It’s feeling very real!!! Publication date: June 16, 2026. @pennpress.bsky.social

"Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents".The Forty-Eighth Annual Susman Conference, March 27, 2026, Rutgers University – New Brunswick Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

#OpenAccess! CAPTURING COMMEMORATION: Reflections on the First World War Centenary in Britain by Noakes, Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social, Hanna, Hughes @lornamhughes.bsky.social, Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social & Wallis has now been published! Find out more : bit.ly/47FiHAL #WWIStudies

We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8). #ReadUP #BookSky

This month is UK Disability History Month. You can learn more about the history of disability in the UK and Ireland through the Bibliography of British and Irish History's (BBIH) free reading list, which includes more than 450 recent publications in the history of disability buff.ly/OK5HSbu

Both “Faithful Fighters” and “Losing Hearts and Minds” are just $12 each during SUP’s site-wide sale, ending December 8th! Punish your loved ones with reading this holiday season! 😉 www.sup.org/books/histor...

Spotted Losing Hearts and Minds at NACBS! 😺 @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library: Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST) 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...

Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov. There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...

My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN is out today!

30% off tons of great works (and Faithful Fighters)!

Great opportunity for graduate students working on South Asian Studies projects! Housing provided for out of state students: “Historicity, Futurity and Materiality in South Asia” at UT: liberalarts.utexas.edu/southasia/ev... @uclacisa.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @historians.org

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

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...

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe. I'm horrified. I'm angry. A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This call for applications for a First Book Workshop from @toynbeeprize.bsky.social looks like a terrific opportunity for early-career scholars working on "global, imperial, comparative, world, or transnational history": toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f.... Deadline is November 2, 2025.

Just a reminder that the deadline of this Friday is fast approaching for two postdoc positions on the COLVET project, a 23 month position on veterans in British colonies in Southern and/or Eastern Africa and an 18 month positon on veterans among Indigenous/colonized populations in the USA.

Heads up for all and @womenknowhistory.bsky.social — great opportunity for a broadly defined naval/maritime historian of US/Asia-Pacific! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69130/u...

Video and audio recordings of last week's RHS Lecture by Prof. Yasmin Khan - 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' - are now available: bit.ly/4pw5B15 Yasmin's is one of many lectures available to watch or listen to again via our Events Archive bit.ly/3IaWtOG #Skystorians

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period since 1800. www.nacbs.org/news/stansky... @uchicagopress.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 John Ben Snow Book Prize for best book in British Studies dealing with the period prior to 1800. www.nacbs.org/news/snow-bo... @yalepress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @melkatrey.bsky.social @asheeshksi.bsky.social

We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025. The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War. Where will our grant take you? See website for full details 👇🏻 www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/... #Fwwhist #phdchat

@stanfordpress.bsky.social is running an end-of-summer sale— Huge discounts for Losing Hearts and Minds ($16) and Faithful Fighters ($15) until Sept 8. www.sup.org/books/histor...

If any film, documentary of video game types need a historical monster consultant, know that I am here. #sff

I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...

Londoners, my friend Jack's trans history walking tours have two more dates: events.humanitix.com/trans-histor... I don't shill for friends indiscriminately - if you're keen on accessible, entertaining, moving, locally rooted & politically engaged trans history, I would genuinely recommend this!

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...

Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature 'Intimate Subjects. Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age', bit.ly/43LJkDI by Simeon Koole 1/2

Feels obviously insane to post this today Amidst Everything, but today is Teaching Gender's official print publication day. You can read more about the book here global.oup.com/academic/pro..., and there is a discount code you can use to purchase it if e.g. you have an academic research allowance.

If anyone happens to be in North Texas tonight or tomorrow, come join us for our fantastic speaker series on “War and Violence in World History”

This week @fwwsoc.bsky.social launched the brand new 'President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize'. This award has a cash prize and the opportunity for publication in the Society Journal. 🗃️ You can find the details here: tinyurl.com/4wyjvxmf And the cover sheet here: tinyurl.com/4pxafxdz

Taylor M. Moore traces the scientific afterlife of the mummified body of Queen Henhenit in “Living Fossils,” highlighting the implications of the use of women’s bodies in the practice of medicine and the production of race science in modern Egypt. 🗃️

Another new book review published by @jich.bsky.social Kate Imy's 'Losing Hearts and Minds: Race, War, and Empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915–1960', reviewed by Zhen Hao Liew www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Day #21 of BHM Mary Jane Seacole (1805-1881) was a Black woman of Scottish, British, and Jamaican heritage who was a nurse and businesswoman. Seacole was born to a community of free Black people in Jamaica. 1/

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at [email protected] by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.

The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...

Did you miss seeing us in person at #AHA25? You can still browse our books and get the conference discount on our virtual exhibit. @historians.org #AHA2025

What’s better than seeing your @stanfordpress.bsky.social book on the banner @historians.org ? Seeing it with your PhD advisor, who came to your panel. 🥹 @ruhistorydept.bsky.social reunions are the best reunions. 😻

A pleasure to meet @kateimy.bsky.social this morning, celebrating her recent book LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. www.sup.org/books/histor.... Currently available for 30% off with our conference discount S25AHA

I will be giving all these books away on Monday. That’s right, FREE BOOKS AT #AHA25. If you are a grad student, postdoc, adjunct, independent scholar, or otherwise contingent and/or precariously employed, you can reserve a book NOW for pickup MONDAY.

Excited to see LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS featured so prominently on the @stanfordpress.bsky.social ad for the @historians.org conference! (Will I be stealing a booth banner? 👀) Get the conference discount with code S24XAHA: www.sup.org/books/histor...

Happy to say that my former PhD student, Titas Chakraborty, will publish her first book, *Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work*, with @ucpress.bsky.social in March 2025. Check out this brilliant 18c global labor history! www.ucpress.edu/books/empire...

20th c. international and global historians: If you will be at the AHA and have a book project to pitch for our series, our sponsoring editor @dgershenowitz.bsky.social will be there and is eager to set up meetings! Her email address is on our series webpage: uncpress.org/series/inter...

Hi all, I've made a starter park of historians of the body - please shout if you'd like to be added/removed. I was in a rush so haven't added everyone yet! go.bsky.app/T5KnJ51 🗃️

There's been some confusion Over rooming here at Shiz.

Want a free book on the history of the body under colonialism in Asia? Thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation, BODIES BEYOND BINARIES IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ASIA is available FREE OPEN ACCESS! Check it out! 😺 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Want a free book on the history of the body under colonialism in Asia? Thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation, BODIES BEYOND BINARIES IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ASIA is available FREE OPEN ACCESS! Check it out! 😺 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...