🚨Applications due tomorrow!!

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Arguing with Catholic Women: Devotion, Polemic, and Female Agency in the Theological Crisis of the 1620s," by Kathryn Marshalek Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Summer Working Groups! Registration for NACBS virtual summer working groups is now open. Sign up before May 8! Info and sign up here: www.nacbs.org/news/summer-...

"As a guide to the context for Shakespeare’s development into the greatest writer of his age I recommend this book without qualification; it is simply a very good read." @stagetalkmag.bsky.social stagetalkmagazine.com/p/39298 'What's in a name?' by Susan D. Amussen is out now. #Shakespeare #booksky

📢Upcoming deadline! NACBS Pre-Dissertation Grants Applications due by April 15 These grants support preliminary research on potential dissertation-length studies! More info: www.nacbs.org/grants/pre-d...

There are just three weeks left until the deadline for our #nacbs2026 call for papers! The extended deadline will close on April 27 so get those proposals in!! You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

This is a really fantastic piece that seriously scrutinizes and takes apart the rhetoric of the 'humanities teach skills' that we often fall back on to defend ourselves, but which evacuates humanistic thought of its potential to facilitate political transformation.

In the latest addition to our blog series on AI, Chloe Northrop examines the simultaneous public elevation and institutional marginalization of humanistic knowledge. Read the full piece at Broadsides www.nacbs.org/post/the-hum...

Read an amazing book on British Studies in the period from the Middle Ages to the 18th century? Consider nominating the book for the John Ben Snow prize! 📅Nominations due May 15 More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain's Homegrown Agrarian Fascism," by Kian Aspinall Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Rethinking Periodization, Priorities, and Liberalism in British Queer History," by Charles Upchurch Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢CFP Deadline Extended! Submissions for the NACBS 2026 call for papers are now due by April 27! You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

Happening today at noon ET! RSVP at the link below.

The NACBS is a signatory on this @apaphilosophy.bsky.social letter expressing opposition to an Executive Order and Senate Bill that would eliminate tenure at Oklahoma's public colleges and universities.

Still have room for one more panelist on this year's panel about public history in British Studies at #NACBS2026 in Pasadena, CA. @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social

Just a reminder that submissions for the 2026 NACBS are due on April 6. Come join us in Pasadena!

📢Online book event! Join us next week to hear more about Justin Ivey's recent publication Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal 📅March 26 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Nominations for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize are due May 15! The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture. Info and nomination instructions here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

The CFP for #nacbs2026 in Pasadena closes on April 6! Get your submissions in soon! Remember you can use the Pasadena group discussion on our website to build a panel and find participants! www.nacbs.org/group/2026-p... www.nacbs.org/conference

Are you working on a dissertation on any aspect of British Studies? Consider applying for our NACBS Dissertation Fellowship! 📢NACBS Dissertation Fellowship 📅 May 15 More info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

And that’s a wrap on our blog series on artificial intelligence! Thanks to @amywb.bsky.social @chriscampbell1.bsky.social @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social @megsmith.bsky.social @ktl10.bsky.social and Anushmita Mohanty for their wonderful contributions! Visit nacbs.org/broadsides to read the full series!

To close out our series on AI, @chriscampbell1.bsky.social reflects on the response to his recent article in Transactions of @royalhistsoc.org, “The Historian in the Age of AI.” Read the full piece: www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...

Delighted to contribute to this fantastic series on AI, British Studies and the wider humanities with @thenacbs.bsky.social! www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...

Can’t join us in Pasadena for our annual meeting? NACBS will once again host a virtual day of programming the week before our in-person meeting. Submit proposals through the regular CFP (closes April 6)! NACBS 2026 Virtual Day November 4 More info: www.nacbs.org/news/nacbs-2...

www.nacbs.org/group/2026-p... Looking for participants for NACBS conference in Pasadena, CA this year. Panel will be about public historians. All public historians or those using public history concepts in their research within the British history subfield are welcome to contact me. #NACBS

Read an amazing book on British Studies in the post 1800 period? Consider nominating the book for the Stansky Book Prize! 📅Nominations due May 15 More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

We are delighted to announce that NACBS & @NAVSA.bsky.social have secured an @ACLS1919.bsky.social IF Microgrant to bring precariously employed ECRs together at our annual meetings this November!

We are delighted to announce that NACBS & @NAVSA.bsky.social have secured an @ACLS1919.bsky.social IF Microgrant to bring precariously employed ECRs together at our annual meetings this November!

Such lovely news! 🤩

youtu.be/KjTaCpcfbP4?... Fascinating discussion between Matthew Mason, author of "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World" and Eliga Gould for the @thenacbs.bsky.social Check it out!

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

Spoiler: I think the answer is yes! #MedievalSky #skystorians #IrishHistory #DigitalHumanities

Fancy a holiday? My latest in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, featuring two delightful books on Britons abroad.

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around! Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

📢New article in JBS! 📗"I Am Not Anti Black Music But...": Popular Music, the NME, and Race in Late Twentieth-Century Britain by Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hello I would like to state for the record that I LOVE THE NACBS AND I LOVE THEIR BROADSIDES BLOG!!!!!

“Do the strategies employed by subjects of empire offer productive models of resistance and subversion?” In the penultimate piece in our AI series, @megsmith.bsky.social offers vignettes from early modern Ireland that could suggest productive models of resistance. www.nacbs.org/post/contest...

Join us tomorrow to hear more about Matthew Mason's newest book on slavery and political conflict in the Atlantic world!

I have a new essay out today with the North American Conference on British Studies about the oligarchical urge to say that AI is going to become God www.nacbs.org/post/deus-in...

"The urgent message from history concerning the process of forcing the metaphorical deus into his machina is that social domination readily takes up the language of philosophy or religion when seeking to reset social norms." Check out the next piece by @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social in our series on AI

📢Now available in JBS! 📗What Liberalism Requires: The Very Victorian Marriage of JS Mill and Harriet Hardy Taylor by Michelle Tusan This article was presented as the Presidential Address at NACBS 2025 in Montreal. Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Deadline tomorrow! Send in your expressions of interest.

📢Book event! Join us online next Thursday to hear more about Matthew Mason’s newest book, Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World 📅Thus March 5 ⏰12pm EST/ 9am PST / 5pm GMT Free and open to the public RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season. Find more information at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

“After all, if the AI boom has taught us anything it is this: Data is the new oil, and the most pressing questions are, who owns it, who has access to it, and what should it be used for?” Check out the next piece by @ktl10.bsky.social in our blog series on AI. www.nacbs.org/post/data-is...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History (Oxford: Christ Church, 10-11 SEP 2026) [DEADLINE 26 MAR 2026] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/02/call...

“After all, if the AI boom has taught us anything it is this: Data is the new oil, and the most pressing questions are, who owns it, who has access to it, and what should it be used for?” Check out the next piece by @ktl10.bsky.social in our blog series on AI. www.nacbs.org/post/data-is...

📢New article in JBS! 📗"Rethinking the Legitimacy of British Botanizing in Late Qing China (1840–1912)" by Di Lu Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Norman L. Jones, an accomplished historian of Tudor history, has passed away. In this remembrance, Robert Tittler and @susancogan.bsky.social reflect on his scholarship, life, and legacy. www.nacbs.org/post/norman-...

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