The Frank and Harriet Owsley Award for the best book in Southern history published last year is awarded to David Doddington for Old Age and Americam Slavery #2025SHA

Congratulations! #2025SHA David Doddington also published research related to this book project in the JSH: "Old Age, Mastery, and Resistance in American Slavery" (Feb 2022): muse.jhu.edu/pub/285/arti...

#2025SHA didn't realise we were allowed to hold conferences in such nice weather. @branchuk.bsky.social just like Cardiff, right...?

It's been almost ten months to the day that my School has been 'in scope' for redundancy. Exhausting as it's been, the most depressing thing is that the rest of the university seems to be forgetting that we're still in that pool and moving on as we drift and drown.

Nearly 10 months of this now. Yay

The copyedits for Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom are in, and now the preorder page is up on Amazon. www.amazon.com/This-Strife-...

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... - CFP for fascinating workshop being held in (lovely) Leiden

The #AHR September 2025 issue is now online. Featuring articles on Korean atomic bomb survivors, socialist internationalism, and naturalized 19th-century naturalized Chinese citizens, the issue also includes a special edition of History Unclassified. 🗃️

More well-deserved accolades for @daviddoddington.bsky.social whose book is a finalist for the @slaveryarchive.bsky.social book prize--"is an extraordinary study shedding new light on old age and aging in the antebellum US South." @universitypress.cambridge.org offers our big congratulations!

Delighted to see this important special edition of @anchistjournal.bsky.social "Universities and Slavery" out now, edited by Benedict Carton & Natalie Zacek, and featuring contributions from Chana Kai Lee, George D. Oberle III, Wendi N. Manuel-Scott

Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

@branchuk.bsky.social @anchistjournal.bsky.social BrANCH/BGEAH conference looking real now. Who doesn't love putting name tags into plastic wallets and lanyards. Rock n roll...

This summer, why not try out our most-read papers? Our second most-read paper of 2025 so far is OPEN ACCESS: The price of knowledge: universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective by Natalie Zacek www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'It is simply not possible to lose the number of academic staff that the sector has lost over the past two years and for providers to not be in breach of contract – promises have either been broken, or the contract itself gives a university too wide a discretion to vary....' 1/5

New on advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law" by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Applications still open for this exciting opportunity. Happy to take questions via DM or email.

Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW732/d...

📰🏆 Cardiff University historian @daviddoddington.bsky.social wins the Owsley award for distinguished book on the American South: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2924271-cardiff-university-historian-wins-the-owsley-award-for-distinguished-book-on-the-american-south

Congrats to @daviddoddington.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award from the Southern Historical Association. The award committee says the books is "a brilliant and gripping achievement." @universitypress.cambridge.org is honored to be his publisher.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Exciting news - the journal is looking for a new book review editor or editors! For details of the role and how to apply, visit the journal website at: www.branch.org.uk/anch Deadline: 28 July 2025 📚✒️

Folks for your summer travels a big summer sale of #theriseansfallofthesecondamericanrepublic the audio book is 75% off! @nortonhistory.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Reminder re: 12 month post in American history at Cardiff University. For, erm well publicized reasons, we don't have budget for external advertising so you need access to the link below to apply. Please do think about applying/sharing with possible candidates. Happy to take queries

For those who could not hear this address in person, here is the published version. Thank you for the amazing editors and team at American Nineteenth Century History and BrANCH!

Feels a bit absurd to be promoting this, but there's a 12 month 18/19th C American history post at Cardiff. Deadline 15.06.25. Feel free to msg or contact me via email - [email protected] - for further information: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

🚨AMERICAN HISTORY JOB ALERT🚨 Cambridge is looking for a one-year assistant prof in 20th century social/cultural history. As fixed-term jobs go, this is a pretty good one - so whether you're in the UK, the US or wherever else, please consider applying. But get your skates on: deadline is *June 4*

"By 2026 I’m not sure whether there will be a university community left for the Executive Board to run"

Bit of a niche post but might as well. 😊 If anyone finds themselves in Providence, RI this Wednesday, there is a fab #earlymodern #hextag event happening on French witchcraft. Really looking forward to presenting the Basque Witch-Hunt state side! @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

All set up at #AAIHS2025. Stop by and browse our books. 30% conference discount and free shipping. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Only six more weeks until No Country for Old Age will be available for instant download! Tantor Media will release the audiobook version on April 29, narrated by Al Kessel (whose voice does sound a little like Sam Elliott's). And check out the elephant. tantor.com/no-country-f...

#CFP: BrANCH Annual Conference 🗞️ 12-14 September 2025, Cardiff Papers/panels are invited on all aspects of North American history including the Caribbean and Canada through to the end of the ‘long nineteenth century’. Deadline for submissions: 25th April

Celebrating authors I've worked with and books I've worked on from my 35 years in publishing every day of #BlackHistoryMonth Day #24 @daviddoddington.bsky.social explores old age and its many meanings for enslaved people and enslavers in the antebellum American South. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

@branchuk.bsky.social @baasusso.bsky.social As part of an all too pertinent special edition of American Nineteenth Century History, see: The price of Knowledge: Universities and slavery in Anglo-American perspective: "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2025.2455208?src=exp-la

@branchuk.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social Important (and timely) research from a forthcoming special issue on Slavery and Universities: Scott, 'A memorial methodology from “another field”: a liberatory praxis': American Nineteenth Century History (Feb 25) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Learned Society of Wales' statement on proposed cuts at Cardiff University. www.learnedsociety.wales/cardiff-univ...

American Nineteenth Century History 25.3 available online. Articles on social/cultural relations btwn Brazil and the US in the late 19th C, contested tariff policies, white supremacist views on castration, and a methods piece on teaching US history through music: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fanc20/2...

Emily West reviews 'Old Age and American Slavery', by David Stefan Doddington academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @cambridgeup.bsky.social

American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) welcomes journal submissions on themes and topics relating to America during the long 19th C, including historiographical, methodological, or pedagogical articles. Please do get in touch with your ideas! www.tandfonline.com/journals/fan...