CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Qus welcome 👇👇👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

I have never had a panel turned into a limerick before! (Seriously, we are on at 4.15 and in one of the giant basement backrooms-rooms so do come & help us fill it!) #Eshs-hss

Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.

The Consortium for Science, Technology, and Medicine invites applications for fellowship opportunities in the history of science, technology or medicine. Including: -Research Fellowships -Dissertation Completion Fellowships -Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars #histmed #histstm

A fantastic organisation. Historians together strong. 🗃️

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

Following Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 announcement at #SSHM2026 @alexandreamchugh.bsky.social awarded Highly Commended for essay 'It would tend greatly to the Safety and Convenience of the Inhabitants’: Improvement Acts and Public Health in Eighteenth-Century Britain' tells us more! #histSTM

Following the announcement at #SSHM2026 🎉 A few words from the winner of the Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 for ‘Safe, Sane and Consensual’: The Distinct Moralisation and Community Response of San Francisco’s Gay Male Leather Subculture in the Early AIDS Crisis (1981-1990)' Congratulations #histmed

"Pomegranates": text from @wynkenhimself.bsky.social's beautiful zine on the power of community, on eternity through the care we take for others, & being the ones we are waiting for. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/pomegranates-from-sarah-werner 100% profit from this print now goes to mutual aid! +

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant of up to $20,000 available to scholars whose research involves use of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The closing date for 2027 applications is Friday 2 October 2026. turnbullfriends.org.nz/research-gra...

A reminder: this Friday (10 July) is the closing date for applications for the Society's Funded Book Workshop Grants, 2026-27 bit.ly/4vfL6av Grants fund a day workshop for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph, to discuss their project and manuscript with up to 6 specialist readers #Skystorians

‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

On the journal, Social History of Medicine. #skystorians @sshmedicine.bsky.social

This is an excellent thread summarising the state of UKHE and why we should be angry. These intellectual losses have very real effects for UK society as a whole, making us less creative, less intelligent, less healthy, and altogether poorer.

"What was once a worrying trend across a small number of disciplines is now an emergency, threatening all subjects. Courses are closing, provision is contracting, and geographical inequalities in access are becoming entrenched. Important skills and capabilities ... are being lost." #Skystorians

Love this post from a longtime member of @sshmedicine.bsky.social. I might be biased as chair, but I have been a part of SSHM since the late 90s. Scholarly societies like SSHM are important spaces for community building and support, perhaps even more so when HE and humanities seem to be collapsing.

Congratulations to Evie, Monica and Alexandra. The essays submitted this year made for excellent reading, and the prize and commendations are much deserved.

Government stats that the government doesn't seem to read 🙄

👏 Another amazing #SSHM2026 keynote! Professor Stefanie Ganger, Universitat Heidelberg ‘Never yet recovered any tolerable degree of health’. Histories of Fevers and Lingering Illness 1750-1830’ Chaired by Prof. Jonathan Reinarz of @eahmh.bsky.social @feverprojecthd.bsky.social #histmed

Very happy and honoured to have received a High Commendation in this year's Roy Porter Prize! thank you to the jury and to the @sshmedicine.bsky.social for their consideration and recognition ✨

This week at #SSHM2026 the SSHM Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6 winners were revealed 🎉 RP chair, Yuliya Hilevych awarding First Prize to Evie Hinchliffe and Highly Commended to @monicamoradov.bsky.social and @Alexandrea McHugh More details to follow!

I love the Leeds wildlife. Day 2 of @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference. Lots of #EarlyModern content today including the latest project by @rouge1767.bsky.social and me.

On train to @sshmedicine.bsky.social conference in Leeds. Looking forward to talks by our keynote speaker Keith Wailoo and our previous Roy Porter prize winners this afternoon! Say hello if you're around. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history/even...

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Wow! What an excellent collection of articles.

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

I did this job 2018-20, highly recommend!

A post below about our new book, The King's Dinner (with @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social and Rachel Rich) plus a short thread about collaboration... www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/06... #skystorians #HistFood @phaisessex.bsky.social 1/6

A post below about our new book, The King's Dinner (with @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social and Rachel Rich) plus a short thread about collaboration... www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/06... #skystorians #HistFood @phaisessex.bsky.social 1/6

This is a really great way of putting it. (And a really useful lens for examining how people's needs are framed more broadly.)

Did you played women's #cricket in #Scotland, know anyone who has, or have any material about women and girls' cricket? Any period in time. Webinar: Wed 1 July or Tues 22 Sept, 7-8pm - find out more on the Bayfirth CIC website. ⬇️ www.bayfirth.co.uk/women-s-cric... #FamilyHistory #genealogy #herstory

Taking my mind off bleak university landscape news by reading this thread. Who wouldn't want to play with a tame panther? #skystorians #EarlyModern #AnimalHistory

Funded one month Residential fellowship for scholars studying any aspect of #histSTM across the Mediterrean 👇 #histmed

“The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.” - Charles Darwin The Biodiversity Heritage Library is under threat, as the Smithsonian stops hosting administrative functions due to cuts. exacted.me/Biodiversity... #LibraryNews

Sounds like fun! #skystorians #FoodHistory

Really interesting on animal timescapes. #AnimalHistory #EnvHist ?

Some excellent stuff here for your Sunday reading including the always-excellent @nichecanada.bsky.social and some great #EarlyModern posts. (Plus lovely tributes to the father of @americanstudier.bsky.social-- when the history and the personal intersect.)

So pleased to see this @neilbuttery.bsky.social interview with my amazing co-authors Rachel Rich & @adamcrymble.bsky.social talking about our new book The King's Dinner! cc @uclpress.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social

HUMANS sighting in @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street! Act quickly if you'd like a signed copy - but don't forget to check out @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES (signed copies!) and the Dalek in the basement, too. 💙📚 🗃 #histsci

Something for #skystorians and #foodhistory types. This book by @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social brings together historical recipes, Shakespeare, and the physical act of cooking/recipe reconstruction. And she is a great speaker, too!

Join colleagues from archives, academia and research on 24 June (1pm) for the second summer seminar of the History and Archives in Practice series. This session focuses on the Preserving the Local Newspaper Archive project: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... (1/2)

What a great selection of articles to tempt a reader.

Had a fantastic day at an #earlymodern workshop for PhD students @phaisessex.bsky.social . Lots of discussion of power, disability/embodiment, witches, and networks. Wonderful cohort of researchers. Days like this make for the best work days!

Spent some happy hours correcting and polishing threethousanddishes.prisms.digital 🧑‍🍳 all thanks to The King's Dinner by Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social, @adamcrymble.bsky.social & @historybeagle.bsky.social. They wrote the book, I just tidied my site to do it more justice. Do read theirs.

Peeps, what's your favorite history of Norway? Audio books especially welcome.

What connects Empress Maria Theresa, Francis Crick, Vermeer, James VI (& I) and the Brothers Grimm? All are the subjects of historical biographies short-listed for the Elizabeth Longford Prize. The winner will be announced this evening. #Skystorians elhb.uk/shortlist/

A lovely lunch walk today. Spotted hemlock, mustard and wormwood growing. Heard many birds, including a Cetti's warbler (not usually found in Greater London). The apple orchard is growing quickly, with one variety that should not be ready until October already turning red (not the pic below).

Is there a website that is not Google Maps, which I can use to look up the distances between European cities on a map? For historical context purposes.

At a UK History Societies meeting in which @historymatt.bsky.social described our definition of the long eighteenth century as 'vibes based'. Fair.