Last day to apply to join our Nation Committees 📍 As part of our new governance structure, we're looking for 12 members to join our committees to support our work in the four nations of the UK. Find out more and apply by 14 September 👇

💹 Fantastic! @bbcsounds.bsky.social Good, Bad Billionaire just went historical: Rockefeller, Ford and many more. Check out Good, Bad, DEAD Billionaire 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

AI² - Artificial Intelligence in Arts and Industry. Cool events with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and other fine Albertopolis institutions, 10-11 Sept. Tickets 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai2-artifi...

Unlimited digital access to Prospect! To celebrate our 30th anniversary we are giving you free access to Prospect's entire digital archive until 4pm GMT on 8th September. Visit www.prospectmagazine... and enter your email address when prompted to start reading.

Join us, at 6.30pm on Friday 12 September, for our next RHS Lecture: Professor Yasmin Khan on 'Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare' bit.ly/3Hv2jK8 Booking for in-person and online attendance is now open. All are very welcome #Skystorians

London's Leading Literary Festival. A charity embedded in the Wimbledon community. ‘One of the UK’s most important literary festivals’ – Evening Standard 16 – 26 October 2025 Tickets now available 👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org

How McKinsey lost its edge: As it nears 100, is the world’s most illustrious consultancy past its prime?https://www.economist.com/business/2025/08/03/how-mckinsey-lost-its-edge

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. Joshua Bennett on what this means for the future of AI and why poetry matters in a world ruled by tech: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Fascinating mix of art history and science expertise! 👉 youtu.be/4UBOUUZJbMU?...

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

🏛️ 🎙️ Pleasure to speak at @cam.ac.uk conference of @bshsnews.bsky.social. Dr Jen Wallis & I spoke about development of humanities at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, success stories, & ways we make humanities relevant and interesting to #STEM students & staff. www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266274/... 👇

#BSHS2025 Several @bshsnews.bsky.social colleagues in Cambridge asked me about my former student's radical science BSSRS research projects. Good news! There's a YouTube video of it here 👉 youtu.be/fH2rI--XfP8?...

☀️ 💐 Thank you to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social President Hugh Brady and Provost Ian Walmsley for the kind invitation to Imperial's 2025 Garden Party. What a lovely time to catch up with colleagues and hear so many impressive success stories. more/👇

Fascinating insights and input from @iipp-ucl.bsky.social youtu.be/qcVRbSPec_k?...

Fascinating, brand-new @wired.com interview with a former DOGE employee 👉 www.wired.com/story/uncann...

🌟That’s a wrap! In addition to #history of #science, #bioscience #futures, #environmental #tech, & more (e.g. imperial.ac.uk/centre-for-l...), I'm proud of my new @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social course: The Digital Transformation: Economics, Organisations, Society (imperial.ac.uk/horizons/mod...) 👇

Next Wednesday, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture. This year's lecturer is Prof Peter Gatrell who will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' bit.ly/44xmpfx The Lecture is at 6.30pm at Mary Ward House, London, and online and all are welcome #skystorians 1/2

📰 💡 For those following these interesting developments, today @hmtreasury.bsky.social published a fresh Office of Value for Money overview. It's comprehensive & is worth your time, for both the specific plans, outlined by department, & general conceptualisation 👇 www.gov.uk/government/p...

➡️ Rethinking Public Value in the Age of DOGE IIPP Forum 2025 - #RethinkingTheState Join IIPP Profs @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @damonsilvers.bsky.social‬ in conversation with @choprausa.bsky.social‬ on lessons for public purpose and innovation today. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/NbKqllY

📢 Call for Papers – BHC 2026 in London! 📢 📅 Deadline: Oct 17 2025 📍 Imperial College London, UK 🔗 ℹ️ thebhc.org/2026-bhc-mee... #BizHis #BHC2026 shanehamilton.bsky.social jenniferblack.bsky.social davidchansmith.bsky.social ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social rowenaolegario.bsky.social

Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities: By design, engineering has long been entangled with the humanities by Allison Marsh and ‪@spectrum.ieee.org spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum...

