Tomorrow, @writersmosaic joins @OffTheShelfFest for 'Diverse Islands' - a vital conversation on race, identity & multiculturalism across the UK & Ireland. 🌍📚 With Kieran Connell, Emer O’Neill, Charlotte Rea-Patel & host John Siddique. In partnership with @SpeakVolumes.

Looking forward to co-convening this with Kat Rawling and an awesome bunch of colleagues.

Applications now open for 4 short-term postdoctoral fellowships working with materials in Cultural Collections and Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Deadline 29 September 2025. Find out more about the Brotherton and Bedford Fellowships and how to apply here: lahri.leeds.ac.uk/opportunities/

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

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...

📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....

NEW DATASET - OUT NOW! A massive 69,000 records added to the Railway Work, Life & Death project, covering English & Welsh railways, 1855-1929. Download our free database from our website - & please spread the word! #Railway200

Okay #skystorians... I have a great MA student writing an essay on historians and subjectivity. Can you think of any good examples of migration histories by academic historians which write from some kind of personal perspective?

What does family history mean to you? Why not take a look at @lauracking.bsky.social 'Loose Ends' project? It might inspire you to start a family history project of your own. lahri.leeds.ac.uk/news/a-new-t...

Such wonderful news! Congratulations Dr Turbutt - it's a fantastic piece of work.

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

What should the government do about the huge problem of homelessness? Nick Crowson and David Christie have some great suggestions in this new @historyandpolicy.bsky.social paper: historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

I edit book reviews for Gender & History (post-1800). Please get in touch with your monographs/volumes. It does not need to be in English!

How do bonds of solidarity forged during the miners' strike live on today? Laura King (@lauracking.bsky.social) on her family's memories of social clubs, selfies and friendship. www.historyworkshop....

Such a lovely chance to reflect back on a little bit of my family's history, and a connection with the city I've ended up calling home #familyhistory #skystorians

Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇

It never fails to amaze me how rude some academic staff can be when they think you are a member of professional services or admin staff rather than another academic. The golden rule for all academics: just don't be a dick.

New post-doc opportunity at the University of Utrecht researching colonial history of botanical gardens. Looks fascinating www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Julie-Marie Strange and I have written about the assisted dying debate - and how thinking about a 'good death' and palliative care in the past might help us think through some of the issues, most notably around tackling inequity

I signed this open letter calling for UCU HEC to call off the ballot for industrial action on pay and to refocus on the urgent reform needed to stop the sector collapsing entirely. Much as I'd like a nicer deckchair, I'm increasingly worried about that iceberg we nudged a little while back.

Really excellent symposium on Disability and Home coming up at QMUL & Museum of Home in May. CFP deadline end of Feb www.centreforstudiesofhome.org.uk/call-for-pap...

Academics, Authors, Artists in the UK here is a CRUCIAL #DigitalFriday task - the govt's consult on AI use of our hard work ends 25 Feb. It's deliberately intimidating but here's a guide to filling in the 9 crucial questions (u don't have to answer it all!) againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha...

An inevitable book selfie to mark publication day. And getting my hands on the physical copies! 🎉 academic.oup.com/book/59440?s... #skystorians #genealogy

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

Very delighted to see this super collection in print :) I have a piece on 'Hairy Objects' which considers what we do with hair, why we keep it & the types of hair we treasure, inc pets 🦜🐶 #hairyobjects #hair #hairyarchives It's open access too! Find it here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

So lovely to see this now out and free to read and download now 🎉 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Such a fantastic collection (if I say so myself!) It's been such a great editorial collective to be part of - so lovely to work with you @jbhist.bsky.social @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social. And what a brilliant range of contributors! 🎉

We're absolutely delighted to be hosting Jane for this year's Katrina Honeyman lecture! All are welcome and free tickets are now available:

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉 Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present. It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s... #skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy

For anyone interested in mining history or the history of Wakefield/Yorkshire, this podcast is great... by one of our fantastic Leeds History grads Alfie Norris: open.spotify.com/show/1Vs7LY6...

We are deeply concerned to hear about proposed cuts and programme closures at the University of Northampton and the University of Sheffield. In solidarity with our colleagues, please join us and sign and share the two petitions below requesting URGENT action. 🚨 1/3

I love this - such a great piece from Joe Moran.

Tomorrow at 11 at Leeds train station for anyone in the vicinity #Leeds 🚒

We're recruiting! Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000. Please share with suitable candidates. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

New year, new book... Though it's taken what feels like too many years to count! My book Living with the Dead will be finally out next month - of interest to #skystorians #genealogy and #familyhistory people. Best news is it'll be open access so free online 🎉 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Love this post on school means! Fab work @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and Isabelle Carter. The intersection of food, school and family stories is absolutely fascinating.

How do individual narratives of school meals reflect broader societal change? @heatherlwellis.bsky.social and Isabelle Carter collect interegenerational oral histories of school dinners @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social, from Glasgow's play pieces to mum's fish paste sandwiches. www.historyworkshop....

A Happy New Year! And some cheeky promo for the workshop — Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future — that @claireplmartin.bsky.social and I are organising for 2-3 July. Please share widely! ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: Valentine's Day 💋 #histsex #histmed #sexualhealth #SRH #GUM

This headline excitedly proclaims the rewriting of British history ‘from the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions’. Strange how welcome rewriting British history is when it’s not about modern British imperialism and/or melanin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DAY 18 of our 2024 Advent Calendar, and with women’s pensions in the news today we revisit this policy paper by Professor Pat Thane from 2006 which explains how the development of UK pensions policy in the C20 disadvantaged women. www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Ethics in historical research is becoming ever more important. Hear @tomhulme.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social Kate Chatfield, Holly Smith & me tease out some of the challenges on @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social roundtable. @royalhistsoc.bsky.social. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/res...

Friends don’t let friends write for the Conversation! (Not least because they will take your unpaid contribution and franchise it out to the Daily Mail.)

Insanity.