Fantastic week at Western Cape Archives in Cape Town. Some great little finds here (researching POWs, convicts and ships) - and lovely people!

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland CfP for their annual conference deadline 30 September 2025!

In London on Tuesday 2 September? Interested about the lives of people, ships, and spaces connected to the Thames? Then come join us at London Museum Docklands and hear about the secret lives of the "low water": www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sec...

Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

34 degrees at the Huntington Library today..! Great day scoping the collections ☀️☀️☀️

The afterlives of the prison: a painted button emblazoned with the Paris coat of arms and the words "stone from the Bastille" (with a spelling mistake) made out of stone taken from the demolished Bastille prison, c.1790 (Musée Carnavalet) 🗃️

Letterhead from All the Year Round, Charles Dickens's weekly journal, 1859. So exciting! #HuntingtonLibrary

Home for the next 6 weeks - my first day at the #HuntingtonLibrary as an #AHRC International Fellow. Enjoying #Pasadena palm trees, and the incredible San Gabriel Mountains. Foodie and sightseeing recommendations welcome..!

Want academic seminars about India and imperial defence? And a tour of Knebworth House, ancestral home of viceroy Lord Lytton? All in one day with lunch thrown in? Then look no further: knebworthhouse.com/Event/public...

Calling all Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers - Join us for IHR@Liverpool on 9 June 2025. A one-day workshop on the subject of Difficult Histories. Travel bursaries available. www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...

Checking out some cheery library books @liverpooluni.bsky.social this morning..

Dartmoor prison is a granite fortress built 1806-9 to house French prisoners of the Napleonic wars. MPs first began discussing high radon levels there in 1987. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social

35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

I started 2025 with a month-long stay at the wonderful @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social as a Leuven Centre for Irish Studies visiting fellow - researching the lives and experiences of Irish convicts in Bermuda - amazing town, tried every cake imaginable

Hello Bluesky! I am VERY late to the party but looking forward to reconnecting and hearing about everyone's research and adventures...!

📣 now out in paperback 📚 Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Personal and Political Value of the Miniature, co-edited by yours truly and the amazing Beth Fowkes Tobin from @cambridgeup.bsky.social