This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?

“it seems probable that the few historians who will still be able to have meaningful academic careers in, say, ten years’ time will all be able-bodied, childless British citizens from upper-class families.” This is so real. The situation really is this bleak.

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

It’s here! @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social so excited to get reading on my commute, thank you so much!

Can't resist the temptation to offer some historical context on this, also! (Rutherford, Teaching Gender, p. 84)

28 September. More reason than ever to join this ride.

Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was an intellectual icon of the Victorian era ✍️ Alison Stone has created a fantastic #openaccess resource containing many of her diverse writings, inc lots of newly attributed journalism, plus a short biography and comprehensive bibliography. www.juliawedgwood.org

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

If you need a good spot for a field trip or your students want internships we would be delighted to hear from you at the Art Gallery & Museum in Leamington! Lots of exciting and relevant work coming up in our programme over the next few years.

Who knew this would be the summer I would get absolutely obsessed with the history of the Salvation Army? Endlessly fascinating #researchpivot

So grateful to everyone who sent in proposals for this from around the world (we had over 40 amazing proposals sent in). We are working on finalising the programme and will be in touch with everyone asap. 🌟 ✨

Such exciting news! There is going to be a new Gender & Sexuality MA at University of Birmingham led by Professor Mo Moulton and with the expertise of so many different interdisciplinary scholars. Things like this give me hope ♥️

Thank you, Ireland.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

📢Book Event📢 Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972 📅Thursday, Sep 4 ⏰9amPT/12pmET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP at the link!

If you're starting a postgraduate course in History this autumn, please do consider joining the Royal Historical Society bit.ly/41mTuck Postgraduate Membership brings access to research funding, events, publications and networks. You'll join an international community of more than 6500 historians.

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Noch bis zum 1.9. freuen wir uns auf Einreichungen für unseren Workshop #PowerCouples im Mai 2026 an der @unihalle.bsky.social; organisiert gemeinsam mit @zoethomas.bsky.social. Die bisherigen Vorschläge versprechen ein faszinierendes & internationales Programm! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Hello everyone! I'm a UK-based writer: my last book was BLACK CROWN, a bio of Haiti’s revolutionary king and am now working on the lives of polar power couple Ernest & Emily Shackleton. Before that too many Lonely Planet guidebooks to remember (but hence our Moroccan rescue street cat).

My new book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London is part of @waterstones.bsky.social summer promotion this week - 25% off pre-orders by entering SUMMER25 at the checkout. www.waterstones.com/book/songs-o... #WPreorder #history #London #20s30s #sevendials

A few (belated) photographs of a great day with ‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬ delivering proofs of Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London to assorted London bookshops a couple of weeks ago. #sevendials #history

Brilliant new article out by @susiedeedigan.bsky.social in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social & fully OA #Afterlives #womensgrassrootsactivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This was the smoothest production process of all time and I'm grateful to see a venerable women's history journal making space for trans history!

If you love women's history, sign up for the Women's History Network ‪@womenshistnet.bsky.social‬ annual conference. Running over 4-5 Sept, it's free, online, & packed with great panels on activism, archives, the arts and fashion, economic life, sexualities womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

CFP deadline coming up on 1st September for our “Power Couples” workshop next Spring. Do think about submitting a paper (work in progress stuff very welcomed!) We’ve had some wonderful proposals sent in relating to a wide array of different global contexts and methodological approaches - exciting!

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Such an absolute treat to be at @BAVs today on a panel talking about @drvickymills.bsky.social & others short film about the David Parr House, as well as all things nineteenth-century, collaborative labour, processes of making, back pain pills, women as curators of archives & lots more…

Reposting our CfP for the “Power Couples” workshop - now with a new poster advertising the event kindly made for us by designer Marta Bartkowska!

These glass eyes were made by Mollie Surman of Kingston, Surrey in the mid 1900s. Surman was from a family of glassblowers and made her first 'eye' when she was 12. The main eye would be blown from white glass before other colours of glass were added in to make the iris, pupil, and veins.

Wonderful to present on a panel on scrapbooking between the generations alongside @janehamlett.bsky.social & Lucy Brownson, chaired by @zoethomas.bsky.social. Fascinating discussions in the Q and A after. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for a fab conference.

I was only there for the day, chairing the wonderful panel on scrapbooking, but completely agree with this! Thank you so much @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for organising such a great conference. There was such a lovely intellectual and friendly buzz! #shsconf2025

Shortly before banning Palestine Action, British parliamentarians dressed up in the colours of another, famous Direct Action group - The Suffragettes. A group they would certainly have proscribed for their campaigns, which included bombs & vandalism Irony is dead.

Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!

The Women’s History Network Conference is happening in Sep - it is online, FREE, and packed with fascinating sounding papers by archivists, curators, local historians, museum professionals, scholars, etc all about women’s history & archival, library, museum & personal collections.

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

@histparl.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

⏳ Just a few days left to submit your paper for the Women’s History Scotland Conference! If you're working on women's or gender history, don’t miss this chance to share your research. Share widely! 🗓 Deadline: 1st July 📍 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

@emilyvanduyne.bsky.social currently reading your new book on Plath and had to reach out and say - thank you. You’ve fully taken me back into my Plath era but also making me think so much more deeply about embracing our love for different women in history and seeing it as enhancing our research

Finally, finally made it to David Parr’s house in Cambridge today & looking forward to being on a panel talking about Victoria Mill’s new essay film on the house “The man who painted his house: Uncovering a Victorian Art-Workman” @bavs-uk.bsky.social this July

This was such a fascinating episode! Somehow haven’t listened to this amazing history podcast before and am now binge listening to ALL OF IT and will be recommending it to everyone! Hugely recommend.

Loved being on the #BetwixtTheSheets podcast! @k8lister.bsky.social and I had a great conversation about Victorian ideas of race and beauty. Do give it a listen... 👇 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @blackhistoryuk.bsky.social @pbhosu.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk

As it's Explore Your Archive 'Travel' month our #ArchiveOfTheWeek is the records of Nellie Hodgkins, stewardess for the Cunard Shipping Line. The collection includes a fabulous photo album of her time on board various ships travelling the world. ‘Hodgy’ worked for the line for 38 years. #EYATravel

Next up in our Broadsides #pridemonth blog series, Katrina-Eve Nasidlowski Manica examines William Burges’ designs for the Cardiff Castle summer smoking room as a homosocial and queer space. #skystorians #arthistory #pride www.nacbs.org/post/hyacint...

Great news! #1 in Amazon Most Gifted books in Caribbean & West Indian History for my book-Iris deFreitasBrazao(1stFemaleLawyerinCaribbean). I headed this category for a period of time. Thanks to all those that continue to purchase the book &the great reviews!

Now open access - special issue edited by me, Dec 2024 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal..., including @heatherlwellis.bsky.social @erinbeeston.bsky.social

Don’t think I will ever get over the loveliness of when friends send me pictures of my first book in situ at exhibitions and book shops 😭 (this time at the Russell Cotes museum)

I am so proud to see my former UG dissertation student Kelly Bosomworth (now an AHRC funded PhD. student at my old stomping ground @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social) sharing her research on the Six Point Group at the LSE Women’s Library. Do go if you're free 🤩🥰

Exciting #feministhistory talk forthcoming! Kelly Bosomworth from @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social is giving a paper @ Women’s Library, LSE on 4 July about Claire Madden, Irish-born communist librarian who played a central role in the Six Point Group across the early to mid 20th century