Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history. Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh... #WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries

Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!

Come and work with our wonderful team! Applications open for a Full-Time Archivist post Closing date: 11th November. #Jobs #Archives #Heritage jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Interested in the intersection between seapower, climate change, and imperialism? You may enjoy my new article written with Dr. Rob Cullum. Open access in @cspjournal.bsky.social it’s called Oceans Rise, Empires Fall? Reframing Seapower for a Warming World. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The ANTIFA Founding Fathers.

Projection.

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Mia Bennett and Klaus Dodds, Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic - @yalebooks.bsky.social, September 2025 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.

Very excited for this book! Congratulations @mbarcia24.bsky.social !!!

Well this is a bleak turn for a supposed world class university…

A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

Our British History in the Long 18th Century seminar resumes on 24 September. It's hybrid, in London at the IHR and online. Daniel Gosling (TNA) on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield's "Judgment" on the Sex of the Chevalier d'Eon'. Register to attend (below). TikTok trailer is in 2/2. 1/2

Most phones also allow you to turn off all alerts: ios it’s under settings >notifications (scroll aaaallll the way down)

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

🚨New Podcast Drop!🚨 Part seven of our recent project with The Society for Nautical Research, alongside its long-term partners at the Lloyds Register Foundation has officially dropped! Don’t miss this unique series of The Mariner’s Mirror podcast: Seapower Past & Present. snr.org.uk/the-mariners...

This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Thank you for your attention to this historical precedent

Current RHS funding programmes include the Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships for 2025-26. These Fellowships support historians to create and run innovative teaching projects in higher education. The call for the 2025-26 Fellowships is open until 11 July bit.ly/4cg7wid #Skystorians

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

📣Out now on #firstview! David Fanthorpe (‪@unisouthampton.bsky.social) on 'Due Diligence’ and the British Government’s Response to Confederate Ship Procurement in Britain during the American Civil War' #CivilWar #USA #Military 19thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Society welcomes applications to join at any time from historians of all backgrounds and career stages. This includes the many who practice outside #History depts / HE or work independently bit.ly/43Y2u8g For these historians, we hope to offer community, support and collegiality #Skystorians

🚢 Set sail with the first-ever Bowlines Maritime Literary Festival – 6 & 7 June at Exeter Custom House! Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history. 🎟 Limited tickets left! 🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines #BowlinesFestival #Exeter

📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15th September 2025. More info 👇 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

The perfect gif for the perfect meltdown

This is absolutely wild. I’m going to use this in my teaching on AI. One of the most dystopian things I’ve ever read.

This makes me sick. Harvey Milk showed a level of courage most couldn’t imagine. He was definitely worthy of this honor. To insult his legacy like this - and during Pride Month - is shameful. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

So academia.edu put together an AI-generated podcast of something I wrote - it is dross (it makes up words, gets arguments wrong, has dreadful delivery) and, worse, they did not ask for permission. This really is taking the proverbial.

❗LAST CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED❗SHE_SEES HER VOICE 📸 We are looking for 8 Female Harbour Pilots for a new programme: SHE_SEES HER VOICE A participatory photography programme to encourage more women to get involved and share their own stories. Get in touch 👉 hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...

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Catherine Beck shares how the papers and letters of Admiral John Markham, acquired by the National Maritime Museum, inspired her book, Patronage and the British Navy, 1775-1815 in this video Q&A blog post: buff.ly/M4gEOVM @catsbeck.bsky.social‬ #militaryhistory #maritimehistory #Navalhistory

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

And this is true of anyone still in academia with an ounce of honesty.

I thought this was going to be about Texas or another US state with punative laws around pregnancy but no, it's happening in the UK under a Labour government.

🟢 @annakbrinkman.bsky.social highlights 3 threats: ‘the undermining of democracy‘, ‘climate change‘ and ‘the changing character of alliances‘ #BigAsk #BritainsWorld

History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

Had great fun recording this podcast on Economic Warfare with my friend and colleague @andrewlivsey.bsky.social for the Marriner’s Mirror and @rnssc.bsky.social series: Seapower Past and Present. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1Za0...

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝 Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out! 🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

Dictators and Fascists have always loved a glitzy parade to help puff up their self importance and make them feel like big strong men. Pathetic.

Just signed. I am a cis-woman and I am not threatened by my trans siblings. I AM threatened by any institution that tries to define what a woman ‘is’ and therefore demands that all women conform to one single, socially constructed, way of being. Policing our bodies is NOT protecting our rights.

Did you know we've recently launched a new map interface on our Gertrude Bell website? The result of a 2 year project it allows users to explore over 10,000 of Bell's letters, diaries and photographs and travels on a map. Find it here gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/bellmap #SomethingNew #Archive30

Gotta love American seapower these days…🙄

5 weeks to go! Our small grants scheme is open, offering grants up to £10,000 GBP for organisations interested in advancing our mission of engineering a safer world. For more information, including assessment criteria & how to apply, visit: loom.ly/52MvRJo Applications are open until 19th May 2025.

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🔬 Applications are open for the UL and @universityofleeds.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship: The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage Deadline: 30 April 2025 Apply here: loom.ly/hXILBEo @camglamresearch.bsky.social

The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.