This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

During my research leave I'm trying to read as much as possible, so I thought I could do a thread where I share nice things about the things I'm reading. Let's see how long I keep up with it!

This is England.

Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage

So sorry to hear this news. Frank O'Gorman was an outstanding historian and his work on voters and voting in the 18C was foundational for many of us. #c18th #skystorians 🗃️www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk

I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet. If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.

Simon Jenkins, mouthpiece for what is also said to be Reform UK's university policy. 'For most courses, two years should be enough, as the former universities minister, Jo Johnson, has proposed. The number of institutions claiming fully-fledged university status should be slashed.' Unsurprised sigh.

Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College memorients.com/news/early-c...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament, The National Archives memorients.com/news/records...

"How may a man reclaim a headstrong or unruly wife? The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better." My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.

📣🎉 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/...

A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)

#CfA Joint Fellowship 📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism Deadline: 26 September 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

(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 to all 92 newly elected FBAs including the wonderful @clairelanghamer.bsky.social whose sterling research is matched by her sterling (or is it platinum?) work for the discipline of History (in all its academic, public and other forms) at the also ace @ihr.bsky.social . 1/2

This is happening in 1 week's time - including talks from the project team, and an opportunity to transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers 📜✍️ Sign up for free below 👇 #history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social

So happy to catch the new Mudlarking exhibition at the London Museum Docklands today, which is packed full of fascinating “found” objects

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

Great new post here on the hidden languages of dating, for which I was happy to talk all things 18th-century 💘

It’s always so gratifying when you are transcribing a letter and the writer refers to something you’ve argued in print - in this case receiving a pineapple as a courtship gift! 🍍 resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Have any #skystorians found a reliable transcription software for C18th/19th letters yet? I am over here transcribing crosshatching by hand which all seems very analogue now

Turning away from the REF-apocalypse for a second, may I remind you all that we are looking for a 3-year F/T Public Engagement Fellow to join our Victoiran Hand project. Please do spread the word to all those lovely folks in Humanities and GLAM looking for work. Deadline is 24 June, so get applying!

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #WomensWork

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our event today with heads of selected UK #History societies is a reminder of the dedication, expertise, civic sense, dynamism and, yes, value of these subject societies. If you'd like to keep in touch with them, we've a Starter Pack bit.ly/4jKumCE which now lists 125 such groups #Skystorians 1/2

“I’m finally going to create myself a personal website. How long can it take!” I thought to myself, 100,000 hours ago

guy next to me in the café was quite dramatically sitting with his head in his hands so I glanced at his screen to see what he was working on, and it was a doc with "IDEAS:" written at the top and absolutely nothing else my brother I hear you, I feel you, we are as one

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

Maybe reducing the unit of resource for universities year on year while increasing both bureaucratic demands and institutional churn was not a very good idea for UK research productivity? Just a suggestion....

Research England have announced today that Professor Claire Langhamer is to be Deputy Chair for the REF2029 History sub-panel. Claire, who is Director @ihr.bsky.social, will work with Professor Jonathan Morris (Hertfordshire) whose appointment as Chair was announced last month #Skystorians 1/2

If UKHE were smart/had money/was properly supported by government funds, we'd be doing just this sort of thing. But we're not/we don't/we won't be.

Well, this has inspired me to do my recs for the week on 18th century women writers! As Dr Theadora Jean says there's a whole ton of women writing in the 18th century and there are some FANTASTIC reads in there! Here are 10 recommendations to get you started! 🧵

'Garber seemed to refer to an intransigent government and dogmatic activists when he said in the graduation speech: “Though many would be loath to admit it, absolute certainty and wilful ignorance are two sides of the same coin, a coin with no value but costs beyond measure.”'

'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3

'Core research funding will be under “intense pressure” over the coming years, policy experts have warned, as ministers look to tie UK R&D more closely to government objectives.' Don't be distracted. This, not accompanying article about the delayed package to attract US 'talent', is the key issue.

The deadline for postdoc applications (30 May) is fast approaching! 👇

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This will be a fabulous opportunity for someone 👇🏻 #historyjobs

“in a lot of towns your university is your car plant, it is your steel mill”

It's an opinion piece, but for what it's worth it's an opinion based on (for example) teaching all of our 1st year UGs, chairing exam board during pandemic/strike, orchestrating UoA REF submission, service on 2 REF SPs, learned society leadership, stints as HoD, PVC & director of research institute.

There’s still time to sign up online/in person for this important talk this weds @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social 👇

V excited to be returning to Aberdeen to talk about 'Brothers & Lovers: Frances Burney and the Gothic'. I'll be drawing on research outlined in my @cambridgeup.bsky.social Element 'Reading With The Burneys', and playing show-&-tell with the all-important Evelina in @uoacollections.bsky.social!

Very happy to be able to say that the new @incsa.bsky.social academic journal 'Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research' is now live and accepting proposals! Do get in touch with me regarding potential books for review and/or books you would like to review 😁 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

A useful reminder that understanding verifiable sources, building plausible arguments and interpreting varied information about human experiences - the bread and butter of the Humanities, and certainly of History - is more necessary than ever.

Just a reminder that in a couple of weeks I'll be returning to @morethanadodo.bsky.social, showing off a case of gorgeous gynandromorph butterflies prior to Bi-Curious George's fabulous show Queer Planet. It promises to be a fun and informative evening! 🐬🌈🐌🏳️‍⚧️🦋 #museums oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/queer-...