#History #HistIR New article drop! Yixin Tian's 'Sino-Mexican Encounters before the "Diplomatic Opening": Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Society for the Study of Labour History stands in solidarity with those affected and emphasises the importance of protecting history and humanities departments from the threat of closure at the University of Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. Read our statement: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

Many thanks @vahs.bsky.social for invite to speak at its @ihr.bsky.social seminar series. If you missed it & are interested in hearing about our @ukri.org #AHRC #womensgrassrootsactivism project you can watch the recording 👇, complete with me jumping up to answer the door (daughter forgot 🔑 again!).

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

Everyone read the end of it: "Governments in Scotland and Wales have finally realised that a viable, meaningful higher education sector needs greater oversight and control, and cannot be left wholly to the market. Now Westminster needs to wake up to this need for joined-up thinking"

A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇

Applying for the Ronald Duncan Stipends for Southwest writing? ✍️ Why not book an online surgery with an archivist! A great opportunity to ask questions & discuss archives that could inspire your work. More info, book a surgery & apply ⬇️ @exetercityoflit.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

After the recent prorogation and subsequent State Opening of Parliament, Dr Kathryn Rix takes us back to 1834, where four prorogations took place in the same year! However, as she explores, not all these prorogations happened in the same place: @victoriancommons.bsky.social

#HistIR #History #Skystorians round table on Thomas Gidney's 'An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations' (CUP, 2025), featuring @jakehodder.bsky.social & Susan Pedersen, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The British History in the Long 18th Century seminar meets again on Wednesday next week. As ever, we're in person at the IHR, London and online on Zoom. All welcome. Register through the link below: the seminar is free and open to the public. #Skystorians

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My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Please sign and share this petition - c.org/Wh2NJg5dpc. Prevent mass course closures at yet another apparently financially stable university. Solidarity and strength to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social! @ucu.org.uk

happy deutscher’s trotsky is back in print day to all who celebrate

It says an awful lot about the university sector right now that I - a 48-year-old history professor with a child and a mortgage, who loves what she does (mostly) - am having a serious conversation with a colleague about whether I ought to consider a career change.

Sujit Sivasundaram’s Waves Across the South has received an Honourable Mention ("Accessit") in the inaugural Zeev Sternhell Prize for the History of the Revolution👏 The book was ranked 2nd among works published globally on the French Revolution and broader Age of Revolutions over the past 5 years.

It pleases me to no end that our Power of Petitioning book is still being downloaded hundreds of times every month from the @uclpress.bsky.social website, two years after it was first published! 6,828 readers can't be wrong, so download the #OpenAccess book here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

#Skystorians New blog drop! Peter Whitewood, 'Foreign Prisoners of War and Humanitarian Governance in Revolutionary Russia', www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re.... Based on research supported by a History Research Bursary

A job in the global history of science at UCL. FT, permanent, starting at £54k, closing early June. A rare post in this area and a great department from what I hear. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP512/l...

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Global History of Science UCL - Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) University College London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP512/l...

New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Congrats to all the nominees! Some great articles and books here!

Still some places left for this online workshop on presenting the history of the British Empire, Mon 1st June: onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Unable to make this unfortunately. Just been using some of David's work on Conservative anti-alienism in the late 19th/early 20th century for a chapter I'm writing; still think his work on antisemitism and racialisation in British history is unsurpassed.

📢 In Case You Missed It 📢 📜There's a new post over on our project blog! Our Principal Investigator, Jane Whittle, discusses different ways of approaching 30,000 will transcriptions, and reflects on our recent research retreat, funded by the wonderful Landmark Trust Futures scheme 👇#skystorians

At the UH Heritage Connections day.

#History #Skystorians New article alert! Roberto Quiros Rosado's 'Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and Leon under an American Parvenu', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

A magnificent social historian and historian of labour, he will be much missed.

A reminder about our seminar this afternoon. All welcome, book at the link below!

Reminder - just 5 days left to submit a paper proposal for "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care", a 1-day conference on 4 September 2026 to be held at Wilton's Music Hall. Details in attached image. 🌟

Academic Librarian Emily Chu @senatehouselib.bsky.social introduces Slavery and Anti‑Slavery: A Transnational Archive, such a fantastic resource for researching slavery and abolition! @ihr.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/senate-house...

🗃️This is tonight! And there's still time to sign-up. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just a reminder that if you would like to join us for drinks in Central London on 1st July, drop us a message via independenthistoriansnetwork-wulpv.wordpress.com/contact/ (apologies DMs still not working!) We'd love as many people as possible to come along and get IHN rolling!

🚨Job alert🚨 Postdoc position: Political Theory and History of Ideas (100%, 3+2 years) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Deadline: 24.06.26 Happy to answer questions via email. Please share widely! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social) Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social

#History #Skystorians Great new article from Souvik Naha in @hisjournalha.bsky.social: ' "Sinister Indian-like Half-circle": Tennis, Orientalism, and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth-Century British Sporting Press', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Calling A-level English teachers! Do you teach Austen, Brontë, or other 18thc stuff? Could you use a set of free research-informed teaching materials, which support students' historical, literary, & linguistic understanding, & foster debate about misogyny, consent, & healthy relationships? (1/?)

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

We're very grateful for the wonderful suggestions we received last week - please keep them coming!

#History #Skystorians New article drop! Alexander V. Reznik's 'Making Civil War Speak: The Political Language of Red Army Commissars, 1918-20', onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dr Jeremy Crump will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on 'Parliamentary politics in the London boroughs, 1832-68'. 📍 Senate House, London / Online 🗓️Tuesday 19 May 2026 ⏱️5:30-6:30pm Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:

Absolute DISASTER! bSky have blocked my Chat function (no idea why?!) so DMs are down. However, there is a work around! If you would like to come to our London meetup on 1st then send a message via our (very basic!) website independenthistoriansnetwork-wulpv.wordpress.com/contact/

If you're thinking about an ERC, I strongly recommend this: reading past proposals is I think more useful than going through the application instructions in minute detail, or attending an ERC bid training course.

“In a couple of years, students at the University of Hertfordshire will be unable to take a philosophy course there.” #philsky Please sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

Giving a lecture on some ideas about provenance and (un)writing names in books at the @obs1922.bsky.social next Thursday. Zoom link also available for anyone keen!

Tonight >>

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...