Our next Royal Historical Society Lecture takes place at the University of Warwick on Friday 1 May: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Prof Sasha Handley (Manchester). Booking for in-person attendance is now available bit.ly/47rn2Z6 1/2

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

A seasonally relevant quote for today (posted during a break from the rain—which is not quite like warm soup, at least).

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly. @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Many thanks to all participants for a very stimulating discussion on @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900. And special thanks to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz for coming to comment all the way from Paris. #econhist #histstm

If you are a graduate student in history of political thought, I would really recommend submitting something to this- always a very friendly, interesting and generative conference!

I really enjoyed reviewing @kitkowol.bsky.social's "Blue Jerusalem" - an excellent new study of WW2-era British Conservatism, highlighting both its intellectual vitality and its practical political impact

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

This means that almost half of everyone in poverty in the UK has less than 40% of the median income adjusted for their household type - the highest since records began. 📢 We found that Britain's poorest people are getting poorer. And poverty is hardening, not easing.

A great event with revelatory papers on British anarchism and communism! @kingshistory.bsky.social

Really looking forward to the upcoming seminars in this series! It was so nice to present some of my research at KCL and I'm very grateful for the thoughtful questions from the audience

If you are a graduate student in history of political thought, I would really recommend submitting something to this- always a very friendly, interesting and generative conference!

FREE TO READ: Neil Warner (@neilwarner.bsky.social) argues social democrats must connect the far-right threat to authoritarianism already present within neoliberalism, and calls for a cross-scale anti-authoritarian agenda to counter concentrations of both political economic power

Looking forward to reading this!

Join us this Wednesday at the @ihr.bsky.social for @zackrauwald.bsky.social on Adam Smith, public debt, and the decline of nations www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb > RHS Workshop Grants > Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social > Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR #Skystorians

CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY! Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought. Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

So pleased to have passed my Viva! Thank you to my brilliant examiners @emilyrobinson.bsky.social & @duncanbell.bsky.social, and especially to my fantastic supervisors @davidedgerton.bsky.social and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration 31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist! @mbhjournal.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

A very limited number of extra tickets have been released for the Ben Pimlott Memorial lecture, which takes place on Tuesday 25 November. Please see the eventbrite page for tickets, more information, and the waitlist! @mbhjournal.bsky.social @sarahcrook.bsky.social

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

Next week! Really looking forward to hearing from our excellent line-up of speakers. All welcome - free tickets are available on the link below.

Next week! Really looking forward to hearing from our excellent line-up of speakers. All welcome - free tickets are available on the link below.

We're very pleased to announce the programme for this year's conference on States and Spaces! The conference will be held at LSE on 19 and 20 June. Please sign up here for your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-annua...

‘It must be doubted whether MI5 ever intended to provide invaluable assistance to future historians, but its obsessive logging of various suspects’ everyday doings has resulted in a small goldmine of sources in the National Archives.’ Stefan Collini on Christopher Hill www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A book with just the right ambition to provide a vision for a different future that yet misses the moment. My review of Abundance for Foreign Policy.

Had a great time launching Issue I of @the-breakdown.bsky.social last night with the exceptional @geoffmann.bsky.social and Quinn Slobodian. Thanks to everyone who turned out, asked great questions and supported new climate writing. Issue I here: www.break-down.org/issues/1

A very funny takedown of the very weird and not a little disturbing Anglofuturism thing - pleased to be quoted in it. thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2...

Here's the line up for the IHR History of Political Ideas Early Careers seminar this term - it's going to be a good one! Sign up here if you want to come along: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/his... @ihr.bsky.social

An excellent initiative. "The Return of Political Economy to Intellectual History."

Here's the line up for the IHR History of Political Ideas Early Careers seminar this term - it's going to be a good one! Sign up here if you want to come along: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/his... @ihr.bsky.social

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨 This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

The deadline for this is coming up soon! We've had some great abstracts so far and there's still time to submit yours!

The deadline for this is coming up soon! We've had some great abstracts so far and there's still time to submit yours!

We are delighted to announce a new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left. This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/virtual-issu...

Incredible East-West divide. The trend has been there for long, so it's not surprising - but still shocking.

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Last chance to send your abstract to the upcoming conference in Helsinki "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City" - send your paper proposal by 1 February! #CFP helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

An excellent new article by Max Fenner: "Murray Bookchin and the Postwar Environmental Moment: The Early Bookchin and the Politicization of Ecology, 1948–1964," Modern Intellectual History (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social bit.ly/4jwDkEB

'Rebuilding a genuine civil society means constructing and supporting organisations deeply rooted in communities and built around people.' Enjoyed reading this on an otherwise very sad day.

🚨The CfP for the London Graduate Conference in History of Political Thought is here! 🚨 This year's theme is 'States and Spaces' with a keynote from Dr Faridah Zaman. Please do consider applying if you're a graduate student working in this area!

Here's our Call for Papers on Global Degrowth: (Inter)dependencies, power, and justice - for the journal New Global Studies Please share with interested persons. Edited with Jenny Ufer, Felix Windegger and Brototi Roy www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

Call for papers «Acronia» 4/2024 Decolonizing the History of Anarchism and Radical Movements Deadline for submission of the abstract (not more than 1000-1500 words and a short bio of the author): February 15th, 2021. mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.ph...

Intrigued by the libertarianism results...

Which ideologies do Britons have a favourable view of? Environmentalism: 64% favourable Feminism: 56% Liberalism: 41% Socialism: 38% Conservatism: 32% Capitalism: 30% Nationalism: 29% Libertarianism: 24% Populism: 13% Communism: 10% Anarchism: 8% Fascism: 2% yougov.co.uk/politics/art...