🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Deadline to submit draft application is this Wednesday (4th Feb)! We're hosting a webinar on drafting applications for postdoc fellowships on 12th Feb. Your application will be reviewed and discussed by assessors and successful applicants. Full details below.

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration. tinyurl.com/229on2w7 @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social

We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Haven't yet had time to read Toby's Green's 2025 The Heretic of Cacheu? Find out swiftly about Crispina Peres, 'the most powerful trader in the town in the 1650s-60s'. #Skystorians

A 🧵 of CEMS events and opportunities this term! Next Tuesday at 14:00 we'll be hosting a workshop on doing a PhD. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/doing...

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

An early modern anti-multi-tasking emblem and slogan... “We cannot all do everything” Jacob Hoefnagel, 1634 (British Museum)

How is technology reshaping modern love? Great panel discussion we are holding on this topic on 26 March with @drkatedevlin.bsky.social @lukebrunning.bsky.social @shannonphilip.bsky.social Book here - free - in person or online www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

Join us live at the IHR and online Free registration: tinyurl.com/24fgrxbe @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @sydradford.bsky.social @emiliastu.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social LIGHTNING TALKS 2025

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

While so many politicians & the media are obsessing over 39000 people crossing the channel in small boats in 2025... The Office for National Statistics just announced they got the figure for UK nationals emigrating in 2024 wrong. The ERROR was 97,000 people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us live at the IHR or online. Register: tinyurl.com/2xt3th36 @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social

The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

📣We're into the FINAL WEEK for applications for two Editorial Fellowship positions 2025-27!📣 Deadline is midnight 15th August (that's this Friday!), and the fellowships are open to any early career historians. See the post below for the full details: www.historyworkshop....

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The next round of the BA Talent Development Scheme is open! 🚨I had one of these this year to build historic dress making skills for my performance history work - so culture studies people, don’t be put off, this is also for you!

Many thanks for sharing - we're glad you're looking forward to it - as are we! willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

Fantastic news!

Congratulations to former British Academy Book Prize winner Toby Green FBA on the release of his new book, The Heretic of Cacheu. This powerful history of the global slave trade is told through the life of one woman: Crispina Peres. Out now with Penguin 👉 buff.ly/e7yfl7p

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Now emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

Register: tinyurl.com/2yytrdd8 @ihr.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social

The Institute of Historical Research’s Black British History seminar series is hosting a writing workshop and dinner, before the first GPI Annual Lecture. Full details available on our seminar page: bit.ly/4jycw72 📍 GC202 & GC102, Queen Mary University of London 🗓️ Thursday 30th January ⏰ 16:15

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

On the weaponisation of sound and silence. Extraordinary insights in this piece by audio artist/investigator Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Being a body in a vibrant sonic space: my most personal account of listening ever in the new issue of the Wire magazine. Three.

Just advertised: UCL History Department leave cover (fixed-term, Associate Lecturer, Teaching) from Jan 2025-April 2026). US History. £43,124–£51,610. Deadline 12 Dec 2024. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join us at the IHR Women's History Seminar's inaugural lightning talks. Register: www.history.ac.uk/events/lightning-talks @ihr.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social

A real honour to publish this in the Historical Journal. Thanks so much to Stefan Hanß for all his work in bringing it to print, and to the late, great Natalie Zemon Davis for these extraordinary reflections on scholarship and persecution. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you're in Cambridge (the one in England) on 26 September, this might be of interest: h

Sheffield Museums is appointing a 6-month freelance researcher (Sept 2024-Jan 2025, £6,000) as part of their 'Decolonising Collections: South Asian Connections in Sheffield's Metalwork' project. Expressions of interest by 30 August 2024. Full information from [email protected]

There's no angle from which this is anything other than terrible.

'The changes, backed by...Michael Gove, split A-level courses away from AS-level exams, and... resulted in declining numbers of students combining humanities such as English or music with sciences or maths.'

🚨 more new biographies - of which lots of apothecaries, and a good few midwives! Dr Peter Elmer, and Professor Jonathan Barry have added to the County stuides list!

✨We are thrilled to release the Call for Papers for our Michaelmas Term Programme! The theme for this series of workshops is "Constructing Identities."✨ See below for submission information/deadlines, or DM us for a plain-text version! We can't wait to read your abstracts ✨

Booking now open: online and in person in London:

I'm hugely looking forward to this event - a chance to learn about researching and sharing the rich stories of #BlackBritishHistory from a #local and #place-based perspective. It's never been more important.

Microsoft only bought the 10pt font, and then makes it bigger and smaller. This means the serifs have the wrong proportions if you use anything but 10pt.