December Issue: Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @kingshistory.bsky.social

This Wednesday! We wrap up our seminar series this term with: 'Medical Diasporas: Chinese Medicine in London and a Family Case Study' – Jieluan Huang 🗓️ Wednesday 25 March 🕰️ 15.30-17.00 📍8th floor, Strand building #histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

📌 Coming up in our seminar series next week! Jieluan Huang, 'Medical Diasporas: Chinese Medicine in London and a Family Case Study' 🗓️ Wednesday 25 March 🕰️ 15.30-17.00 📍8th floor, Strand building www.kingschostm.com/seminar-series #histmed #histsci #histtech #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

Screening of 'Palestine 36' directed by Annemarie Jacir WHEN: Thursday, 26 March 2026 at 18:00 WHERE: Bush House Auditorium BH (N) 0

'Men’s faces are under scrutiny as never before, in positions of cultural as well as political power: on red carpets, in tabloid closeups, across social media feeds, and in movies, TV shows and adverts'. An article by our colleague @fayboundalberti.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

It's world book day! To celebrate, here are three recent publications by incredible colleagues @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingschostm.bsky.social and @cemskcl.bsky.social running the gamut from #EarlyModern to #HistSTM 🗃️

We have a new Modern World History MA! media.kcl.ac.uk/media/t/1_o9...

📣Interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in the history of STM? Wishing to apply to our Hans Rausing Scholarship? Then this webinar is for you! Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM Thursday 12 March 17.00-18.00 (GMT) Register via Eventbrite ⬇️ #histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm

“Who is feeding our children while we are making history?” That was Robert Chelsea’s question when asked about being the first African American face transplant recipient. Robert and I talked to Annie Kelly @todayinfocus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/p/x4dd6m?CMP... #BlackHistoryMonth

Published today! The new book by our colleague @fayboundalberti.bsky.social 'The Face: A cultural History' www.penguin.co.uk/books/459227...

Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

💡 Call for applications to our Hans Rausing scholarship is open until 17 April. Contact a prospective supervisor before applying to one of @kingshistory.bsky.social programmes. 🛎️ First round of applications to the MAs closes 9 March! www.kingschostm.com/funding-oppo... #histsci #histtech #histstm

New article! Stephen Lovell @kingshistory.bsky.social on 'The Parliamentarisation of the Soviet Union: Gorbachev and Representative Democracy' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Make Ready! 🏰 On 3 March, Isobel Barnard from @kingshistory.bsky.social will present: ‘The Castle in 14th Century Scotland: A Sociological Study of Masculine Identity'. 🗓️ 03 March ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️ IN PERSON @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 ONLINE Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

🇩🇪 Dr @katrinschreiter.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social & @kingshistory.bsky.social says while powerful men have been credited with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the true heroes were everyday men and women 🎧️ Listen on No One Saw It Coming with @marcfennell.bsky.social ⬇️

Thanks to @chrismanias.bsky.social for his talk yesterday on his exciting new project “Deep Time and the Polycrisis.” Keep an eye on what comes out of it! And many thanks to all attendants for a great discussion! @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #histsci #histstm #polycrisis

Already a couple of reviews for our colleague @fayboundalberti.bsky.social's book 'The Face: a cultural History'. Congrats!

Now on Early View: 'The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages'. By Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita & Spike Gibbs. @jordanclaridge.bsky.social @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social‬ @kingshistory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read @fayboundalberti.bsky.social latest piece in The Guardian. Her book "The Face: A Cultural History" is coming out later this month! www.theguardian.com/science/2025... @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @ctb-kcl.bsky.social #histmed #histtech #histsci #histstm

Congratulations to our colleague Professor Francisco Bethencourt who has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu il Advanced Grant for his project 'New Christian Materiality, 1450-1750 (MATERIA)'! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-chr...

Our colleague @fayboundalberti.bsky.social will be talking about #loneliness @britishacademy.bsky.social on Thu 19 Mar 2026, 18:30 - 19:45 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

🔔 Next in the CHoSTM seminar, we will have @chrismanias.bsky.social talk about his new project: 'Deep Time and the Polycrisis' 18 February 2026 16.00-17.30 Strand Building See more about this event in our website www.kingschostm.com/seminar-series #histsci #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

The Modern World History MA at King’s College London offers a global, interdisciplinary approach to historical study, taught by leading experts in the heart of London. media.kcl.ac.uk/media/t/1_dj...

