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.

Our upcoming @britishacademy.bsky.social lecture at Kew Gardens next Tuesday is on Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora & will be delivered by Judith Carney. It was sold out but we've managed to release a few extra tickets - free but booking required www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

I've just done a big revision of my post on the #intersex person Margaret Bradley of (aptly) Middlesex. Exploring the scholarship has shown this is rare evidence indeed, one of only a handful of intersex individuals documented in Europe before 1550. Read! Repost! consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...

It's here!! *The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain* Published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social, with chapters from @lloydbowen.bsky.social, @ellyrobson.bsky.social, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & many more: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05... #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️

Very good colleagues across the UK are facing redundancy for having done everything right-- REF success, grant income, programme building on top of the everyday work of teaching and admin and service. We have the wrong business model, the wrong vision of what matters and we're going over a cliff.

Relevant article to read if you're responding to the REF2029 open access consultation: "Nor is this the only unanswered question around the use of AAMs for books. First, do authors want to make widely available an inferior version of a work that might have been years in gestation and writing?" 1/2

Book historical job alert! My brilliant collegues @rozanneversendaal.bsky.social and Natalia Petrovskaia are looking for a PhD candidate in the project ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

"As well as allowing a two-year embargo...the proposed policy does allow a series of exceptions...the proposed policy would not apply to outputs published before the start of 2026 or titles that had publication agreements in place before that date." Consultation runs to 17 June.

18th century Bridget Atkinson’s collection recovered! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I know my academic followers in the UK know this, but voting in the democratic union elections is essential to maintaining UCU as a force for positive change in universities. Don’t like what went down last year? VOTE! Worried about the future of all universities? VOTE!

Microhistories! I'm just finalising the sessions for my Summer Term MA Option at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and getting excited. Apparently there's still one place left for someone who's not a Birkbeck student to take it as a stand-alone credit-bearing module: www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/2023...

This is what it’s like now for LGBTQ+ students at the University of Houston. Of course, no one with the university told anyone about this. We found out from these signs which were posted last week.

New article by me: "Calico Madams and South Sea Cheats: Global Trade, Finance, and Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian England." It's about the connections between the South Sea Bubble and calico crisis in 1720-21. Open access! #earlymodern #18thc #17thc 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jim Sharpe was a titan of early modern British history and he'll be sorely missed. His excellent work on crime, violence, social relations, witchcraft, and much more has made a lasting impact on the field and it will continue to.

Astonishing material on the dream lives (in fact the violent nightmares) of London factory girls in the 1930s. It’s hard to think of many comparable historical sources to study the dreams of working women 🗃️

Really sad to report that my former York colleague Jim Sharpe, author of nine books and innumerable articles on early modern social and cultural history and a great colleague, died last night. Many condolences to his friends and family. www.york.ac.uk/history/peop...