📣You have just under a month to send in your proposal for our 2026 Social History Society Conference - where we will be celebrating out 50th anniversary! 👉Find out more here: socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

#CfP for next year’s SHS conference! Drop me a line if you have any Q about the ‘Lifecycles, Families, and Communities’ strand 📣

It is that time of year when I ask if anyone is contemplating submitting a paper for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conf in the Bodies and emotions strands and wants to plan a panel

Submit a proposal to speak at the Social History Society conference in 2026! 🗃️

Last call | There’s still time to submit proposals for the 40th anniversary issue of Continuity and Change, exploring past developments and future directions in social & economic history. Deadline 20 Dec 2025. More on the blog👇 @echistsoc.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Submit a paper for SHS!!! It's always such a great conference, there are strands for everyone, and it's the 50th anniversary which is even more of an excuse to join us and celebrate at Lancaster!

Wholeheartedly recommend any historians & especially PhD/ECRs think about submitting an abstract. In a dark, isolating & stressful field SHS conferences have always been welcoming beacon of light. They're full of great research & actually really fun.

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 📣Join us @lancasteruni.bsky.social 1-3 July 2026 as we return to our original home to celebrate our 50th anniversary! We welcome proposals from historians at all career stages across 8 thematic strands. 📅 CfP deadline: 16/01/26 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... #CFP 🗃️

#SkyStorians #History @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference CFP now live! A Lancaster, historic home of SHS, 1-3 July 2026. CFP deadline 16 Jan 2026. socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

📅 Save the Date! 🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social! 🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026 📍 Senate House, University of London Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities! 💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected] More info coming soon!

📅 Save the Date! 🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social! 🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026 📍 Senate House, University of London Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities! 💡 Want to contribute? 👉[email protected] More info coming soon!

We recently promoted the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social BME Small Grants scheme. We encourage you to apply if you need support with your #histed research! Check out our news article on it here: historyofeducation.org.uk/bme-grant-2025 #edusky

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 🗓️ 22 May 2026 📍 European University Institute, Florence 👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni 🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉 socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

New publication! 🚨 My article looks at how, during the 1916 US occupation, Dominican education administrators negotiated US expectations by drawing on the expertise of their Latin American counterparts. First 50 copies are free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZSMJ...

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories. 💸 Grants up to £1000. ⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025. #history #apply #funding #opportunity socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-...

📣Fellowship and grant opportunity! @chuarchives.bsky.social has multiple by-fellowships & research grants currently open for applications✨ 🕰️Different deadlines on 31 October, 31 December & 31 May. 👉More info: archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/resear...

📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations! Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨ More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...

📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations! Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨ More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...

📣Reminder that the deadline is coming soon!

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon! 💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history 🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal... ✨Apply today!

A brilliant use of our maps!

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon! 💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history 🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr 🔗 socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal... ✨Apply today!

📣New book in social history! 'Made in Swindon: A Social History, 1840s-1940s', edited by Philip Garrahan (Hobnob Press), explores how the GWR turned a rural Wiltshire settlement into one of Britain’s great company towns 👉Read more here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

⏰This time one month ago we were gearing up for the beginning of our annual conference! We had a fantastic time and look forward to seeing many of you again at our conference next year. socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/10/s...

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

📣We are delighted to announce that our outgoing Chair, Professor Naomi Tadmor, has been elected Honorary Vice President of the Society. This role is given as a mark of distinction to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society. 👇Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/24/o...

I was absolutely delighted to be awarded the Paula Cox Public History Award at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference a few weeks ago. I received this award for my work on @paraheritage.bsky.social ‘Story of the Games’ exhibition. Read more here: lnkd.in/eDC_Zm9g

📣We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Social History Society's Pamela Cox Public History Prize! 👇Read more below: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/23/w...

📣We are delighted to announce the results of the Postgraduate Paper Prize 2025! 👇Read all about it below: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/21/w...

A week late but (still) reflecting on a wonderful 3 days at my first @socialhistsoc.bsky.social ‪‪conference. So much fascinating social history research, provoking conversations across time periods/topics, with setting of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social as an added bonus #SHSConf2025

📣We are delighted to announce the results of our Committee Elections! 👇Read more below! socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/14/c...

En 2022 fui embarazada al congreso de la @socialhistsoc.bsky.social en Lancaster. Desde entonces, retomo ahora mi actividad congresil en el #SHSConf2025, esta vez en @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social, Dudley. Regreso ahora que #ExcitingTheBody acaba de ver la luz (y se lo han traído!) y con nuestra peque❤️

'Afterlives of war' by Michael Roper has won the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 🎉 This pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War - available Open Access on manchesterhive.com! Read it for free now 🔓 #OA #OpenAccess

📣We are delighted to announce that Prof. Michael Roper has been awarded the Social History Society's Book Prize for 'Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History' (MUP, 2023)! Prof. Laura Kelly (@tortietabby.bsky.social) won the Runner's Up Prize. Read more below! socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/11/r...

What an amazing 3 days @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference. Got to listen to some amazing historians and ride the rides at the funfair. Not at the same time sadly! #SHSConf2025

Was an excellent conference. Thanks to the organisers!

We are delighted to say that #SHSConf2025 was an immense success! Please read more about it here - and stay tuned for more information and announcements from the conference!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/10/s...

Wonderful to present on a panel on scrapbooking between the generations alongside @janehamlett.bsky.social & Lucy Brownson, chaired by @zoethomas.bsky.social. Fascinating discussions in the Q and A after. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for a fab conference.

Thanks so much to @drjenniferaston.bsky.social for kindly taking this photo 📸 during my @socialhistsoc.bsky.social panel! A great set of papers and wonderful to talk about community co-production and impact #SHSConf2025 ✨️

Three fantastic days in one of my favourite places! Had a great time at #SHSConf2025 with some fabulous people. Thanks to @historicalmeredith.bsky.social at @manchesterup.bsky.social for the book that I have been eyeing up for a while 😀 @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

At a time when life in HE feels tough #shsconf2025 has been truly joyful. I’m leaving with a notebook brimming with notes & new ideas. It’s been lovely to natter to so many history peeps. Thank you to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for your hard work! BCLM was perfect!

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #shsconf2025 at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social was brilliant. Brilliant panels but worth it just for the first evening social, with proper fish & chips, real ale, & a FUN FAIR! 😍

I was so over the moon to have won the Postgraduate Paper Prize at the Social History Society Conference this year. What a fab end to a truly wonderful conference! Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social !📚

And that's a wrap!! Many thanks to our hosts @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social and to all our members for making our 49th annual Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference so epic 😎 Safe home & we look forward to seeing you next year in Lancaster for our 50th anniversary! 😀 #SHSConf2025

As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!

Amazing venue, so many interesting papers, lovely chats with new friends, cool streets to walk down, and proper fish and chips. Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to attend and present in the UK for the first time. #shsconf2025

Thoroughly enjoyed attending #SHSConf2025. Such fascinating and impactful displays of work throughout! Very grateful for the opportunity to present a paper and I was delighted to be able to have such interesting discussions over the past few days!! @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @swwdtp.bsky.social

What a brilliant conference! Feeling very lucky to have heard fascinating papers and met so many new faces within the atmospheric surrounds of the Black Country Living Museum! Inspired more than ever by the breadth and depth of social histories #SHSConf2025 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Just heading home from the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference at the Black Country Living Museum. What an amazing venue! I don't think I'll get to go to a conference with a fairground again! So many wonderful papers and met lots of great people, a really fab conference.