📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 24 February with Désha Osborne presenting a paper on “Of a ‘lively dark eye’ or ‘chilly and tender’: Jane Austen, the Morality of Empire, and the Hidden Scottish Presence" 🗓️ Tuesday 24 February, 5pm 📍 HG/21, Heslington Hall 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham! Keep on reading to find out more...(1/9)

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!

We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up! Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections. 📍 The London Archives 📅 1 April + 3 June 🕛️ 1-4:30pm

This looks brilliant & if anyone is in need of inspiration take a look at the work of colleagues at @hexhistory.bsky.social & articles in @hexhandbook.bsky.social. Lots to think about in this fascinating field of history.

The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

We are organising a big "Festival of Social History" at the IHR, Friday April 24. The ticket price is an absolute steal for SHS members (join!). Trust me when I say this one's built different, it will be a hands-on day demonstrating how vibrant and engaged UK social history is. ONLY £10!

Our conference #cfp is now live! This year's conference, "Embodied Histories: Body, Mind and Experience" will take place on 17th July 2026 at University of Birmingham! Keep on reading to find out more...(1/9)

It was a real pleasure and privilege for the @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar to host a showcase of postgrad students' work in migration history with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social last night - some fascinating papers on academic mobility, gender, vikings and Irish "displaced patriots"

The Job Applications in History panel discussion on 4 Feb 2-4pm is now a hybrid session. Book your place to attend in person or over Zoom. #ResearchTraining www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 Job opportunity: Digital Communications Officer (maternity leave cover) We are recruiting a part-time Digital Communications Officer (12-month fixed-term contract)! 17.5 hrs per week £37,085 pro rata Apply by 25 Jan 2026 Find out more and apply: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #CommsJobs

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026 Deadline: 1 May 2026 Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost.

The 4-part American #WWII home front #history series begins this week! Jim Belcher, Jr. presents “Two Hearts, One Flag” on Jan. 22, and Clarissa Ceglio presents “A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy” on Jan. 23. https://community.ncph.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=WWIIWebinars2026#WWII#history#AmericanHistory

🔊 Reminder: Abstracts for the UK American Studies Against the Genocide symposium are due by 6th February. We are also hoping to extend this into a broader network of scholars committed to organising against the genocide in the field. Please share widely + follow the below account.

#Skystorians #LocalHistory Join us early next year for three new 'Discovery Courses' covering maps, towns and buildings, and archaeology for local historians. Details in the link! @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social

Join us in 2026 for our new @ihr.bsky.social Discovery Courses! - Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place - Townscape & Architecture in History - Archaeology for (Local) History Each 2 days + optional free extra day of guided research @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Hello! A little Sunday evening survey... 📝 We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures... Pls repost!

@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social presents ‘Christmas Connections @ York’, December 17, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/histor...

Don't miss this webinar with our 2024-25 outreach fellow and postgraduate researcher Immy Tozer!

Call for Convenors - The Law and Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (LHub) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) invite proposals from conveners for a new History and Law seminar to be launched in May 2026. Download call 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

WINTER Term Card: We are excited to share our seminar schedule for next term! Our slate of speakers cover a range of #18thc British history topics. Registrations are now open (with paper abstracts) at the link below 👎 @ihr.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 (or 🔔?!) #Skystorians of York & North-East England! Can we tempt you to a free, informal afternoon of #ECR community, support & networking? Join the @historylabplus.bsky.social committee for our 'CHRISTMAS CONNECTIONS@YORK' event on 17 December from 12:00 at York Art Gallery cafe! 👇 for more info

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

📢 Don't forget about our Olivette Otele Prize! 🏆 This is a fantastic opportunity so please share widely with your networks 🤩

🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝

Join us on Thursday 13th November to hear Sendeke Awota Mesele discuss the "Red Terror in Gondar town, Ethiopia, 1975-1980". We are very much looking forward to this talk! To sign up, either scan the QR code or use the link below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us on 27th November at 5.30pm to hear @nrhopwood.bsky.social talk about a late medieval Icelandic saga on dragons 🐉 we can't wait for this one! Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’m very excited to talk about one of my favourite sagas with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social on 27th November! It’s online, so please sign up and come along, it’ll be a great, dragon-y time 🐉

History Day at senate house organised by the @ihr.bsky.social So nice to meet fellow historians on their career journey and encourage them to join @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social and @historylabplus.bsky.social

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

Catch us at @ihr.bsky.social annual History Day on 4th November! 🤩

What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We look forward very much to taking part in #HistDay25 on Tuesday 4 November, hosted @ihr.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social, and featuring more than 70 organisations that enable historical research. It's chance to discover the rich infrastructure that can support your work. #Skystorians

Our next seminar is happening on Thursday 30th October and is titled "From Displacement to Belonging: Heritage, Identity, and Generational Change in Post-1974 Cyprus". Join us with Lara Peeraer to learn more about displacement in Cyprus since the 1974 division. (1/2)

Our next seminar is happening on Thursday 30th October and is titled "From Displacement to Belonging: Heritage, Identity, and Generational Change in Post-1974 Cyprus". Join us with Lara Peeraer to learn more about displacement in Cyprus since the 1974 division. (1/2)

Quick bump for this - a great opportunity for PGRs and ECRs to share their research on migration and mobility!

I really enjoyed being a part of last night's @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social seminar on Historians and the Archive! We talked a lot about archival accessibility, hidden histories, and emotion in the archive. I hope these are conversations we can continue! Thanks so much to everyone who came along! (1/2)

Don't forget that you can submit your paper or panel for a History Lab seminar! We're on the lookout for papers for November and January, so send us an email or submit your abstract via this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social (2/2)

📢 Reminder about our CFP for the Mobility and Migration Seminar in collaboration with @ihr.bsky.social! Please see below for more information on the CFP, abstracts are due on 15th November! Please share widely!

Our next online seminar will be on Thursday 16th October! Join us for this interdisciplinary panel to discuss working in archives and methodologies! To book your place, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

📢Tomorrow! Don't forget about our next online seminar of the academic year which will focus on archives and methodologies! 💻 4 papers will be presented tomorrow which we are very excited for. For more info and to sign up, please see the link below. See you there!

Our next online seminar will be on Thursday 16th October! Join us for this interdisciplinary panel to discuss working in archives and methodologies! To book your place, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

A fantastic welcome to new PhD researchers in history and related disciplines today hosted by the Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social with contributions from @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org colleagues.

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

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

Call For Papers: Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920 Panel at the Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026 Full details and how to submit here:

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

📢 Read the blog post below to find out more about our joint conference with @historylabplus.bsky.social and History UK that took place earlier this year. It was a very interesting and timely conference which showed the significant work behind addressing the challenges faced by academia.

We hosted the first seminar of the academic year yesterday evening and it was brilliant! If you want to share your research with a friendly crowd, or perhaps you're a first time presenter, then consider applying to take part in our seminar series! More info below...

HL+ committee members Dr Alex Rigg & Dr Michael Reeve have written a blogpost about the Teaching in a Time of Crisis Conference 2025 at University of Warwick. Have a read! historylab.plus/blog/ @historyuk.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @alexriggsby.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social