📢 Call for Proposals – Deadline: 31 July Interested in HistSTEM & childhood? 🧸 🪀 This Leeds symposium (16–18 Nov) may be for you. Check out the CfP on our website: bshs.org.uk/symposium-gl... We're pleased to support the event through our Small Conference Grant: bshs.org.uk/grants/#smal...

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS ☢️🏛️ What happens when a museum puts nuclear energy on display? Harry Parker examines a controversy over a nuclear-energy gallery at London's Science Museum in the 1980s, revealing how debates about exhibitions, authority and sponsorship shaped museum politics. 🔗👇️

@cdelawalla.bsky.social is seeking historians of science, knowledgeable about antiquity. I wonder whether the #HistSTM hashtag will help. #historyofscience

Warm congratulations to the wonderful Maria Floruțău on winning the @RoyalSociety's Notes and Records biennial Essay Award! Maria's prize-winning essay, "The manul or Pallas's cat" It was praised by the judges as "outstanding" and "beautifully written." More: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

Supporting UK colleagues is part of an existential effort to strengthen social connections and meaning-making strategies in the face of growing inequities and crises. Please support @bspsuk.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social @easst.bsky.social @epsaphilsci.bsky.social @hpspodcast.bsky.social

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 🏛️⚙️ A science museum 'to rival South Kensington'? @erinbeeston.bsky.social examines how post-war Manchester used the history of science and industry to forge civic identity and inspire a new generation of scientists. 🔗 👇️

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

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 🧬🌱 What can flax tell us about Cold War genetics? @ejrichards.bsky.social revisits Alan Durrant's "genotroph" experiments, tracing their roots in Britain's linen industry and re-examining evidence linked to Lysenkoism. 🔗 👇

🎉 The 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize panel also Highly Commended two outstanding books: 📘 @tulaneu.bsky.social Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles 📗 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction Check them out and have a look at our shortlist! 🔗 buff.ly/EtCVxUz

🏆 We're delighted to announce the winner of the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize! Congratulations to David Singerman, whose book Unrefined has been awarded this year's prize! Check out the judging panel's decision and more on our website! 🔗https://bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pickstone-prize-2026-winner/

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 27 July and 5 October. Fellowship is open to those who have made a scholarly research contribution to #history in all sectors (within & beyond higher education) in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

New on the GHIL Podcast! 🎧 In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Fellow Thomas Kaal sit down with Ulrike Lindner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, to talk about the research behind her lecture on epistemic inequalities in the Global South and 1/4

UK historians! Please could you help with this survey about AI use? Open to all doing history professionally (independent, uni-based, etc); it's the work of a lovely friend (& brilliant former colleague at @uophistory.bsky.social), @alexandraortolja.bsky.social: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Members of @royalhistsoc.org currently writing a second or third monograph may be interested in our call for the 2026 Funded Book Workshops bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission. #Skystorians

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 🥔🦠 How did potatoes become a matter of scientific authority? João P. R. Joaquim examines Redcliffe Salaman's efforts to create virus-free seed potatoes in interwar Britain, tracing the rise of plant virology, agricultural regulation and scientific authority. 🔗 👇

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 🇮🇳🔬 How did one vision for a national scientific academy result in three? George Bailey explores the founding of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the intertwined roles of imperialism, nationalism and scientific internationalism in shaping modern Indian science. 🔗 👇

🆕 From the latest issue of BJHS: 💊🌍 Who controlled access to penicillin at the dawn of the Cold War? Daniele Cozzoli examines negotiations between Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union over the knowledge and technology behind penicillin production after the Second World War. 🔗 👇

🆕 The June digital issue of BJHS is out now! This issue explores topics ranging from silk networks and museum politics to Cold War genetics, penicillin diplomacy and the history of science in India. All the articles are Open Access 🔓️ Over the coming weeks, we'll highlight each article in turn

With the ESHS/HSS conference in Edinburgh coming up, check out curiousedinburgh.org, a walking tour app developed by the University of Edinburgh to guide you through the Athens of the North! From the History of Public Health to the Women in STEM Art Trail - there's something for everyone!

On Wednesday, we will be joined by Gerda Heydemann for a lecture organised in collaboration with @earliermiddleages.bsky.social, titled 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'. Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu....

📢 We are seeking papers for our online conference! We welcome proposals from researchers, students, independent scholars, and community historians exploring women’s and gender history in Scotland/ Scottish context 📝 Abstracts due 1 July 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c... Please share!

Do you want to learn to read old documents? Do you need to learn some Latin? The 49th Palaeography Summer School is for you! 👇 Tell all your friends. #palaeography #Skystorians #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Over the next three weeks, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article Prizes. Today: 'Between Feast and Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana’s Long Twentieth Century', by John Nott (UCL Press, 2025) bit.ly/4vGaxCU

Join us at 1pm this Friday for 'Historical Context: Labour in Crisis': bit.ly/4ns6yGZ Specialist historians set the UK's changing political landscape in historical context. With expert insight from @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social and Rohan McWilliam 1/2

Opinion | Our ethical code makes us responsible to our visitors 📋 Debate about treatment of human remains is important, say National Museums NI’s Niamh Baker and Hannah Crowdy.

