Next week (24 Sept) I'm speaking at the @long18thsem.bsky.social on the English court cases relating to the Chevalier d'Eon, and whether they really made a legal judgment of d'Eon's sex (they did not, but don't you want to find out what was actually going on). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support. I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.

Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage

Studying a #LabourHistory topic for your dissertation or teaching someone who is? We offer dissertation bursaries up to £500 for undergraduate (final year) and taught Masters students sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Tickets now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’. A conference organized by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the @tlrhub.bsky.social. For booking and more information use the link below. Full programme coming in September. www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

Found by the brilliant @thegozfather.bsky.social !!

RIP Frank O'Gorman. He was a lovely man and a brilliant historian, and I was very fortunate that he was my PhD supervisor. I will miss him. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

All welcome. Speakers include @vjctorianist.bsky.social @drdavesteele.bsky.social @dnhamilton.bsky.social & many others not on here! #Chartism #C19th #History #Yorkshire www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

Haha! It worked! I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh? #Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography

RMT at the North Sands Massacre 200th commemoration held in Sunderland yesterday. The event marked the 200th anniversary of the day five striking seafarers were shot dead by soldiers during an industrial dispute in Sunderland. You can read more here: rmtunion.org/41ojeVq

'The research by independent scholar Desirée Baptiste shows that George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, received profits from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations – a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery.' 1/3

Brilliant event at North Sands #Sunderland today, marking the 200th anniversary of the 1825 'North Sands Massacre' when state power was turned on striking sailors, resulting in the deaths of at least seven people at the hands of the military. #Solidarity has no expiry date ✊

200 years ago today 3 sailors and 4 onlookers were shot dead by troops in Sunderland. I've been working with local historians and David Gordon Scott (OU) to raise awareness of this little-known massacre. Today we gathered to mark the bicentenary with speeches and the naming of the dead. (1/2)

One like, one history of poverty opinion

This is why I bang on, whenever I can, about the value of having a browseable archive catalogue, and, you know, browsing through it: rather than thinking you can just zap into a specific target.

this is pretty striking but it is also “crucial” and “important” remember this doesn’t make use of eg “delves” good evidence that a piece of writing is LLM generated: humans have always used this word, too, and (deeeeeeepressingly) there are signs that humans are adapting to write more like LLMs

Turn this off if you still have an Academia.edu account.

For more on Black Mary and her Well, see the excellent Grub Street Project: www.grubstreetproject.net/places/90234/ #History #BlackHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Harriet Grote in 1792. As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

New article today for the #HistParl site. @joecozens.bsky.social explores the records of John Lewis, a Black sailor arrested at the 1828 Weymouth by-election, and how his story serves as an example of Black political participation in the early 19th century: historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...

@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...

New post today from @victoriancommons.bsky.social, and the first in a new series. @martinspychal.bsky.social explores the life and career of Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP: historyofparliament.com/2025/06/12/p...

In the first of an important new series, drawing on sources ranging from photographs to parliamentary reports, @martinspychal.bsky.social looks at the life and career of Scotland's first Black MP, Peter McLagan, MP for Linlithgowshire, 1865-93. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/p...

Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea share.google/VZHDnXwwXgHz...

Join us next Wednesday at the University of Northampton as we take the Seminar on the road! Starting at 15:00 hyrid, John Coffey (Leicester) will present on the ongoing Wilberforce Diaries project. The event will be proceeded by a walking tour of Northampton! www.history.ac.uk/events/diari...

The UK academic sector jobs market in History is now so poor that my jobs.ac.uk account has emailed me to suggest I search for something else... 🤷‍♂️

My 1st proofs arrived! Anothr call out for if you are a writer or famous and fancy giving a review or pull quote, lemme know.

Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Very much looking forward to meeting the next generation of 18th c. historians at tomorrow's 'Lightning Talks' @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome, either online or in person; but please register www.history.ac.uk/events/light...

The ESTC is back (mostly) 😭😭😭 datb.cerl.org/estc

In May 1842, the second Chartist Petition was presented to Parliament, with over 3 million signatures on a 6 mile-long, 300kg roll of paper. Find out more about how this petition was ultimately rejected below:

Fully funded collaborative PhD at British Library & Northumbria Uni (Northern Bridge DTP) 'The Northern Echo & Politics of Place' (start Oct 25) - deadline 2 June 19thc British political, social & press history through country's most important 'provincial' paper www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Copy edits and corrections on the book MS submitted! Now to await the proofs and plan a book tour for autumn. Lemme know if you are a bookshop or library and want me to plug my book at your venue. Pre order here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

I'm excited to be speaking at @long18thsem.bsky.social on 30 April at @ihr.bsky.social. It's a dark topic with a lot of modern relevance given the ongoing threat to women's reproductive rights. Join in person or online (it's free) #skystorians #history #AcademicSky www.history.ac.uk/events/force...

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a friend sent me this one

PhD opportunity co-supervised by me: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM400/p...

Teaching my last classes this academic year for my module at KCL on Early Modern Worlds and one of the students shared this with me😭

1826 - Chief Justice of the King's Bench complains that Jurymen have had their pockets picked and their hats pinched while attending the court! Paging; @thegozfather.bsky.social discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6...

New project funded with £1 million by Lloyd's Register Foundation at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy explores the history of transatlantic slavery. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/m... 1/3

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), Parable of the Talents, 1998

Happy Monday. Years ago I meant to get a research paper with a pathologist pal off the ground, looking at fatal Victorian wrestling matches. Never had the time. Maybe one day, though! Or I'll incorporate it into book two. This was always a favourite report, particularly the last line.

UK universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system. www.historyworkshop....

Two UK (home status) bursaries available for V&A's fab MA in the History of Design for 2025-26. Bursaries cover the full £17,000 fee. Under-represented groups supported by the scheme include for example African, Caribbean, Asian backgrounds, refugee status, care-leavers, disability, & low-income.