Happy to report that Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising is now available in a (much more affordable) paperback edition. Thank you Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

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What’s your favorite read so far this year? 📖 Mine’s Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates.

Our final Jacobite Studies Trust Virtual Workshop of the Spring 2025 term is upon us this Tues, 6 May, wherein we'll be featuring a round-table with a gaggle of scholars sharing archival gems of particular interest in #JacobiteStudies. It's next-level show-and-tell! jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Always getting those lists of Most Cited Philosophers or Works Featuring in the SEP Most Often or whatever and when you look there's never nothing by any women or POC. Well, finally, thanks to President Trump, a list of philosophical works has come out which heavily features women and black people!

Inevitable

If your NEH grant has been terminated, tell the NHA through their form here 👇

Ditch Audible and start supporting your local book sellers/lenders!

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

#NationalHistoryDay has lost its NEH funding, including for the national contest happening in just two months. See: www.instagram.com/p/DH_vjm4RaX5/ Donate: nhd.org/en/get-invol...

Ditch Audible and start supporting your local book sellers/lenders!

PSA that we can support both our independent bookshop AND public library ❤️ They play such a vital role in our local communities, and they both need our support to stay open and keep offering valuable resources. It's not either/or, but both/and 🥰

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Please read and sign this petition to the AHA Council, demanding a recision of their veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide and to put the resolution to AHA's membership! www.historiansforpeace.org/2025/02/08/p...

***Deadline extended*** for the CFP for the online ECSSS 2025 conference to follow the event in person in Stirling. The online dates for Scots and the Environment are 24 and 25 June 2025, and the CFP has been extended to 1 March. Roll up for this bonus episode! ecsss.org/upcoming-con...

Meanwhile, registration is ***open*** for the ECSSS 2025 conference in Stirling, 'Scots and the Environment', 17–20 June 2025, here: shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-.... Do join us! The provisional programme is here: ecsss.org/upcoming-con...

Deadline is approaching! Please join our virtual conference on "Scots and the Environment" this June. Papers related to any aspect of 18thc Scottish history are welcome!

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So many great bridges! Let's go with this classic. If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

If you won’t be in Stirling this year (or even if you will) please consider submitting to this online component of ECSSS 2025!

The question: Twitter or BlueSky? The answer: you should be writing

Those cosying up to Trump have obviously read David Hume on induction. "I know he's fired and humiliated all his advisors in the past, but it doesn't logically follow that he'll fire and humiliate all his advisors in the future."