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

Call for contributions - Decluttering: Past and Present Perspectives - please do get in touch if you would like to join us for our workshop at Royal Holloway in November …

British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social) Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social

Extended CFP deadline to 15 June 2026: Please do share widely!! "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care" - 1 day conference 4 September 2026, keynote @janehamlett.bsky.social to be held at Wilton's Music Hall [1/9]

📣Statement from the Social History Society about the proposed cuts at the University of Hertfordshire 👉Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/05/15/h...

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

🌟Join the team🌟Archives West Midlands will have three trustee vacancies from September 2026. Get involved with this ambitious, friendly network and help to shape the future direction of #ArchivesWM, supporting #archive services across the West Midlands! Find out more 👇

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Come and study with us @glasgow.ac.uk and @vadundee.bsky.social! An AHRC funded doctoral project is up for grabs looking at the role textiles play in Scotland’s design story. Full details below 👇

Amberspire it out TOMORROW on PC, Mac and steamdeck 🌆 And you can read in this post about how I applied academic historical understandings of micro and macro history to inform the writing and worldbuilding 📖

Join us next Monday for a #Dulwich #LocalHistory talk on the forgotten world of East Dulwich's beer houses and beer shops. At the Crown & Greyhound, Dulwich Village, 7.30-9pm. Tickets in aid of St Christopher's Hospice & the Dulwich Festival. www.tickettailor.com/events/dulwi...

Also worth noting are the very many specialist UK history societies which support researchers of differing backgrounds and career stages. We've a new listing of 100 such organisations and scholarly communities bit.ly/4uu1yUr, with further listings of record societies & BlueSky networks #Skystorians

📢 Applications are now LIVE for the IHR Fellowship! Join our vibrant community of scholars. 🏛️✨ 🗓️ Deadline: 30th June 2026 🔗 Apply here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

On 13 May we visit historians at Aberystwyth University and the National Library of Wales to discuss history in Welsh HE. Our visit ends with a guest lecture by Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL) on: 'Black/Beautiful: Meanings of Blackness in a Biblical Verse'. Join us: online or in-person bit.ly/3R4l0ZA

How to Reach a Broader Audience: An Introduction to Non-Fiction Trade Publishing in 2026. The IHR-Curtis Brown initiative aims to de-mystify the process of writing for broader audiences and navigating the publishing process. FREE online 26 March 2-4pm www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Artists: Come and help turn the museum's exhibition gallery into a whimsical, magical garden for kids! Details here: thackraymuseum.co.uk/about-us/wor...

Nominations for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize are due May 15! The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture. Info and nomination instructions here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄

Call for papers - growing up in the early modern world!

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

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...

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Want to help preserve the county's history? We're recruiting an Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer to our team! Head to the link below for more information. jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...

Prof @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain. Thursdays, 5pm Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term 🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...

My PhD student Mike Power has written a great blog for the @echistsoc.bsky.social... Which very kindly helped to fund this research. The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 was a key moment in so many ways: take a look! ehs.org.uk/legacies-and...

Its out!

Full schedule for this term's 40+ seminars (free and open to the public) here. If you're studying, researching or just interested in History, have a look, and do book. Most seminars can be attended virtually; many are hybrid and you are welcome to join the Institute's London audience in person. 2/2

Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Dan Breeze (@danielbreeze.com), who this week passed his PhD viva with no corrections. His thesis, Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt, was examined by @janehamlett.bsky.social and @msadams.bsky.social.

Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc... I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide. We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians

New on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/john-scurr...

Delighted to have our book reviewed on the @whaireland.bsky.social book review page #history #speirgorm

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/interwar-c...

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 🗓️ 22 May 2026 📍 European University Institute, Florence 👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni 🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉 socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here: photooxford.org/events/const...

and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)! reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!

Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving? Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October! Dates: 7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew 15 Oct @ Senate House, London Apply by 23 Sept: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...

@ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social ‪@dralanagharris.bsky.social‬

And rounding off this section of the journal is '‘Every Description of Domestic Pets Will Here Be Found’: The Rise of the Pet Shop in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century London', by @janehamlett.bsky.social and Rebecca Preston, and available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Huge demonstrations at Heard and McDonald Islands, as the penguins say NO to tariffs:

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