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 🔥🔥🔥

Gotta love this collection of protest signs down by the Washington Monument. #handsoff2025

Princeton turned out.

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Remember this massive crowd next time you see someone saying Texas deserves fascism or suffering because it's a red state. #HandsOff #Austin #Texas

Chicago!

A quick 🧵of the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Let’s start here with Salt Lake City 😳👏 #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (📸Nate Blouin)

Ladies, gentlemen, distinguished folks of all genders… I give you the motherfucking @dropkickmurphys.com #HandsOffBoston

San Diego 👏 #HandsOff (📸 Tina Crawford)

Just published - ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain'. (1/2) mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Really looking forward to the Disability and Home Symposium at Museum of Home in May - www.museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Very proud of @wromantichistry.bsky.social as she gives a version of her award winning paper on the Victorian interest in Princess Elizabeth Stuart in front of the painting itself at Royal Holloway!

Things are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

I'm delighted to have been invited to be a Keynote speaker for this hybrid conference on the Histories of Disability and Living Spaces, being organised by the Bodies and Material Culture Research Group @rhulhistory.bsky.social. The CFP is open until March 31st; see the quoted post below for details!

CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

Wangari Maathai was brave. As a member of the National Council of Women in Kenya, and as prep for the UN International Conference on Women in 1975, she came up with the idea of planting trees which became the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She features in this exhibition: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

🚨 NEW BLOG POST: The Sceaux Gardens Estate; officially opened by Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 1959. In Ian Nairn's words, 'magical transformation has happened, and an estate has turned into a place' ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/s...

The latest issue of French History is out now, a special issue on 'Rethinking the aristocracy in Capetian France, 987–1328' edited by Daniel Power doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... I think this is our first ever #medieval special issue @frenchhistory.bsky.social ! 👸🤴🦄💂🧑‍🌾🏰🇫🇷

Today @janehamlett.bsky.social hosts the @universityofleeds.bsky.social School of History's Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture... on the rise of pet cats in modern Britain 🐈‍⬛ In our collections... poet James Thomson describes Lisy's heartbreak as she parts with her cat for boarding school in 1725 💔

Really excellent symposium on Disability and Home coming up at QMUL & Museum of Home in May. CFP deadline end of Feb www.centreforstudiesofhome.org.uk/call-for-pap...

Great blog on the first Black circus owner in Britain from Charlotte Bookham @rhulhistory.bsky.social historiansforhistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

Last call for Fantasies of Escape at the RGS-IBG 2025 conference! Deadline for abstracts is Friday.

The @frenchhistory.bsky.social is recruiting another associate editor to join our team, with a preference for an 18th c or revolution specialist. The journal team are a wonderful intellectual community behind loads of recent exciting initiatives 🗃️ frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...

If you're in or near London, consider preparing for this Free IHR training event by visiting the Migration Museum, Lewisham before it's 'All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain' exhibition before it closes 30 March. @migrationmuseum.org . Details: www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/a...

*Thursday 1st May - Save the Date* Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

So lovely to see this now out and free to read and download now 🎉 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

JVC Prize Essay Talk, 'The Afterlife of a Stuart Princess in Victorian Culture ', by Sarah Betts. Join us on Thursday 27th March, 6pm, Royal Holloway Picture Gallery. More info here: jvc.oup.com/events-and-c...

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

The program of this symposium on Gender and Education in Copenhagen April 10 looks great! (incl @kareneandreasen.bsky.social @mariasimonsen.bsky.social et al) www.arbejdermuseet.dk/arrangement/... #histed

Greenhouse #envhum book talks welcomes @mapicone.bsky.social to discuss her book Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina on Monday, 10 February 2025, at 16:00 CET in Norway / 10:00 Eastern in Boston. Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill

Such a privilege to work with @womensinstitute.bsky.social SIGBI (Ireland & England), Irish Country Women's Association (ICA) & WI of Northern Ireland. And with fab core team @annefhlogan.bsky.social @ruthdav.bsky.social @racheljcollett.bsky.social & Anna Muggeridge ❤️. #womensgrassrootsactivism