🚨What's that?🚨 You want FREE access to 17 brilliant #RailwayHistory articles from the @jtransporthist.bsky.social? All yours! For #Railway200 the JTH has put together a virtual collection of articles, & until 15 October they're free! Download & read now: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

1/14 "... [for] their weal, not their woe". Today is the publication date of "Le Républicanisme d'Algernon Sidney" @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social, co-edited by myself and Christopher Hamel (@univrouen.bsky.social). This is the first ever volume on Sidney classiques-garnier.com/le-republica...

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK. Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Re-reading this chapter now (I haven't since we submitted the corrections!) I do feel quite proud of it and hope colleagues working in popular culture will consider citing it. If your institution doesn't have access let me know! #Barbie

CALL FOR CLUSTER PROPOSALS A few years ago @ewoodacre.bsky.social and I decided to have a go at developing a new cluster feature at Royal Studies Journal - a collection of shortform pieces on a @royalstudies.bsky.social theme published as a single large item in the journal's December issue...

Early English Queens, 850-1000 has just been reviewed in @jaema.bsky.social 20.2. McLeod states that it 'finds an ingenious structure to tell a difficult and timely story' & 'is highly recommended'. Links to the review & the book (all formats): Review → search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/... Book ↓

The Woman who Ruled the Papacy www.medievalists.net/2023/09/woma... #MedievalWomen

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion. Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

“Menstrual blood was messy, it was imprecise, it was difficult to collect, OB-GYNs told the pair. Why bother when the disease could be diagnosed with surgery?”

The horrors persist, but do you have any favorite scholarship on historical fiction (or history in pop culture in general)? Recommendations very much appreciated! #historysky

As it is the anniversary of Princess Elizabeth's death in 1650 it seems like a good time to reshare my JVC article on her Victorian afterlife academic.oup.com/jvc/article/...

My new piece on children's TV theme tunes, and how the changes in the music, lyrics, and credit sequences opening and closing shows like Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, and Thomas & Friends reflect huge shifts in the ideas and structures behind their production. 🧵 #skystorians #polisky #socsky

#onmydesktoday is a big and timely book about European communication by the great Joad Raymond Wren. Exploring a world of #earlymodern newsmongers, translators and postmasters, Joad highlights that news moved and were shared, and that news binds us together. Good news for #skystorians.

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Great 🧵 Teaching is actually hard work. Who knew?

We're taking our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts exhibition to the Hampshire Genealogical Society conference day, tomorrow! Delighted to showcase the exhibition - strong #LocalHistory & #FamilyHistory links! More on the project that produced it: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-a...

New on BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME we explore the controversial life and political career of Queen Marie Antoinette of France 🇫🇷 Our guests are Professor @100days1815.bsky.social and comedian Jen Brister This ep is only available in the UK on BBC SOUNDS for now, but comes to other apps in 1 month

‘AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex.’ I’ll ask again: What is the trillion dollar problem that this trillion dollar technology is supposed to solve? A difficulty writing emails?

This is a brilliant opportunity. Happy to answer any questions if anyone is interested in applying!

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾 Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers. #womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory

The new issue of @modernitaly.bsky.social is finally out & it's the special issue I guest edited with Maria Stella Chiaruttini, entitled: Turning Points and Transformations in Contemporary Italy: A Century of Big Changes Through ‘Small Histories’ snappy, I know... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Never seen the Fartage housing tax dodges on the front pages - surprising that…

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

If you want to understand the debates we are having about opera today concerning "elitism" and "who opera is for", you need to read this book. The official UK publication date is a month today but you can preorder your copy now. Thank you - every sale counts!

Did you know that Tudor Times's amazing Royal Marriages series begins this weekend, and first up is me, speaking on the hugely consequential union between Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. It's all online so anyone anywhere can tune in. For details and tickets, click here: bit.ly/41mhT1s

On Saturday, I'll be speaking in the @thetudortimes.bsky.social summit on Royal Marriages about Anne, Duchess of Brittany, obliged to marry successive kings of France so that her independent territories could be subsumed into the French crown. Join me here bit.ly/41mhT1s

In the 1930s, Listerine cigarettes were created. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were evidently not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence.

So to sum up… The “story” is that a working-class, Northern woman (hated by the Right), bought a house, paid the right amount of Stamp Duty, AND declared and paid the additional Council Tax she was required to pay. Yup, that’s it. That’s the story that’s dominated for several days now🙄 16/17

The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄 And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread! I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on! 🧵1/17

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE! We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates. Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

Everything is terrible right now in general, but in personal good news, my book has a cover and I'm so excited to share it!!! Selling Out Santa is about Hollywood's manipulation of the Christmas holiday for socially conservative ends in the early Cold War 🗃️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/selling-ou...

On 29 September there will be a colloquium on early modern communities & natural law in Europe at Christ Church @ox.ac.uk. Here is a list of speakers & the titles of presentations. If this research interests you, & you are able, do consider going! intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/natura...

The EHS welcomes submissions for its 2026 Book Prize. Publishers, former supervisors and authors are encouraged to make nominations. The Society welcomes submissions from scholars of all backgrounds. Deadline: 28 February 2026 For more information: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/prizes/

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

🐝Hivemind🐝 Do I know anyone who's a specialist in the history of the memoir, or can recommend any work about it? Looking specifically at military memoirs, but welcome any info about the format - I'm interested in how conventions might have shifted during the 19thc.

If you're interested in spending a virtual hour live with me every week, plus plenty of chat via discussion boards, I'm running a course on Medieval Chivalry April-June '26: lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... & I've made a video to explain more! drive.google.com/file/d/1o0L0... 🗃️

📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣

Bon, vu les débats lancés à ce sujet depuis plus d’un mois, voilà un fil qui tente d’expliquer le problème que pose l’infiltration par les ultra-conservateurs des spectacles historiques et autres fêtes médiévales (ou de villages). À dérouler ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 1/

Have you seen that our project has had some news coverage over the last few weeks? We've rounded the stories up here: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

Michael Staunton and I are running a conference here at UCD in June 2026 on 'The Past, Present, and Future after Conquest: 1066, 1169'. Details of the Call for Papers below 👇 #medievalsky #Normans @leverhulme.ac.uk Deadline for the submission of abstracts is the 26th September

ESEH 2027, “Environmental History Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries,” will take place on 6–10 September in beautiful Salzburg, Austria! #ESEH2025 #ESEH2027 #envhist #envhum @mknoll.bsky.social

Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌 The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters: Part 1 'Sources': - Digitised Sources Part 2 'Histories': - Race - The Body, Mind & Emotions.

What responsibilities do writers of historical fiction have, do you think? I'm thinking about Philippa Gregory's take on Anne Boleyn's last pregnancy. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-formless...