RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

Our latest blog is up! Read about Lucy Reed's research @uor-research.bsky.social tracing continuity and change in herbal practices in Britain #herbalism #histmed herbalhistory.org/home/placing...

51 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND!!!! 🐳🦑

We have two jobs at KCL History! 16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l... And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l... (both to start in January 2026)

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines. my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives. Deadline: Oct 3rd.

The Society's AGM followed immediately by The SSHM Lecture 2025 with Jeremy Greene (all welcome). 'Wasted medicines and medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 📅Monday 6 October [Online] 🕰️4:00-5:30pm (UK time) Register via the link on the webpage #histmed #histSTM

💫New Workshop #CfP💫 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900', 5 December, online, organised by the very fabulous @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social. #HistMed #HistSTM #HistPsych #DisHist #HistNursing #MatCult #MaterialCulture #MedHums #Skystorians🗃️

This week we invited applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas! #foodhistory

Reliving some of the teaching lows from last year as I prepare for the new term. Even my best students were clearly not doing the reading. I feel like I’ve tried everything. I’ve been doing this for almost 16 years but would you mind sharing good practice for getting students to read? I’m exhausted.

Come and work with me - I AM DELIGHTFUL… But, really, this is an incredible opportunity to work with a brilliant team, to innovate and make an impact on an incredible museum.

New #Skystorians job alert! The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. Details in the link below. 1/2

This is the year for important edited collections in the history of health and medicine. In my humble opinion, every historian in our field should have these two books.

Amazingly, there's a permanent university job available in History! It's 'only' part-time, and as the only non-fixed term contract in the entire UK available right now will probably see a queue form many hundreds long, but it'll be great for someone: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO275/l...

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇

One of my projects is a transcription of the late 17th c. minute book of the Edinburgh Incorporation of Surgeons for the @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social. Masters were supposed to pay a booking fee to the Inc. for servants and apprentices, but some failed to do so, bringing a hefty £3 fine.

📣Are you a #histmed scholar whose book proposal belongs in our Social Histories of Medicine series? The @sshmedicine.bsky.social Annual Book Development Prize Competition is open for submissions!🥳 Secure £2,000 in funding to help turn your idea into a published monograph or collection! Details👇

Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...

@colmuseums.bsky.social Here are some creepy dolls coming out tonight... alas too early for your competition.

#JobFairy University of Birmingham is looking for a Director of Culture, Collections and Public Engagement - senior hire at Grade 10 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

reminder: British (and Irish?) people may not be ignoring your DM, they might be unable to access it because of our new age-restriction laws.

The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

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)

The Midland History Essay Prize of £400 is offered for the best essay submitted on an historical subject relating to midland England. ⏱️Deadline for entries 31 Oct 2025 See webpage for some #OpenAccess examples of previous winning essays More details about how to enter below (1/2)

Vacancy with the Royal Historical Society: Membership and Office Administrator bit.ly/46TgZNA We look to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £31,904 pro rata. Closing date Monday 8 September #Skystorians

✨3 year postdoc opportunity at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen✨ #histmed #histSTM #medhumanities

Today is #ElephantDay! Enjoy these illustrations of the largest living land animals from our collections. The first is from C. d’Orbigny's, 'Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle', 1847, and the second from B. Hawkins's, 'A comparative view of the human and animal frame', 1860.

Grad student or ECR? Join us at Maritime History Workshops for our 5th series of sessions WE'RE ALL MARITIME HISTORIANS NOW OR ARE "WE"? Our Fall schedule has been posted w guests speaking on career and research difficulties in the current global climate at maritimeworkshops.com. #maritimehistory

Powerful. Definitely worth reading in full.

Lovely #HistSci! (Spotted via @nelbetancur.bsky.social.)

It's almost that time again! Please join us for our monthly online informal meetup on Saturday, August 9. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS*** Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Brief Encounters, CHASE DTP researcher-led journal, is recruiting the Editorial Board for Issue 10 (publishing summer 2026). A fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in academic publishing, develop skills, & collaborate with fellow researchers across CHASE tinyurl.com/25h4mtdw

ACADEMIC BOOK SALE I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible... Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)

Download free copies of BSA’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine. #drama #literature #pedagogy #school #Shakespeare www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...

Have you ever used PH to learn a new skill and thought: "How would I need to adapt the method to a different environment, language or use case?" Join our webinar on 31 July 14:30 BST to learn about adapting our lessons under CC BY. Tickets for free: ph-community-adaptations.eventbrite.co.uk

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures. Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

We've updated the Society for the Study of French History website with new increased funding amounts for all available schemes. These are central to the society's activity & a great way to support scholarship 🗃️ #frenchhistory #skystorians @frenchhistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/grants/

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

Please share this call for participants from @sineadcarter.bsky.social, who is doing a brilliant PhD project with me and @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social -- and do get in touch with her if you were involved with Reclaim the Night, squatting/housing activism or feminist architecture c. 1968-1990!

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians & all 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 any relevant feeds)