Really excited to share my brand new @histfest.bsky.social online course… UNNATURAL DAUGHTERS: MARY, ANNE & THE ‘GLORIOUS REVOLUTION’ •Starts 5th May (you can follow live or at own pace) • 4 lectures, 4 Q&As, reading material and optional activities www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unnatural-...

My book comes out next month and I'd love to talk to your research group/seminar series/PGRs about it! Potential talk topics: Why do we think natural history museums are for kids? How public are our public museums? Truth and fiction in the museum Looting: empire in the museum...

A bit of good news today!

Five decades of pumping out escalating terror that somewhere, some disabled person might be getting a free sandwich, will do that to a nation.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500–1800) 🔜 Submission deadline: 15 June 📍 Warsaw | 📅 28–30 Sept Student workshop included :) #EarlyModern #History #BlueSkyStorians More info ⬇️

Before I buy a book for single chapter, does anyone have access to a copy of Pat Thane's The Impact of World War I on Marriage, Divorce and Gender Relations in Britain in Brée and Hin (eds.), The Impact of World War I on Marriage, Divorce and Gender Relations in Europe (Routledge, 2020)? #ww1 #fww

Please join us at @uninorthampton.bsky.social for PLAYING WITH HISTORY, the Centre for Historical Studies' annual conference. Play has long been central to cultural expression, technological innovation, learning, and socialization. Let's discuss! www.northampton.ac.uk/research/res...

Delighted to share the link to my first monograph! Thank you @oxunienl.bsky.social #c18 #huguenots

Dedicated to costume from an early age, Richard Croft created a dazzling wardrobe for the BBC in the 80’s, from science fiction to Christmas specials. See his designs up close and discover the man behind the limelightin our new exhibition. The exhibition is free to enjoy until Sunday 12 July.

If you were interested in a short, fun, engagement with research and collections across our museum group, what format would you prefer that to take? - A blog? - A short video (2-3 mins?) - A c5mins bitesize podcast? - Something else? It would be really useful to hear from you!

Final plug for this bad boy, tomorrow evening. New research on scribbles in baronetages and Austen’s composition of PERSUASION.

It’s a big year for Creative Writing @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, with new UG curriculum, our first cohort of CW PhDs finishing, a new creative research school, and our CW MA launching in Sept. I look forward to celebrating that history & future later today.

Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”

My new Substack post discusses Elizabeth Boleyn's apartments at palaces, castles, and manors across the country during Anne's queenship! You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/sophieba...

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

It is National Infertility Awareness week - a week to acknowledge the impact of infertility on millions of people around the world. An appropriate time to share the programme for the Locating Loss conference, which will take place @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

"It is unclear what Reform politicians think this kind of change would achieve, but for a party which claims to favour minimal state interference it is baffling that they think politicians should dictate the content and presentation of an exhibition."

Come join us in person or online in York next week for @emmawhipday.bsky.social and what will no doubt be a brilliant talk on the 'curious cultural absence' of wicked stepfathers in #earlymodern England, through a reading of Claudius in Hamlet. I can't wait! Sign up below👇 🗃️

We are a very small minority in terms of government funding, which makes the slashing of provision even more gutting. A drop in the overall budget could be life saving to families in more perilous financial conditions than me! You can sign the petition here - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

I’m happy to share that my article “A Collection of Loyal Songs: Songs as Spaces of Memory” has been published in Études Écossaises 25! #JacobiteStudies #JacobiteSongCulture #LoyalSongs

You can now catch the first of the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social new podcast hosted by @drolibetts.bsky.social on the museum's youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUp...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Have an idea for a special issue? Don't miss the opportunity! BJHS Themes (BSHS + Cambridge University Press) invites Guest Editor proposals. 🗓 Deadline: 1 July 2026 🔗 bshs.org.uk/bjhs-themes-...

Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.

You can now catch the first of the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social new podcast hosted by @drolibetts.bsky.social on the museum's youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUp...

Very excited to be co-organizing this event with Adam Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social & Sarah Griffin @uoylibrary.bsky.social

“At a time when disability is misunderstood and vilified, Ryan offers a vision of how much disabled women already contribute to society and how much more might be possible.” With WHO WANTS NORMAL? paperback out tomorrow, here’s a v kind review from The Observer: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Welcome to the Royal Studies Journal We’re an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global royal studies across all periods, places, and disciplines. Explore our latest research, special issues, and book reviews, Join the conversation: rsj.winchester.ac.uk @royalstudies.bsky.social

Jane Seymour queen of England for only 17 months. In her lifetime, however, she was a significant political figure, while her legacy and memorialization extended beyond her early death following childbirth Out in July 😊 @routledgebooks.bsky.social #livesofroyalwomen #janeseymour #queenjaneseymour

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Pour les modernistes, un bel appel à communications pour un colloque autour de la reine de France Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche ! Elle a été très peu étudiée donc de multiples pistes de recherches sont ouvertes...à la fois sur son rôle diplomatique, sur ses réseaux etc. Date limite : 15 mai 2026

New Milton Studies Special Issue (68.1) highlighting the impact of precarity on the field & Milton himself. To cope 🫣 I ended up combining 3 of my favourite things: John Milton, Jane Austen, & roses 🌹 scholarlypublishingcollective-org.uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org/psup/milton-...

@newcastleuni.bsky.social will be hosting the British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research conference on 7-8 May. Tickets (no charge) for the event go live today at 9am. We have an excellent programme of speakers. Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk @sslh.bsky.social @ialhi.bsky.social

This is fun! We did an episode of You’re Dead To Me about Alexandre Dumas, who made D’Artagnan famous with his epic historical novels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Archaeological Illustrator (Supervisor) AOC Archaeology Salary: £28,030– £29,244 (depending on experience; 26/27 pay review pending) Date: April 17, 2026 Location: Edinburgh www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

Here is the registration link: conferences.historicalfictionsresearch.org/roundtable26... Please note that emails with the meeting link will go out on the day before the event.

Applications for the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship hosted at LJMU are now open! You can find out more about this prestigious scheme and how to apply here: bavs.ac.uk/bavs-bars-ni... Deadline for applications: 11th May 2026

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

A new interactive map for @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social in #WomensHistoryMonth - I mapped all the places mentioned by Alice in Event narratives. thornton-play-books.github.io/play-books/eve…

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

One of the key things you learn as a disabled person is that the definition of 'reasonable' is rarely constructed from the disabled point of view... Fair play to Zack for pointing out the slippery language bullshit.

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Applications are now open for #ArchivesRevealed cataloguing grants (of up to £50,000) and consortium grants (of up to £150,000) until Thursday 30 April! Find out more and apply here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-rev... (1/2)

Historians of Post-War Britain, who should I be reading if I'm interested in modernization efforts (both failed and successful) as well the public reception of those? Any pointers gratefully received... Thank you!

#FRHistory 🗃️

Symposium: Thinking through Tea: Art, Resistance, and Global Entanglements in the Age of American Independence Thursday, May 7, 2026–Friday, May 8, 2026 Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall and *Livestream* britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-... Lunder Institute@ Yale Center for British Art

Global historians! The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has a Bluesky account. Please share and follow: @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social

Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv