Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Last night I saw Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell, a dance production inspired by the characters of Patrick Hamilton’s novels (including Hangover Square). I thought it was wonderful & mesmerising to see the interconnected stories of the down-and-out, lovelorn & lonely punters of a 1930s Soho pub.

About to kick off here at #PostCivilWarSocieties symposium in Helsinki & looking forward to our panel later with @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @profingrid.bsky.social. @ucddublin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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...

Looking forward this great symposium on Friday. Especially with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social and Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner.

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...

Hello Bluesky! We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities. Find out more about our history and our work here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

Please join us for our Interdisciplinary Conference on Women's Health at Université Paris Cité on 24-26 September! @upcite.bsky.social @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @institutcochin.bsky.social @ludivinedoridot.bsky.social @OPPaLE-inserm @parcc-inserm.bsky.social @Ceped IRD

This year’s Sue Innes Memorial Lecture at @womenshistscot.bsky.social conference given by @vawright10.bsky.social on ‘Housing as a ‘Women’s Issue’: Women and Housing Activism in Twentieth Century Scotland.

We're very much looking forward to having @garylove.bsky.social join us for the @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar on 19 November! Sign-up links for this and the rest of our programme this term coming very soon.

Wonderful launch this evening at @ihr.bsky.social of ‘A History of England in 25 Poems’ @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social by @cathamclarke.bsky.social. Catherine was discussing the book with the poet Hannah Lowe, and the discussion was chaired by IHR director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social.

You can find out more about 'Building Modern Scotland' here (and download for free) (2/2) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-...

Congratulations Olivia.

I am going to be speaking at this year’s NACBS on this amazing panel with colleagues and comrades @racheljcollett.bsky.social, @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social and Daniel Frost. Hope to see some of u there or for a pint afterwards 🍻

it was a pleasure to publish Maisie's brilliant research on craftivism and Greenham women!

Working on article re cross border activism of #ICA, @womensinstitute.bsky.social & WI Northern Ireland. This photo of An Grianán, #ICA adult education college is where our @ukri.org #womensgrassrootsactivism podcast was recorded 70 years later. Listen to it here: historyhub.ie/womens-grass...

Delighted @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social Tunbridge Wells & District Club, core participants in @ukri.org #AHRC #LSBU #womensgrassrootsactivism project, received this honour having reported on our project podcast to @unep.org #HLPF2025. Listen to our podcast here: historyhub.ie/womens-grass....

Excited to see draft programme for @thenacbs.bsky.social #nacbs2025 conference is available 📢. So many fascinating papers & grateful to #LSBU for funding my panel participation alongside stellar line-up 🤩 incl: @ruthdav.bsky.social @teadevotee.bsky.social @fieryparticle.bsky.social. #womensactivism.

In a new policy paper John Stewart argues that debates around blood supply to the NHS have been proxies for fundamental disagreements about the nature of British society. Read it here: historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Always relish the opportunity for a sea swim with fab historian friends so wonderful to be joined by @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social at #Seapoint in Dublin this morning. 🏊‍♀️❤️.

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

Congratulations Claire.

Wonderful news this morning that @clairelanghamer.bsky.social the director of @ihr.bsky.social has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. Warmest congratulations to Claire! www.london.ac.uk/news-events/...

Something to look forward to…

Brilliant to see you! Good to indulge in some nostalgia, too! Xx

This free exhibition is on at Bruce Castle in Haringey for the next year - if you plan to come I would love to say hello and see what you think

Thrilled to have been runner-up for the Social History Society Book Prize for ‘Contraception and Modern Ireland’! Thanks so much to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for this massive honour and congrats to the winner Michael Roper. #SHSConf2025 @universitypress.cambridge.org @strathhumanities.bsky.social

another job going on my Joyce Butler project - year long 0.6 role for an archivist. jobs.haringey.gov.uk/jobs/project...

Huge congratulations to Mike Roper for winning the Social History Society book award for ‘Afterlives of war’. It was a great book to work on and the award is much deserved. 👏 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

This will be excellent.

🗓️ Save the date: Tues 25 November Join @mbhjournal.bsky.social at KCL for the 2025 Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture, given by Prof Helen McCarthy on “Family Stories: Retirement, Old Age & Generational Thinking in Britain since the 1970s” 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

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!

I'm thrilled to see this article on the social and community life of Chinese students in Britain during the early twentieth century published in MBH. Many thanks to Jennifer Bond and Georgina Brewis for publishing it with us. academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Congratulations can’t wait to read this

I highly recommend the 'Interviews with Historians' exhibition @ihr.bsky.social, launching the wonderful resource www.history.ac.uk/library-digi.... Fascinating insights into how #historians do #history + some gorgeous media archaeology! Congrats to @ihrlibrary.bsky.social colleagues & all involved.

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Today is publication day for my new history of England’s remarkable winter revolution of 1641-2. I’m really proud of how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it! Do keep an eye out for signed copies in independent bookshops around the country. www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Winter...

Even historians have a history. @lisapine.bsky.social launches her new @ihr.bsky.social podcast A Historian's Life, where historians talk about the histories they’ve explored and the lives they’ve lived. Listen to series 1 now. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/a-h...

The article is part of a special issue 'Women’s Post-War Political Activism in Britain: Priorities, Campaigns, and Strategies', expertly edited by @ruthdav.bsky.social, Farah Hussain, @teadevotee.bsky.social, and Anna Muggeridge. You can access it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwhr20/3...

Do you have a fabulous MA student who is interested in the 1990s? Send this fully-funded 4 year AHRC doctoral studentship their way. They'll get to work with me (yay?) and the fabulous @jessamycarlson.bsky.social (yay!) www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Proud to be in fab special issue edited by @ruthdav.bsky.social, Farah Hussein, @teadevotee.bsky.social, and Anna Muggeridge on Women's Post-war Political Activism in Britain www.tandfonline.com/journals/rwh...

I was on Times Radio this morning, bright and early, with @calumam.bsky.social, talking about assisted dying, welfare, and tensions within the governing Labour Party. From about 1'26". www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

"Does the Conservative Party Have A Future?" Join @rmcunliffe.bsky.social, @timbale.bsky.social & @nigelfletcher.bsky.social on 23 June, to explore the causes of the Tories' problems, the challenges of opposition & the prospects for the party ahead. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/does-the-c...

Congratulations Rebecca. Such lovely news and well deserved.

Looking forward to this online event tonight. I'll be discussing the history of Lords reform, and what that might tell us, with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social this evening at 18:30. Free tickets below!

We have the always original & significant & brilliant Prof Lucy Robinson give a paper on 1980s for our next online only @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social on Weds 11 June 5.30pm. Sign up now to register via website below. @kieranconnell.bsky.social @helenglew.bsky.social