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...

Prospective employers don’t want me… but you might: Experienced researcher, academic writer, oral history interviewer, public history journalist, seeks freelance and ad-hoc work…

1 yr on, we use 1983 8th Amendment Irish Constitution & 2018 Repeal the 8th to examine how feminists transformed “the Irish family” from coldness/despair to hope/happiness...free to read - awesome co-au @katieebarclay.bsky.social & fab co-eds @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jimmywintermute.bsky.social

New book review published in @jich.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social reviews 'Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism' by Catherine Hall @universitypress.cambridge.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article on neo-emotions as a concept for historical research! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new article out now on women and academic promotion over the last 50 years. A history of patriarchal equilibrium? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emotions & Society have created a student reading list. Available open access until October: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/emso...

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network amigrationhn.wordpress.com/about/

New book out later this year! Courtship, marriage, divorce, Scotland! All the best topics!

1 yr ago @katieebarclay.bsky.social & I pub'd (freely avail): “She is finally home”: feminist storytelling, family imaginaries and transnational solidarity in Irish abortion activism in issue on transnational Ire by me, @evansmithhist.bsky.social & J Wintermute. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...

Anybody got suggestions for 18thC novels with child protagonists that aren’t ‘children’s books’? The novels we read and don’t really think about the children. TIA for recommendations!

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

A gift in the post!

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

NLI Fellowships available: deadline for applications 16 May www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...

Proofs are in!

Registration for the Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions symposium is now open! This event will take place at the University of Western Australia, Perth on 16th-17th June 2025 Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emotions-i...