Alison Fell
@profalisonsfell.bsky.social
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PVC Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Liverpool. WW1, women & war.
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21 days ago
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The Past and other Places
22 days ago
The history and legacy of the British Empire with
@davidolusoga.bsky.social
Coming in November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
🗃️📚📺
#history
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
about 2 months ago
A new book from the Liverpool University Press (
@livunipress.bsky.social
) brings to life the story of research and collecting at the University from the 1880s to the present day. Discover ‘Collecting Stories: The cultural collections of the University of Liverpool’ here ⤵️
#BookSky
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‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive - University of Liverpool News
‘Collecting Stories’: new book brings University of Liverpool collections alive
https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/29/collecting-stories-new-book-brings-university-of-liverpool-collections-alive/
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Belgian Refugees in Rhyl
2 months ago
From October 2025 until June 2026, the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper / Ypres will be hosting the exhibition "Ontheemd" (Displaced) telling the story of First World War Refugees in the museum and around the city. More here:
www.inflandersfields.be/nl/programma...
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Dr Adam Prime
2 months ago
We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025. The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War. Where will our grant take you? See website for full details 👇🏻
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
#Fwwhist
#phdchat
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Elisabeth Piller
2 months ago
The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our
@erc.europa.eu
Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share!
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
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https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=2cab978674ce2b53880bdaeb32c45eee42f7fa29
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Dónal Hassett
3 months ago
🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03.
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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Post-Doctoral Researcher (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of History, Maynooth University | University Vacancies Ireland
https://universityvacancies.com/maynooth-university/post-doctoral-researcher-specified-purpose-contract-department-history-maynooth
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Hetan Shah
3 months ago
Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
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SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shape-involve-and-engage/
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Alison Fell
UEFA Women’s EURO 2025
4 months ago
Happiness in a photo 😁
#WEURO2025
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Alison Fell
Liverpool University Press
4 months ago
Everyone at LUP is deeply saddened by the passing of Dr Ray Costello, Liverpool-born historian, author, and educator. He has left a lasting impact with his important work on Liverpool's Black History, and also with the kind, friendly reputation he was well known for.
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Obituary: Dr Ray Costello | Stories | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-languages-and-cultures/news/stories/title,1522142,en.php
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Alison Fell
British Science Association
6 months ago
Save the date! 🤩 The British Science Festival is coming to Liverpool in partnership with
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
and
@ljmuofficial.bsky.social
. This 10–14 September, join us for FREE events at iconic cultural venues across the city centre, the docks and uni campuses:
ow.ly/vE9n50W0TTa
#BSF25
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UoL HSS PGR
5 months ago
Supported by the Research England Culture Fund, these workshops combine academic expertise with industry knowledge grounded in real-world experience and will be designed specifically for you. Details here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/uol-hss-pgr/...
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
5 months ago
Apropros of nothing, here's a blog and podcast from the archives featuring Dr Sophie Jones and her research on political identities during the American Revolution
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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Dónal Hassett
5 months ago
Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by
@erc.europa.eu
You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely
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Dónal Hassett
5 months ago
Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event.
femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...
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Hetan Shah
6 months ago
‘R&D is a long-term source of prosperity, and an area of UK competitive advantage… but to maximise the impact on UK productivity, innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.’ Me in CityAM ahead of the SR
www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...
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Don't forget the arts when it comes to R&D spending
The UK's creative economy is worth more than our life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined
https://www.cityam.com/dont-forget-the-arts-when-it-comes-to-rd-spending/
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Jean-Charles Geslot
6 months ago
In memoriam
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
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L’historien Pierre Nora est mort
Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2025/06/02/l-historien-pierre-nora-est-mort_6610257_3382.html
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Alison Fell
Irish Studies@LivUni
6 months ago
Our Prof
@downham.bsky.social
will be part of the closing roundtable discussing "Challenges with Community and Public Engagement" at
@ihr.bsky.social
's "Difficult Histories" workshop 🗓️9:30am - 5:30pm, Tuesday 6 June 🧭@sotauol.bsky.social FREE Registration required:
www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrli...
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IHR@Liverpool: Difficult Histories
https://www.history.ac.uk/events/ihrliverpool-difficult-histories
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Alison Fell
The British Academy
6 months ago
Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here:
buff.ly/2x7yE5K
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Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place
6 months ago
🚨 Report Launch: The State of Intergovernmental Relations in England - Towards a New Era of Partnership? 🗓️ Thurs 19 June 2025 🕝 1:30–3:00pm | Online 📍 Register:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...
