Just to add my 2p onto the UCU ballot failure: I and so many other precarious colleagues feel let down by a decade of strike action in which we have not seen any real movement on issues of precarity. When I stood on picket lines for pensions I will likely never see I expected more solidarity.

✅ Rare experience to study at the world-class Kinder Institute in Missouri ✅ Fully-funded, including health insurance and stipend ✅ Opportunity to develop skills, make friends, travel, & more! Time is running out to apply for the Kinder-BrANCh MA Fellowship in Atlantic History & Politics (12 Dec)

Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025 So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉 And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊

An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state: Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27! www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Two weeks until the “Beyond Academia” online panel!!! Should be a good discussion, especially for PGRs and ECRs, whether you are thinking of alternative paths to a career beyond academia or not 😄

A message from our friends @royalhistsoc.org about ECR prizes!

At BrANCH this year in Cardiff, I was struck by so many rich presentations exploring migration and borders, both timely and timeless subjects! For those interested, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a range of prestigious prizes, a few with deadlines coming up iehs.org/awards/

Speaking of, mark your calendars for a fantastic discussion with Dr. Catriona Byers and Dr. Laura Wilson about exploring alternative careers beyond academia, such as with libraries, archives, media and publishing! 🗓️ Wednesday, 15 October 🕐 17:30 - 18:30 (GMT) 📍 Online

Another fantastic BrANCH conference for the ages (our first in Cymru/Wales!) A big thank you to organisers David and Gareth, Emily and the BrANCH Committee, the kind staff at the Leonardo Hotel, and all of you for making it such a success!

Gutted to not be joining #SHEAR2025 in person this year, but very much looking forward to zooming in from across the pond! (And yes, isn't it deeply ironic that a British historian of US migration/borders can't make it this year because of - you guessed it - the US border!)

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones" actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

Calling all PGRs/ECRs 📣 In collaboration with @hotcus.bsky.social we are hosting a workshop at the Rothermere Americation Institute this November! Participants can meet other junior scholars, get feedback on works-in-progress, and take part in academic publishing and ‘viva survivor’ sessions 💪📚

Registration is now open for our 2025 conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hosted in collaboration with BGEAH, this year's conference has an excellent programme of speakers, including keynotes from @timlockley.bsky.social (Warwick) and Catherine Kelly (William & Mary/OIEAHC)! Check it out 👇

Calling all UK-based PGRs/ECRs 📣 Are you planning your next conference visit or research trip stateside? Apply for one of our Peter Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards your trip! Our next round closes in TWO WEEKS on July 1st - don't miss out!

And here is the UCL SELCS-CMII PhD studentship. Please repost to maximise knowledge of this funding for both studentships. 2/2

Two 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships available at UCL for Black British candidates. One in History of the legacy of Transatlantic slavery and reparations; the other on reparations and the media/culture focusing on reparations and the media/culture. Here's the History one. 1/2

Closes today!!

Our Harriet Tubman Essay Prize closes this Friday - 13th June! 🚨 The prize celebrates the best undergrad essay on 19thC US History written by a BAME student. There's lots of amazing work out there - make sure to encourage your students to submit! More details 👇

Our award-winning Migrant Makers Market is back online! 🎉 Shop work by 30+ migrant makers sharing migration stories through craft. Enjoy 15% off with code MMSHOPAGAIN15 🛍️ Support the museum & independent makers 💛 #ShopWithPurpose #MigrantMakers

🗃️ What do migrants think, feel, do, and pack on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? See "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social edited by @kevinkenny.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147982513... @gihnyu.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social 🧵1/5

Workers Day of Action for Trans Rights ⏰ Today! 📍Your workplace! It is incumbent on trade unionists to resist the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update. Trans rights are human rights. Trans rights are workers rights. A thread of inspiration, ideas, and action.

Today is the final day to submit a proposal for our upcoming conference in Cardiff! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 You can find more info and details of how to apply on our website 👇

Fascinating OPEN ACCESS article by @aishadjelid.bsky.social in ANCH on forced reproduction in the antebellum South, filling an important gap in the historiography of American slavery - read and share free of charge using this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @branchuk.bsky.social

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on the For Women Scotland case is a disgraceful attack on trans rights. In a process that excluded trans voices and centred anti-trans groups, this is not justice — it’s erasure. We will never stop fighting for our trans community 🏳️‍⚧️

There's not much time left to submit a proposal for our BrANCH-BGEAH conference in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🚨 Bonus points for those spanning the long 19th century - from Independence to imperialism, women's rights to worker's activism, Harriet Tubman to Ida B. Wells... Find more info & details of how to apply👇

#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

At the #JERPano @conniethomas.bsky.social responds to the recent #JER conversation on the Revolution at 250, reflecting on the long running tension between celebratory rhetoric of the US as a nation of immigrants and the stark reality of exclusionary impulses. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/02/24/t...

As we approach the 250th, I've been thinking a lot about how helpful it is to use celebratory founding narratives to combat ongoing migration restrictions. I'm grateful to the @thejerpano.bsky.social for giving me a space to put these thoughts onto paper. You can read the piece here:

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

This Friday (Feb 14th) at 1pm, Dr David Sim will be presenting his current book project "Seward & Co: Emancipation & Empire in the Civil War Era" with @shafrhistorians.bsky.social! 📖 Anyone is welcome to attend the online paper - to register, email [email protected]!

If you want to hear more about the relationship between the burgeoning US pharmaceutical sector of the nineteenth century and enslaved women’s poisoning practices, please sign up for my talk next week at the IHR! www.history.ac.uk/events/dange...

Join us in person or online on March 20th for Ben's Bon Voyage, as leading historians of early America join us to reflect on Franklin's legacy 250 years after his departure from Craven Street 🚢 Get tickets via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bens-bon-v... #BenjaminFranklinHouse #America250UK

Are you a PGR/ECR looking for some committee experience? Our sister journal American Nineteenth Century History is hiring a (paid!!) Social Media Editor! Make sure to get your applications in before the deadline closes on Jan 6th ⏳ You can find more info & details of how to apply on our website 👇

Are you a British-based PGR/ECR planning a research trip in 2025? ✈️ Apply for one of our Parish Travel Grants for up to £1000 towards conference attendance or research on any aspect of 19th century US history Our next round closes on Jan 7th - don't miss out 👇

New article co-written with Tom Davies in this month’s History Today. www.historytoday.com/archive/hist....

To help rebuild our community here on bluesky, we've put together a starter pack of UK-based American historians. Follow along to see what scholars across the pond have to say, and of course do get in touch if you'd like to be added!

It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇

Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...

This is an excellent opportunity for final year undergrads at British/UK universities - please share far and wide!

We are hiring. Join us and help expose threats to our democracy. documented.net/work-with-us

Silver lining of these Trump appointments is that they should make Impostor Syndrome an obsolete condition! I never want to hear any of you brilliant people doubt your qualifications... for anything ever again!

Shocking but not at all surprising

A fantastic opportunity for junior historians working on migration and citizenship!

"We are living through precedented times." - Historians