So excited to read this new article from Rochelle Rowe in the latest edition of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #history #BlackBritishHistory #womenshistory

The Library Company of Philadelphia announces the donation of a collection of more than 1500 volumes on the history of sexuality. 📜 (via John Overholt on Mastodon) librarycompany.org/2025/01/31/a...

New article on smell and gender identity by G. Easterbrook-Smith: "An occularcentric approach thus far may have led to a neglect of the role which smell plays as part of the multi-sensory experience of transness" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fascinating job going at University of Sussex, using Mass Observation Archive

📢 Please share widely 📢: CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War Guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social #histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch. This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service. Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

The next Centre for Midlands History & Cultures organised by the Friends will be online 🗓️Thurs 20 Feb 🕰️7:00-8:00pm Join researcher Jen Dixon to learn more about 'Variety & Choice: Birmingham Buttons and New Modes of making' All welcome! #18thCentury

Please share widely: CFP for the Spring 2025 edition of the Recipes Project on Food and War, guest edited by @vanesamiseres.bsky.social. #histfood #histwar #food #foodstudies networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Send us your pitch for this exciting and timely issue on food and war, open to all periods and disciplines 😍 CfP: Food and War: Recipes of Survival, Resistance, and Power open.substack.com/pub/therecip...

We now invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise high quality scholarship published in 2024. Full details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article for these prizes, is available here: bit.ly/4i9180F 1/3

Buy all banned books as presents

115 years ago today, thousands of garment workers, mostly women, went on a strike known as the "uprising of the 20,000." These women fought for both "Bread and Roses"-for their right to enjoy life. That strike not only turned women into a political power but also the ILGWU into a powerful union. 🗃️

Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History- Lancaster University - History #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...

Visiting Research Fellowships at Glasgow University Library: incredible opportunity for my friends to come hang out with me!! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Time for proper introductions! My name is Jessica P. Clark, but please— call me Jess. I’m a cultural historian of modern Britain, focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. brocku.ca/humanities/h...

Hey #Medievalsky, #PCRS, and #Shakerace I have a book cover! From Penn's #RaceB4Race series! Designed by Brad Foltz. I am so freaking excited I could scream!

How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half. @camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️ www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...

Welcome to the Migration Museum, now on Bluesky. If you'd like to be part of their plans to create a permanent museum of migration stories (in the City of London, with regional pop-up hubs), do give them a follow. Or visit their 'All Our Stories' exhibition (& Migrant Makers' Market) in Lewisham.

Disability activist Betty Vernall-Jones, Clapham, London, 1938: 'Solidarity is essential. ... [We aim] to make this movement a national campaign - not for charity, but for the common rights of citizens; the right to consideration, and the right to work.’ #disabilityhistory #disabilityhistorymonth

Shoutout to the university press editor who just added a TON of books from their list to ours! If you're a UP editor in history/related fields, why not do the same? contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKR073/s... Thrilled that this opportunity at Strathclyde has been made possible through the Charlotte Lythe bequest.

Reminder: we prioritize pitches from people who've completed postgraduate work in history (or closely related fields) and who don't have tenure track employment. That means adjuncts and VAPs and postdocs, but also archivists, teachers, public historians, AND folks who don't do history as Their Job.

👋 WELCOME New Followers! 👋 We're a @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project at the @universityofexeter.bsky.social and the UK National Archives. We're working with the public to transcribe ✍️25,000 English wills 📜 dating from 1540-1790 You can find out more here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Really important thread on how Nova Scotia benefitted from plantation slavery - elsewhere. (Lit in #cdnhist emphasizes that yes, there were enslaved people in Canada but slavery was different in the colonies of British North America. This work shifts our attention and focus in crucial ways).

Hi everyone! I'm a historian of modern Britain who's finishing up a book on smell, modernity, and ideas about "Britishness" between 1880-1920. I'm so excited to hear about all the wonderful things people are up to. As for me, I...ahem, *we* (barely) passed Family Manners 1.

Alf Ball - left pic, moustache - a Showman born in Hull (1864) & based for many years in Deptford, London, is best remembered as a bioscope (early cinema) pioneer. Before that? In the 1880s he was a top middleweight boxer who once took on Peter Jackson... grapplingwithhistory.com/2023/07/13/b...

Delighted to welcome @samwetherell.bsky.social to the IHR this Thursday, to give a paper on Race, Obsolescence and the Management of "Surplus" Populations in Post-War Liverpool! This is a hybrid talk, so do come along to the IHR or sign up to watch on Teams here: www.history.ac.uk/events/race-...

The Supreme Court of Canada is currently hearing arguments regarding the constitutionality of Canada’s sex work legislation. Get some context with today's post from @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social, the first in a series. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11...

This is a great project, and you’d be working with two lovely and exciting PIs.

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

Yesterday was the start of UK Disability History Month - but how can we think about disabled voices in the past in a way that recognises their agency? Our new series does just that! @beckierutherford.bsky.social introduces the idea that we can historicise disability as more than a medical identity.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: We will be holding our next colloquium on 10 December at 11am (US Mountain Time): "The Labour of Solitude and Emotional Experience of Aloneness in Early Modern Britain" with @naomipullin.bsky.social ✨ Register/save the Zoom link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-labour...

Exhibiting Irishness out with @ManchesterUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157263

📢 Material Culture Klaxon📢 The project 'aims to understand the circulation of textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the 17th & 18th century, by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples'. Their visual textile glossary is great. #EarlyModern 🗃️ dutchtextiletrade.org/textiles/