🧠 Today is Time to Talk Day 🧠 Professor Alana Harris' work at @kingshistory.bsky.social seeks to recover the names and stories of those buried anonymously in former asylum cemeteries to be respectfully remembered. Read more 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/article/asyl...

Well done to our colleague David Brydan who has just published his new book 'Smart: a history of #intelligence' #skystorians

TOMORROW! The next session of our seminar series will be a discussion of @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900 (2027). #histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

What changes were made to REF2029 as part of last December's 'unpausing'; and what are the likely implications - positive and negative - for History and the wider humanities? New on the RHS blog: bit.ly/3ZIfe0P #Skystorians @artsandhums.bsky.social

New article! Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @kingshistory.bsky.social

Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...

👨‍👧‍👧 Professor Lara Feigel (@kingsenglish.bsky.social) discusses child custody cases of the past and today, and the relationship between motherhood and feminism with Dr Hannah Dawson (@kingshistory.bsky.social). 📆 29 January ⏰ 19:00-21:00 📍 Second Home, Spitalfields secondhome.io/event/custod...

A new Master’s degree by the Department of History is now open for applications. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l... #MA #History

📚 Abdoolkarim Vakil from @kingsdllc.bsky.social and @kingshistory.bsky.social analyses Miguel Real's O Ultimo Europeu – 2284 (The Last European – 2284) and its strands of orientalist and racialised invasion and race-war speculative fiction on 4 February. 🔗 Learn more 👇

The Department of History will host a Memorial Evensong for Professor Peter James Marshall FBA CB next week.

Last year some of our members collaborated with our colleagues Sabers en Acció, a fantastic initiative by the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica and the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero. More here: tinyurl.com/3c94tpsa @angarbelmar.bsky.social @jrbsjrbs.bsky.social

"It's a morbid symptom, Anglo-futurism, and that's where British politics is, it is stuck with the fantasies of world leadership and renewal through deregulation. I mean, it's tragic. That's where we are." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSxc...

Want to study the history of science and/or technology? We invite applications for fully-funded MA+PhD (1-3 years) or PhD-only (3 years) Hans Rausing scholarships. Deadline is 17 April 2026 (we advise to check @kingshistory.bsky.social application deadlines) Find out more: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py

Our colleague David Brydan talked to Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social about the bombing of #Guernica for the History Hit podcast shows.acast.com/c939f8d1-c4b...? #Gernika

Its hard to talk sense about progress - with many others I had a go .... @kingschostm.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🌟 We have launched a suite of new doctoral studentships through our new Doctoral School 🌟 Over 30 places are now open for applications for the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities. More details and how to apply 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu... @komldsp.bsky.social @adaptai.bsky.social

We have a new Modern World History MA! www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Congratulations to @marie-trcht.bsky.social, a 3rd year doctoral student in our department, who is the winner of the inaugural Mabel Mills prize awarded by the Pipe Roll Society. Her essay will be published in the next volume of Thirteenth Century England in 2026 #medieval #medievalsky #skystorians

Great publicity for the next phase of 'Us and Them' with Freewheelers, @kingshistory.bsky.social and Surrey History Centre: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well done to our colleague @davidedgerton.bsky.social who appears in the 3rd episode of @davidolusoga.bsky.social #empire series on #BBC2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

By our colleague @davidedgerton.bsky.social with Karel Williams: a call for a new way of doing things, starting with water www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab... @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

Our colleague @fayboundalberti.bsky.social has spent six years interviewing patients and their loved ones, and working with surgeons to understand the history and ethics of face transplants www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

📽️ Shape the future of audiences, AI, and creative technologies Our new Doctoral studentship is open for applications for Oct 2026. "Your unique perspective and experience are what we’re looking for." - Director, Sarah Atkinson By @kingsartshums.bsky.social @guildhallschool.bsky.social & LSBU

Well done to our colleagues in the History Department www.kcl.ac.uk/news/arts-hu...

Well done to our former student Berry Pillot de Chenecey @berrypillot.bsky.social who has just won the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social (IHR) Pollard Prize for best postgraduate paper delivered in any IHR seminar series during the past year.