Thrilled to come back from hols to see this is out! The issue of welfare fraud is something I care deeply about and article on NI/ Nth Brit shows the application of anti-fraud policies varied regionally, impacting the most vulnerable women. Thanks to AHRC funding and to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social

📢New article in JBS! 📗"False Desertion and Fancy Men: Women and Welfare Fraud, 1945–70," by Charlotte Wildman Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

CFP for VISAWUS 2026 online series on teaching. Please apply and share! TIME FOE TEACHING! A roundtable series to address the crisis in teaching Victorian Studies. Literary scholars, historians, art historians please join us! #VictorianStudies #19thCentury #AcademicSky

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Arguing with Catholic Women: Devotion, Polemic, and Female Agency in the Theological Crisis of the 1620s," by Kathryn Marshalek Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain's Homegrown Agrarian Fascism," by Kian Aspinall Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Rethinking Periodization, Priorities, and Liberalism in British Queer History," by Charles Upchurch Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"I Am Not Anti Black Music But...": Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain by Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around! Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Fancy a holiday? My latest in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, featuring two delightful books on Britons abroad.

📢Now available in JBS! 📗What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of JS Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor by Michelle Tusan This article was presented as the Presidential Address at NACBS 2025 in Montreal. Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season. Find more information at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Rethinking the Legitimacy of British Botanizing in Late Qing China (1840–1912)" by Di Lu Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great article with practical tips on using graveyards as a historical source. Graveyards are an overlooked source for mining history and I've intermittently intended to record the graves in the long-closed cemetery in the old mine township in Kitwe. Someone should do this.

Interesting article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social about missionary periodicals. When I first joined @rs4vp.org I was going to do something with the Bible Society’s *Monthly Register*. Someone still should. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello, hello - this should be quite interesting

📢New piece in JBS series! The One British Archive series explores little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. Authors present the creative ways in which sources are being used, archived, and interpreted by diverse scholars in the twenty-first century.

📢New in JBS! 📗“Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21” by John C. Mitcham Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran," by Eamonn O'Keefe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"'Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System'? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain" by Hannah Young Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s" by Kate Tilson Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran," by Eamonn O'Keefe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join us today at noon ET for a workshop with JBS editors for graduate students and ECRs on reviewing article manuscripts for journals and what to do when you receive these reviews. Free and open to all but registration required Rsvp here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Surprised and delighted today to find a review (by Courtney Smith) in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social of my *Eliza Orme’s Ambitions*. @openbookpublish.bsky.social

There's a lot going on the world, but I was glad to see an article of mine published in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Read about Shadrack Byfield, an English War of 1812 veteran who buried his own arm, designed a custom prosthesis, and wrote multiple memoirs: doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Join us today at 4pm GMT!

@jbritishstudies.bsky.social wants to hear from UK-based scholars networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #Skystorians

We are delighted to be co-sponsoring this event alongside @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org. Details and sign-up information is below!

“Scholars and students across fields will find in Choudhury’s work new insights into the sensibilities and preoccupations of texts we thought we knew…” Many thanks to Madeleine Seys for her kind review of "Textile Orientalisms" in the Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social

📢Upcoming Event! 💻JBS Listening Session for UK-based Scholars 📅January 8 ⏰4pm GMT/ 11am EST/ 9am MST/ 8am PST Info and RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

📢New in JBS! 📗"Rethinking the Language of Chartism," by Peter Gurney Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Call for Contributions 📢 The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”

New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

📢New in JBS! 📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎥ICYMI A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntne...

Join us for our second virtual discussion of "How I Wrote This". Matthew Worley will discuss his experience writing and revising "Past! Future! In Extreme!: Looking for Meaning in the 'New Romantics,' 1978-1982." 📅September 19 ⏰11am ET/ 4pm BST RSVP below www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

⬇️ So excited that this is out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social & OPEN ACCESS! Exhibition "trophies" (a design style, not what the winner got!) have become invisible to most people who study the great world’s fairs. This is not surprising, since few people have studied them!

Carolyn Steedman’s recent article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, “Buying People is Wrong,” ended with an imagined coda from the kitchen. In this piece for Broadsides, Steedman explores the potential real-life inspirations for her servant’s voice. Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...

📢New in JBS! 📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢The latest batch of JBS book reviews is out now! Check out the full list at the link below. www.nacbs.org/news/latest-...

Just opened the @royalhistsoc.org newsletter & invite to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Sept seminar "How I Wrote This" Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes

📢New in JBS! 📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.

📢New in JBS! In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective. 📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.” Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

📢JBS Hiring Book Reviews Editorial Assistants 📢 The Book Reviews Team at the Journal of British Studies seeks to hire two editorial assistants - one in Medieval Britain and one in post-1800 Britain. Read more about the positions and application here: www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-boo...

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...