One week until I get to speak with @ianleslie.bsky.social about his fabulous book, John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs, as part of the Durham Book Festival. 6.30pm on Friday October 10 at the Gala. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. More details: galadurham.co.uk/galapost/ian...

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social! uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).

This was a lot of fun. Thanks to @newwritingnorth.bsky.social, the Tyneside Cinema, an engaged audience, and the inimitable @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for a terrific event on July 15, discussing Stuart’s latest @harpercollins.bsky.social book: With A Little Help From Their Friends.

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August). We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.

women's franchise in the UK. My work examines the largest suffrage organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who are rarely mentioned or represented in these contexts. There is so much more to do to shift wider understanding from this one dimensional militant-only perspective.

Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)

10 days to go before I’ll be at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle discussing this fab new book on the Beatles with author-broadcaster #StuartMaconie. The event includes a book signing and a screening of the biopic Nowhere Boy. Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/book-online/...

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Well this is a very nice surprise! Thanks to the folks @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for running the Derby Day competition and for all their help preparing the special issue of the Register on Kentucky’s Medical History in which my article on Loretta Lynn appeared.

How exciting. Thrilled to see my Loretta Lynn article and the famous claret & blue silks in such august scholarly company for the Kentucky Derby article run-off. Many thanks to the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for such a fun event. @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social

Just dropped. If you haven’t read the book you might listen to this. Thanks. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

There is just a little over a week to go before the launch of "Green and Blue" at New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, where I'm delivering the annual Ernie O'Malley lecture. If you are interested in signing up, you can do so here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ernie-omal...

This is awesome - honoured to have my Loretta Lynn essay included among such fine scholarship in the 2025 Register of Kentucky History Derby - and bowled over by the West Ham-leaning silks! @northumbriauni.bsky.social @nuamstudies.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social @hotcus.bsky.social

Hey gang, here's the recording of the talk I gave for the National Humanities Center a few weeks ago. It was a real thrill, and I so appreciated the good questions. Check it out!

@northumbriauni.bsky.social history student Lily Usher-Unsworth continues to rake in the plaudits for her exhibition @toonlibraries.bsky.social. Runs at Newcastle City Library until April 28. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations, Damian. Truly and Green & Blue letter day…

#CrossToonTraffic - a fab, student-curated mini-exhibition celebrating some of the African American musicians who appeared in Newcastle during the 1950s and 1960s is on at Newcastle City Library until April 28. Nostalgia-a-GoGo! @northumbriauni.bsky.social. @nuamstudies.bsky.social.

Countup Countdown to TEATLES 5 The Teatles Book 20 - the Beatles and Tea February 2023 Made by me (with a lottle help from my (Teatle) friends.) I have an expanded version of this in mind. Let’s see.

Hello Boys: Prof Tom Pegram of @ucl.ac.uk & myself ponder why young men aren’t studying human rights at universities @cjharvey1.bsky.social @ecmassimino.bsky.social @brian222ward.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/global-gover...

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

I'm speaking in Clonakilty Thursday, a deep dive on what American Civil War pensions tell us about Irish life and emigration, using letters from 4 families. In advance, I've just uploaded my last talk there, on the impact of the Civil War on West Cork: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRLC...

Happy 10th birthday to Country Soul. Still proud of it. Grateful that it's changed my life in the ways it has. Very glad that it's resonated with folks over the years. A lot's happened since that's changed this story and how I think about it. At least one new chapter to be written. Maybe someday.

Sign up here for "The Implications of Polycrisis for Higher Education," an online event co-organized by the CHES@UCL and CHET@Bristol. Panellists are Sharon Stein, Basma Hajir and me; the discussant is Richard Hall. #HigherEd, #UKHE, #AcademicSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-implic...

We join with @historians.org, @oah.org & others to denounce US goverment's efforts to censor historical content in public resources. These mandates are deeply antithetical to our community's work of stewarding & preserving the integrity of the scholarly record. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hxQHlu

Great to see this from the @englishassociation.bsky.social.

On #IWD find out about deserted 19thC wives who regained their legal autonomy 💪🏻(also great for anyone interested in magistrates courts!)

@brian222ward.bsky.social We have corrected a mistake in the on screen text of the YouTube version of your episode, and uploaded a corrected video, available here: history.ky.gov/khs-podcasts Please accept our apologies for the mistake, and thank you very much for a great interview!

After the podcast, read the full #RegisterKHS article, "Sex, Drugs, and Country Music: Loretta Lynn, Gender Politics, and the Health Environment in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky" by @brian222ward.bsky.social here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...

Many thanks to @kyhistsoc.bsky.social for making this podcast happen. @nuamstudies.bsky.social

...........see you in the charts! shorturl.at/88M7z

...........see you in the charts! shorturl.at/88M7z

The White House has halted all military aid to #Ukraine, sparking shock and alarm across the country. Our Sr. advisor @dooleydooley.bsky.social in Kharkiv interviewed locals who fear for their safety as Russian attacks intensify. Read more: humanrightsfirst.org/library/loca...

“What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming concentration of overwhelming wealth into fewer and fewer hands but in the gravitation toward a plutocracy.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thrilled to guest edit a Special Issue of the Register of KY History on medicine and healthcare w/excellent contributions by @joanecashin.bsky.social @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social @jonathansjones.bsky.social @lmacthompson1.bsky.social And stuff by me on Loretta Lynn! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54237

I really enjoyed messing around in the Old West for my new article "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792-1861" in this special issue on health & medicine in Kentucky. Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...

Just published on @hepi-news.bsky.social, my review of 'Bad Education' by Matt Goodwin. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/15/w...

Happy to share my latest article "Died from eating too much morphine": Researching Opioid Addiction in Civil War-Era Kentucky" just released in the Register of KY Historical Society. 🗃️ @kyhistsoc.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/951130

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

Book launch! All welcome! ADULTHOOD IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES FROM 1350 TO GENERATION Z, co-edited by me & @mariacannon.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social 5.30pm on 21st January, or online www.history.ac.uk/events/book-... #skystorians #histchild #lifecycles 🗃️

That's going straight to number one! By the way, my favourite ever punk song name was from my friend @brian222ward.bsky.social's old band. The song was called "The Bible Belt is Holding Up My Trousers"

I have health and safety questions about these cereals…

Too Far North - Musical Scenes from the North East. London, Liverpool & Manchester are celebrated for artists & genres that define those regions. Ian Fawdon has written about what it means to be a musician from the North East. Starting with The Animals. Find out more: www.tynebridgepublishing.org.uk

Patterns of Prejudice is available both online and in print. We've been analysing #racism and #xenophobia for nearly 60 years. We are now published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Check out our back catalogue online: tandfonline.com/loi/rpop20

I would appreciate my followers reposting this job ad. We are looking to hire an associate editor at the Papers of Martin Van Buren. Details about qualifications, salary, duties, etc., are at the link. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Any Doc Watson fans out there? In DOC WATSON Eddie Huffman tells the story of Doc's life and legacy, drawing on extensive interviews and hundreds of hours of archival research to give us the most comprehensive biography of Watson ever.🎶 Coming January 2025 but available for pre-order now 🙌

Its been a long time coming, but my book finally has a cover, and a website, and you can even pre-order it. Now off to finish the proofs! tinyurl.com/3c4emsfn

We're entering year 10 of the Library of Congress project. It's been a gigantic, wonky, surprisingly successful experiment of academic/federal research collaboration.

Stuart Jeffries, Coups, colonialism and all that jazz: the film that unravels extraordinary cold war truths (Guardian; #skystorians, #history) www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...