The Society for the Study of Labour History stands in solidarity with those affected and emphasises the importance of protecting history and humanities departments from the threat of closure at the University of Hertfordshire, and elsewhere. Read our statement: sslh.org.uk/2026/05/22/s...

A smashing opportunity if you're looking for funding to do a doctorate and into #DisHist! 👇👇

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

My piece here on makeshift arrangements for the prorogations which took place after the Oct 1834 fire at Westminster. Featuring lost wigs, the Lord Chancellor finding his way through the still smouldering ruins of the old Palace and a chair borrowed from St James's Palace being used as the throne.

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Well,this looks very timely ... with an excellent panel.

Thank you for your support! We have raised £1,578 towards the total £20,000 goal for urgent building work. We are grateful for each donation, however large or small, to ensure we protect the future of our archive promoting Black British history. Please donate and share! 🏠 gofund.me/38b3770d6

Join Lewis Ryder for an introduction to his new book 'Connoisseurs and Conmen', with opening remarks from Dr Erica Baffelli. Meet John Hilditch, the working‑class collector and unlikely architect of the Whitworth’s 1911 Japanese art exhibition. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/conno...

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

You can now register for the History of Interdisciplinary Education Symposium on 17 June, held at Imperial College London. A great opportunity to meet more people in the history of education ecosystem, and hear some fascinating papers: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20984...

#Skystorians New blog drop! Peter Whitewood, 'Foreign Prisoners of War and Humanitarian Governance in Revolutionary Russia', www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re.... Based on research supported by a History Research Bursary

New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

British American 19th C Historians (@branchuk.bsky.social) is looking for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History (@anchistjournal.bsky.social) Applications due: 01.06.26. Pls share widely! @officialbaas.bsky.social @oah.org @royalhistsoc.org @historians.org @ihr.bsky.social

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

🗃️This is tonight! And there's still time to sign-up. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#History #Skystorians New article alert! Roberto Quiros Rosado's 'Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and Leon under an American Parvenu', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Nearly 10 years since Tom Crewe's @lrb.co.uk piece on The Strange Death of Municipal England. Time for a re-read? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

Head down to the University of Manchester campus on 13 June for a free day of events for all ages! Featuring a brand new heritage tour on the history of women's education at Manchester. Book here: https://universallymanchester.com/event/early-history-of-womens-education-at-manchester-campus-tour/

Departmental Lectureship in History of Medicine at University of Oxford Full time fixed term Deadline for applications 27 May

My friend (<- they don't get to deny this) @sexhistorian.bsky.social is advertising for a PhD stipend. It's an amazing project at an amazing department with amazing supervisors, and if you know anyone suitable, let them know. www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

Today, we launch a new featured series called Rethinking Internationalisms. In this introductory article, Ria Kapoor, Jessica Reinisch, Margot Tudor and Daniel Laqua ask, how can marginalised stories of internationalism be recovered?

We're having a virtual launch event on Fri 19th June! Join us from wherever you are - timezone guide in poster, along with links to sign up and to download the book from @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

There is a sale on at @princetonupress.bsky.social which means the paperback of Foundations is only £11. A small price to learn how the British built environment was radically and its politics shaped by a host of new types of urban space in the twentieth century. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I hope you’ve all seen this job listing for a Humanities Leadership postdoc at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center: deadline June 13 ✨ apply.interfolio.com/185526?fbcli...

Please sign and share this petition - c.org/Wh2NJg5dpc. Prevent mass course closures at yet another apparently financially stable university. Solidarity and strength to @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social! @ucu.org.uk

Thrilled to see @britishacademy.bsky.social has published the Policy Histories Seminar report from our project-The UK School Meals Service: Past, Present and Future? First comprehensive history of #schoolmeals #histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

As the king opens a new session of @ukparliament.parliament.uk today, I retraced (as I do daily on my way to @tcddublin.bsky.social) the route taken by the lord lieutenant of Ireland during the C18 from @dublincastle.bsky.social to the House of Lords chamber when he opened the Irish Parliament

This is a long shot because this isn't the old twitter, but I'm looking for history articles/books that look at cases of British/Irish settlers/squatters being prosecuted for crimes against Indigenous/colonized people. It can be anywhere in the world, but ideally the late C18/early C19.

Don't forget to apply for our #BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship. Travel, accommodation, and related expenses of up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar of the #18thC at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, deadline 26 June 2026 #skystorians 🗃️ Details below! www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

On Wed 13 May 17:30-19:00 we are delighted to host @naomipullin.bsky.social, who will present her paper ‘The Pleasures and Perils of Aloneness: A social history of solitude in Britain in the long eighteenth century’ based on her current research Register below! 👇 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

If you're thinking about an ERC, I strongly recommend this: reading past proposals is I think more useful than going through the application instructions in minute detail, or attending an ERC bid training course.

If you missed Michael Collins speaking about his new book @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social last week, then you can catch him him tomorrow with a virtual book launch with @thenacbs.bsky.social

So great to see amazing @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social PhD researcher Kelly Bosomworth‘s work in “The Women’s Library at 100“ exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social as part of her wider PhD project all about the Six Point Group 😍

This will be brilliant. We were delighted to welcome @georgianfun.bsky.social as a guest writer for the @histparl.bsky.social blog series on John London, and she has uncovered more since. Highly recommend this very important research. historyofparliament.com/2024/10/21/j...

📣Out now on #firstview! Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social and Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social on 'Anticipating Birth in Early Modern England' #Birth #Motherhood #Pregnancy #Medicine #History 17thc 18thc 👶🌿🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This Thursday, heavy hitter Hilton speaks on his exciting new book on charity, empire, decolonisation - with an incredible line-up of roundtable participants. See details below. Don't miss it! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c.... In person or online, join us @5.30pm: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'm so delighted to see this out in the world, its the product of years of work and thought - maybe the hardest thing I've written, and made possible by numerous friends and readers. Its paywalled, but of course drop me a line if you need help with access. In the article I try and do three things:

Today is the final day to register for MBS2026! We're filling up fast, and are so excited to see how the programme has come together. Programme and registration details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Yfory, bydd y Gymdeithas yn ymweld â haneswyr @aberuni.bsky.social, @librarywales.bsky.social, a'r rhanbarth ehangach. Byddwn yn trafod addysgu ac ymchwil mewn hanes Cymru. Mae'r diwrnod yn dod i ben gyda darlith gyhoeddus gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL) bit.ly/4wkklUd. Croeso i bawb #Skystorians

📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

What's lost to the UK research base when we lose the academics who teach these subjects? Hertfordshire's case reminds us (yet again) of the breadth of what's at stake. We're sleepwalking into an erosion of the UK's first-rate research base. Or, are we eroding by design? @chionwurah.bsky.social

Publication Day 📖🍾🪩🎉: 'The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 14: Supplementary Letters', ed. P. Schofield, T. Causer, and C. Riley, is now available in open access from UCL Press (@uclpress.bsky.social). Available in hard/paperback, or free .pdf: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-cor...

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

There is only one more session of The North East Forum in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies Seminar for the academic year on the 8 May! Details below: northeastforum.wordpress.com/current-sche...

Historic moment for Parliament today. I wrote (briefly) about the history of Lords Reform here. historyofparliament.substack.com/p/on-heredit...

We warmly welcome applications to join the Fellowship of the Society. Next closing dates: 11 May & 27 July. Fellowship is open to those who have made a scholarly research contribution to #history. Fellows work in all sectors (within & outside HE) and in the UK/worldwide bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social