@cerimair.bsky.social won the poetry competition. www.ditheringchaps.com/news. Congratulations on your excellent poetry. So glad this is getting recognised.

This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Happy #caturday

If you are a member of the National Trust and also despise the Reform tendency, please vote in the AGM to keep the astroturf candidates of Restore Trust out of power. You can find the names to avoid here, at this deliberately broken link: https:// www. restoretrust. org. uk / agm-2025

Have a bonus #caturday video

TES article on our ESIS report after Natasha and I were interviewed, and featuring great examples of curricula change from history teachers across the country. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

Laser Danger xkcd.com/3108/

Today is World Refugee Day. ✊🗃 From the archive, a podcast episode by Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social featuring Peter Gatrell, Pual Dudman @paulvdudman.bsky.social, Heather Faulkner and Mezna Qato @meznaqato.bsky.social, on creating Refugee Archives. www.historyworkshop.... #WorldRefugeeDay

I can't be outside but I'll be there! Join me and other #disabled folk fighting for our rights! I'm joining at noon tomorrow! #NoKings

There is a No Kings protest happening within hours near YOU and we will be there too. Find your closest location and do what you can to speak up against the horribleness. www.nokings.org#map This is a link to locations...

Applications close 5pm tomorrow for our first research and knowledge exchange workshop at Imperial War Museums on 4th July! If you're a neurodivergent user of archives, or work in archives and heritage (ND or not), join us to explore neurodivergent archive accessibility. @edicaucus.bsky.social

@k8lister.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @historyworkshop.org.uk @royalhistsoc.org @enghistrev.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social @historytoday.com @transimperial.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

@alanlester.bsky.social @kimatiwagner.bsky.social @lottelydia.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social @historyecon.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @jich.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social

This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...

The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 9 fellowship and funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4jWMCcQ Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between late May and September 2025 #Skystorian

If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.

'When you have an invisible disability and look like everyone else, there is an onus on you... Telling people you have different or additional needs can be perceived as a sense of entitlement, as though you’re asking for special treatment...

Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-history.bsky.social

Hey, Adjuncts!!!

Interested in promoting Humanities (including Languages) as well as Arts? Here's the British Academy's take on the interim report on the DfE's curriculum review:

The UK has just increased the naturalisation fee to £1735. In the Netherlands this costs € 1091, also v high, following a fee hike in 2010/11. This jump in costs resulted in lower naturalisation rates, especially for migrants from low-income households (7 pp). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

As universities contract radically, academic mental health is now a serious concern. Experts in these matters recommend: say no to new work; find some meaning in what you do; look after your body and your mind. Advice below. 👇 jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...

Super excited that my article with Esme Cleall and Jen Kain is out. And thanks @isrfoundation.bsky.social for funding the project. academic.oup.com/migration/ar.... #MIGRATION #HISTORY

The NLA's suspension of my #trove API access has been picked up in this news story from the Australian Computing Society: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/national-library-cracks-down-on-public-data-access.html #glam #OpenData

📣We are delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants! This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social, EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/10/b...

If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

There were Black authors who wrote romance for Harlequin and Silhouette in the 80s and 90s, but they often had to write white stories in order to get published. Here are four examples: romancehistory.com/2024/02/10/w...

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement: freemovement.org.uk/good-charact... And I've done a follow up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Elwood would like you all to know that he has a bow tie. #catsofbluesky #cat #catsky

Today is the 26 January, when the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay. Here is my attempt to understand what the idea of ‘uninhabited’ ment to a C18th British colonial person. An idea that, at face value, was a contradiction even then. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Berlin historian Henrik Schönemann discovered while experimenting with the bot…that it seems trained to avoid pinning blame for Frank's death on the actual Nazis responsible for her death, instead redirecting the conversation in a positive light” futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

📢You have less than a week to make a paper or panel submission to our 2025 conference! ⏰Apply by 17 January! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

As 2024 is coming to an end, I thought I would put together a thread of the top 10 visited collections from my list of online and open access collections of radical historical documents (with nearly 700 now listed and more to come). hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

Join the Women's History Network's community by participating in our online writing retreats. These sessions, held via Zoom, are designed to support and inspire our members. Discover more details and sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writi...

Looking for radical histories on Bluesky? We've made a Starter Pack of people & organisations who stretch our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Please share and let us know if you'd like to be added. 🗃️ & ✊🗃️ go.bsky.app/Bb57VmV

The call for our annual fellowship is now open: £7,500 for a 3-month project exploring Data Foundry collections (data.nls.uk). Remote working welcome. What happens at the intersection of cultural heritage and new technologies? More information here: data.nls.uk/projects/dig... #DayofDH2024

I love that Advent of Code this year is basically about a bunch of historians.

Is a Non-Ministerial Department an type of Arms-Length Body (as suggested by: www.gov.uk/guidance/pub...), or is it a Department like what is in the name!? Which diagram is right?

We have made some updates to our starter pack of Imperial & Commonwealth Historians: go.bsky.app/4qEornE

Great progress by @mrcwarwick.bsky.social in its three-year project to index the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers and predecessor unions. A dozen catalogues online and more to come. Project archivist @worsted.bsky.social deserves a medal! sslh.org.uk/2024/11/25/n...

Check out our new History Workshop series on Reimagining Disability 🗃️✊ In her introduction to the series, our brilliant editor @beckierutherford.bsky.social explains the shift away from disability as a medical construct 👇 www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-h... #UKDisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM

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This is Annie Dost. I discuss using digital archives to explore (or conceal) women's and difficult family history. She's also just plain fascinating. www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/...

Thanks to Emily Manktelow for editing a new Open Access special issue on colonial family history. My contribution focuses on how digital platforms like Ancestry.com and FindMyPast treat women and domestic violence. doi.org/10.3390/gene...