Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.

VENUE CHANGE: We will now be in an air-conditioned room! Becca's talk will now be held in LG10, Bentham House, UCL.

Members of @royalhistsoc.org currently writing a second or third monograph may be interested in our call for the 2026 Funded Book Workshops bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission. #Skystorians

Such a delight to read about two of my favourites topics (council housing and Norwich)

If you fancy a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of History at Warwick, do let me know!! 🗃️ Click on the link below to get all relevant details. 👇 👇 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW736/b...

'Land Explorer' is a great, free tool for looking up maps of corporate-owned land in England & Wales. I use it a lot for research and investigations. The team behind it are crowdfunding to make it even better in future - if you can chip in, please do so here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...

One step closer to an episode on the Diggers...

Join us on Weds 1 July for the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) bit.ly/4eF0DMp, and followed by our summer party. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

The overall conclusion I am drawing from the replies is that we need Lifelong Learning and funding for adult education. Learning shouldn't stop at 16 or 18. All of which opportunities have diminished over the last 30 years.

Terry Winters, Untitled, 1989 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120646

Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules

"Segregation of classes or income groups is a social evil which should be discouraged[...]We have much to learn from one another" Really enjoyed this on Norwich's social democratic vision for council housing (and bonus points for it being about the Finest city)

Day 2 of @modbritstud.bsky.social with @royalhistsoc.org (And we have more badges!)

If you’re at MBS in Birmingham this week, come stop by the @royalhistsoc.org booth and say hello to myself and @charlottecull.bsky.social 👋

Send us your abstracts before 26 June!

“Westminster needs to wake up…” An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.

The programme for our 2026 conference is now live! 21 excellent papers on 'Vice, Corruption, and Decay'. See it here, including our keynote address and roundtable of academics: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... You can register via the link at the bottom of the page.

Join us at 1pm on Friday 12 June for 'Historical Context: Labour in Crisis': bit.ly/4ns6yGZ Specialist historians set our changing political landscape in historical context. With expert insight from @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social, @gsoh31.bsky.social and Rohan McWilliam 1/2

Sharing again my article on why 24 Hour Party People is the best film about history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Come join us tomorrow to hear Charlotte's talk! It promises to be a wonderful evening.

I'm going to be talking about the 'revolutionary rural' and anarchist environmental ideas at the @ihr.bsky.social on Wednesday. Please come along if you're in London!

We currently invite applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

I'm going to be talking about the 'revolutionary rural' and anarchist environmental ideas at the @ihr.bsky.social on Wednesday. Please come along if you're in London!

Really looking forward to presenting here next month alongside so many great papers. There's not long left to register if you want to join!

Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

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