My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Register here: bit.ly/4qfLt2y #AcademicWebinar #DigitalHistory #SocialHistory #CriminalJusticeHistory #AcademicSky

📘 Our latest issue is out now! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!

A final festive reminder about our conference before we sign off for the year. The programme is now available on our website and everyone is invited to sign up (free of charge) via the link below. ✨ Merry Christmas! ✨

Booking for the first @royalhistsoc.org Lectures of 2026 is now available: bit.ly/48N0CCY > Charles West on 'Queens & the Making of Medieval Europe’ > Vinita Damodaran on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' > David Stack on 'Well-being: a Historian's Perspective' #Skystorians

Yes, do submit them!

This week we launch a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the 2026 Chalke History Festival bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited #Skystorians

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 17 minutes if you want to hear about the fiftieth anniversary of the sex discrimination act (there are lots of interesting items today including excellent women in tribute bands)

Wapping at Forty: the strike that made the modern media. One-day seminar at the Marx Memorial Library to mark the anniversary of the Murdoch News International dispute. Book now: online/in person. sslh.org.uk/2025/12/17/s...

📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary! 👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Call for reviewers! The History of Education Researcher journal is looking for individuals to review two more history of education publications. If you're interested, contact info can be found in a separate call here: historyofeducation.org.uk/bookreview20... #histed

A nice surprise this morning: my article on prison reform from below is out! I believe it’s open access but let me know if you can’t get a copy and would like one. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

It's the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, which is a good excuse to share our post on her connection with a 19th century MP: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/a...

📢 Calling WHS members! For our last social of 2025, we are delighted to host @womenof1000.bsky.social who will be sharing research on music and dance among itinerant herring gutters in British and Irish fisheries 🗓️ Wed 17 Dec, 7pm Sign up here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

🚨 CfP 🚨 We are delighted to announce our Lent term call for papers, deadline 13 January 2026! This term we are accepting work on any theme - we look very forward to receiving your abstracts!

The call for papers for next term’s Modern History Postgraduate Seminar is now open! The deadline is 15 January 2026. #CfP #ModernHistory

We are #hiring! PUP seeks a Publishing Assistant (Oxford, UK, Hybrid) who will be responsible for providing assistance to the Editorial, Marketing & Sales, Publicity, & International Rights teams. Applications will be accepted through Sunday 4 Jan. Apply today: www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

I am really looking forward to running this event in January. It is a bit of a departure from the usual academic conference format and I hope will feature plenty of conversation and new opportunities for future collaboration. Join in, either in person or online: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

IHR British History in the Long C17th Seminar (😁 @tomaashby.bsky.social ) programme announcement #earlymodern

Paperback in March, but available in hardback and e-book versions now for the Christmas gift for that hard to buy for person in your life!

If you're a university-based historian needing advice and inspiration on how to tackle that tricky second book project, this event is for you www.history-uk.ac.uk/2025/12/08/h...

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!

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

Hi! Sharing my call out for participants for my PhD research. Looking for women involved in care/ and or activism during the AIDS crisis in UK or US! #research #aids #women #feminism #phd #callforparticipants #interview #history

The ad for the second postdoctoral position on our @leverhulme.ac.uk Britain’s Early Medieval Letters project is now live. We’re looking for an Old English specialist (who also works with Latin). 32-month FT post. Deadline for apps is 16 Jan 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Call for Blog Posts in 2026! We're looking for students, historians, and researchers to contribute towards our official blog over the next few months. Check out our requirements and submit an entry here: historyofeducation.org.uk/submit-a-blo... #histed #blogging

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Yesterday we visited historians @ioe.bsky.social & @lshtm.bsky.social to learn more about their work and experience of researching / teaching in non-History departments bit.ly/3KC9xxJ Our great thanks to all who attended and esp. to @heatherlwellis.bsky.social for her excellent lecture #Skystorians

Our friends @bairishstudies.bsky.social are now accepting single-author monographs published in 2025 on any #IrishStudies topic for the 2026 BAIS Book Prize. The BAIS PG Bursary Prize and BAIS PG Essay Prize are also accepting submissions. Full details: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

This is a really important new report that examines both the impact and importance of including disability history in curricula and the experiences and discrimination faced by disabled students and staff members working in history.

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...

Well worth checking these SAS Reshaped Humanities resources out. Courses and hubs available include Open Access in the Humanities, Public Engagement, Interviews as a Research Method, Digital Humanities, Going Freelance with a Humanities PhD and more. Free, but you'll need to register. 2/2

The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain). Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.

As the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social, this is good advice! If you would like to review a recently published book in the field of imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), do get in touch! We published 32 reviews in 2025 and already have more lined up.

Issue 53/6 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) has now been published, with new 5 books reviewed. It is the last issue from the first full year that I've been book reviews editor. 32 book reviews have been published in 2025. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

This is tonight! 6pm! York! Come along if you're in the neighbourhood

JOB: Assistant Professor in Modern German Studies @ the University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

TONIGHT, 6pm! Come and explore: - How Labour won a record majority on 34% of the vote; - Why the Conservatives suffered the worst defeat in their history; - How the Lib Dems lost votes but gained 61 seats; - Why such an earth-shaking election already feels like it belongs to a different age.

🚨 ‼️ Five days left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP ERC project 👇. Use your last chance to apply 😉

Six months of roaring louder than I ever imagined. I have a few events lined up for 2026 but, for now, you can watch the launch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfPF....

It’s going to be fabulous. Come and join us for the celebrations, and thoughtful conversations.

History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians

A twofold plight: for researchers and for Library staff (some of whom are also researchers). Past time for DCMS to take note.

Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...