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

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Let this be the turning point. Absolutely extraordinary.

Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

I can't overstate how crucial these casual vacancy elections are. HEC is pretty much deadlocked atm, so please vote for @matthewbarnard.phd for UK wide rep and, if in the North East region (comprised of Northern and Yorkshire and Humberside) then vote for Adam Hansen too. #ucu

Registration is open for the fantastic Women's History Scotland conference in September. I'll be delivering a paper on my new research, “‘May WE Have Huts, Too?’: Understanding Emotion, Space, and Leisure of Women at War Through the Common Cause Huts”. Sign up below!

Happy Yorkshire Day! #yorkshireday All images from my own adventures!

Great to see this news and I cant wait to see it go on permanent display. We are long overdue a blockbuster exhibition on the Iron Age in Yorkshire @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to the phenomenal Lionesses! What a hard-fought win and an absolutely sensational tournament. And now my 20 month old can say goal and football!

Bums.

If you enjoyed our conference why not help shape our next one!? We are currently recruiting for our new committee and are looking for... ✨ Secretary ✨ Treasurer ✨ Seminar & Conference Convenors ✨ Social Media Officers ✨ Awards officer See our pinned post for more information about the vacancies!

This was such a fantastic conference! Thank you to all the speakers, organisers, delegates, and to @ihr.bsky.social and @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social for being such brilliant hosts.

Universal basic income works; giving homeless people a place to live works; treating the sick works; paying decent wages works; welcoming refugees works; decriminalisation of drugs and sex-work works. All these things work in the real world. Just not in conservative imaginations.

Unashamed fangirl.

*New talk klaxon* Where: The WI Learning Hub What: @caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women Paid Member: £0.00 Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour). Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...

JSTOR’s shared collections make room for surprise. Scholars and the archive-curious can explore them through stories from @jstordaily.bsky.social! 🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.

For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Listen! @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social spoke to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating “Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-a...

I'm delighted to announce I have been elected as a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society. I'm very much looking forward to being an active member of such a brilliant community of scholars.

Songwriters in Conversation returns on AUGUST 17th at Baba Yaga's Loft, North Shields, with sets from The Young Property Developers and Nicky Bray discussing 'Comedy and Music.' I'm delighted to share we've received £3000 in funding from North Tyneside Council to put on 4 more events in the series.

Each session features two artists playing for thirty minutes each, followed by an onstage Q&A about their songwriting practice. The events will be filmed for YouTube, Tiny Desk Sessions-style, by Kyle Heslop, whose great images from our first event starring Nev Clay NOVYI LEF feature in this post.

You can buy tickets for a mere £5 on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/songwriter.... See you at the 'Comedy and Music' event, with bells on!

'Afterlives of war' by Michael Roper has won the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 🎉 This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com! Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess

If you're in the Todmorden area on July 19, I'm doing a talk at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Northern Spiritualism: Talking to the Dead in Manchester and Newcastle! It would be lovely to see you there. More details 👉🏻 www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

New digitised resource! Yorkshire Miners, 1811-1945: 98 documents online in full at wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll... Includes leaflets, pamphlets, photographs and our earliest surviving branch membership records. More to be added in the next 12 months!

I’m in awe of my colleague, Izzy, who created this podcast series doing all the planning, researching, writing and interviewing herself. She’s going to do (even more) great things! . open.spotify.com/show/2k1Xn50...

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

10 days to go before I’ll be at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle discussing this fab new book on the Beatles with author-broadcaster #StuartMaconie. The event includes a book signing and a screening of the biopic Nowhere Boy. Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/book-online/...

Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)

Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.

My new article on protest marches and processions in London,1780-1915, has just been published online! Thanks to the editors and reviewers of Historical Research for making it such a smooth process. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

We’re approaching the centenary of this monumental act in 2028. What would a meaningful anniversary look like to you? What should heritage organisations prioritise or showcase? We’d love to hear your thoughts. #EqualFranchise #PublicHistory #GenderHist

The National Archives are looking for two Records Specialists to join their Collections Expertise & Engagement department #jobs

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

As someone who writes about visual culture, specifically political visual culture, I just can't get over this banner. In an increasingly aesthetically clean, monochromatic, paired-back world, a banner so retro it could easily read 'ice cream & balloons' is such a bold choice. Love it.

#OtD 25 Jun 1942 French press denounced the Zazous: young people who embraced African American swing and jazz music and style and fought against fascists in the streets. More info in our podcast episode on anti-Nazi youth movements: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

Excellent news. For me, this summons up images of two or three MPs at a time shuffling into a monastic inner parlour, cautiously whispering words of dissonance to one another.

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility 🔔 Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist? Applications are open for our 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshops in Cardiff, Liverpool and online - full details in thread!

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...

Single-handedly fitted my kitchen this weekend, in the heat. The hot, hot, heat. Me, the drill and the spirit level are going for a pint.

I'm very excited to be heading to this next month.

#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make £140million in cuts and threaten jobs We're fighting against these reckless proposals Share to show your support ✊

It is the first #TextileTuesday on #BlackHistoryMonth so... A thread of quilt artists! 🪡🧵

I lost it when it cut to the human partner and child

A “voice for those who didn’t survive, a chance to honour those who did, and an education for those who live so freely today”.