Just read my own book in full for the first time in years (as prep for something). And you know what? It’s pretty good!!

News | National Railway Museum's Central Hall project receives £3m funding boost Government has also invested £19m in waterfront transformation at National Museums Liverpool

Join us next Wednesday, 10 June, for a lecture in cooperation with the Earlier Middle Ages Seminar (@earliermiddleages.bsky.social), Institute of Historical Research, given by Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin ) on 'The Social Life of Carolingian Exegesis'! 1/5

Online Exhibit 🌅 Women of the Everglades In the early 1900s, three influential Florida women, inspired by three different causes, laid the foundation for Everglades conservation - May Mann Jennings, Minnie Moore-Willson, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. 🔗 www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...

Pleased to be part of this panel on the "Ecologies of Restitution: Relational and More-than-Human Approaches to Repair into the translocal lives of plants". This is part of 'Heritage Week', organised by our partner's @unibonn.bsky.social Global Heritage Lab. globalheritagelab.org/event/herita...

Thrilled to be on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning at 9am to discuss George Forster and my new book "The Traveller".

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants Having an idea for sharing the history of science with wider audiences? BSHS offers grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects. Next deadline: Sep 18, 2026 bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

📚 Book Launch: Healthy Scepticism by Caitjan Gainty Join #HistMed Caitjan Gainty at King’s College London on Wednesday, 17 June (5–7pm) for the launch of her new book exploring the long history of medical distrust, uncertainty, and scepticism. Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

How do we enhance the engagement of history students in their degree programmes? A new article - 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments' - bit.ly/4viEKru, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow offers discipline-specific proposals. Latest Open Access article in 'Transactions' 1/2

1 week left to apply! Postdoc on history of educational experiences linked to migration of Asian immigrants within East and Southeast #Asia over longue durée + contemporary knowledge dynamics of Asian diasporas in Europe. #migration #DisasterSTS #EconomicMobility #gender www.mpg.de/26445995/one...

Join us on 3rd October for a one-day conference exploring the maritime and local history of Watchet and West Somerset. This conference is in partnership with the South West Maritime History Society and the Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society; find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-m...

We are stronger, and better historians, together. Historical societies abound in the UK, and we've listed 150 with BlueSky accounts in this updated Starter Pack. go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Other societies appear on a new listing of subject societies on the RHS website bit.ly/4ebwP9r #Skystorians

For early career historians we also recommend: > History Lab bit.ly/4u7JNtM > History Lab+ bit.ly/4uGUrZB > @britishacademy.bsky.social's ECR network programme: bit.ly/4ebfWf5 For local history societies, try @balhnews.bsky.social's regional guide bit.ly/4dZn1hM #Skystorians

For the arts and humanities more widely, the Arts and Humanities Alliance (@artsandhums.bsky.social) is a network of 50+ national disciplinary associations, including @royalhistsoc.org and other history groups: www.artsandhumanitiesalliance.org #Skystorians

Linda Andersson Burnett's & Bruce Buchan's book "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment" is shortlisted for the 2026 Pickstone Prize 📚 Check out this powerful study of a global network of colonial travelers and natural historians! Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

@caitjan.bsky.social’s Healthy Scepticism will be published this June, and we are hosting a party! 🥳🥂 📌 17 June, 17.00-19.00, Strand Campus, London. Register via Eventbrite in the link below. @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm

MA Conference 2026 after dark: revealing our party venues 🌃 What happens at conference when the sun goes down? Well, we'll gather at some of Birmingham's top cultural sites to mingle, unwind and explore ✨

New to Latin and old handwriting (Palaeography?) in your archival work/family history/historical project? Rusty with these skills or looking to improve them? Not sure how to get started properly? Then this series of summer schools in Birmingham are for you. #Skystorians

Nice, long article on the Clockworks Museum, focused on the history of electrical timekeeping #histSTM 📜 From when time went electric to the emergence of quartz clocks share.google/7XYmkerxgbkq...

The Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2

Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/

The UK annual Archive Sector Survey is now open! Take part by 29 May 2026 and help us gather evidence that will support archives to advocate for their social and economic value: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec... (1/4)

The theme of this year's #InternationalMuseumDay is Museums Uniting a Divided World. We're focusing on how museums can act as bridges across cultural, social and geopolitical divides, fostering dialogue, understanding, inclusion and peace 🕊️ @icomuk.bsky.social #IMD2026

New in Transactions: 'Public Opinion and Governance: State formation in Savoy Following the French Annexation (1860–1861)', by Marie-Cecile Thoral bit.ly/4wA2R6n How did Napoleon III use political communication to win the 'hearts and minds' of Savoyards in the wake of annexation? #Skystorians 1/2

Happening tomorrow! 📆 Join us for a lecture by John Morgan (Bristol) on 'The Politics of Flooding in Early Modern England'. Sign up here to attend in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #medievalmonday #environmentalhistory