Huge thanks to @scl1979.bsky.social for organising a wonderful day at @kewgardens.bsky.social Herbarium and Library. Amazing papers from historians, and great to see how material culture is being used in more schools, particularly from our HA series. Exploring their archive of objects was so special

Pleased to see our @htenuk.bsky.social call for minimum bursary payments for all #ITT students gaining some attention. Equity of access to the profession is important for the health of our education system. www.tes.com/magazine/new... #historyteacher #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation

Enjoy hunting in libraries and archives? PhD placement "Unearthing the roots of Kew Gardens’ history" with @rbgkew.bsky.social and HRP, open to UKRI-funded students. Apply by 11 May, details see link at: kew.org/science/trai... or DM me

Organising a conference on extinction with Duncan Wilson. We have enough funding to provide free registration, some support towards accommodation and limited bursaries for travel. CFP here, with the form to submit your abstract. We also have incredible speakers for the keynote and plenaries!

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle The Shadow of a Young Woman', by Rachel E Johnson bit.ly/4hMppbB Rachel's is latest title in our 'New Historical Perspectives' series with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social 1/3 👇

The Society welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions. Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in museums, heritage, publishing, teaching or public history. For more see bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians

🚨Funding alert🚨: The British Institute in Eastern Africa - where I am part of the research committee - 2025 grant programme is now open for applications! There are opportunities for Writing Fellowships, Thematic Grants, Dissemination Grants, Workshop Grants, ... biea.ac.uk/call-for-app...

*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

New post-doc opportunity at the University of Utrecht researching colonial history of botanical gardens. Looks fascinating www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Good to see this statement from the various professional associations for History about the current crisis in HE, and their support for my department in particular royalhistsoc.org/more-than-ev...

We would welcome support from #history colleagues to help @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social hear the absence of #ITT bursaries is a threat to the future of history in schools! @carolinepennock.bsky.social @drfernriddell.bsky.social @wmarybeard.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @scl1979.bsky.social

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Another lootplunder review in four posts Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read @zoecormack.bsky.social's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... 1/4

Great to see HA conference programme now available for May 9/10 in Liverpool. I'm delighted to see that Michael Riley is delivering the keynote education lecture on 'Why teaching about the historic environment matters more than ever' www.haconference.com

This is all really interesting. Bringing back student number controls won't cost anything, will work to stabilise the hugely-unstable HE sector, and help a lot with other parts of Labour's agenda (as suggested below). But the Government just doesn't seem interested, for no obvious reason at all.

@scl1979.bsky.social @sashasmith.bsky.social will get @alcs-uk.bsky.social Reteach History Podcast Series 3 off to a flying start in the spring with their ‘Objects of Empire’ episode! Loved 🥰 the chat! 🎧

@bsky.app Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections. All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2

Very excited about the publication of the 20th book in the RHS New Historical Perspective series, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z ed. by @mariacannon.bsky.social @lauratisdall.bsky.social. See their blog about the book here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/11/28/h...

'State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions,' by Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson, & Niti Acharya @hisjournalha.bsky.social 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It also links to work History-UK are doing with @histassoc.bsky.social & @htenuk.bsky.social & inc. academics eg. @scl1979.bsky.social. This goes deeper than outreach projects into schools & is about trying to strengthen mutual cross-phase understanding. www.history-uk.ac.uk/collaboratio... 3/

Launched today, this British Academy's pilot project maps changes in provision of UK undergraduate courses in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. 'Cold spots in SHAPE subject access matter. These subjects play a vital and vibrant role in university life, developing critical thinking'. 1/3 #UKHE

Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...

Looking forward to speaking at this #exhibitions and #museumhistory event from @mghg.bsky.social later this month

Although reintroduction of student number controls won't solve the crisis, even the very modest step of reintroducing SNCs into the discussion would improve its quality. The resounding silence on this issue impoverishes both systematic understanding of how HE actually works and policy-making. 3/3

The @ghilondon.bsky.social is hiring! Two positions 3+3 years: 1.) Medieval history with a focus on Britain. 2.) Colonial history of the British Empire/Commonwealth. For questions about the positions, please contact the GHI-Director. For detailed job descriptions: www.ghil.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Our new blog is with Professor Rachel E. Johnson, whose #OpenAccess book in the New Historical Perspectives series publishes in early 2025. Her book examines the life and death of Masabata Loate, a young woman activist in #SouthAfrica. #OAWeek @ihr.bsky.social uolpress.co.uk/2024/10/refl...