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Report Launch: The State of Intergovernmental Relations in England
The state of Intergovernmental Relations in England: towards a new era of partnership?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-launch-the-state-of-intergovernmental-relations-in-england-tickets-1376212481579?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Alison Fell
Simon Usherwood
6 months ago
The road to a EU-UK youth mobility scheme is going to be a long one Me, for
@theconversation.com
theconversation.com/the-uk-might...
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The UK might have accepted the idea of youth mobility with the EU, but it’s not happening any time soon
There’s still a very long way to go before anyone gets to use the scheme in practice.
https://theconversation.com/the-uk-might-have-accepted-the-idea-of-youth-mobility-with-the-eu-but-its-not-happening-any-time-soon-256628?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
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Alison Fell
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
6 months ago
Colleagues are invited to meet the Special Collections & Archives team (
@livunisca.bsky.social
) on 27 May to see how Heritage staff and collections can be a key part of grant development & research projects. Elephants not included
www.ticketsource.co.uk/heritage-ins...
@heritageinstitute.bsky.social
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David Morgan-Owen
6 months ago
Sign-up now open for the conference on 'Britain, Conflict & the Sea' that I am running with RMG this September:
www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...
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Britain, Conflict, and the Sea conference
This conference seeks to explore the ways in which modern Britain has been shaped by ideas and practices of maritime war.
https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/national-maritime-museum/britain-conflict-sea-conference
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Alison Fell
Royal Historical Society
6 months ago
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
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Hetan Shah
6 months ago
'The funding from the British Academy was pivotal in unifying our cross-border consortium' We are offering £10k grants to pump prime applications to Horizon Europe. They've been hugely successful so far and we'll be opening the next call later this month
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pivotal...
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"Pivotal" Horizon Europe Pump Priming grants forging successful futures for UK researchers
As the next round of Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration grants prepares to open this month, UK researchers continue to form impactful partnerships with their EU counterparts, with international...
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pivotal-horizon-europe-pump-priming-grants-forging-successful-futures-for-uk-researchers/
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George Severs
6 months ago
🚨Job klaxon🚨 Opportunity for an oral historian interested in the history of swimming, water access and ‘blue spaces’ to work at Newcastle with the wonderful Elizabeth Turk on an interdisciplinary Wellcome project. Full details here
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Assistant/Associate (History)
Research Assistant/Associate (History)
https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Research-AssistantAssociate-%28History%29/1201836101/
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University of Liverpool Library
6 months ago
Major news from our Special Collections and Archives! 📢 Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton
@lisacolton.bsky.social
, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab:
tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd
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Alison Fell
Royal Historical Society
6 months ago
We're very pleased to be attending the 2025
@histassoc.bsky.social
conference in Liverpool today. If you're there too, please visit our stand in the exhibition area to pick up one of our new badges: designed for historians of all kinds who understand the value of the past.
#HAconf25
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Louise Earnshaw
7 months ago
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 Excited to share a
#CfP
for a collaborative special issue exploring empathy during and after the
#FWW
! Especially keen to hear from
#PGRs
&
#ECAs
and non-European perspectives! 🌍 Deadline for Abstracts 15 May 2025. Please do get in touch if you’re interested/have any questions!
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Alison Fell
Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives
7 months ago
Did you know we've recently launched a new map interface on our Gertrude Bell website? The result of a 2 year project it allows users to explore over 10,000 of Bell's letters, diaries and photographs and travels on a map. Find it here
gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/bellmap
#SomethingNew
#Archive30
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Prof. Elaine Chalus
7 months ago
Research Fellow: Voices of Motherhood - working on ‘Voices of Motherhood: A History of Maternal Activism from the Women's Co-operative Guild to Pregnant then Screwed’ a UKRI-funded Future Leaders’ Fellowship (FLF)
#skystorians
🗃️
jobs.worcester.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Great couple of days with really thought provoking papers & picnic in Birmingham sunshine
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7 months ago
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Royal Historical Society
7 months ago
Applications now invited for the Society's 2 new funding programmes supported by the Scouloudi Foundation: > RHS Public History Grants
bit.ly/4bF4zJK
> RHS Panel Grants
bit.ly/4ky23ZP
Both programmes will assist historians working collaboratively, in and outside higher education
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Alison Fell
Royal Historical Society
7 months ago
On Weds 21 May, the Society is delighted to be visiting historians at the Cornwall Campus
@exeter.ac.uk
. The visit includes a public event, 'Cultural Memory and the Two World Wars in Britain' (4.30pm), with Lucy Noakes and Catriona Pennell
bit.ly/4j2po4B
. All welcome to join us
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Cultural Memory and the Two World Wars in Britain
In this public dialogue, historians Lucy Noakes & Catriona Pennell reflect on how the two world wars have shaped cultural memory in Britain.
