#Skystorians New article drop! Irene Garcia Losquino's 'On the Size and Configuration of Viking Fleets in the Diaspora', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This is a very interesting read, and the story of horses and politics continues with our own 19th century take: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/t...

#History #Skystorians New review drop! Ross Cameron Georgios Giannakopoulos's The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe (MUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468... @giannako.bsky.social

Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Want to know more about current research on the German colonial Empire? Check out our new Special Issue on Labour and Business in german Colonialism. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

#Skystorians #History #History&IR New article drop! Paolo Gheda and Paolo Perri's 'South Africa and Rwanda in the Commonwealth's Evolution: Democracy Promotion versus Geopolitical Interests in British Policy (1990-2009)', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#Skystorians #History #History&IR New article drop! Paolo Gheda and Paolo Perri's 'South Africa and Rwanda in the Commonwealth's Evolution: Democracy Promotion versus Geopolitical Interests in British Policy (1990-2009)', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena! Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

Woooo been waiting for this!!

Not just academics - all published UK writers should sign up to @alcs.co.uk.

We're hosting a whole afternoon discussing 'whose middle ages?' at Birkbeck on Friday. Hope to see you there!

We're pleased to be supporting the “Speech/less in the Early Modern World” Workshop 23 - 24 April 2026 @camhistory.bsky.social Registration free but places limited (register by 12 April 2026). Venue Emmanuel College Cambridge See programme and registration: pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

April is #ReadIrishWomen, the perfect time to discover more about Eva Gore-Booth. Kicking myself I didn't think to get a photo when Sonja was in (as has become apparent by the number of typos I've posted this week, my brain has been somewhat over-taxed by all the... stuff happening)

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰 I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today we launch a call for the Society's next round of 'Public History Grants' and 'Conference Panel Grants', 2026-27: bit.ly/4lNt8ck Public History Grants support collaborative projects by historians working in / outside HE; Panel Grants enable conference attendance on a shared theme #Skystorians

#Skystorians #History New article klaxon! UCL's Michael Collins' ' "Fine Men from Afar": Cricket and Empire on the Home Front', OA, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uclhistory.bsky.social @ucldiscovery.bsky.social

This looks like a great PhD topic with funding - working with Adam Crymble (UCL) and the V&A - Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@brodiewaddell.bsky.social of interest?

Ooh, I've been waiting for someone to publish an article on this! @henryjmiller.bsky.social on 'Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation', including petitioning as a 'technology' and the physicality of gathering subscriptions. #OpenAccess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deadline Tomorrow! EHS Conference Registration closes Friday, 20 March! It will celebrate the Society’s 100th anniversary and be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10–12 April. The booking fee is £170 for Members, and £195 for Non-Members. ehs.org.uk/conference/

My dept @ Copenhagen Business School) has an open PhD scholarship in business humanities. Do you know a potential candidate? An excellent scholar in history who would thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary business school setting? Please tell them to get in touch www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

#Skystorians #History New book review klaxon! Andre Keil on Francesca Piana's Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War (Leiden UP, 2024), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#History #Skystorians New blog drop! Jayne Gifford, @allenpackwood.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social on their special issue on Winston Churchill www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Nominations for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize are due May 15! The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture. Info and nomination instructions here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

www.history.org.uk/aboutus/cate... What other conference gives you two days to listen to contemporary leading history scholarship? Join us in May to get your leading history fix @ward22.bsky.social @hisjournalha.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Sonja Tiernan's acclaimed biography of Irish poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo-Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history. Available now from all good bookshops & online. #StPatricksDay #booksky

Venturing beyond the Victorian Commons, here's my short article on PMs in the 19th century Lords.

We now have a beautiful zine, with contributions from many of the organisations in our network, including photographs, documents, essays, and an illustrated manual on oral history and podcasting. Check it out here!: lnkd.in/eveVPdN8 2/4

#Skystorians great new book klaxon! Out this summer! Highly recommended!

I reviewed @richardcarr.bsky.social's excellent 'Britain and Ireland from the Treaty to the Troubles' for @mbhjournal.bsky.social. I was impressed: a careful, subtle argument grounded in an unusually broad array of sources. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

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2/ Discover and participate in conversations across disciplines ⬇️ Researchers, students and the public can learn about the Legacies of Enslavement Initiative's work and engage with its growing public programme and blog series. 🔗 www.legaciesofenslavement.cam.ac.uk

1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️ A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism. 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

Final lecture online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/self-v... - on all the concepts stacking up in the late 20th century, not superseded by ‘neoliberal’ or economic ones. Feedback welcome for the book now in progress. And farewell with warm thanks to all in Oxford.

Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

New Open Access article by Richard Huzzey and Katrina Navickas, 'From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century' 🧐💾👇💻🙋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WKHAW9... @richardhuzzey.bsky.social @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @parlhistjournal.bsky.social

#Skystorians triple article drop! First up, Sabina Mompo Toribio's 'The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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!