Loved doing this recently, looking forward to more opportunities to #commonplace

As we tunnel into autumn, time to take stock. We have held two lovely workshops this year and talked to over 30 keen commonplacers, which has given us confidence in this method of marshalling fragments of paper in fragments of time. @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social @lizajthompson.bsky.social

Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.

"Commonplacing" at Queen's University Belfast with @leoniehannan.bsky.social. Allowing for more connections and reflection during the the Public Histories Annual Conference! @commonplaces.bsky.social

That’s a wrap on #plantsandpeople! Thanks to all of our wonderful speakers, keynotes, artists, and attendees for two days of fantastic discussion and hands-on experimentation. Over and out from @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social !

…and a glimpse into our earlier study session at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a tour of the botanical highlights of the prints and drawings collection led by Catherine Powell Warren 🌷🖌️ #plantsandpeople

We have two workshops running in tandem this morning at the #plantsandpeople conference - one on botanical images at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a practical workshop on early modern dye production with Nabil Ali! Thanks to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social for the use of your greenhouses!

A beautifully sunny afternoon in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens learning about natural plant dyes with Nabil Ali 🌸🪻🌺 #plantsandpeople

Kicking off #plantsandpeople with a fantastic keynote from Catherine Powell-Warren on ‘Plants as Vectors in Female Artistic Community Building’!

All set for the 18th C food substitutes workshop hosted by @leoniehannan.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, presenting some initial @preservare.bsky.social results!

Our website is now LIVE! Follow the link to see our exciting programme, workshops, and register to attend: sites.google.com/view/plants-...

Registration is now OPEN for our conference 'Plants and People'! Please sign up for attendance and workshops through our website: sites.google.com/view/plants-... Thanks to @sshmedicine.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social & the Material Culture Forum for their generous assistance.

Deadline approaching May 1st for the next round of research fellowships sponsored by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology & Medicine -- funding available for scholars to travel for research in library / archival collections of consortium members: www.chstm.org/news/apply-2... #HistSTM

@imaginebelfast.bsky.social event 'Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous' with @lizajthompson.bsky.social and @leoniehannan.bsky.social is starting in just a few minutes @crescentarts.bsky.social... Can't wait to meet our participants! #ImagineBelfast

Got your own proposal for Gender in History? Email our History editor @historicalmeredith.bsky.social 📥

Happy Women's History Month 2025! 💁‍♀️🌎 We're giving you 40% off our essential titles in Women's History with code WHM40 💜 From our latest non-fiction releases, to ground-breaking academic research. Browse now: buff.ly/4igZxFk

Today, we want to highlight some of our best-sellers from the series, starting with: WOMEN OF LETTERS by @leoniehannan.bsky.social 💌 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526127198/

Getting prepared for our @imaginebelfast.bsky.social workshop this Sunday at the Crescent Arts with @leoniehannan.bsky.social and @lizajthompson.bsky.social (imaginebelfast.com/event/making...) - get ready for basic books and big ideas! #ImagineBelfast

CMCH presents British Institutions & the Legacies of Enslavement Chair: Andrea Livesey (LJMU): ECR panel researching historical connections betw slavery & certain schools, universities & institutions in N Eng. #skystorians All welcome. Thurs, 27 Mar., 4pm, Rm G.15, John Foster Building, LJMU

Applications for the @BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship are now open - up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar to research the culture, history, and identity of NE England & Scottish boarders. Deadline 31 May 2025, details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

The Canadian Society for #18thC Studies & the US & UK Burney Societies are establishing a new fellowship named after Peter Sabor. Funds raised will be used to establish a research fellowship promoting editing projects #skystorians #funding 🗃️ 1/2

@lizajthompson.bsky.social and @leoniehannan.bsky.social can't wait to share #commonplace books with you at Crescent Arts, 30 March! Get your tickets here: imaginebelfast.com/event/making...

Delighted to have my first book 'Women of Letters' included in @manchesterup.bsky.social's new Gender and Sexuality series - you can access this amazing collection of publications here: tinyurl.com/gender-colle...

The latest issue of the journal includes a review essay by Cathy Gere on recent books considering archaeology and ethno-nationalist projection, "Dig Beneath a Mosque." muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Mellon Research Fellow in American History- University of Cambridge - Faculty of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW329/m...

Thanks to those who have followed us this week. Our channel will provide you with updates on the Society's work to support and advocate for history and historians, as well as the activity of other Uk / RoW organisations who do likewise. They include 120+ networks in our Starter Pack bit.ly/4gLVuj7

Really looking forward to giving a paper on 'Mapping criminal justice in 18th century London', tomorrow @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome either in person or online, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi...

Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)- Durham University #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW082/a...

Jan.🔝 reads! Links in reply👇 1/J. Chow rev. @manionjen.bsky.social Female Husbands: A Trans History 2/B. Hernandez-Knight’s Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy 3/C. Beggs rev. L. Linker’s Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility

Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

The Institute of Historical Research’s Black British History seminar series is hosting a writing workshop and dinner, before the first GPI Annual Lecture. Full details available on our seminar page: bit.ly/4jycw72 📍 GC202 & GC102, Queen Mary University of London 🗓️ Thursday 30th January ⏰ 16:15

Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b. #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance 🎂 🧵 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quie...

Departmental Lecturer in Bibliography and Modern Book History University of Oxford - English Faculty #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU941/d...

Hello Bluesky! 📢The Imagine Festival is BACK! 🎉 Get ready for a week of talks, inspiring performances, and thought-provoking discussions from 24-30 March. Follow us here for the latest updates on our 2025 events. Let's imagine a better future, together! #ImagineBelfast #Imagine25

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

Any ABO readers attending #SEASECS 2025 in Savannah? Don't miss out on ABO Editor @lauralrg.bsky.social's presentation, "Behn and Song." Hope to see you this Friday the 7th at 4:30 in the Chippewa Suite! #aphrabehn #theater #music #restoration

Getting ready to practice our commonplace book-making skills ahead of our #ImagineBelfast festival workshop @ Crescent Arts at the end of March. Check out the programme: imaginebelfast.com/about-the-fe...

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Kat Rawling and I will be speaking on 31 Jan 9am PST/ 12 Noon EST/ 5pm BST on The Ethics of Medical Photography Network as part of the Photography Network events online. Register here if you're interested in seeing how the project is going! #photohist #histmed #ethics us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Northern Ireland’s historic houses have a complex and contested past. But can they become spaces today for exploring understandings of identity and belonging and building social cohesion? That’s what our new public history project is exploring. Read more here treatiedspaces.com/historic-hou...

Calling all grad students working on Fanny Burney (or her family)! The deadline for the Burney Society’s Hemlow Prize is January 31. Details here: burney-society.org/the-hemlow-p... Good luck, applicants! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #francesburney #fannyburney #burneysociety

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to [email protected] by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

I am SO happy to share that Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s which I worked on with co-editor and human being extraordinaire @nushpowell.bsky.social is our in PAPERBACK with @edinburghup.bsky.social #C18 1/

Excellent resource on deciphering 18th & 19th century handwriting highlighted below - a free book-length guide available as a pdf from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

We are very proud to be able to offer a number of fellowships and awards this year. Many of them have a deadline of the 1 February. Find all the details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... #BSECS2025 #18thC

Thrilled to be organising this conference with @lucyjhavard.bsky.social! We have some wonderful keynotes and creative workshops lined up 🥰