It's that time of year again... the History Workshop team present our "Radical Reads" for 2025! www.historyworkshop.... Image source: Openverse.

Thanks Nikos for reviewing my book!

A very interesting PhD project is looking for interviewees with LGBTQ+ photographers with experiences of making photographs in home darkrooms. Get in touch if this applies, and do share.

I'm not going to share Stock's Unherd article. But here's the important part: "Abortions should only be done for a highly restricted set of reasons. They should not be just nodded through for any reason a pregnant woman likes." The ven diagram of the anti-trans & the anti-woman lobby is a circle.

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

One of the many great things I got out of last week’s trip to Montréal for the NACBS was a copy of @sarahcrook.bsky.social’s new book. I can’t wait to get stuck into this!

Important reminder of the national obliviousness to the crises at the British Library and why it should concern policymakers. www.cityam.com/the-british-...

📣 CALL FOR CHAPTERS 📣 Co-editors Amy Tooth Murphy & @georgesevers.bsky.social invite expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory Handbook. Visit: oralhistory.org/wp-content/u... #OralHistory #OralHistoryTheory #Routledge #OralHistorian

Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...

Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'! There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too. #HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex

Yesterday it was my honour to receive the 2025 Phanes Award in HIV Information Work from Tupilak (Nordic Rainbow Culture Workers) & ILGCN (the International Rainbow Culture Network) in Stockholm. I am very grateful for this recognition of my work, and only sorry that I couldn't be there in person!

#AfS: Die Beschäftigung mit dem AIDS-Aktivismus steht noch am Anfang, konstatiert Rezensent @adrianlehne.bsky.social. Die Studie von @georgesevers.bsky.social nimmt sich der Lücke an und nimmt nicht nur den konfrontativen, sondern auch den leiseren Aktivismus in den Blick: library.fes.de/pdf-f...

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.” My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm looking forward to speaking at the History of Medicine seminar at University College Dublin this afternoon. I'll be talking about British HIV/AIDS activists & their role in the broader transnational AIDS movement. More info here, inc. how to sign up for the Zoom link www.ucd.ie/chomi/resear...

Je suis solidaire de mes collègues qui sont en grève aujourd'hui à l'Université de Fribourg. J'espère que l'administration cédera à vos justes revendications!

Arrived back from the International Oral History Association conference in Krakow to the latest issue of Oral History. A very striking cover, and two fabulous Public History articles!

My latest article has just been published in the Journal of British Studies! It's open access and you can read it here. Huge thanks to the archivists and librarians across Birmingham for their help with this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Great first day in Copenhagen exploring the European Histories of HIV/AIDS. Thanks to @nebeling.bsky.social (pictured speaking) for organising!

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The wonderful Adeline!

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

#4S2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58104: bit.ly/UCPEX4S

Quite apart from the fact that this is garbage, I see that Mr Free Speech "will not stand for" people teaching interpretations of the past that he doesn't agree with.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Vielen Dank an @adrianlehne.bsky.social für die Rezension meines Buches „Radical Acts“. Mein Buch handelt von England, beleuchtet aber auch viele europäische Kooperationen. Daher bin ich dankbar, dass es deutsche Leser gefunden hat. library.fes.de/pdf-files/af... @deutscheaidshilfe.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Adrian Lehne (@adrianlehne.bsky.social) for reviewing my book Radical Acts in the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte. German-speaking followers (and those content to use Google Translate) can read it here. library.fes.de/pdf-files/af...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ancestors #ireland

A more perfect metaphor for the far right doesn’t exist. We all know that sliced white bread is still widely available and sells as well as ever, probably the majority of bread sales. What Alex finds objectionable is the existence of anything else, even in a minority.

Oral history job at the University of Bristol looking at the history of Hong Kong. The job ad says it’s permanent but is, in fact, only for 18 months. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL945/h...

Lovely piece in today’s Birmingham Dispatch. Great to see historically informed writing which gets us thinking about the impact of the city’s transport links on how we think about different parts of Birmingham, with a view to the future too. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/how-harborne...

Precarious contracts keep getting shorter. Until recently short-term associate lecturer contracts were for 10 months. Now UCL advertises for 7 months. What does it say about our field, about how we treat the new generation of scholars? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW277/a...

Great news!

This, this, one thousand times this!

Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories - Royal Holloway #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

This looks like an absolutely incredible recourse, and clearly the result of an immense amount of hard work. Congratulations to all involved!

My review of Geraldine Fela's excellent book on Australian HIV/AIDS nursing histories has just been published online in Oral History Review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @gvagrad-gc.bsky.social

Curatorial opportunity to work with Cambridge University Library on Black British Voices: Black British Collections. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC683/p...

Wonderful news this morning that @clairelanghamer.bsky.social the director of @ihr.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Warmest congratulations to Claire! www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

Friends, does anyone have access to this article? Any help greatly appreciated! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay. That's what @local802.bsky.social organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.

Great news! This will be such a useful resource.

Thanks to a wonderful donation of original Bulletin journals I am digitising UKAHNs archive. Autumn 1985 no 5 is available. bulletin.ukahn.org/autumn-1984-... #histnursing

Pleased to see a firm stance being taken by the Swiss National Science Foundation opposing the Federal Council's proposed budgets cuts, and making the case for investment in research. www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...

Very excited to encounter Radical Acts out in the wild (namely the Waterstones on Birmingham New Street), especially to be in such esteemed company. I spot @historianhelen.bsky.social and @joannabourke.bsky.social here amongst many others! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.