Simon Gunn, Erika Hanna and Krista Cowman spoke about their contributions to this book at #UHG2025 a few weeks ago. Very excited to see this out soon 👇

I’m hearing one academic department has over-recruited 500 students. Double the planned number and not enough staff to teach them. Whilst another department has recruited 2 students even after clearing. Who is going to sort out the shitshow that is UK HE?

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

I just learned that Jean-Pierre Piticco has passed away in August. He was the partner of the sociologist Michael Pollak, author of an important study on Jewish women's testimonies of surviving Auschwitz. Piticco was a physician. www.pfg.fr/avis-de-dece...

Does anyone happen to be sitting next to a copy of Tudor Royal Proclamations vol. 2? Archive dot org has the first and third volume and predictably the five (I think) proclamations I need to see are in neither...

This is an especially important blogpost, because ECRs know that senior scholars have far too much on their plate already, but the support of senior scholars (or lack thereof) makes a world of difference to the ECR experience. (My full response follows tomorrow!)

-Senior colleagues can create opportunities for recognition and remuneration, too! -Create prizes, awards etc that help ECRs establish their excellence on paper -Support them to publish new work -write them into grant apps and lobby for paid work of eg teaching, translation, whatever it might be

Other, practical things IMO. -Colleagues in more secure employment can lobby for eg honorary positions for ECRs who want them, essential for access to resources, institutional email etc. -I think we’re also (decades?) past point where *not* giving phd applicants The Talk is profoundly irresponsible

As with the first post, I’m not at all surprised by the rage and disappointment expressed here, but I do think it’s worth having a forum where ECRs can say this anonymously without fear of how this impacts opportunities. frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

I have been blessed with some amazing mentors & networks! Here's my bit paying it forward & expressing my gratitude in, "Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A podcast by ECRs, for ECRs" by @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk #CityStGSCC @citystgeorges.bsky.social

Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying. 2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?” 🗃️#FRHistory frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/

I taught my Year 6 class about Roza Shanina, a nursery school teacher who became a sniper, a master of the ‘doublet’, and killed more than 50 Nazis. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roza_Sh...

This makes me so cross 😡 On my way into work to teach a class that will inevitably involve me #stammering and blocking on words (lots of m words today!) But that's just how I talk. Good for Jessie speaking up & speaking out. bbc.com/news/article...

The Bibliothèque nationale de France has awarded its annual prize to Michelle Perrot in recognition of the entirety of her historical work. Trailblazing historian of gender, prisons, social marginalisation, daily life etc, at 97 years old (!!) she's accumulated quite an impressive back catalogue.

Do join us! 👇

Nice surprise to see my article on Capenhurst Women’s Peace Camp is out today - have a read if interested in space, the weirdness of the Wirral, local feminisms and anti-nuclear activism in Merseyside, and global solidarity movements in the 1980s academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'. Call it by its name.

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

This is an excellent point. 👇

With a lot of gratitude to NHC for the safe space to incubate this lecture, CITAP for supporting my Fellowship application, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize committee and UNC English & Creative Writing Department for the honor.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

A wonderful opportunity with good financial support for a scholar of British periodicals of the 19th c to have time to research, write, think for a period of 4 mos.

New blog post examines the recent Australian 'mushroom murderer' case in the light of historical patterns - the poison used is pretty unique in the history of crime, but there are plenty of other similarities to note: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

Love a historical kitchen? Tune into #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems on Radio 4 tomorrow to go 'below stairs' in an eighteenth-century country house. Our guide is Mary Leapor, a labouring class poet who worked in domestic service. Beneath the worlds of Bridgerton & Jane Austen - who did the washing up?

Abortion bans making pregnancy more dangerous, shaming women for using tylenol, making the world more dangerous for babies: this is all pronatalist because pronatalism is about recreating mandatory childbearing, not making childbearing easier.

There are several animals that appear in the Qur'an. Have you ever wondered about their biblical background? Scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds tackles this question on yalebooks.com.

Very much looking forward to Dan Gosling (TNA) speaking on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon' this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome online or in person, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

Interested in the histories, politics and experiences of motherhood in the UK since 1914? Then give @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social a follow, charting the exciting new @ukri.org funded project @worcesteruni.bsky.social by Dr Anna Muggeridge, @beckierutherford.bsky.social, & Dr Eve Pennington 🌟

Some of the fabulously ornate Victorian wallpaper at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster 🤩

On Thursday 30 October our Trades Union & Employment forum is hosting a special conference @ihr.bsky.social to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it now via the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️

Just out #openaccess in Historical Research: Great new article by William Bainbridge and Stefano Cracolici on academic squabbles and competing disciplinary claims to knowledge and authority regarding Hannibal's crossing of the Alps between the 19th and 21st centuries 🐘🏔 doi.org/10.1093/hisr...

Today! Our first CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Series 2025/26! “The Long Road from Bog Walk: Electricity and Electrification in Jamaica, 1890s–1970s” with Andrew Williams, University of the West Indies (Mona) @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

'Documents detailing the affairs of 19th-century families linked to Sandbach, Tinne and Company, a business that dealt in enslaved people, cotton, sugar and coffee, were being traded online by collectors of rare stamps and postmarks.' 1/2

Great news in era of disappearing/disappeared archives: 'Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester.' @leverhulme.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social

I’m guessing the collapse of the NHS is just a bonus to him. Brits have no idea how bad things might get if this happens. People over here complain about parking costs at hospitals. What will happen when they have to pay for their heart surgery or appendectomy?

"Fight the pain" Pay close attention to this kind of language because normalising and/or belittling women's pain is rank misogyny

“In twenty-three years at Harvard and fifteen as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases.... I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny. Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism dflw.ie/power-gender...

At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

#skystorians British/London Historians - Back in the late 1950s, The Center for Urban Studies put together a symposium "London People & Places" covering Irish, Jewish, Polish and West Indian migration. I've the book Ruth Glass wrote on West Indian - Can't find rest or symposium o/p - any pointers?

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Hello fellow archivists, can anyone think of a citable source for the fact that reformatting (digitization/microfilming) seldom obviates the need to care for the original? Like, you and I know that we don't just throw out 19th-c letters when we take them off the scanner, but LIS profs need refs