Good news: work on the @fotwl.bsky.social conference paper for the centenary celebration of TWL has progressed apace. Big dump of everything I want to discuss. Bad news: it needs to be cut in half. It's time to reread williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/h...

🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!

I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL

Looking forward to hearing about the treasures!

Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion. Email [email protected] if you'd like to come.

'Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study'. 1/2

The International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA) has just published its seminar schedule for spring 2026! Looks awesome. Seminars are all online. #nuntastic #WomensHistory for contact info: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London. Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History. Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

Yesterday it was my honour to receive the 2025 Phanes Award in HIV Information Work from Tupilak (Nordic Rainbow Culture Workers) & ILGCN (the International Rainbow Culture Network) in Stockholm. I am very grateful for this recognition of my work, and only sorry that I couldn't be there in person!

📣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...

Look forward to speaking at the conference on 14 Jan 2026 at the LSE that will explore The Women's Library's sources on activism in the fields of religion, sexuality, and national and international politics. Email [email protected] if you wish to attend. @fotwl.bsky.social

Lovely to see Anne Summers, Sally Alexander and Anna Davin in these photos. Looking forward to this series.

Agree. And lovely to see Women in Media featured and The Women's Library.

A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.

The great thing about end of term marking is I get so much cleaning done.

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...

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

Thanks Carmen, more details below!

This is so awesome! Looking forward to the big event in January!

Happy woman reading Jan Lievens, c. 1630-1674 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

Congratulations to former PhD student Nick Evans on his first monograph The Local Government Board Medical Department, 1871-1919: From Innovation to Stagnation supervised at Birkbeck University of London by Dr Carmen Mangion and Professor @doravargha.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

📣 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...

The author of our latest article @natalicinelli.bsky.social has just joined Bluesky - welcome Natali!

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

British Catholic History is looking for an editorial assistant! This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to gain valuable editorial experience. More details available here: www.crs.org.uk/editorial-as...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

This is going to be a wonderful conference - get your abstracts ready! I’m already plotting mine…

Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute. The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well. www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

Massive congrats to Juliet, of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, on her first publication, documenting the important corpus of bone dolls from Dura-Europos. Juliet's PhD is exploring the archaeology of childhood from the archives of the site. 🥳

Congratulations to Birkbeck graduate Melanie Dye who received the 2025 Outstanding BA Dissertation Award in History, Classics and Archaeology. She is shown below with supervisor Mike Berlin and Director of Education @brodiewaddell.bsky.social.

Very excited for this conference next summer! #CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

New video from me on the importance placed on relics in the history of Catholicism: youtu.be/IJ5jzk2hO7A #youtube #catholicism #history #skystorians #skyhistory

New from me on YouTube: "Padre Pio: A Short History" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ7A... #skystorians #skyhistory #youtube #history #capuchin #catholicism

Recent video from me on the new Doctor of the Church! youtu.be/WIwWtrLE14E?... #johnhenrynewman #history #skystorians #skyhistory

New from me on #youtube today: "Guy Fawkes Night: A Short History" exploring the anti-Catholic origins of the celebration and the modern reinvention of Guy Fawkes! youtu.be/7sgZOSPHiTw #skystorians #history #guyfawkes #cathhist #catholicism #bonfirenight #fireworks #catholic #skyhistory

So grateful to all those supporting my YouTube channel- over 60,000 views and 1,000+ subscribers is mindblowing! You can find all my videos here: www.youtube.com/@HistoryLiam #skystorians #youtube #history #skyhistory #catholicism #youtube

So grateful for another pre-publication review of 'Radical Poverty', this time by Susan O'Brien. The book is due out with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in Feb 2026, more info here: bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-p... #cathhist #skystorians #catholicism #capuchins #franciscanstudies #catholichistory

No I have not ventured into standup comedy!! Instead here I am giving the welcome tonight to guests at the 50th anniversary Gala of Investor Advocates for Social Justice. It is my honor to serve as Chair of the Board of this dynamic organization Here's to the next 50 years!

Amid the ongoing chaos of my home town having no safe water to drink for almost a week (irony not lost on anyone considering it is a spa town) I have been cracking on with book writing, book reviews and an abstract. Cannot wait to share more information in the future!

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Insane story, great takedown thereof. Just to add sabzi is also alive and part of the Balkan culinary commons, in words like Gk. ζαρζαβατικό, Bulgarian зарзават, Romanian zarzavat en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B2%...

Join us live at the IHR and online Free registration: tinyurl.com/2bln3rdy @lauragowing.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.

Wholeheartedly recommend any historians & especially PhD/ECRs think about submitting an abstract. In a dark, isolating & stressful field SHS conferences have always been welcoming beacon of light. They're full of great research & actually really fun.

Fab poster representing our #livedcitizenship strand of #LSBU Building Future Communities Research Centre & created by my strand co-lead Dr Martha Shaw. #womensgrassrootsactivism

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector. www.theguardian.com/education/20...