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

Have an idea for a themed issue? BJHS Themes (BSHS + Cambridge University Press) invites Guest Editor proposals. 🗓 Deadline: 1 July 2026 🔗 bshs.org.uk/bjhs-themes-...

Really excited by this talk on the 12th June (am one of the experts) Rethinking Lipstick Three Experts - Three Myths - Busted It's free, online and can be booked by registering via chmsn.wufoo.com/forms/qffw9z... Part of the Cosmetic History and Makeup Studies Network Salon programme

Fellowship and Membership applications are welcome at anytime from those working with history, across all career stages and sectors: bit.ly/43bmMLe Our newly elected Fellows teach and research in 16 countries; our new Postgraduate Members are studying in 61 universities in 13 countries 2/2

Melissa Charenko' new book "Climate by Proxy" is shortlisted for the 2026 Pickstone Prize 🌍📚 Check out this in-depth study and explore how scientists reconstruct past and future climates. Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

David Singerman's book "Unrefined" is shortlisted for the 2026 Pickstone Prize 🍬📚 Check out this global history of sugar and capitalism that will make you look at sweets from a different perspective. Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

⏳ Two days left to apply The deadline for the BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants is in two days. Grants of up to £500 are available to support creative public engagement with the history of science, technology, and medicine. Don't forget to submit your proposals!

Yfory, bydd y Gymdeithas yn ymweld â haneswyr @aberuni.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, a'r rhanbarth ehangach. Byddwn yn trafod addysgu ac ymchwil mewn hanes Cymru. Mae'r diwrnod yn dod i ben gyda darlith gyhoeddus gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL) bit.ly/4wkklUd. Croeso i bawb #Skystorians

Tomorrow, the Society visits historians @aberuni.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, and wider region. We're discussing Welsh history, ethics & oral history, and approaches to AI in teaching. The day closes with a public lecture by Prof Miri Rubin (QMUL) bit.ly/4wkklUd. All welcome #Skystorians

Join us next Tuesday, 19 May, at 5:30pm for the first lecture in our summer series given by John Morgan (History at Bristol) on "The Politics of Flooding in Early Modern England". 📅 1/4

Last year, we were delighted to publish Andrew's excellent monograph, 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales' as part of the Society's early career book series bit.ly/3Pzjuyk. 'Waterscapes' is available to read, free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social

Brad Bolman's Lab Dog is shortlisted for the 2026 Pickstone Prize! 🐕📚 Check out this intriguing study tracing what global science owes to American beagles. Learn more: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

Sadiah Qureshi's book "Vanished" is shortlisted for the 2026 Pickstone Prize 💀 📚 Check out this compelling history of extinction and its social, cultural, and political dimensions. Learn more on our website: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Atlas of Scottish History to 1707' Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts: books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

PhD scholarship in History at CCCU closing date 22 May www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... #skystorians

Departmental Lectureship in History of Medicine at University of Oxford Full time fixed term Deadline for applications 27 May

This week we launched the 2026 call the Society's annual Teaching Fellowships. Funds support innovative practice in history teaching in higher education bit.ly/4wbwoDb. Open to UK and international Fellows and Members of the Society. Closing date Friday 10 July 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Save the date for the Cambridge American History Workshop Conference Researchers from across the UK and Ireland will present new work spanning the long 19th century to the late Cold War. 📅 22 May ⏲️ 9am-5pm 🏢 Jesus College, Cambridge Free, open to all 🔗Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cambridge-...

Born #OnThisDay in 1900 was Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. In her doctoral thesis she concluded stars are primarily composed of hydrogen & helium, an idea dismissed by the establishment of the day. It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy."

