the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word! www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...

📢 Call for Contributions 📢 The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”

Our latest #OpenAccess blog by Laura Carter & @freddyfoks.bsky.social, co-eds of Democratising History: 'Libraries – the beating heart of humanities research and also, too often, the unsung heroes of that research – are likely to be at the centre of the good fight.' uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl...

Delighted to see my article exploring how Britons planned for retirement in the mid-to-late 20th century out in the world! It tries to capture the mixed feelings prompted by ageing & retirement whilst connecting those themes to wider histories of social democracy, selfhood & financialisation.

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...

We're commissioning an artist to co-create an artwork for our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Help us tell powerful stories of identity, home and care. 🗓 Deadline for applications: 19 October 2025 📍 Location: Anywhere in the UK 👉 Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3IKaZNA

How can trans history facilitate knowledge and solidarity beyond the 'existence' of trans people? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo argues for trans history as a tool of political education, through the history of access to healthcare:

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

And you can now read the (just published) book for free on the @uolpress.bsky.social website uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... !

A wide-ranging and polemical review of some recent Big Books in British studies: Stern’s Empire inc and Berg and Hudson Slavery, Capitalism. Surprised it hasn’t got more comment here tbh

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

We'll be launching a book inspired by Peter's research on 26th September in Cambridge. Sign up for tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/democratis... @camhistory.bsky.social @cammbhw.bsky.social

Award-winning poet & memoirist Hannah Lowe will be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture (not a lecture!) 2025, Tues 9 September. She’ll be joining me to discuss ‘Doing #History through #Poetry’, chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. Book your place: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

It's Tuesday. You're dragging yourself through the world, one cup of coffee at a time. Can nothing liven up this day? How 'bout a thread of eel ships on maps? These maps are what got me into eels in the first place! "Cool!" you say. "But wait...what's an eel ship?" Well... 1/14

Is there any extensive historical research on post-1945 ‘aliens’ (specifically European) immigration policy? Lots on DPs / EVWs (of course) but how about non-gov sponsored?

The latest virtual issue of the journal on: "Immobility" by current @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social , Malika Zehni, Lamin Manneh Is now out in full and free to access academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

For anyone who wants to understand a bit more about the dynamics of migrant shipping in these years

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

The @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social statement about the UKSC ruling & its implications is now available on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... So glad that we can stand together for these intellectual & pedagogical principles!

And another new cover! In August we are publishing Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out, edited by Laura Carter, Freddy Foks and Philip Harling. Read more: uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... #OpenAccess @ihr.bsky.social #PeterMandler #AcademicSky #Skystorians

My first working paper is out! If you're at all interested in using I-CeM for spatial investigation, check out my method for residential georeferencing.

Can’t wait for this and for this panel! I’ll be presenting on loopholes in the Commonwealth Immigrants Act designed to ease Australian immigration after 1962…

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

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.

‘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

With electrical substations in the news, here’s a brilliant history of the Stoke Newington station- from 19th century technology to 1960s infrastructure. The U.K. runs on this stuff youtu.be/jV3_CZzyyyE

help needed: can you help me decipher this word written in the left margin (red underline)? 'Yes, but equally sometimes not, which could (rightly) in[...]'

Labour MPs saying “the clue is in the name” to justify benefit cuts is wildly disingenuous. It co-opts Labour’s history to imply all those that cannot physically labour are somehow excluded from the cause. Being pro-worker does not require being anti-unemployed or anti-disabled. It never did.

If you were listening to the Today prog this morning, you'll have heard the shadow Home Sec announcing new Conservative Party proposals to "bring to an end the era of mass low-skilled migration and clamp down on the large number of family visas currently being issued" - so, what are these proposals?

Campop blog #38: Servants in the past were not all like those in Downton Abbey! Charmian Mansell describes the wide variety in servants' social status, tasks and living conditions in pre-industrial Britain @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...

Updated OBR migration analysis: Typical migrant only starts receiving more in benefits than they pay in tax at age 92. Lifetime contribution entirely positive. Low-age migrants have a lifetime negative fiscal impact on average. Typical UK resident's impact is neutral or slightly negative.

If anyone is about 18th March I'll be giving a public seminar for the Manchester Uni history department. The talk will be exploring photographs of industrial struggle, race and resistance and discussing 'Bolton's Grunwick', a mill strike in 1978. All welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Our new maps launch today - now, crucially, with subject data from individual UK universities. This adds a new dimension to our cold spots mapping what students can study and where. The maps show a complex regional picture - let's get into it ⤵️ (1) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

How might ships change the way we understand migration policy in postwar Britain and its empire? My new article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social offers an answer to that question. Here's a thread to hopefully pique your interest and maybe get you to read it 🧵🚢 www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Manchester have posted 14 more postdoc positions in 'SHAPE' disciplines - 4x simon fellowships and 10(!) hallsworth fellowships. Simon eligibility is 'within 4 years of PhD award', except career breaks www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun... Happy to discuss these via email

tbf I do think there's a logic here that Prof Ansell is missing and that didn't make it into his recent blogpost on economic policies benansell.substack.com/p/grasping-f.... And that's surprising given the prominence of the Resolution Foundation on the left recently. Some halfbaked musings ...

Folks, what are some of the best works of historiography/historical theory written in the last 5-10 years?

A quick reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for our conference, British History Today, is in 10 days time! Please send to [email protected].

Manchester Uni are hiring 3-year postdoc bicentennary fellows in Arts and Humanities - details here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...