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.

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today. Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

Seeking reading material? For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

On behalf of the family, can I extend our thanks to the Faculty, Trustees and Board of @camhistory.bsky.social @lucydelap.bsky.social at the announcement of the Permanent " Childers Chair " of Irish History. My grandfather was incredibly proud to be an alumnus www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

Great to be at the launch of Desi Queers, new intersectional oral history collection, with legendary founders of queer antiracist organisations Naz & Shakti

This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026! Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies. For any questions please contact [email protected]

If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture. www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Join us for 'The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement in historical perspective' a two day conference to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the signing of this momentous document. 🗓️ 13th-14th November 📍 Churchill College 🎫 buff.ly/s3lf071