If you're looking for #history networks on BlueSky in 2026, our Starter Pack - recently updated - has details of 150 leading societies, organisations and groups active in the UK and Ireland bit.ly/4ptl0On #Skystorians

Check out Sophie Scott-Brown's fascinating new article (the 3rd in our article series on rethinking internationalism) on 'Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco-to-Moscow March, 1960–61' with @hisjournalha.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#History #SkyStorians @hisjournalha.bsky.social is at the @historians.org 8-11 January! For details about meeting the editor, Daniel Laqua, to discuss submissions see flyer!

I am speaking with Dan Frost about my book at Housmans Bookshop on 21 January 2026. Booking form is now available: housmans.com/event/book-t...

The British Academy International Fellowship scheme opens 15 January (final deadline 11 March). If you are an international early career researcher interested in applying through the Centre for American Studies or Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence, please get in touch asap.

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

Now an annual tradition at History Workshop, members of the team share their "Radical Reads" for 2025.

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Are you a Cambridge UTO or CTO working in the arts, humanities, and social sciences? Join our thriving community for a term and have the opportunity to advance a major research project in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment ⏳ Apply by 12pm on 19 Jan 2026 https://bit.ly/48ggnjZ

@iismm.ehess.fr EUI’s History department welcomes projects in Mediterranean history, Ottoman history, and the history of the Middle East and North Africa. iismm.hypotheses.org/138943 #phd #phdfunding #ottoman #history #skystorians #academicsky #phdstudentships

Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A final festive reminder about our conference before we sign off for the year. The programme is now available on our website and everyone is invited to sign up (free of charge) via the link below. ✨ Merry Christmas! ✨

There's still time to submit your paper proposals for SSHM 2026 In/Out @universityofleeds.bsky.social Submission deadline: 11 Jan 2026 5.00pm GMT sshm.org/sshm-2026/ @historynerdess.bsky.social #HistMed #HistSTM

"The inaugural grant will enable the beneficiaries to develop their first-book manuscripts by providing £1,000/US$1,300 and additional editorial support over a period of 12 months. The first grant will support early career scholars in History and Areas Studies."

This week we launch a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the 2026 Chalke History Festival bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited #Skystorians

Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org

How history is done at Cambridge > Anniversary-year lectures now published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social, reflecting on the place of ‘Cambridge history’ in the wider discipline and profession. Read & watch the lectures from Prof Ludmilla Jordanova, Prof Sir David Cannadine & Prof Michael Bentley ⬇️

📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary! 👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Wapping at Forty: the strike that made the modern media. One-day seminar at the Marx Memorial Library to mark the anniversary of the Murdoch News International dispute. Book now: online/in person. sslh.org.uk/2025/12/17/s...

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

2/2 For more on Chartism's dynamic relationship with chattel slavery and abolition in the Caribbean and USA see www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Get your hands on this next year. As well as a deeply insightful thinker on the culture and history of this island, Stephen is a wonderful writer and this is sure to be a cracking read.

A nice surprise this morning: my article on prison reform from below is out! I believe it’s open access but let me know if you can’t get a copy and would like one. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Can anyone who has used the National Archives of India recently explain what current entry requirements are? They seem to have changed from getting a letter of introduction from your consulate and institution to getting a 'character certificate': nationalarchives.nic.in/research-and...

#Skystorians #History On the, er, 16th day of December @hisjournalha.bsky.social gave to me two book reviews and a new article! First up, Henry Summerson & Caroline Barron's 'Lives at Stake: Attitudes and Responses to the Burning of Women in Medieval England, c. 1200-1450', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

Check out the fab website of our project on histories of prediction, 'imagining tomorrow'! Its sleek design presents our conferences, exhibition and publications, including original artwork. I had a great time working with this wonderful team and I hope you enjoy the outcome!

the Department of History at the University of Toronto is searching for a historian of Ukraine at the associate/full professor level I am happy to answer any questions (or direct you to folks at U of T who can answer them if I can't) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵

I'm on the New Books Network podcast discussing Contested Commons with Miranda Melcher. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/contested-co...

History Month u3acommunities.org/event/histor... The History group will not be meeting on December 24th. The next meeting is January 27th 12-1.00. A member will be givin #history #retired #u3a #u3acommunities

An excellent opportunity here and @hwaetspur.bsky.social is a lovely person to work with!

We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Submit a proposal to speak at the Social History Society conference in 2026! 🗃️

#poliscijobs Up to 24 postdocs at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester to start in October 2026: Deadline 16 January. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD by the closing date, & normally not more than 3 years before that.

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Call for Blog Posts in 2026! We're looking for students, historians, and researchers to contribute towards our official blog over the next few months. Check out our requirements and submit an entry here: historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blo... #histed #blogging

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

#SkyStorians #History New blog drop! Jonathan Tickle's 'Constructing and Contesting Queenship in Ninth- and Early Tenth-Century England', www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Do you research #marriage, #divorce, or anything in between?! Submit an abstract for the @divorcehistory.bsky.social end of project conference. The keynote speaker is Lady Hale & speaker bursaries are available - it will be a fab day, join us! #legalhistory www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Have just discovered that the price for accessing a copy of a will from the UK Probate Search service increased in mid-November from £1.50 to £16.00. There's no way of accessing in person, so that's just made one part of the sort of biographical/prosopographical research I do pretty much impossible.

Following on from his article on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP, Dr Martin Spychal has explored the life of his father, Peter McLagan senior, and his ownership of enslaved people in Demerara (modern-day Guyana): historyofparliament.com/2025/12/11/p...

This was the first ever Irish history conference I presented at and you couldn't find a nicer and friendlier bunch. Great to see colleagues will be bringing it to Maynooth.

On advance access: "Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947" by Partha Pratim Shil (@stanford.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

📣 Call for Applications: BSHP Social Media Officer The British Society for the History of Philosophy is seeking a Social Media Officer to help improve its online presence by creating and posting content on its website and social media channels Deadline: January 31st More details 👇