running again in 2026-27.

Thanks to our Chief Custodian Steve Corbett for setting us up with a summer lunch spot while the Faculty is out of the Stirling Building 👏👏 Hoping all will gather in the Sidgwick Lodge garden while the summer weather is here 🔥

📢 Cambridge History Faculty is now on Instagram 🙌 Follow life in the Faculty: research, events and archives to student life, opportunities and application advice. For current students, staff, alumni, prospective applicants or anyone passionate about history. 🔗 direct link in comments ⤵️

Dwarfed by the 1960s cold war bunker, Murray Edwards historians visit the Centre for Material Culture, in what would have been the post nuclear strike seat of government for the East of England - now a listed building

'What’s the value of a History PhD? A view from business' bit.ly/4elv1cW In this new post, Richard Marks charts the skills gained from completing a doctorate. From project design & management to data retrieval & analysis, History PhDs bring capacity and experience that are in demand #Skystorians

Excited to be talking at @ihr.bsky.social Women's History seminar tonight about how disabled women's economic lives can help reframe ideas of enterprise & self employment. Feminist, social justice & environmentalist commitments could be part of visions of enterprise for those at the economic margins

Welcome to Day 2 of #MBS2026! If you’re just joining us, yesterday marked the official launch of the Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social. Check out the website modbritstud.org.uk to find out how the Association will be supporting the study of modern Britain.

#MBS26 is about to begin, and if you want to join today's panels remotely, or Catherine Hall's keynote tomorrow, you can register via this page below. A big welcome to all our hybrid guests www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Ahead of tomorrow's opening day of #MBS26, Caitlin Harvey @uniofhull.bsky.social reflects on placing indigenous people at the foreground of modern British history, our latest #HistoriesFromHere post modbritstud.org.uk/indigenous-h...

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Ahead of next week's #MBS26 conference, our website is now live! Check out our new blog series, Histories from Here, and our plans for prizes and conferences in Modern British Studies modbritstud.org.uk

A week and a half to go until #MBS26 kicks off, hosted by @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social. Our opening plenary panel, Capital and Capitalism, features Erika Rappaport, Tehila Sasson, Kevin O'Sullivan and Jonathan Saha.

A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇

Last chance to join MBS2026 - registration closes on Tuesday and we're nearly full. Join us to debate the 'polycrisis' backdrop to modern Britain and how it shapes contemporary scholarship www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Fascinating example of an attempt to expand the range of TV advertising in late 1950s Britain. This paper model of a TV was made to stand in shop window displays, to reach audiences without TVs, or just cement the branding. You can see it in the wonderful Saffron Walden museum

Thoughtful piece by @historianhelen.bsky.social on retirement as a political struggle of the twentieth century, but one that reduced the space to rethink the work/life interface - an urgent question for today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stitches in time: the artist chronicling the DRC’s blood-soaked history in embroidery

A total delight to be at Libraria bookshop tonight in conversation with @rosavcampbell.bsky.social, celebrating her revolutionary Shere Hite feminography

On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Next month, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Matt Downie (CEO, Crisis), Adam Page (Lincoln) Matt & Jess Turtle (@ourmoh.bsky.social), Peter Wood (Birkbeck), in convo on histories of homelessness. @rshc.bsky.social. May 22nd, 2pm, all welcome www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homelessne...

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Great to see the new combined book prize for a first book in women's history, from @womenshistnet.bsky.social and @whaireland.bsky.social. Entries can be made for research-based books published in 2025, until 31 July 2026. Spread the word! womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

*Conference announcement* Modern Enquiries into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations: International Prosperity and Development 250 Years After Adam Smith. King's College, Cambridge. 5-6 MARCH 2026. Further information & to register via Eventbrite: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/docs/Camb_WO...

Many of you will recognise this precious space, the heart of @camhistory.bsky.social at @cam.ac.uk It's a work in progress...

Great opportunity here for historians of voluntary action and child poverty to have their say, as the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees reviews the government's plans, record and level of ambition on ending child poverty committees.parliament.uk/work/9581/re...

1/2 Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Cambridge today: "the strongest democracies, and the most sustainable societies, are those which embrace the importance of diversity and complexity. Without the humanities this is impossible[...]" www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Great treat to have Prof Alex Walsham lecture on recycling religious materials in the English Reformation ahead of tonight's Medwards historians' dinner

Congrats to Becky Orr, for her prize winning @mbhjournal.bsky.social article, The Growth of the British Private Security Industry and the Ends of Empire, 1960-1974 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/rebecca...

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

When working on historical child sexual abuse, our research team often found local press to be the only archival trace of past allegations & convictions

100th issue and 50th anniversary of History Workshop Journal. A democratising powerhouse. #HWJ

NEW 🙌 'A Companion to Rome c. 400-c. 1050' edited by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner. A new urban history of late antique and early medieval Rome - the result of over seven years' scholarship by 32 contributors from across Europe and America. 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

Great job opportunity here for researcher on HLF project ‘Global Ecology Not Global Economy: Archives of Environmental Resistance’, at the wonderul May Day Rooms maydayrooms.org/we-are-hirin...

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Lucy Delap (@lucydelap.bsky.social) analyses the history of the Labour Party's approach to disability in the context of the government's failed welfare cuts

FREE TO READ: Paul Kirby traces the history of Labour's long-standing feminist ambitions in the international sphere, and laments their apparent death amidst swingeing aid cuts

So pleased to be part of this, reflecting on the fraught place of disability in Labour's history, distant and recent

Great cross Faculty session on classroom innovation today @camhistory.bsky.social including role play, field trips, archives work, object handling. Fun to be off leash and imagining anything is possible

UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy. Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn. Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale. Govt want skilled labour. archive.ph/favYt

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Low key, but definitely Christmas at the UL @theul.bsky.social

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

A pleasure and an honour to be invited to talk about global feminisms at @pku1898.bsky.social History Department. I greatly appreciate the specially-designed poster, featuring Nüshu characters, a woman-created script that gave them private cultural space even when outside of formal education systems

As a review is announced into who counts as disabled, I offer some reflections on disability and UK employment policies over the twentieth century historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Eight people who took action in solidarity with Palestine have been on hunger strike since 2 November in protest at their prolonged pre-trial imprisonment, censorship of communications and alleged mistreatment in custody. Five have now been hospitalised. David Lammy must respond.

Today’s campaigns against the BBC, from Donald Trump to The Daily Telegraph, have a surprisingly long history. In our latest article, David Nowell Smith explores how commercial rivalries inspired the first accusations of left-wing bias at the BBC.

Wes Streeting accuses welfare state disabilty benefits of 'trapping people, not just in poverty, but out of work.' But where is the recognition that disability benefits are often what makes it possible for people with higher living and transport costs to work? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist archivum.org/news/executi...

Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.