With @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social and many others!

Welcome IHR @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social! You can find them and our other projects, seminars and people in our starter pack go.bsky.app/2AUxmcA Let me know if we've missed anyone.

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If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

The Leverhulme Trust has teamed up with @britishacademy.bsky.social to produce Confessions of an Early Career Researcher, a new podcast by ECRs for ECRs. Tune in now: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/... Read more about this collaboration: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/confess...

Just deleted my account. This is outrageous!

Exciting early-career fellowships with UK cultural institutions, funded by #AHRC, www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (look for the spreadsheet with the list of institutions!) Deadline for EoI: 10 December.

The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social. Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songs-of-s...

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon! 💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history 🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal... ✨Apply today!

This workshop explores the intersections between legal and social history for early (Dutch) colonialism. It aims to advance the dialogue with regard to practices of colonial law, slavery, inequality and racialization. For more information: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/co...

The 35th Irish Conference of Historians is kicking off shortly with opening remarks from Prof. Ian Speller and @petergray47.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing about fascinating research across a wide range of topics and time periods. @irishhistorians.bsky.social

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us! sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

What can petitions to magistrates from London apprentices tell us about gendered violence in #EarlyModern England? New addition from Hilary Taylor to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

JICH will now award two annual prizes: The Stockwell-Burroughs Prize for Best Article; & the Murphy-Howe Prize for Best Postgrad Article. Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.

Next up, Minchul Kim's, 'Jean-Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France', OA, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#History #SkyStorians New articles klaxon! First up, Olisa Godson Muojama's 'Germans in Nigeria during the First World War: From Traders to Enemy Subjects', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Want to know more about publishing your work and applying for research grants? The @ehswomcom.bsky.social is organising an online training session on 10th Oct. Save the date! ⬇️

We’ve been delighted to see so much interest in @historianhelen.bsky.social’s upcoming talk. Competition for tickets is fiercer than for Glastonbury, so act fast!

An interesting summary here of recent research on Chartism.

#History #SkyStorians Writing a new course on social movements/political practices in 19th c. Britain & Ireland & struggling to find secondary sources on associations/civil society in general, as opposed to studies of specific societies, e.g. Catholic Assoc. Any suggestions?

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts. Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

The first is available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

The first term's programme for the IHR Migration and Mobility Seminar is now live! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/.... We're hybrid, so if you're interested in migration and mobility across space and time - but also in how we can write better histories of mobility - sign up from anywhere!

Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Or by scrolling down the thread👇

#History #SkyStorians Unfortunately due to the planned Tube strike next Thursday, we have had to cancel this event. Apologies for the short-notice, we will look to reschedule or hold online, further details tbc.

Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Undergraduates: submit to #AHA26's Undergraduate Poster Session by October 15. The Poster Session is an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research and get the valuable experience of presenting at a conference.

Reminder that I am open for business for all your research, writing, editing and copy-editing needs! Recent projects include creating a personal archive catalogue, and copy-editing English academic manuscripts for authors of other languages. Get in touch via website or DM! www.drvicclarke.co.uk

Join us in Huddersfield this weekend for Chartism Day 2025. All welcome. Booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford. www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

#History #SkyStorians Giving this event another plug. 1 day workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective, 1600-present: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire. At @northumbriauni.bsky.social London campus, 11 Sept 2025. Register using link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oaths-and-...

Giving this a final plug as the deadline is 15 August.

Fantastic opportunity here.

A 2 year postdoc research assistant job to work on the early institutional history of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leading to the writing of a report to contribute to broader decolonising and reparative efforts. Around 40k, deadline 5 Sept 25. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Free stuff! First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History- University of Cambridge - Christ's College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE394/c...

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025. • African History • Migration & Mobility History • Planetary History Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just one month to go until #UHG2025! Lots of fantastic papers, plenaries, and a drinks reception kindly sponsored by @urbanhistory.bsky.social Book your place: www.tickettailor.com/events/urban...

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September. Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

#SkyStorians One day workshop on oaths/oath-taking in Britain/Ireland/British Empire, 1600-present in London, 11 Sept. Supported by @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social & @hisjournalha.bsky.social. Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oaths-and-... See image for programme.

Our latest special issue (53/3) on 'Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts' has been released, fantastically co-edited by Miranda Johnson and @henryjmiller.bsky.social - you can read the issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/5...

📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️ 20thc

#SkyStorians Question for you: Anyone recently/currently researching the British General Strike of 1926? It's not my field, but thinking of organising a small event in May 2026 to mark the centenary. If you'd be interested or know people who would be, then get in touch on here or by email. Thanks!

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...