The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb > RHS Workshop Grants > Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social > Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR #Skystorians

Programmet rummer bl.a.: 🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke 🔸 Session om militært beredskab og civilforsvar 🔹 Session om kulturelt og åndeligt be redskab 🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider    👉 Læs mere på sshf.saxo.ku.dk

Jeg vil gerne slå et slag for dette vigtige arrangement om “Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”, som Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning står bag 👇   📅 Fredag den 30. januar 2026 på KU (Søndre Campus, 4A.0.69) 📣Tilmelding senest 9.1.2026 til [email protected]

Jeg vil gerne slå et slag for dette vigtige arrangement om “Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”, som Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning står bag 👇   📅 Fredag den 30. januar 2026 på KU (Søndre Campus, 4A.0.69) 📣Tilmelding senest 9.1.2026 til [email protected]

Programmet rummer bl.a.: 🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke 🔸 Session om militært beredskab og civilforsvar 🔹 Session om kulturelt og åndeligt be redskab 🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider    👉 Læs mere på sshf.saxo.ku.dk

Jeg vil gerne slå et slag for dette vigtige arrangement om “Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien”, som Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning står bag 👇   📅Fredag den 30. januar 2026 på KU (Søndre Campus, 4A.0.69) 📣Tilmelding senest 9.1.2026 til [email protected]

Here’s the lecture, with references: alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

En meget glædelig dag for #dkforsk i går. For i Carlsbergfondet uddelte vi 581 mio. kr. der giver 159 forskere mulighed for - i grundforskningens tegn - at forfølge netop de spørgsmål de selv har identificeret som mest presserende. Stort tillykke til alle modtagere. Se alle projekter👉 bit.ly/4iK2fV2

Congratulations to Rasmus Glenthøj, who has received a Carlsberg Foundation grant for his project The Scandinavian Moment: Digitizing Scandinavian Archives of the Crimean War (1852-1859). www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-s... @empiressdu.bsky.social @carlsbergfondet.dk

Our final issue for 2025 has been published - Check out JICH Vol 53 Issue 6 now: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have now announced TWO full PhD studentships at Bristol's Hong Kong History Centre @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social! Please spread the word to anyone you know who are working towards/have a Master's degree, and are interested in pursuing further research in HK history.

Congratulations to Thomas Heebøll-Holm and the team on receiving a DFF grant to establish an international research network on “The Valdemarian Empire 1168-1375”. The network brings together scholars from Denmark, Germany, Poland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia. @empiressdu

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Graphic recording ✍️ Erik Petri tegnede denne imponerende illustration under mit oplæg om imperiets lange skygger i britisk historie 🇬🇧 Tjek før og efter billeder. Vildt! #graphicrecording #graphics #illustration

Here’s the link to watch History Reclaimed’s right wing moral, logical and historical arguments being scrutinised. It’s uncomfortable viewing in places as Biggar’s put on the spot. The truth about the British Empire: Mehdi Hasan & Nigel Bi... youtu.be/SZvkTmNQSy4?... via @YouTube

Christian holdt et spændende oplæg på årets Hasseris-kursus med tema om Storbritannien. Oplægget blev også flot illustreret, som det kan ses nedenfor. Christian skrev i den forbindelse også en artikel for HLF's medlemsblad Noter: historielaerer.dk/noter-247-hv... (adgang til bladet kun for mdl).

Graphic recording ✍️ Erik Petri tegnede denne imponerende illustration under mit oplæg om imperiets lange skygger i britisk historie 🇬🇧 Tjek før og efter billeder. Vildt! #graphicrecording #graphics #illustration

This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide. We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians

Job alert! 🚨 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Edinburgh Uni to work w/a team of historians on a new project, Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana, which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Gårsdagens arbejdsplads. Carlsberg Akademi var en glimrende ramme om afslutningen på spændende kursusforløb om forskningsledelse. Stor tak til Carlsbergfondet for muligheden! #carlsbergfondet #forskning #dkforsk #forskningsledelse #SemperArdensAccelerate #CarlsbergAkademi @carlsbergfondet.dk

Gårsdagens arbejdsplads. Carlsberg Akademi var en glimrende ramme om afslutningen på spændende kursusforløb om forskningsledelse. Stor tak til Carlsbergfondet for muligheden! #carlsbergfondet #forskning #dkforsk #forskningsledelse #SemperArdensAccelerate #CarlsbergAkademi @carlsbergfondet.dk

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72 Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

2 months out & the UK edition of THE CROWN'S SILENCE is off to the printers! Special thanks to @sathnam.bsky.social @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @lauratrevelyan.bsky.social @joycechaplin.bsky.social Amanda Foreman & Kate Winkler Dawson #booksky 📚

'The Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC) will be meeting with UK parliamentarians, Caribbean diplomats, academics and civil society groups from 17 to 20 November.' 1/2

Så er det i dag, Rasmus Glenthøj holder sin tiltrædelsesforelæsning. Det bliver uden tvivl interessant 👇 #1800-tallet #nationalisme #historie #internationalpolitik #forelæsning #historiesdu #politiskhistoriesdu #empiressdu #sdu #sdudk @empiressdu.bsky.social

Still a few weeks left to submit panel, paper and poster proposal for our next conference!

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27! The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025. For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026! Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies. For any questions please contact [email protected]

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...

What happens when nationalist history meets the horrors of empire? For @jacobinmag.bsky.social, I reviewed a new exhibition on British counterinsurgency at the Imperial War Museum jacobin.com/2025/11/brit...

I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...

This examination of Nigel Biggar's historical and moral arguments against reparations might be of interest, given the case recently made by @lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social and an upcoming Al Jazeera debate between Biggar and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/04/t...

I'd somehow missed this fascinating study. Anyway, here it is:

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

A warm congratulations to Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen, who has been awarded Queen Margrethe’s Roman Prize 2025 for his remarkable ability to “connect the study of ancient Rome with contemporary issues.”  The prize was presented by Queen Margrethe herself at the Danish Institute in Rome.

🍾Congratulations to Professor Aglae Pizzone (PI) and Reka Forrai (Co‑PI), who have received a major grant from the VELUX FOUNDATION for their project “METHOD – A Digital Entangled Approach to European Intellectual History” 👉Read more: www.sdu.dk/en/om-sdu/fa... #empiressdu

1/7 Some important books have been published recently, by leading experts on the history of slavery. What they say is critical when weighing up Commonwealth reparations claims.

My piece in @TheCriticMag: in the eternal argument between continentalism and blue water worldwide posture, Britain should prioritise its region more, and fret about worldwide importance less. Instead of obsessing with being "global", be serious. thecritic.co.uk/against-glob...

‘Farage ending up in Downing Street would be of a piece with the confusion, complacency and contradictory political behaviour that led Britain first to stumble into Europe and then to stumble out again.’ David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Read my article for the prestigious publication - The Conversation: “The Conservatives always adapt to survive - or do they?” It marks the start of Conservative Party Conference 2025! theconversation.com/the-conserva...

”Mennesker flygtede ikke kun ud af Caribien for at opnå frihed, men også til andre caribiske øer, hvor forholdene måske blev anset for mere tålelige.” 🎙️Hør podcasten 'Caribiens skjulte forbindelser' med #MånedensForsker Gunvor Simonsen 👉 bit.ly/podcast_gunvor #dkforsk

This week the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced the return of maintenance grants for students in greatest need. In a new blog post, RHS President Lucy Noakes considers the state of access to history and the humanities in UK HE bit.ly/3KP5WMe #Skystorians @artsandhums.bsky.social