Exciting news! 🎉👀 We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence. (1/4)

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Delighted to be at the proofs stage with this. Out in April with CUP!

We're excited to announce the call for papers for #MBS26, the next Modern British Studies conference, at Birmingham in June 2026. We'll be launching the #MBS Association at this event, to support further regular conferences in Modern British Studies. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Fabulous to see @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social named as the winner of the Royal Society's Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture. 1/2

🎉 Delighted to see the publication of Penny Tinkler’s latest article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social: ‘What if?’ Early marriage and the ‘shadow selves’ of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s.' Thank you for submitting it to us, Penny! Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Ah thank you @djrgrey.bsky.social 😊 Great panel, brilliant conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Modern British History maternity leave cover (7 months in first instance) teaching position, predominantly 20th century, UCL History Dept. Starts 1 October 2025. Friendly department with excellent students and great library resources. PhD required. Deadline 24 July.

Delighted to be here for Professor @kharveyhistory.bsky.social keynote address at the annual @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference drawing on her exciting Leverhulme funded project on letters and embodiment in the long 18th century 🌟 #SHSConf2025

I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Open access so free for all to read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

Very pleased with the cover design for my new book, The Secret Life of the Hotel! Thanks ‪@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

CfP! From the @whatsontvclass.bsky.social project What’s class got to do with it? Rethinking TV from the inside out - A One Day Symposium at The University of Leeds - 19th September 2025 Details here drive.google.com/file/d/10RdB... submission deadline 4th July

📣GWL is hiring a Production Coordinator (Parental Leave Cover) 10 hrs/week Fixed term to May 2026 £27.5k pro rata Glasgow-based Help us deliver owerful events & exhibitions in an inclusive feminist space. Apply by noon, Fri 20 June. More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/06/04/j...

“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.” Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Are you unemployed and interested in joining a creative community where you can further your skills as a writer? There’s a FREE creative writing course run by industry professionals available in Liverpool. Link below. Please share :)

@lizzieseal.bsky.social and I are are excited about this next phase of our historical criminology adventure. Read about our aims and watch this space for next steps.

📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!

On Weds 2 July, we host the Society's annual Prothero Lecture given this year by Professor Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All are very welcome #skystorians

Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians

If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k. Here's how you can help www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...

Deeply, deeply worrying news emerging from Liverpool city centre today where there are reports from police that a car has hit a number of pedestrians during the LFC parade My colleagues are finding out as much as they can and reporting it here www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

My family had some pretty horrific wartime experiences, particularly in the Liverpool Blitz, and I’m thinking of them today: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: buff.ly/BrfBwSt

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

Thank you for inviting me - great to have such an enthused and thoughtful discussion, helped me make sense of some pretty pretty harrowing historic cases I’ve been working on.

AHRC offers amazing value for money. Our grant covers all arts and humanities disciplines (and there are a lot!! www.ukri.org/wp-content/u... ) 1000 grants over the past 3 years, funding 150 organizations c.1500 PhD starters And leverage of £350m co-funding from inside UKRI & other funders

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - two fully-funded (fees and maintenance) PhD studentships; one studentship will be ring-fenced for Black applicants; the other for History of Race, Health and Medicine, 1700 - present. www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la... #skystorians 🗃️

In the run up to the centenary anniversary next year, here's my short introduction to the 1926 General Strike for @phm.org.uk #GeneralStrike100 phm.org.uk/blogposts/19...

The 246th Merseyside derby awaits. 📍

📢Would you like to help shape the Social History Society? We're looking for one Ordinary Member to join the team! ⭐️Gain committee experience ⭐️Build your academic network ⭐️Advocate for social history ⭐️Contribute to annual conference 👉Read more: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/26/c...

Opportunity to join the editorial board of Oral History, working with me on the Public History section. Full details here, please share! www.ohs.org.uk/volunteering...

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Lovely Leiden! A privilege to be at #ESSHC presenting my AHRC project findings on a prolific illegal abortionist in 1950s Liverpool plus similar cases elsewhere; great panel with @djrgrey.bsky.social on baby farming; David Churchill on crime in 1990s; Anna Kantanen on gender and homicide in Finland

Thrilled to be at @esshc.bsky.social #esshc2025 - I presented today on baby-farming, foster/adoption care & child homicide in 20th C England, on great panel w. @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social on abortion 1930-60, David Churchill on crime in 1990s & Anna Kantanen on gender & homicide in Finland ⭐️

We're hosting a workshop on 'South Asian Women's Activism and Agency' on Thursday 8th May (draft programme below). We're delighted to have a brilliant group of speakers joining us. Our keynotes will be Amrit Wilson and Samita Sen. If you would like to join us, please get in touch to register.

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 👇

We've loved seeing more archives arrive in the past few weeks, including Kent Archives @kentarchives.bsky.social Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social Hull History Centre @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social 149 accounts now in our UK/Ireland starter pack - who'll make it 150? go.bsky.app/6Qz8qG3

Long-established US conference on women's history has lost its venue for 2026 due to 'increased political pressure on academic institutions'.

Planning my work schedule for the next couple of months. I have some spare capacity still for commissioned research, indexing, copy-editing or photograph-taking in archives. Let me know if I can help! helenglew.com

It exists! My new book is out later this year with Reaktion Books. If you are famous and/or a public intellectual and want to review it/provide a pull quote, DM. #ProtestHistory #Commons reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

So excited to see ‘Faith in the Town’ (co-authored my me, @kategibson Jeremy Gregory and Carys Brown & published in Open Access form (free to read) today by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Want to know how religious faith was woven through urban life in northern English towns 1740-1830? Then read on …

Coming soon: 'Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle', by Rachel E. Johnson bit.ly/3M9uKwx Rachel's is the 21st book in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' for early career historians. This and all 20 titles in the series are Open Access and free to read.

First post here! Sharing my latest article on the all-female 'Forty Elephants' gang (maybe of interest if you've been reading about the new #AThousandBlows show?) - read me for tales of women bandits, getaway driving and West End shoplifting! #historians #criminology #gangs doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

Come for the: "This drama is inspired by a forgotten time in history" Stay for the: "So we went to the National Archives, which is an extraordinary place out near Kew where you go and they give you gloves to go through all the old police records and leafing through old paper." #DopeGirls