We have created a booklet with advertisements of self-emancipating enslaved people in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries. It aims to make these ads more accessible and contains images of c. 20 ads, their transcriptions, and a short introduction contextualizing them. tinyurl.com/26zkuxf7 1/

Looking forward to presenting with colleagues working on the British Caribbean at the NACBS conference in Pasadena in November. First time at this conference! @thenacbs.bsky.social

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

🚨Call for members and renewals🚨 Join or renew your LACS-SHA membership at www.tnstate.edu/lacs/members... or email our Treasurer Dr. Erica Johnson [email protected] for more details.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Members of @royalhistsoc.org currently writing a second or third monograph may be interested in our call for the 2026 Funded Book Workshops bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission. #Skystorians

eight children. To foster community, he co-founded the Leeds Caribbean Cricket Club in 1948, the UK's oldest Black-led sporting group. Before his passing in 2024 at age 98, Gardner's portrait was one of ten commissioned by King Charles to mark the Windrush 75th anniversary. See Alts for much more

🧵Today is Windrush Day. Alford Gardner’s journey crossed oceans to reshape the social history of Yorkshire. Born in Jamaica, he first arrived in England in 1944, volunteering for the RAF during World War II and training as a mechanic at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey. Returning to Jamaica after the war, a

Incredibly thoughtful CFP for a conference about slavery in the French Caribbean by @domdegav.bsky.social and @louisesalaun.bsky.social -- a historiographic essay in and of itself! Required reading 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/system/files...

Are you a writer working on a book about the Americas? Apply for the 2027 Eccles Institute & @hayfestival.bsky.social Global Writer’s Award for the chance to win £20,000, alongside a residency at the Library to research and develop your project. Find out more bl.uk/writers-award

PhD student position in History of Ideas & Science, Gothenberg University, Sweden. 4 year paid position. Environment is one of the possible areas to research. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #envhist

A job in modern British History. At Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

From the current issue: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Great reviews (and the to-read list grows)...

***Membership Discount for Graduate Students*** Please help spread the word about our free introductory offer for new student members. Membership comes with many benefits, including opportunities to serve on IEHS committees and be part of IEHS programming. order.press.uillinois.edu/jaeh/order.h...

All submissions are due May 31!

New article on advance access: Tiraana Bains on 'All the Governments of India: Intra-Imperial Contests and the Makings of a British Imperial State in the Indian Ocean, 1750–1800' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

So, my colleague, @katielcoldiron.bsky.social, and I co-authored a handbook with simple, common sense tips for identifying and writing a grant. #6 in the @dlocaribbean.bsky.social Handbook series. See the book here: dloc.com/AA00115422/0....

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BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Registration is now open!!!!!

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026 Funded Book Workshops - for historians currently writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with upto 6 specialist readers to discuss a MS in detail before submission to a publisher #Skystorians

Conference CFP. Early/Modern Connections: Academic and Applied Humanities. Deadline, June 1. #earlymodern

We talk a lot about getting people to consume historical content or to pick up employable “skills” for other uses We talk a little about alt-ac, as an excuse for keeping grad programs going We don’t talk about the fact that soon, nobody is going to be around to produce new knowledge in our fields

🚨Announcing the 2026 Contest for the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize. Submissions may include books published between Jan. 1 2025 and Dec. 31 2025 on any areas of Latin American, Atlantic, Borderlands, and Caribbean history; the time frame of study is open🚨

🚨Announcing the 2026 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize Contest for scholars working in Latin American, Caribbean, Atlantic, and Borderlands History🚨 Please share!

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CFP for French Historical Studies special issue on European-Indigenous relations in the French Americas. Deadline August 31: preview-assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... 🗞️🌊🍀.

2 Postdocs for historians of minority nationalisms (all periods): abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

The inaugural Cambridge Amplify Grant will support early-career scholars in History and Area Studies in publishing their first book, providing financial and editorial support over 12 months. ⏰ The closing date for submissions is 13 April 2026. Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3NJAd1a

What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.

Really interesting topic and support for attending presenters-

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

You can read more of Prof. Mota's research on this topic in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

Just a week left to get your proposals in for NNI's November Conference "New Netherland and the World"! CFP here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/eve.... Dutch folks, we do have travel funding to get you to Albany if you need it.

New job: Senior Historian Colonial Williamsburg Foundation jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69898

JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France. They are open to people working on environmental politics. Application deadline 13 April 2026. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil... #envhist

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena! Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season. Find more information at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below... jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Missed this two weeks ago, but it looks great and you can just download the entire special issue with a click 🗃️

#skystorians! If you work on vast early America and want to develop your writerly and storytelling chops in community with other historians, please consider applying to the inaugural Craft Intensive sponsored by @oieahc.bsky.social (led by myself and Scott Heerman). For more details, visit:

Read an amazing book on British Studies in the post 1800 period? Consider nominating the book for the Stansky Book Prize! 📅Nominations due May 15 More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

Interesting job for folks working on gender pre-19th C outside of Europe and Australia: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU693/l...

Congrats to my friend Felix Jean-Louis and everyone involved in the making of The Forgotten Occupation - had the pleasure of watching a screening this evening in a packed auditorium at Miami’s Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Recommend the documentary to all Caribbeanists!

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...