I’m driving the 750-mile stretch from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley and holding town halls along the way. We’re showing up for border communities that have been left behind by both political parties for too long. Join us on the frontera: www.mobilize.us/talaricofort...

We ran it like a business and look what happened Andrew Hindmoor, Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 (Penguin, 2025), p.347

Exciting news - our online platform of over 650,000 metadata records of UK doctoral theses (EThOS) is now available again  Find out more about EThOS and how to use it on our website link.bl.uk/kxk

Why was a twentieth-century doctor deeply involved in the radical birth control movement so interested in an eighteenth-century reproductive scandal? @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social explores an unlikely connection between doctor Edward Griffith and the Mary Toft affair.

Digitised! Some of the earliest records of UK trade unionism, containing a wealth of information for labour, social, economic, political & family history 700+ Fortnightly Returns from the Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons online (& more to come) cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

🚌 Interested in a social history of secondary education in Britain? Historians Peter Mandler, Laura Carter, and Chris Jeppesen have an ongoing project exploring experiences and attitudes from 1944, and have made plenty of resources available on their website. Check it out 👇️

What a fantastic conference, and we were delighted to support it. If you were unable to attend, you can catch up below!

'The names of 9,909 British Indian Army servicemen are now being added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) casualty database after they were uncovered by researchers.' 1/2

OUT NOW: 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' (HarperNorth). Previous books 'Northerners: A History' (2022), 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' (2024).

Really love this book. In "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness," Dr. Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability by using Black speculative and science fiction authors such as Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due. #DisabilityPrideMonth #BlackSky

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

A great opportunity for historians of science "Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science" usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Gina Hinojosa in a fearless speech accepting the Texas Democratic nomination for Governor. Texans are fed up with Greg Abbott pillaging the middle class to give to the mega rich and Gina will make working families her priority.

Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians

I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...

The Cambridge Centre is now inviting applications for a number of Prize Research Grants for the 2026-2027 academic year. Please click below for eligibility, further details and deadlines.

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, [email protected]. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

Looking for an ace way to welcome July historically? Rebecca Earle delivers the 2026 Prothero Lecture at 6pm on 1 July. on 'The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and Its World in the Age of Revolution'. Free, online and in person in London. #Skystorians

So wonderful that @CBeebiesHQ is celebrating #Windrush Day by featuring my book ‘Coming to England’ read by David Olusoga on #CBeebies #BedtimeStories ❤️

PROOFS!

'Turner, a professor at Swansea University, shows that while public and political attitudes to disability have remained poor, disabled people have challenged them at every stage, wresting progress out of even the most unpromising circumstances.' 1/2 #Skystorians

If you fancy a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of History at Warwick, do let me know!! 🗃️ Click on the link below to get all relevant details. 👇 👇 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW736/b...

Before next week's @ihr.bsky.social London Summer School (Sickness & Health) begins, all are welcome to browse the library's collection guide on Medical History. It includes an overview of what can be found in the library and links to other relevant collections - www.history.ac.uk/library/coll...

Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians

As always, mentioning here the Medical Officer of Health reports for London from 1848 wellcomelibrary.org/moh/ for the lurking dangers in e.g. ice-cream (I think there are now various local MOH report series also digitally available). Or, indeed, MILK.

Broadsides will be celebrating Pride with a series of pieces throughout the month that highlight queer and trans histories. In this first essay, @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social explores the risks of making a person's transness the center of their history. www.nacbs.org/post/roberta...

Because of what I research I have so many books that just have “BRITISH EMPIRE” in various forms across them. Which is very embarrassing if someone comes round and doesn’t know about my research and I have to be like “I promise I’m not pro empire these are for work!!”

At the risk of another asinine charge if “credentialism”: Showing what your interpretation of the past is based on is one of a historian’s fundamental responsibilities. And one of the basic functions of good history writing in any context is to show those interested paths further into the subject.

I had a fascinating chat with @erikisberg.bsky.social about his research into the history of geophysics, which in the interwar years coalesced around a curious mix of internationalism, colonialism, and petroleum!

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

It is one of my missions in life to further attention to Naomi Mitchison! I think this was the first work of hers I read. www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...

The Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital in Knoxville has unveiled a new lounge that features a kitchenette, showers, sleep pods, workspaces and washer and drier facilities for waiting families of children in intensive care: www.wate.com/news/knox-co...

Our application for the NACBS/ NAVSA Early Career Network Collaboration is now open! This program will bring together precariously employed ECRs from both organizations, culminating in events at our conferences in Pasadena. More info and application: www.nacbs.org/early-career...

Academic Book Publishing 101 with Palgrave Macmillan. History Lab Plus have partnered with Palgrave Macmillan to arrange an ‘Academic Book Publishing 101’ webinar for early-career researchers. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @historylabplus.bsky.social #PalgraveMacmillan

An ERC-funded philosopher at Ghent University appears to be openly adopting Richard Lynn’s strategy of “hav[ing] a go at the rehabilitation of eugenics”

A stellar line-up of speakers for @llafur.bsky.social opening weekend of talks and discussions on the 1926 General Strike and lock-out in Wales. Book your tickets now for tomorrow morning's first session! sslh.org.uk/2026/05/29/w...

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

Applications are due June 5!!!! This program provides funding up to $1000 for precariously employed early career scholars to attend our in-person annual meeting!

While looking back to the fabled summer of '76, although the stacks and reading-rooms at my place of work were fully air-conditioned, my office was not, and opening a window let in all the pollution and racket of Blackfriars Road and adjacent railway lines.

Two Roman era babies buried at York (late 3rd or early 4th centuries CE) were wrapped in Tyrian purple. It’s less about the cost than the fact that, for me, this makes the assertion that high infant mortality=babies weren’t loved as much as today, even more ridiculous. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

“Westminster needs to wake up to this need for joined-up thinking if we are to limit the number of...Essexes, Hertfordshires & Nottinghams...UK universities are a precious commodity. Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy worthy of the name.” 1/2

Podcast I recorded a while ago is now live (though I think the ground covered will be extremely familiar to many of my readers): Born of Mary - LGBT Rights & Humanism In Britain www.buzzsprout.com/2489236/epis... (audio)

This interview with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new monograph, Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from @livunipress.bsky.social , was such a good conversation open.spotify.com/episode/1cXr...

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

It's ancient I know - I realise it's over 30 years since the late great Roy Porter and I published it - but The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain 1650-1950 is still listed as in print from Yale UP....

Edtech: the quicksand of the marking season. (So very many clicks simply to reach a script to mark or a mark to review). On the other hand, typed exams under closed browser conditions are a huge boon on the legibility and the AI plagiarism front.