New MIH Issue: David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social th.bsky.social‬ reconstructs the intellectual history of Milton Friedman's criticism of corporate social responsibility

📢 Calling all #Humanities historical researchers of #AcademicSky, #PhDSky, & more! Discover how you can make your findings more visible to UK policy makers w/ @historylabplus.bsky.social NEXT WEEK! 🗓️ 19 June @ 12:30 Details? 👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 👇

Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...

A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...

Check out the Business History Conference CFP for the 2026 conference to be held in London UK. The theme is "co-creation." Hope to see you there, especially early modernists! thebhc.org/bhc-2026-cal...

The anniversary of Jan 6 is as good a time as any for U.S. business to understand that their glee may be misplaced: @robertofoa and I on "What a Trump Presidency Means for U.S. Business" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/o...

The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Seth Abramson has been warning about Curtis Yarvin and his pernicious influence for a long time. Good to see it getting wider coverage now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

#history scholars interested in corruption and polarization, consider attending or applying to present at the June conference in London on Corruption and Scandal in the #earlymod World, www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/call-... Please spread the word!

William Galston speculates on Trump admin and universities, "Measures reportedly under consideration include ending government loans for graduate students ... linking student aid to institutional policies on diversity, equity and inclusion." #civics #history #skystorians www.wsj.com/opinion/high...

Early modern British historians! The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies has announced its CFP for the conference held in lovely Palo Alto/Stanford University. #history #earlymod #britishstudies ‪@thenacbs.bsky.social‬ pccbs.org/2024/09/12/c...

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

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I never figured out how to “gut” a book & felt it would spoil the surprise to skip to the end. Maybe non-traditional scholars—we who return to learning later in life—over-valorize reading for delight. My advisor laughed at me, but didn’t show me a way to read differently. This essay shows the way!

We've extended the deadline for our short- and long-term fellowships until December 19! More at jcblibrary.org/fellowships/... The image below from the JCB's Collection features a drawing of an artificial flower clock with sunflowers or dahlias. Source: americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...

This is just so dangerous and ridiculous www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...

Award: Yale Center for British Art Residential Awards (Application Deadline: 1/6/25) bit.ly/49ym3X5

In the latest for Broadsides, Anna Roberts examines a snuffbox gifted by George IV on a trip to Scotland, exploring the links between snuffboxes, snuff-taking, and sexuality. Read more! www.nacbs.org/post/the-kin...

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

It’s here… OpenAI’s text to video creator: “Users can generate videos up to 1080p resolution, up to 20 sec long, and in widescreen, vertical or square aspect ratios. You can bring your own assets to extend, remix, and blend…” openai.com/index/sora-i... #ai #history

It’s that special time of year where I tell you about 19th century Christmas cards being so batshit weird! Here’s a podcast I did with Dr Ferren Gipson - expect clowns assaulting cops, polar bears savaging men, giant wasps attacking kids, and more weird animal fun! artuk.org/discover/sto...

Also, did you know there’s an #AHA25 feed? Pin it and you’ll be able to find all the people skeeting about the conference with the hashtags in one spot. (The official hashtag is #AHA25, but it will pick up #AHA2025 too.)

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

After a lightning rebel advance overran Damascus and forced Syrian strongman Bashar Assad to flee, the world is trying to come to understand the latest dramatic rupture in the Middle East and its consequences.

CFP for Britain and the World conference is out ! June 25-27 in Liverpool; check it out: britainandtheworld.org/2025

Here's something fun to brighten your weekend morning (if you have instagram). AI generated cats doing a fashion cat walk 😀 www.instagram.com/reel/DDFn36v...

One thing about DOGE and Musk is that they demonstrate that bureaucrats are political representatives occupying an office of trust and that the lowest hanging fruit when showing breach of trust is self-dealing. As I argue in this paper. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rethinking Global History just published and on open access 😀 for #historians and #earlymod. Edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel. Chapters on time, spatiality, quantification etc. provide a current introduction to the #global history field. www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

#maritime historians! Sarah Palmer's new book "Maritime Metropolis London and its Port, 1780–1914" is out and investigates the "economic importance of international and domestic sea-borne trade and the unique urban geography it created" www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

"Academics in the humanities, especially younger ones, have turned toward community-based work to raise awareness and show the practical implications of their work... sharing one’s research in the humanities with a broader audience can cross the gap between academia and society." bit.ly/4ijusBD

Humanities scholars should pay close attention to reports like this one, which are shifting the conversation about renewing the humanities, and are certainly being put in front of policy-makers. #civics #history

Interested in learning about how Jeremy Bentham fought with the Treasury over his Panopticon scheme? A prepublication edited collection of his writings on the subject, "A Picture of the Treasury," is out, www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-proj... #history #bentham #panopticon #imprisonment #earlymod

The Bentham Project @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social is hosting a conference entitled ‘Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and “A Picture of the Treasury”’, at Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, University College London, on 23 and 24 July 2025. CFP is at shorturl.at/iIsRZ

Law & Humanities scholars: Stanford will host the next Law & Humanities Junior Scholars workshop next June. Open to graduate students and early career scholars. Get incredible feedback on your chapter or article in progress--travel and accommodations provided. Apply! Deadline is December 9.

📗New article out now in JBS! "Shipping the Color Line: Migration and Transport Policy in the British Empire, 1943–51" by @freddyfoks1 Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Advanced doctoral students, early career faculty, and recent J.D.s: Doing work in legal history, broadly defined? Apply for the 2025 Hurst Institute in Legal History, a two week workshop and seminar in June. Deadline 1/15/25. More info: www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...

A starter pack for early modernists... Very incomplete go.bsky.app/CNhYz12 #earlymodern #earlymodernists #earlymodernsky

I don't think that there has been any press coverage of the matter yet, but a recent lawsuit in Texas History has huge implications for academic freedom, free speech more broadly, and disciplinary associations. /1 www.historians.org/perspectives...

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

There are attempts today to try and revive civics education at the university level, jackmillercenter.org and polarization, www.snf.org/en/work/gran...

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Your reminder that the tech bros pushing BS like this don't care about stories, books, or you. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

For constitutional nerds this is a fascinating and, let's face it, brave attempt by @commonslibrary.bsky.social's David Torrance to map the UK constitution researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB... #devolution #Crown #Constitution

Have a look at this screenshot from Pearl. Neat 16th-17th century manuscript hand (from the British Library) and transcription. This is a first-pass and only took a few seconds. Pearl also enables LLMs to correct the transcriptions of other LLMs (and Transkribus).

#skystorians! Transcribing historical script into digital format? My colleague Mark Humphries has released the beta of a program that uses LLMs like ChatGPT to transcribe. For clean, neat #history hands the accuracy is incredible and super fast. generativehistory.substack.com/p/introducin...