Top notch panel on Small Bodies: Medicine, Clothing and Travel #BSECS2026, with @helenesfandiary.bsky.social @historymatt.bsky.social and @dralun.bsky.social (chair @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social). Helen: maternal interventions in ensuring quality of children's health care (at odds with drs). +

Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven) This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities. #histmed

This includes the @sshmedicine.bsky.social book series, Social Histories of Medicine. Good stuff here! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/socia...

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

New year, new postdoctoral fellowship! Be our next Visiting Research Fellow in Sustainability & Environment (£10k bursary, P/T, flexible, Apr-Oct 26). Applications invited from arts and humanities researchers within 10yr of PhD. Deadline 9 Feb noon. For more information: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Germanists/historians! I'm looking for economic histories of the northern HRE in the 18thC (especially in/around Electoral Hanover). Bonus points if it focuses on the lower nobility (esp Freiherren). Any advice much appreciated.

#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️

I'm wondering if anyone knows of books/articles on society/society & politics in late 18th century/French Revolutionary Ratisbon/Regensburg (in French or English). I'm not having much luck finding anything. All suggestions welcome. #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

We do love some good pop culture! If you've got a pop culture piece you'd like to write for NC - or just want to share some of your recent research - submit a pitch to ring in the new year: nursingclio.org/write-for-us...

Mine was... I am not quite sure what to think of this, though I do like potatoes.

This is an amazing offer 👇

I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!

Are you a professor planning to incorporate THE INTERMEDIARIES (medical #history, Weimar, #Jewish history, #transgender history, #LGBTQ fighting Nazis) into your course? I have pdf to share, additional teaching materials, images, and resources for use. Please ping me. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Still time for mid-career SSHM members to sign up for the Wellcome funded Online Writing Retreat - deadline 17 December 📝💻

Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )? #ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!! We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!! #theremin #switzerland

Planning a monograph or collection essays on some aspect of #C18th #history & culture? If so, get in touch with @deborahsimonton.bsky.social or me about publishing in our series, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies. #skystorians 🗃️www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

This is such a great thread of random skills!

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/...

📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢 What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? - Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue - Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026 - Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... 🗃️ #GLAM

For any interested #earlymodern #skystorians: I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET! The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online! All welcome!

Already written your paper for #BSECS2026? Then you might think about applying for the BSECS-BECC fellowship: £400 to support a researcher to use numerous #18thC resources housed in & around Birmingham Details of all our awards here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... ***DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2026***

Funding & bursaries for classical musicians & creative projects: - £16,000 per academic year for postgraduate instrumentalists - £3,500 for independent promoters - £1,000 to for people of colour looking to make a leap with their creative practice www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/classical-mu...

Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura! www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-... Then you can buy it at 40% discount.

It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery. Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology. share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...

Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.

Had fun thinking about these questions from @jakobburnham.bsky.social with @rouge1767.bsky.social. Our thoughts on the wonderfulness of collaboration in writing history. nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...

What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️

Need some light reading for the evening? Check out @jakobburnham.bsky.social's recently published interview with @nursingclio.bsky.social 2025 Article Prize winners Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive, who wrote a fab analysis of medical businesswomen in 18th c France 🇫🇷 nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...

What a great thread of examples -- and perfect lunch time viewing, too.

📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities. Apply by 30 Jan:

The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.

Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026! Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) & Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick) For more details 👇

The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians

Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...

Excellent sheep and alt text.

CfP "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods", #DigHum #MigHist, am @dhi-paris.fr: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....

Gorgeous photo on the cover taken by the brilliant photographer @gaypanek.bsky.social ! It was fantastic collaborating with her on the design, food styling, and photos.

Excited to see that our book page (The King's Dinner) is now live. It is all feeling a bit real now! It has been such a pleasure to work with Rachel Rich @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social -- and the lovely editorial team @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.

Has anyone come across sellers’ marks like this before?

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library (edited transcript of a speech given on the picket line outside the British Library on Friday 7th November) Zadie Smith’s script should be archived @britishlibrary.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The 9th Notes and Records Essay Award is open for entry! Notes and Records reports on current research and archival activities across the history of science, technology and medicine. This is open to researchers who have completed a postgrad degree within the last five years.

Read a good food book lately? Seen a food-art show or design expo? Marathoned a food doc? CFS is always looking for media and event reviews! Email (reviews [aht] canadian food studies [dawt] ca) or click on the “Submit a request” button at canadianfoodstudies.ca. image: David Szanto

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Eager to add more women’s history, science, medicine and religion to your reading list? Explore acclaimed historian and #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 judge Helen King’s #BookloverSpotlight shortlist with @Bookshop_org_UK below. bit.ly/3WDpJRJ

If you're a student who works with radio or podcasts, take a look at the Charles Parker prize. Brilliant opportunity for oral historians www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...