Should we be trying to imagine better? humanities.org.au/power-of-the...

For many, imagination and creativity are considered luxuries. But if we want to build a better future and respond to contemporary challenges, harnessing our capacity to imagine should be treated as a national priority worthy of investment, argues Prof @katieebarclay.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3RDXEdz

Me on love loneliness and AI: zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/love-...

We have a new article out on mentoring in the university! @meganwarin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The budget was meant to be about fairness. So why are young people still paying $52,000 for a degree?

Wee review of our book by @charlielynch.bsky.social! www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...

Scottish history column: Working Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce, 1855-1939. How a narrative of the ‘traditional’ family is challenged by the complexity of familial and domestic experience. www.thenational.scot/culture/2611...

Two events; two days! Sydney in November! Call for papers deadline coming up soon!

Two more week to submit your proposal for a special issue on gender, crisis and childhood! #childhood #gender #history

Unis: we’ll keep you in poverty and debt til you get your first job in your mid 30s. Uni colleagues: but also retire by 60 or we’ll think you’re hoarding resources. Oh you want to pay a mortgage down and save for retirement?? lol.

The changing of the seasons is marked by ancient rituals: I’m searching for freelance/consultancy/ research work. I’m a social historian by profession, a very experienced researcher and oral history interviewer. I’m also a published writer and a public history journalist. Surely, I am employable…

It has arrived! The 200th volume in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series. A landmark study of the afterlives of Caribbean slavery in Australia. Come and help us celebrate while discussing imperialism, past, present & future? www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

CFP. The Society for the History of Emotions biennial conference. June 2-4, 2027. Vienna. Emotions in Adversity. societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

Professor Katie Barclay re the state of Oz unis:

Don't forget to register by 12 April to attend Speech/less in the Early Modern World. Free event! All welcome!

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

In this free to read article, @lauracforster.bsky.social explores socialist political lecture tours in the late 19th century and how these produced everyday, intimate experiences that could powerfully embody socialist ideas for new audiences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Huom suomalaiset uuden ajan alun tutkijat @uudenajanalku.bsky.social! Olettehan jo huomanneet, että ensi marraskuussa olisi Sydneyssä kiinnostava työpaja luvassa ja hybridiosallistuminenkin on mahdollista. CFP päättyy 15.7.

Budding historians of medicine and public health: have a look at this exciting opportunity to conduct PhD research at the University of Newcastle, on a larger project of the Australian history of polio, led by Catharine Coleborne! More information at the link: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

The Society for the History of Children and Youth offers annual grants to scholarly event organizers. SHCY will award two $500 grants and one $1500 grant for events that take place in 2026–27. The application deadline is May 1. Find more information here: www.shcy.org/events1/even...

History of emotions in History Today

Feminist Studies is hiring a managing editor! Please spread the word! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69890/f...

🎥Watch the 2025 Sue Innes Lecture, now available on our website, where @vawright10.bsky.social explores women-led grassroots campaigns for improved housing across Glasgow during the twentieth century Watch here 👇 womenshistoryscotland.org/news-and-eve... #WomensHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory

Growing Up in the Early Modern World, a workshop Nov 27 in Sydney exploring childhood in institutional settings, & care, discipline & education across the life course. Please submit a 200 word abstract & 3-sentence bio note by 15 July to [email protected]. Online/hybrid participation possible.

And this is why you need to have a broad base of languages, history and culture taught at university. You want to use your own experts when negotiating war.

Applications are now open for 2 PhD scholarships on the “The Diversity and Variability of Grief” at Macquarie University, Sydney. 1/3 www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Call for papers - growing up in the early modern world!

Valentine’s Day approaches but have you prepared your lips? Here are some top tips for a perfect kiss! And a preorder link to my new book The Kiss, for a bargain £18. theconversation.com/what-makes-t...

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!

Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University @swanseauni “Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through the examination of postwar Welsh childhoods.

I’m truly excited to share that The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations, co-edited with Andrew Ross , is finally out in the world. lnkd.in/dZYNS2Jb This project has been a journey: full of ideas, conversations, challenges, and inspiration.I’m deeply grateful to all contributors.

Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Who is doing interesting work on children and crises - disaster, war, famine, climate, familial, personal, gender, etc? Tell me about them!

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2

History in the news - from my colleague Leigh Boucher www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG

@RoutledgeBooks.bsky.social are having a 25% off Black Friday sale and my latest book is included! 🙌 Loneliness has taken many forms and knowing that helps us understand our emotions today and how, when, and why we should address it. invt.io/1bxbimw48tm

‘Wider humanities & social science fields are underrepresented; communities… are often not centred; and these perspectives are often only included after key research decisions have already been made.’ Excellent ‘genomics in context’ call from @wellcometrust.bsky.social wellcome.org/research-fun...

Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury

Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det...

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Free access until 31 Oct to our article on 'intergenerational emotions & family history' & more on 'cold intimacies', 'mythic love', 'grudge' on "Emotions and Society" student reading list @katieebarclay.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso...