We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49. In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey ‪(@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018). www.historyworkshop....

Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for a brilliant #SHSConf2025. Outstanding papers, ran like a well-oiled machine in a terrific venue. And I got to give the keynote in a swimming pool!

Keynote written. On my way to the #SHSConf2025. Excited to hear so many great-looking papers. (And to eat Black Country fish n chips)

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Modern History post @ Lancaster! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG822/l...

Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!

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

This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All are very welcome #skystorians

Our 20th anniversary of c18th studies at Birmingham. Do join us!

I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!

Our transcribathon generated 122 submissions. Thank you! Your transcriptions will be used by researchers and school children, adults learners, older people and archive users who we work with in our engagement projects. Special thanks to @earlymodernemma.bsky.social for such a superb day!

We've reached over 100 submissions so far today! I'm stunned by this response. Thanks to our brilliant letter transcribers in Canada, Romania, Dubai, as well as closer to the @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Warwick, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston

Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!

For World Health Day this year, WHO are launching a campaign on maternal and newborn health. #HealthforAll From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!): ✊🗃

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝 transcribathon.eventbrite.com

A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 6 Dec, is the closing date for two of our open calls for Research Funding: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.

Honoured to be the keynote for the SHS Annual Conference in July 2025!