We're very pleased to announce that the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) on Weds 1 July bit.ly/4eF0DMp. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is now open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

Also published today in Transactions: Peter Gatrell's article 'The "RefugeeWorld": A Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/49nWmtg This is an article version of Peter's 2025 Prothero Lecture given in July last year. Now available free Open Access 1/2 #Skystorians

Linda Andersson Burnett and Bruce Buchan(2025) Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820 is shortlisted for the BSHS Pickstone prize. Get 50% OFF with code MAY26 📚🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #skystorians #Scotland #Edinburgh #enlightenment yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Exciting news from Chicago—The Adler Planetarium has acquired Chesley Bonestell’s business archive! (HT @jasonwdean.com) #histSTM #sciart #astroart #astronomy 🗃️📜🪐🔭🎨

So much is so very wrong with UK Humanities at this time, but here's a ray of haunting illumination. If you missed Professor Sasha Handley's Royal Historical Society lecture at the University of Warwick, you can now catch yourself (& your students, this or next year) up with the video. #Skystorians

Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost an Chúntóra Léarscáilíochta d’Atlas Bhailte Stairiúla na hÉireann, atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Applications are invited for the position of Mapping Assistant for the @ihtaria.bsky.social based at the RIA.

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

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

Alison Bashford's Decoding the Hand is shortlisted for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize! 📚 Check out this history of science, medicine, and magic through the study of the hand. More: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

ARTICLE: Capturing colour on HMS Beagle: #CharlesDarwin and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1821) ~ bit.ly/4tbsHL3 #HPS #histsci @bshsnews.bsky.social

The shortlist for the @bshsnews.bsky.social Pickstone Prize 2026 has been announced: bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr... It was a tough choice, as the committee were presented with such a range of excellent work, but it's a great shortlist! #histSTM 🗃️

I'm quite honored to be included with these other wonderful books (and one of two featuring "proxy" as concept!) @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Lots of great titles on this year's Pickstone Prize shortlist! Congratulations to: * @lindaaburnett.bsky.social * @brucealexb.bsky.social * Alison Bashford * @brad.bolman.com * @melissacharenko.bsky.social * @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social * David Singerman #histSTM #histsci #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Ok am really struggling with current research project and would love some help please. It is next to impossible to search for examples of AI being referenced organically in popular culture without getting loads of apps, pondering articles about its benefits and lots more nonsense. So…

Free to join and open to all UK-based SHAPE postdocs (or equivalent) within 10 years of PhD (with career breaks subtracted out of that calculation). 9 regional hubs across the 4 UK nations (travel to events is paid for, and there is pump-priming funding to apply for if you join). Do check it out!

This is a wonderful opportunity, providing a welcoming academic home and access to outstanding research facilities. As a current fellow I recommend the Fellowship warmly to those thinking of applying. I couldn’t have carried out much of my research this year without it.

Great paper by @manchstm.bsky.social alumna @erinbeeston.bsky.social on the history of Manchester's science museum. #HistSTM #HistSci www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

⏳ Deadline Approaching! If you’re a postgraduate researcher or within five years of your PhD, don't miss the chance to submit an original research essay for the Singer Prize. We’re excited to see the new work emerging in the history of science, technology, and medicine. bshs.org.uk/grants/#sing...

If you're looking for #history networks on BlueSky in 2026, our Starter Pack - recently updated - has details of 150 leading societies, organisations and groups active in the UK and Ireland bit.ly/4ptl0On #Skystorians

My essay review on three new and intriguing edited volumes on history of science and knowledge and urban spaces was just published by BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social Check it out 🔓 and have a look at the books, too - it was a pleassure to read them! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Opportunity | Join our Museums for Climate Justice Steering Group 🌍 Are you passionate about museums tackling the climate crisis? Do you have expertise to help them to be bold and champion change? If so, we want to hear from you: we're recruiting new members to our group. Apply by 31 May 👇

Sarah published her monograph, 'Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England' bit.ly/41Jge65 in 2022 as part of the Society's New Historical Perspectives series with @uolpress.bsky.social. All 26 books in the NHP early career series are published OA and free to read bit.ly/48caQMu #Skystorians 2/2