Now Sadie Mansfield (Birmingham) @sadiemansfield.bsky.social explores Languages of Dplomacy in Greater Haudenosauneega 1700-75. What did it take to treaty-make in 18th-century North America? (And please, might it help treaty-making in 2026...) 10/x

And, if you have some spare time over lunch, we’ll also be holding this seminar with Nathan Brinklow 👇👇

One week until our exciting event with Eliga Gould! Please do come along if you’re on campus!

The Treatied Spaces Research Group will be hosting Professor Eliga Gould at the University of Birmingham to celebrate the US Semiquincentennial. Please do come along and circulate where you can!

The Treatied Spaces Research Group will be hosting Professor Eliga Gould at the University of Birmingham to celebrate the US Semiquincentennial. Please do come along and circulate where you can!

I’m organising a graduate conference in July on Early America! Please see the CfP and circulate wherever you can 🥳

Delighted to share that I have graduated from my MSt in History at @ox.ac.uk with a Distinction! I’m very excited to continue my research @unibirmingham.bsky.social, where I started my PhD in September. This work is being funded by the AHRC-Midlands4Cities DTP.

Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in Early American History my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

The regional hub model is also bad -- universities outside the regional hubs get nothing, beyond what can be found through things like Collaborative Doctoral Partnership schemes. But the "Landscape" model is worse: only 50 universities have funding, at only 3 a year, across all arts and hums depts.

⏰ FULL-TIME: THAT’S IT - PLAY-OFFS HERE WE COME! 😍 #AFCW 🟡🔵

Better advertising to come, but I’m excited to announce that registration is now live for our very heavily subsidised Teaching Indigenous Histories & Perspectives Conference on 28 June! Bursaries for travel are available plus free follow-up support. Please do share with all your teacher networks!

📜 King's Past is a new online platform charting the #history of the #University through 13 pivotal moments and a database connecting people, places, events and donations. The aim is to keep growing the project with more information as King's approaches its #bicentenary in 2029 ⬇️

We're thrilled to open the call for papers for the 2025 BrANCH Conference, to be held jointly with the British Group in Early American History (BGEAH). This year’s conference will be hosted in Cardiff, Wales on September 12-14, 2025! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Find out more info & how to apply on our website 👇

To help rebuild our community here on bluesky, we've put together a starter pack of UK-based American historians. Follow along to see what scholars across the pond have to say, and of course do get in touch if you'd like to be added!

Application submission day has been a fun mix of a cake-based diet and a low-level sense of impending doom. I couldn’t have hoped for better!

I’ve been using my time in Oxford to hone my mezzotint and relief printing skills! Maybe there’s potential for a career in this if the historian plans fall through…

Watching all the people I have email threads with also come online on Outlook every Sunday is nothing if not depressing

40 hours in the working week and my meetings always seem to fall in the same one. Damn you scheduling conflicts!

It wouldn’t be the lead up to term at a new institution if I wasn’t experiencing completely debilitating IT issues that no one else seems to have

Who was going to tell me that I’m going to have to read and write things for this master’s degree??

Five minutes after saying my last goodbye to campus, I got the notification saying my request to fix the a/c in the common room (that had been broken for months) had been completed. A fitting legacy, I think.

Another year, another August spent in spreadsheet hell. Some things never change.

Yesterday I graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts from King’s College London! 🎓 So excited to share that I’ve been awarded a scholarship to The Queen’s College, and I’m looking forward to starting my MSt in US History at the University of Oxford in October!

Pretty sure all this grey weather is London punishing me for confirming I’m going to be moving in September

Good morning to everyone except the number 1 bus driver who watched me run alongside him while he was in traffic and then drove past the bus stop

Reunited after 4 months apart from this one! I’ve never seen her more excited to see me, so I think I’ve been missed.

In hindsight, transporting all my dissertation books back to Senate House with a sprained foot might not have been the best idea…

Well, that’s a wrap on dissertation writing. If you don’t hear from me over the next few days, it’s because I’m taking the longest nap of my life.

Sitting inside writing all the time was fine when the weather was cold, but now it’s warming up I’m beginning to get some serious fomo. Just!! Three!! More!! Weeks!!

And so the challenge of finding a place to do work over the Easter weekend begins

Joni Mitchell is back on Spotify. The world healed a little bit today.

That’s it!! I’m swearing off any future research that involves using the Wayback Machine!! I simply do not have the patience for this!!

Is anyone able to access a copy of this article where the footnotes actually show up? I have been looking for far too long and can’t seem to find a copy anywhere: ‘Joseph Priestley and the Graphic Invention of Modern Time’ by Daniel Rosenberg

How’s the semester going, you ask? Well, today I tried to scan my Tesco clubcard instead of my library card, and my student ID instead of my Oyster card. So I’d say pretty good.

I think I might actually have manifested something with this!!

I can already tell that February is going to be a month of anxiously waiting for the results of the numerous applications and pieces of work I’ve submitted

If I had an alter-ego she would obviously have to be called Josephine Earp

Can’t beat the view you get from Senate House Library of the gorgeous sunset we had this evening ☀️

Finding out that hummus is my most bought item of the year is the funniest thing that’s happened all week

Tescos wrapped? I think we might have gone too far

Going home for Christmas is hard because instead of eating hummus at various periods throughout the day I have to “wait to open the pot” so we can “have it together” because it “only lasts 3 days once it’s open”

Taking *that* trip back to the library after finishing a big project

The Machiavellian Moment was the first academic book I bought for myself, and I would not be the same scholar today without the days I spent pouring over it during the summer. Pocock’s influence can truly not be understated.

Finding the Super Secret spot on campus that nobody uses outside of teaching weeks has been the best discovery of my years at university so far

Normalise identity theft (stealing your flatmate’s library card so you can take out more books)

The current nightmare: