📣We're delighted to hear that Emily Chung's (@emvchung.bsky.social) HJ article 'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester' has been shortlisted for the @royalhistsoc.org Early Career Article Prize 2026! 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣From our most recent issue! Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social on 'Richard Simon, Vernacular Biblical Scholarship, and the Last Early Modern Polyglot Bible' #Bible #History #EarlyModern #Language #Translation #Catholic 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Tao Zhang (Sichuan International Studies University) on 'China in American Abolitionism, 1830–1865' #Politics #Abolition #Slavery #International #History 19thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social and Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social on 'Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England' #Birth #Motherhood #Pregnancy #Medicine #History 17thc 18thc 👶🌿🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Giorgia Perletta (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) on 'A Critical Review of the Non-Aligned Movement in Contemporary Historiography' #Geopolitics #ColdWar #Review #History #Transnational #Nation 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Giorgia Perletta (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan) on 'A Critical Review of the Non-Aligned Movement in Contemporary Historiography' #Geopolitics #ColdWar #Review #History #Transnational #Nation 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the 17th century, parents grounded their kids by taking away their hats

📣In our latest issue! Ellen Paterson @kebleoxford.bsky.social on 'Contemporary Parliamentary History and Petitioners in the Long Parliament, c. 1640–1642' #History #Politics #Petitions #CivilWar 17thc 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy to see that my article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social on the elite backlash to dismantling the 'White Australia Policy' has been published in the latest issue of @historicaljnl.bsky.social (69/2, 2026). It is open access, so download now! #historians 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Alexander Batson (University of Texas at Austin) on 'The Renaissance Reconstruction of Ancient Athenian Law, 1546–1650' #Law #Theology #Jurisprudence #History 16thc 17thc 🗃️⚖️ 👉Read online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England' #Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Surprisingly there seems to be far less hat-based-history than they should be

One for all the #Quaker history folks, as well as #DressHistory and #FashionHistory 👇🗃️

📣Out now on #firstview Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England' #Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Piotr Perkowski (University of Gdańsk) on 'Socialist Consumption Revisited: Paternalistic Policies and Consumer Needs during the Polish Crisis' #Communism #Consumption #Economy #Crisis #Socialist #Financial 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Piotr Perkowski (University of Gdańsk) on 'Socialist Consumption Revisited: Paternalistic Policies and Consumer Needs during the Polish Crisis' #Communism #Consumption #Economy #Crisis #Socialist #Financial 20thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This looks amazing!

Cheers to @kabcommons.bsky.social on this stellar article. She is a thoughtful, meticulous scholar. I recommend this to anyone who is interested. And, on a personal note, I am glad to call Kathleen a valued and trusted colleague in the academy-- worth not just a read, but certainly a follow, too.

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

📣Out now on #firstview Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 'Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640' #Migration #History #EarlyModern #England #Immigration 📜 16thc 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Spectacular new #openaccess article by Prof. @ciarab.bsky.social on "Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court" @historicaljnl.bsky.social: vital reading for all in media/medical/legal history or working with digitised print sources🌟

Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can read the article by Michael Edwards, 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660-1689', open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Really interesting read on Pepys & slavery & naval history www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... & more in Michael Edwards @historicaljnl.bsky.social article 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A brand new @historicaljnl.bsky.social article makes the news! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

📣First 2026 Issue of the HJ! Featuring articles from historians including @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @adam-q.bsky.social, @joelherman.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, @feichen-uol.bsky.social and more! 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️📜📘

📣First 2026 Issue of the HJ! Featuring articles from historians including @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @adam-q.bsky.social, @joelherman.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, @feichen-uol.bsky.social and more! 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️📜📘

📣Out now on #firstview! Elad Carmel (@eladcarmel.bsky.social) (@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social) on 'George Wallace and Britain’s First Abolitionist Publication (1760)' #Abolition #Slavery #Law #Scotland 18thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social) on 'Providence, Editorial, and News in Early Modern Ballads' #News #Religion #God #Print #Everyday 17thc 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social) on 'Providence, Editorial, and News in Early Modern Ballads' #News #Religion #God #Print #Everyday 17thc 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Many thanks, dedicated to those who live with and in the afterlives of empire.

Thrilled to have been recognised in this lovely award by @historicaljnl.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @marloavidon.bsky.social for being an excellent camerawoman on a cold and rainy day 💐

@zarakesterton’s incredible pie charts are officially award winning! If you haven’t read her article yet, you must go check it out 💐

My @historicaljnl.bsky.social article has been published open access alongside great articles by @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, and others I couldn't locate here, in the most recent journal issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢We are delighted to announce that Jonah Miller (@wminhumanities.bsky.social) has been jointly awarded The Historical Journal ECR Prize for his article 'Suffrage and the Secret Ballot in Eighteenth-Century London Parishes' ✨Hear Jonah explain more in his HJ Highlight!

📢We are delighted to announce that Zara Kesterton (@zarakesterton.bsky.social) has been jointly awarded The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Artificial Flowers in the Credit Records of an Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Merchant' ✨Hear Zara explain more in her HJ Highlight!

📣Out now on #firstview! Henry Ansgar Kelly (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) on 'Galileo’s Three Repudiations of Copernicanism – Two Coerced and One Volunteered' #Science #Astronomy #Religion #Sun #Inquisition ☀️🔭 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Felix Liber on 'Reading John Selden’s Titles of honor (1614) as a Work of Polemic' #Politics #PoliticalThought #Hobbes #Law #EarlyModern 📜🗃️ 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Felix Liber on 'Reading John Selden’s Titles of honor (1614) as a Work of Polemic' #Politics #PoliticalThought #Hobbes #Law #EarlyModern 📜🗃️ 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I forgot to say, but at the turn of the year my #OA article on the Dutch Republic's godparenthoods has been published with @historicaljnl.bsky.social! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Henry Ansgar Kelly (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) on 'Galileo’s Three Repudiations of Copernicanism – Two Coerced and One Volunteered' #Science #Astronomy #Religion #Sun #Inquisition ☀️🔭 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950' #Empire #Family #Personal #Review 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣Out now on #firstview! Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Imperial Family Biographies and New Approaches to the Family in Histories of the British Empire, c.1650–c.1950' #Empire #Family #Personal #Review 📜🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very happy to announce my article is now out with the @historicaljnl.bsky.social! It reviews the current literature on family networks in the British Empire and biographical approaches to writing imperial history www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣HJ blog! Is political disinformation a product of the internet age? Gordon Pentland explores it in the context of Reform in 1830s Britain 📜 #Reform #Politics #Disinformation #Brexit #Newspapers #Wealth 📣Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

What a joy it's been to co-edit the HJ for the past few years. Sad to step down but very excited to see how the journal grows under its new editorial team!