'Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?' bit.ly/4oHCWEQ New @russellgroup.bsky.social research highlights how many humanities graduates take up careers in the government's priority sectors, as set out in the recent White Paper #Skystorians 1/2

We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Happy to answer any questions via DM or email

Thank you @lflannigan17.bsky.social for this really thoughtful review of our #PowerOfPetitioning book! doi.org/10.1093/ehr/... She's right that 16th-century petitions don't get enough attention here, but you can read the 'ambitious' book for yourself to find out more: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social reviews 'The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain', ed. Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and Jason Peacey academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @uclpress.bsky.social

Amy Blakeway reviews 'Life at the Margins in Early Modern Scotland', ed. Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social and Susanne Weston academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Michael Bentley reviews 'German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship after 1945', ed. Karen Hagemann and Konrad H. Jarausch academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social

Conor O'Brien reviews 'The Age of Alfred: Rethinking English Literary Culture c.850–950', ed. Amy Faulkner and Francis Leneghan academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Joseph S Meisel reviews 'Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship', by Anne B. Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Noah Millstone reviews 'Political Culture, the State, and the Problem of Religious War in Britain and Ireland, 1578–1625', by R. Malcolm Smuts academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Miles Larmer reviews 'Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism, and Race', by M.T. Howard academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social reviews 'The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England', by Steve Hindle academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Jessica Patterson @jempatterson.bsky.social reviews 'Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule', by Callie Wilkinson @chwilkinson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Jim van der Meulen reviews 'The Fabric of the City: A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres', by Peter Stabel academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

J. Suzanne Farmer reviews 'Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs', by Pamela Buck academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

S.I. Rubinstein reviews 'The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present', by Oswyn Murray academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Brian Harrison reviews 'The Mystique of Running the Public House in England: Quest for El Dorado, 1840–1939', by David W. Gutzke academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Glenn Richardson @glennrichardson.bsky.social reviews 'Comment la confiance vient aux princes: Les rencontres princières, 1494–1788', by Jean-Maire Le Gall and Claude Michaud academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @editions-puf.bsky.social

Jack H Guenther reviews ‘"Die Scylla und Charybdis der socialen Frage": Urbane Sicherheitsentwürfe in Hamburg und London (1880–1900)', by Christine G. Krüger @chrigkrueg.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @karldietzberlin.bsky.social

William Whyte reviews 'Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital', by Ijlal Muzaffar academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @utexaspress.bsky.social

Ali Anooshahr reviews 'Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement', ed. Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud R. Toledano and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Mary MacDiarmada reviews 'Conflict, Diaspora and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922', by Darragh Gannon @dgannon2016.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Ana Echevarria reviews 'Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile', by Alun Williams academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Peter Gurney reviews 'Building a Social Science: Nineteenth-Century British Cooperative Thought', by Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social reviews 'Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions', by Katlyn Marie Carter academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @yalepress.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Ingrid Rembold reviews 'Carolingian Experiments', ed. Matthew Bryan Gillis academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Felix Waldmann reviews 'Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America', by Brian P. Levack academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Adam Bronson reviews 'Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present', by Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Satoshi Mizutani reviews 'The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion', by Chris Suh @chrissuh.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Jüri Kivimäe reviews 'Remembering the Dead: Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia', by Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @brepols.net

Jeff Schauer reviews 'Party Politics and Populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and Political Change, 1955–2014', by Sishuwa Sishuwa academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Dušan Zupka reviews 'Stephen I, the First Christian King of Hungary: From Medieval Myth to Modern Legend', by Nora Berend academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

John Robertson reviews 'The Enlightenment: An Idea and its History', by J.C.D. Clark academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Ben Wiedemann reviews 'England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c.680–1073', by Benjamin Savill academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @camedieval.bsky.social

James M Robertson reviews 'Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity', by Marina Falina academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

We have many new book reviews available on advance access, here: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

New article (OA): Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social on 'Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

The editors of the EHR would like to record their thanks to Hannah Skoda for her many years of service to the journal, and to welcome Katharine Sykes as her successor as one of our Reviews Editors.

The editors of the EHR would like to record their thanks to Hannah Skoda for her many years of service to the journal, and to welcome Katharine Sykes as her successor as one of our Reviews Editors.

New article! Tim M. Schmidt on 'Social Democracy, Multi-Ethnicity, and National Conflict: Belgium and the Bohemian Lands, 1885–1940' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Lewis Darwen on 'Workhouse Labour, Less Eligibility and the New Poor Law'. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

This has been a while in the making. Grateful to the great team @enghistrev.bsky.social

New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on Open Access! Noah Millstone on 'Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Stefan G. Holz on 'Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #medieval

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

From the Carolingians to the Northern Ireland Peace Process, from Yorkshire to the Middle East and beyond, from civil war to cricket to the agency of cattle, EHR is open to the full range of historical inquiry. academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

Our June/August issue is out, in paper and here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

New article on Advance Access: Matthias Berlandi, 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article on Advance Access: Dmitry Sterkhov 'With God against Napoleon: Military Mobilisation and Patriotic Preaching in Prussia during the Spring Campaign of 1813' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...