'we...need to talk about museums, whose opening times are constantly being hacked back, while staff numbers are falling away. Even people who talk up a long record of resilience and creative thinking now fear widespread closures.'

Hi all. We are still looking for teachers to complete our "Teaching Indigenous Presence..." survey. Will build into the exciting project we are doing to develop resources for schools. Please do share if you can #historyteacher #EduSky urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

A quick blog on the remains of two long-closed museums on display in a third one: markliebenrood.com/museums/the-... 🗃️

Kew Gardens Library and Archive has a brand new catalogue. www2.calmview.co.uk/kew/calmview/

The latest book in our #OpenAccess series with the Royal Historical Society and @ihr.bsky.social, #NewHistoricalPerspectives, is out today. Mapping the State by Martin Spychal rethinks the 1832 Reform Act in the light of a significant new archival discovery. uolpress.co.uk/book/mapping...

This is such a cool idea: Wiley are asking people to nominate their Research Heroes. So, #skystorians why not nominate someone in your department or field. It might help with promotion, be an esteem indicator or simply make someone's day! m.info.wiley.com/webApp/Resea...

Good to see @histassoc.bsky.social arrive.

The 'high-tariff' University practice of gobbling up as many students as possible puts depts like mine at risk and really limits options for a range of students who e.g. can't move away, have perfectly decent, but not stellar grades, and who need the support we offer. 1/

Why will no one in a position to do anything about it talk about capping numbers per institution?

Really delighted to see this article challenging #historyeducation at university & school #historyteacher s to rethink assessment from UoN's Sarah Holland. #EastMids history teachers who attend our #SIG in March may remember this from our conversations there. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

Anniversary of the launch of the Quit India movement in 1942. Watching this Fox Movietone newsreel from then. The voiceover and music are a study in themselves. youtu.be/hRvAaNWBQd0?...

Out now: a new Royal Historical Society blog post by the author of 'Designed for Play', Dr Jon Winder, giving an overview of his #OpenAcess book on the #history of children's playgrounds, published in association with @ihr.bsky.social and the RHS. blog.royalhistsoc.org/2024/07/11/d...

Citizen science, community collaboration, gender equality, environmentalism and more: in a bleak landscape, a promising initiative.

I highly recommend visiting the excellent 'Paper Cuts' exhibition at Birkbeck's Peltz Gallery, curated by @suryabowyer.bsky.social and open until 12 July. I reviewed it for Apollo magazine here: www.apollo-magazine.com/turnbull-wat...

University crisis. The national media taking more interest now (finally). But still little mention of the removal of the Student Cap in 2015. This is a major cause of the crisis & its reintroduction should be a key part of the solution. And our Union needs to shout much more about this.

Rich hunting grounds here for those who research English material culture. English Heritage's Architectural Study Collection (some records of which are being digitised):

A kind-of-creepy-but-beautifully-carved bone model of a guillotine, made by a French POW during the Napoleonic Wars. It's on display at The Box, Plymouth's (UK) museum and archive. Unfortunately it was too low for my creaky knees, so I couldn't get a closer photo through the glass case.

Humanities are being destroyed because they’re incredibly inconvenient to authoritarianism, representing 'a pedagogical practice that embraces the ethical imperative to care for others & historical memory & works to dismantle structures of domination' ... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"The British Empire was an empire OF things and we can effectively explore it THROUGH things." @scl1979.bsky.social 12/

"The distinct histories of the devolved nations of the United Kingdom have undergirded their relationships with the broader British imperial project..."

I'll be speaking on this History UK panel on 6th March with history teacher Sam Jones, teacher trainer David Ingeldew and historian Natasha Hodgson about school-university collaborations. Please join us! www.history-uk.ac.uk/2024/02/08/h...

Some great PhD opportunities here - including one on place identity and the colonial legacy of street names in in four cities wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...