📢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...

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗"Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940-2010," by Stefan Goebel Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). ‪ doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181

2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the North American Conference on British Studies. As part of our celebration of this important milestone, we are proud to share Celebrating 75, a special collection from the Journal of British Studies. www.nacbs.org/jbs-special-...

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain” by Stephen Brooke Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article out now in JBS! 📗“ ‘A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant’: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938” by @lizegan.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello! Finally kicking off this new account! Happy to share my latest article on correspondence and the 1857 Indian Rebellion, out now with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social open access. Lots on letters, newspapers, colonial anxiety and archives in British India ✉️ 📝📫📰 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The editorial team at JBS is seeking emerging and established scholars to serve as potential book reviewers!

📢New in JBS! 📗“Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death”: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion by Ellen Smith Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗“Cruelty’s Sisters”: Buying Seamen’s Wages in Late Stuart England by Barbara Todd Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗“Cruelty’s Sisters”: Buying Seamen’s Wages in Late Stuart England by Barbara Todd Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New in JBS! 📗“Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death”: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion by Ellen Smith Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Has an archive ever looked this delicious?! In the latest One British Archive, @ellamchawk.bsky.social creates intricately decorated biscuits as a form of close reading. Read more about this unconventional archive in JBS: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #foodhist #skystorians #history

📗New article out now! "Radical Vic: Politics and Performance on the Popular London Stage, ca. 1820–50" by Stephen Ridgwell www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📗New article out now! " 'Cruelty's Sisters': Buying Seamen's Wages in Late Stuart England" by Barbara Todd www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📗New article out now! "Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karen Harvey and Sarah Fox www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“The End of Print: A Roundtable,” is the first JBS publication of 2025 and ushers in a new age for the journal. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tomorrow is the last day to nominate for the 75th JBS special collection! www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-spe...

Reminder to submit your nominations for the 75th anniversary @jbritishstudies.bsky.social special collection by March 1! We aim to showcase a broad range of work from every decade - help us highlight articles that have shaped our field! Link here: www.nacbs.org/jbs-special-...

New issue of JBS out now! Check out Volume 63 Issue 4! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 The Journal of Beatles Studies seeks Editorial Board members! Scholars worldwide are invited to apply. Find out more at: bit.ly/JBS-Call-for-... @livuninews.bsky.social @iaspm-us.bsky.social @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social @jbritishstudies.bsky.social #BeatlesStudies

How might ships change the way we understand migration policy in postwar Britain and its empire? My new article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢 www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Do you have a favorite JBS article? One that has been significant for you and your research? We’re soliciting nominations for a special collection to celebrate 75 years of scholarship! You can nominate up to three articles. Read more at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-spe...

📕New article out now in JBS! “In From the Cold: Notes on Sixteenth-Century English Catholic History” by Freddy Cristobal Dominguez www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

Continuous publication & open access & online-only, oh my! The new year is bringing exciting changes to the Journal of British Studies. Read more about these new developments here. www.nacbs.org/news/news-fr...

My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social! #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

📢Out now with JBS – a new contribution to the “One British Archive” series. Thomas Sojka explores the collections at Shulbrede Priory in West Sussex, England. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📗New article out now in JBS! “One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain by Mara Caden Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📗New article out now in JBS! “An Exact Union of System”: Bute's Cabinet Revolution and Imperial Reform, 1762–63 by Robert Paulett Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Something fun to end our abbreviated work week: my contribution to One British Archive in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social is out now. Featuring a party, inter-generational squabbles, and meditations on studying the "trivial." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...