very excited I get to work on the "Inn of the Indian Ocean" project next year! @uvahumanities.bsky.social www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

One of the pleasures of working at History Workshop is getting to work on times and places far outside your original field. I'd never considered the history of the arrest before, so it was fascinating to help edit this piece!

🚨📘 Book Alert! 📘🚨 My first monograph, 'A Science for Everyday Life' is now available for pre-order! Published by @upittpress.bsky.social & released mid-December 2026. US/North America: upittpress.org/books/978082... UK/Europe: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Glad I got to review Ho-fung Hung's fascinating new book, The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear, for @historytoday.com.

In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again. ✍️ Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh reviews the recent #history book www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Early career researchers are the lifeblood of any discipline. Their entrance into academia is at the heart of its renewal. What happens when those arteries are blocked? That's one of the questions the British Academy's SHAPE Observatory is asking. 1/3

We have the following 3 calls for research funding for RHS Fellows & Members: bit.ly/4wwSMGu > 'Open Research Grants', for mid & later career historians > 'Early Career Fellowship Grants', for postdocs > Martin Lynn Scholarship', for PhD research in African history Closing 4 September #Skystorians

Last lecture by our very own Alex Aylward on Unbecoming Science and where do sciences go? #ESHS-HSS

We already reached our second topic this evening on Sovereign Flowers and Georg Christian Oeder in this joined Early-Career Lecture #ESHS-HSS #ESHS #HSS

The 2026 ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting is officially open: three Early Career Speakers take the floor tonight!

Hello everyone using #HSS2026 and #ESHS2026 hashtags. Remember that it's a joint meeting! We're using #ESHS-HSS

#Africans in #Ireland africansinireland.com

Question for #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks people!📜 Leon Voet claims 16,263 parchment sheets for thirteen copies of Plantin's eight-volume Polyglot bible required about 8,000 sheep to be slaughtered. Does this imply that a single sheep skin yielded two parchment sheets? /1

Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

We were delighted to learn that Past & Present author @gianamar97.bsky.social has won the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026 for his research published in Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) pastandpresent.org.uk/past-present...

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career Article prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS Early Career Article Prize: Dr Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh and Dr Stephanie Wanga 1/4 #Skystorians

British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.

📚 #Fridayreads #EarlyModern #TradeHistory #GlobalHistory

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

Congratulations to Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @kiranmehta.bsky.social and @gianamar97.bsky.social on winning the @royalhistsoc.org 2026 First Book Prize and Early Career Article Prize. royalhistsoc.org/winners-of-t...

What are our universities for? This needs to be answered given the risks we all face in this more turbulent & dangerous world. It is a real disappointment that university managers behave as if the answer can only be found in a spreadsheet. www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...

Gianamar and Stephanie were presented with their prizes by the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, as part of the Prothero Lecture and Summer Party on the evening of Weds 1 July. Our congratulations to them both, and all those shortlisted for the 2026 Early Career Article Prize bit.ly/4ayG69t 4/4

Stephanie's article, ‘Rereading Ujamaa, rethinking freedom’, bit.ly/4vHlvZ3 is described by the judges as 'an outstanding article which provides a bold and highly original re-assessment ... intellectually ambitious and methodologically innovative.' @stephaniewanga.bsky.social 3/4

Gianamar's article, ‘Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope‘, bit.ly/4vcU20i is described by the judges as 'a brilliant article that fundamentally challenges our understanding of early modern geography and knowledge production.' @gianamar97.bsky.social 2/4

Absolutely flattered by this, and by the judges’ generous citation

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

Jesuit mathematician & astronomer, Christoph Grienberger, inventor of the heliotropic telescope, was born 2 July 1561 #histsci #histtech thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/t...

What's troubling you, little half Edvard Munch-styled half Super Mario inspired sea monster, screaming in a sixteenth-century map of the Indian Ocean? Tell us, how are you doing, little fella?

A full list of shortlisted articles for the 2026 prize is available here: bit.ly/3QsFxXX The winners of this year's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes will be announced tomorrow evening at the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, and circulated on BlueSky on Thursday 2/2

Today we finish our preview of the 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize. Today: 'Challenging the overseer: enslaved women’s violent resistance in the US antebellum South', by Erin Shearer bit.ly/4aYCH3U in 'American Nineteenth Century History' #Skystorians 1/2

'When I last wrote a diary like this in 2019, I felt a gnawing anxiety about global heating that never quite left me. But now my feeling is one of outright fury.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Naomi Klein is always excellent.

This week we complete our review of the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes. Today: 'The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240' by John Latham-Sprinkle (Cambridge University Press) bit.ly/444kOgl 1/2 #Skystorians'

Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians

We are pleased to announce the next installment of our ”Environment, Society, and Justice—Global Perspectives” international colloquium! Daniel Dumas, Ursula Koy, Jennifer Mack, and Eduardo Melero Alonso will present their research topics. More info: tinyurl.com/yypjuc62 #envhum #envhist

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

You already see it in how people have clocked out. Universities used to be run on an inordinate amount of goodwill. Yes, the unhealthy kind that meant people bent over backwards in things they should be properly remunerated for, but also more broadly in collegiality and turning up. Eroded now.

Over the next week, we feature the 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize. Today: 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park' by Matthew Hurst, bit.ly/4g7J60e published in the 'Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History' #Skystorians 1/2

Over the coming week, we feature the 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book Prize. Today: 'Slave Trading in the Early Middle Ages: Long-distance Connections in Northern and East Central Europe', bit.ly/3QpqkHf by Janel M. Fontaine (Manchester University Press) 1/2 #Skystorians

Great new job as Professor of Early Modern Irish History at Dublin City University advertised today. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

UK-based early career historian in need of up to £2,000 to complete a project? Deadline for the Royal Historical Society's scheme is 4 September: royalhistorical.smapply.io/prog/early_c...

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

📣Less than a week to go until our 50th anniversary conference! Our full programme is out now, please find it here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

Heat is a feminist issue. Heat is a disability rights issue. Heat is definitely a class issue. Heat is also definitely experienced by racialized minorities in extreme ways. In India, heat is a caste issue. Extreme heat reveals the fissures in societies and who we are willing to ‘let die’

Seems that in the first 10 years of slavery in the English Caribbean, Indigenous and black slaves were purchased not always for life but through a contractual period similar to indentured servants. That disappeared with a 1636 decree in Barbados that all 'Negroes and Indians' would serve for life.

It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.

Over the next week, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today: 'Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom' by Stephanie Wanga, bit.ly/4uPPhJN published in 'Development and Change' #Skystorians 1/2

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3