https://bit.ly/4j2po4B
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Christopher Smith
8 months ago
and yes those are the figures - with those three little boxes at bottom left we support research into everything humans have ever thought, said, designed or performed; what it is to be human, and the conditions that allow us to flourish or falter.
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Chris Kempshall
8 months ago
This week
@fwwsoc.bsky.social
launched the brand new 'President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize'. This award has a cash prize and the opportunity for publication in the Society Journal. 🗃️ You can find the details here:
tinyurl.com/4wyjvxmf
And the cover sheet here:
tinyurl.com/4pxafxdz
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Niels Boender
8 months ago
Thrilled to finally announce the release of our edited collection - Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture. I am incredibly grateful to the brilliant contributors who have established 'Homecoming' as an analytical lense for understanding veterans' return
www.routledge.com/Homecoming-V...
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The Society for the History of War
8 months ago
SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️
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V much looking forward to this
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8 months ago
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Royal Historical Society
8 months ago
Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants
bit.ly/4bF4zJK
Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups.
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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL
8 months ago
On this St Patrick's Day, we'd be remiss not to feature the exciting and impactful work of the Uni's
@irishinstitute.bsky.social
, and all the great colleagues who call it home! 🍀
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Sofya Anisimova
8 months ago
Dear everyone! The CfP for the 2025 conference of
@fwwsoc.bsky.social
is still ongoing. The deadline for proposals is 1 May. This year's conference will take place in Thessaloniki and the theme will be 'Seas' (interpreted as broad as possible)
www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences....
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Sarah Cramsey
8 months ago
Hello blue sky friends! I'm hiring two phd students
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
thanks to my
@erc.europa.eu
Starting Grant "A Century of Care: Early Childcare and Invisible Work in Central and Eastern Europe." Due April 11 to start Sept 1! Please re-post!
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
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PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe
Vacancies: PhD candidates exploring the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe The PhD candidates will become part of a research team exploring a century of early childcare and the i...
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q1/15457-phd-candidates-exploring-the-history-of-early-childcare-in-central-and-eastern-europe
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Alison Fell
Liverpool University Press
9 months ago
🌎 It's
#WorldBookDay
tomorrow, and to celebrate, we're giving you the chance to win a LUP book of your choice! To enter, reply to this tweet with which LUP book you would like to win and why, and follow this account. Enter before 2pm (GMT) on Monday 10th March. Winner announced at 4pm! 📚
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Ruth Slatter
9 months ago
The 2025
@ihr.bsky.social
paid internships are now open for applications! There’s one with
#Reviewsinhistory
& one with
#BBIH
. These internships are brilliant opportunities for people looking to develop careers in history making in all contexts
www.history.ac.uk/funding/ihr-...
Deadline 31.03.25.
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IHR Internships
IHR Internships support new researchers to develop their skills and broaden their experience within and beyond the historical research community.
https://www.history.ac.uk/funding/ihr-internships
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Well informed & thought provoking analysis of current events
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9 months ago
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Elisabeth Piller
9 months ago
The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (
@erc.europa.eu
synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share!
uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
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https://uni-freiburg.de/stellenangebot/00004250/
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Ian Kikuchi
9 months ago
Archival research:
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Claire Eldridge
9 months ago
Historians of France and the Francophone world, please consider bringing your expertise and ideas to the
@frenchhistory.bsky.social
editorial team by applying to be an associate editor. D/line 5 March. Full details here:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/associate-ed...
Very happy to answer questions.
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Military Welfare History Network
9 months ago
Members and Followers, might you have or know of an interested it ideal candidate for this? Contact Tim for more details.
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