💡 Fascinating new insights into the Spycatcher affair via @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

History & Policy will shortly be unveiling the first publicly-searchable database of historians with policy-relevant expertise. If you are a professional historian who would like to engage more with policymakers, there's still time to submit a profile. Register your interest here: bit.ly/3YMcsXu

How is tech reshaping #photographic archives? 📷 Join this hybrid conference on 📅29 May ⏰09:45–13:30 CET! Learn from top experts, explore heritage, tech & innovation. In Florence or online.💻 🤝 #photoconsortium #eureka3D @eui-euarchives.bsky.social ➡️ Programme & registration: shorturl.at/pomyP

I really enjoyed writing this Substack piece with Jake Taylor-King on Radical Simplicity 📚https://wildtypehuman.substack.com/p/towards-radical-simplification / more 👇

🙌A delight to attend yesterday's @sciencemuseum.org.uk & @stsucl.bsky.social 40th anniversary celebration of history of science classic 'Leviathan and the Air Pump'. Thanks for organising!🙏'https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/events/2025/may/leviathan-and-after-celebration-history-science-field-and-its-future

Join us! The Society welcomes applications for Fellowship from professional historians working in higher education and other sectors. Our Fellows make an original contribution to historical scholarship, through publications, public history, archives or heritage. For more see bit.ly/4iOu51g, 1/2

🏛️ Looking forward to this @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event, tomorrow, 13 May 2025, on these exact topics! In person/online tickets available. 🎟️ 👉 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/trump-...

💡 ✨ Very proud to present my @historyandpolicy.bsky.social article 'The Gospel of Efficiency: DOGE and the UK Office of Value for Money in historical perspective' to the world 👉 historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper... more 👇

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

The recent establishment of the UK’s Office of Value for Money is the latest attempt to identify “efficiency savings” in government. Yet as @mrweatherburn.bsky.social argues in a new policy paper, similar efforts in the past have been fraught with difficulties. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

💡 ✨ Very proud to present my @historyandpolicy.bsky.social article 'The Gospel of Efficiency: DOGE and the UK Office of Value for Money in historical perspective' to the world 👉 historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper... more 👇

Exciting upcoming FREE conference at St. Cross College, @ox.ac.uk: Measure for Measure: A History of Measurement. Tickets 👉 stx.web.ox.ac.uk/event/happ-o...

💡 ☀️ Inspiring to attend @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's PRISM conference! 👨‍🌾 An offshoot from the ongoing Good Science project (www.imperial.ac.uk/about/leader...), we attended a day on 'Prism of Research - a conference on research culture'. Info 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18952.... /more 👇

It's been a real treat to contribute over the past year to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's new MSc Bioscience Futures, with extended workshops on 🆕 Ethics for entrepreneurs 🏢 Business ethics 🔮 Futures. Plus, to discuss at Imperial's 2025 education festival! 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/262394/...

Tremendous discussion of the value of history to policymakers at @britishacademy.bsky.social on Wednesday and a great opportunity to be able to talk about the work of History & Policy @ihr.bsky.social. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/looking...

Thanks for having me! A superb event 🙏📚

✨ Really proud to be interviewed by the ever-entrepreneurial Prof. Patryk Babiracki for his practical history podcast, exploring Project Hindsight's development over the years, plus what’s coming up 👉 newbooksnetwork.com/historical-c... (the first he's conducted outside the USA)

The British Society for Literature and Science Conference is 20! And to celebrate they are holding a #online conference, 8-9 May 2025. Sign up here: online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/product-cata... Full programme available online: www.bsls.ac.uk/events/confe...

✨ 📚 Interested in writing fiction, non-fiction, publishing, journalism - all writing? Join us at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on Thurs 20 March 2025, for a superb 'Writing Business' event ft. Aifric Campbell, Anita Chandran, Catherine Cho, Jess Popplewell, chair: Gita Ralleigh. /more 👇

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was born #OnThisDay in 1934. He was the first person to journey to space as pilot of the Vostok 1 mission in 1961, spending 108 minutes in orbit and becoming an international celebrity in the process.

We are celebrating 75 years of the PSA 🤩 🥳 As part of our celebration, we want to hear from you too! Got any membership memories or memorabilia? Share them here or email us your stories 🤩

🤝 A real treat to welcome author, broadcaster and thinker Mike O'Sullivan to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, where he addressed our history of science, technology and industry class (info: www.imperial.ac.uk/horizons/mod...). /more 👇

The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history. We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians

💡 Sumit Paul-Choudhury is clearly very popular, as tickets have been shifting really well. We're now making final arrangements. 🎟️ Please book ASAP if you'd like to attend, as we want to ensure we accommodate everyone. Link below 👇 See you then! 🌞

I'm looking for musicians, artists, writers, filmmakers, etc. who are passionate about translating science to a broader audience. The field is at the intersection of geoscience, paleo, climate, biology, and conservation. This is a funded opportunity. Tag your favorite STEAM folks, please!

Do let me know if anyone spots images of 1920s-50s Algeria! 🛩️

🤝 📚 Delighted to welcome the wonderful Sumit Paul-Choudhury to @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social CLCC on Thursday, 23 January 2025. 🧪📡 Former @newscientist.bsky.social editor-in-chief and Imperial physics alumnus, THE BRIGHT SIDE charts 'Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World'. 1/2

The Bright Side by Sumit Paul-Choudhury review – harnessing the power of positive thinking

We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8 This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians