The 2026 special issue, edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones is now live! The issue is the product of a 2023 conference at @durhamhistory.bsky.social discussing collective action and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland in the long nineteenth-century: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...

📣 CFP for a workshop I’m co-convening with UGM as part of the DEVHIST project in Yogya on 8-10 September 2026. Travel support is available for Indonesian and intl speakers. Please share!!

Our #1832AtoZ has reached X. We don’t have any x-ray or xylophone-related posts to draw on, so X is for the mark on a ballot paper. Here’s our post on the first use of the secret ballot at a parliamentary election: historyofparliament.com/2013/08/15/f...

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

Now open!

#Skystorians #History Great event klaxon! For all those interested in developing a post-PhD second project, this is the event for you! Highly recommended!

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Elizabeth, Marchioness Conyngham, is best known as the final mistress of George IV. However, as Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones explores below, her electioneering activity offers an important example of the behind-the-scenes roles wealthy women could play in politics during the 19th century.

Congratulations to @fayboundalberti.bsky.social for the publication of “The Face: A cultural history” today! You can now get it from your preferred bookshop in the UK! tinyurl.com/the-face-fba @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social @ctb-kcl.bsky.social #histmed #histtech #body

Happy #PubDay to @fayboundalberti.bsky.social! THE FACE is a brilliant, wide-ranging look at how we interpret faces—and what those interpretations say about us. I didn’t even know about face blindness until reading this. You’ll never look at first impressions the same way. shorturl.at/3AbAG

This was such an exciting article to edit - a history of the Highland Clearances and the sustainable customs it left behind, written (literally) from the ground up.

Also, please welcome @fayboundalberti.bsky.social to Bluesky! She's a brilliant culture historian specializing in the history of emotions and medicine. If you like my stuff, you're gonna love her stuff. Highly recommend you hit that follow button and make your timeline infinitely more interesting!

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season. Find more information at the link below! www.nacbs.org/news/prize%2...

I’m chairing an online seminar by Sue Bishop (University of Leicester) tonight at 5.30pm. ‘Considering ‘mixed’ romantic relationships, female choices and everyday multiculturalism in Britain, 1960s-1980s: Love beyond boundaries’. All welcome. Please book in advance. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

How did we get here and where are we going? International analysts and policymakers are likely to be pre-occupied by these deceptively simple questions as they attempt to understand and navigate the shifts in our current global order.

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

#History #Skystorians New article drop and a very timely one it is: Christopher Gerteis's 'Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Excellent talk yesterday at our seminar by Ian Archer 16thC children's work - some of it under the aegis of charity - beginning a conversation tbc in our colloquium this year - Monday 22nd June, 'Charity, Humanitarianism, and Childhood' get your abstracts in! deadline 13th March 2026

Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

This CfP for a conference at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social organised by Erik de Lange looks great: "Trouble on the Line: The Materiality and Fragility of Global Communication Networks, 1851-1949" #HistIR royalhistsoc.org/calendar/tro...

Job in early modern history at Warwick 👇 warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Our AHRC group is celebrating research on histories of internationalism with 3 events. 1. Our conference on ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ will take place 19-20 March at Birkbeck. We’re thrilled to be joined by an amazing line-up of speakers. Reserve your space via www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Great new book klaxon!

The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference is out! It will take place in Lyon on 21-24 April 2027. It is organised by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social, with thousands of colleagues and lively exchange in many small groups. More info here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

Six month book-versary!

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

Reminder that the Consortium for #histSTM has research fellowships available (d/l april 15) for travel to 2 or more of its constituent members. Tho' most are in US, McGIll, U of Toronto and Wellcome Collection are also options for ppl who can't travel safely to US for research 🗃️

Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize. The deadline for entries is 30 June 2026 (Please share widely) sslh.org.uk/2026/02/19/l...

The most important event you’ve never heard of! Maybe not, but I’m really excited this is finally out as Metrovick is tremendously entertaining and says more about interwar Britain than you might think.

#History #Skystorians Double new article drop from forthcoming Churchill special issue! First up, the intro by Allen Packwood, @richardtoye.bsky.social & Jayne Gifford's ' "Three Circles": Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters's "The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World" is nearly there @harvardpress.bsky.social! And I cannot wait. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #YayArchives

#History #Skystorians Two more reviews, first up Michael Hicks on John Watts's The War of the Roses: A Medieval Civil War (CUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

🚨Job klaxon 🚨 Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️ More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

#History #Skystorians New review drop! @henryjmiller.bsky.social on Adrian Bingham's Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: A New History of British Democracy, 1918-1992 (OUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f

Fellowship Opportunity! Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...

#Skystorians #History Double article drop! Both from forthcoming special issue on Churchill. First up, Luvuyo Wotshela's 'Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899-1955', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#Skystorians Exciting conference klaxon!

📣 Manchester (& nearby folks)! The brilliant @profkfh.bsky.social will be speaking about how her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire, came to be in conversation with Dr. Fred Schurink at our next @uomenglish.bsky.social research seminar. Join us next THURSDAY, 12 Feb from 4-5 pm in Sam Alex SG.16.

Marvelous. I think this would be very useful in pointless internet debates when you've clearly both run out of actual relevant things to say but neither wants to walk away from the thread.

@estefwright.bsky.social has chosen Coreen Anne McGuire's review article, 'Disability History Gets to Work' - a "beautifully written piece [which] reflects on the broader social significance of this blossoming field" | @coreenanne.bsky.social [2/7] tinyurl.com/yu93k7ua

Great postdoc opportunity here!

Current calls for RHS funding (closing 6 March) bit.ly/4tdarCb: > David Berry Fellowship in History of Scotland, for all career stages > Early Career Fellowships Grants > Open Research Support Grants, for mid-career historians Applications from current RHS Fellows / Members now invited 1/2

Check it out, we're planning a special issue of @frenchhistory.bsky.social for the 700th anniversary of the advent of the Valois dynasty! Details and timeline at the link below, but don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions 😊

We're hiring! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

my thesis in english is full text open access: utheses.univie.ac.at/detail/57914

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...