Preparing eyes and brain for another day of reading nineteenth century handwriting

We stand in solidarity with trans women and the trans community and we will always be a space that recognises the importance of trans history. Read on for a selection from our archive 🧵 1/8

Totally horrifying

“And yet, the demand to empathise with the boys and men propagating this hatred must surely be exceeded by a justified anger on behalf of the girls and women who are the actual subjects of said hatred. If anything, it is obscene that we women are not more furious and more frightened.”

Our PGR Hub has an update! - NEW Call for Papers site (see #cfp in #histed in one place) - Updated funding opportunities! - Updated free resources and open access texts - Updated PGR Perks available! GO HERE: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/ Please share this with PGR students! (1) #edusky

Call for papers for a colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development, and the Human Sciences'. The deadline for proposed papers is 7 March 2025 and the colloquium will be on 23 June 2025, organised by the University of Oxford's Centre for the History of Childhood.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the universities of the nations and regions mostly have to die while core cities get choked and inefficient. What a great plan.

History teachers! The part-time MSc in Learning and Teaching at the University of Oxford offers history-specific strands. Applications are now open for 2025. Scholarships available; apply before March to be eligible. Find out more at bit.ly/OxfordMLT or let me know if you have any questions.

This FREE PGR History of Education Seminar happens this Wednesday at 5-6pm GMT online! Please sign up below and support PhD students in this field. You'll get the link once you sign-up! #histed #history #education #research #pgr #edusky 👇

Very happy to be back in the land of my fathers

Here's the first of our tasters for the micro-keynotes at our SHP Understanding event with @teachmedwomen.bsky.social on Sat Jan 18th @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This one is from Dr Natasha Hodgson. Email [email protected] to get your free ticket (with entry to the exhibition!)

Penultimate library day of 2024. @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social in the Christmas spirit!

Very exciting fully funded PhD opportunity to work on the history of the Salvation Army's HIV/AIDS work. I think this will open up fascinating new avenues for our understandings of religious HIV/AIDS work and activism in the UK. Full details here. northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/...

Good morning! We wanted to promote our wonderful PGR Hub for all PhD students on BlueSky. It contains accessible information to a range of #histed events, external conferences, open access resources, and much more! See here: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr/ #phd #pgr #histed #history #education

Look upon this list of what’s currently happening to British universities- and weep qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

This is an *amazing* story, excellently researched and well-writen. Do read!

It’s time, friends! We welcome submissions for #batw2025 in Liverpool, UK. Join us at John Moores University 25-27 June 2025 for another great conference! We can’t wait to see you there! Watch here for more info. britainandtheworld.org/2025

New 'Schools of Empire' blogpost from me - a slightly unusual case study: 👇 www.schoolsofempireproject.org/networks-of-...

Really excited by this new part of the #CurriculumPATHS project. We are collaborating with various bodies to share sources and interpretations to inspire #historyteacher s in their planning for school. Our first set is a collab with the BL looking at Britain and India 1600-1947. Please share!

For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

If you're contributing to your subject association, learned society or other organisation's response to the DfE Curriculum Review (deadline 22 November), you may find the @histassoc.bsky.social 's excellent summary response useful. Kudos too to the HA for referencing the environmental impact of AI.

Wonderful to hear James Marriott, on #R4Today, defend the humanities on human, not just economic principles. As he says, an understanding of the past or a joy in music is of value in itself. It's not just a means to teach employable skills or secure a good starting salary.

Can you help me share some great news? The @histassoc.bsky.social Subject Leader Development Programme has been given a Teach Secondary CPD award: we were Highly Commended! We have now trained nearly SIX HUNDRED Subject Leaders of History, both in post and aspiring to the role. 1/

Amazing to spy some familiar names (carved on their old school desks) when I got the chance to visit the Upper Bench on my trip to Rugby School today