Fantastic start to the second day of the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social on Print Media and Communities and Making and Breaking Marriages in the UK and Ireland. Yesterday also featured an amazing discussion on social history past, present and future. Looking forward to the rest and presenting tomorrow!

Strathclyde history represent! Really enjoyed hearing two excellent papers this morning by my colleagues @annalively.bsky.social (on the Women’s Guild of Empire) and Fearghus Roulston (on anti-dampness campaigns in early 80s Britain). #SHS2026 @strathhumanities.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

So many very very impressive early career scholars at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference - original, rigorous, inspiring & beautifully constructed papers

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference is exploring a whole range of interesting issues about what the past, present and future of social history is.

Very sad to be leaving Lancaster and the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference early, but thank you @manchesterup.bsky.social for the book for the train ride home! #shs2026

This has been a great conference @socialhistsoc.bsky.social! Photos from Fearghus Roulston paper on social histories of mould and anti dampness and @annalively.bsky.social paper on anti-communist activism and the Women’s Guild of Empire

Whilst I wasn’t able to attend this years annual 2026 Social History Society conference I am delighted to confirm I’ve been elected as a Committee Member for the Society. One happy and smiley Claire 🙂 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

As always the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference has been the most welcoming and engaging discussion of a wonderful variety of topics. If you do social history do think about joining and getting involved!

Presented at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social's 50th anniversary conference yesterday! Was a little nervous as it's impossible to do Greenham and indeed heterotopias justice in ~20 minutes but it was so well received and was a very positive experience!

Presented my first ever conference paper yesterday at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Annual Conference! As an MA student at @ljmuhistory.bsky.social, I’m so grateful for all the thoughtful conversations and kind feedback on my research, it was all very encouraging! I had a brilliant time #SHS2026

Day 3 of @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Annual Conference. Great papers by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on imperial charitability, @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on historicising suicidal feeling. As well as a panel with @louisebell.bsky.social, David Cox, Susan Barton & Lucy Barton on conflict and disability

@socialhistsoc.bsky.social @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social @historylabplus.bsky.social Mike Reeves giving his paper on smoking

The Social History Society 50th anniversary Conference is in full swing! To celebrate, take 30% off a wide range of social history books with free UK postage until 31/8 here: yalebooks.co.uk/social-histo... #history #SkyStorians @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Great first day at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th Anniversary Conference @lancasteruni.bsky.social. Presented my paper today and looking forward to hearing some more tomorrow and Friday.

Urgent & thought-provoking convo at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conf today betwn @davehitchcock.bsky.social, @lucydelap.bsky.social Pat Thane & JC Niala on why we need social history now, and the solidarities, communities, & exchanges it fosters - with JC Niala demonstrating here one such exchange

@socialhistsoc.bsky.social cracking panel discussion at SHS Conference on Social History: Its Pasts and Futures; a call to action for all Social Historians #SHS2026

And we are off! @historianjen.bsky.social starting Panel 1 at #SHS2026

⚔️The conference has got off to a cracking start with some medieval re-enactment out on the lawn! We'd love to hear about your conference (panels, papers, entertainment etc.!) - please #SHS2026 ✨

Excited to be en route to Lancaster for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference. I’m particularly looking forward to the 70s disco tomorrow night! 🕺 I’m speaking on Friday at 11.15 about my research on Women’s Information Network as part of this fab panel on Feminist Politics.

@manchesterup.bsky.social is all set up for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social! Drop by and take a look at some recent titles. Plus, if you recommend our new imperialism and colonialism collection to your librarian you can take a book away for free.

Putting the finishing touches to my paper for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference later this week, excited to be talking as part of this great panel on women's networks and communities! Thursday Panel 3 11:15-12:45 if you're around and about and keen to talk bedding

Looking forward to attending the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference this week. I'll be presenting my paper on Liverpool’s Anti-Apartheid Movement on Thursday. Looking forward to meeting fellow historians and hearing some fascinating papers!

Really looking forward to this and to speaking tomorrow on the Women’s Guild of Empire and women’s anti-communist activism

📣We're so excited to welcome you to our 50th anniversary conference today!✨ Check out our fabulous programme here: socialhistory.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Looking forward to presenting my paper at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Conference next week, about the experiences of working-class girls in the Tripartite Secondary School System in the West Mids during the late 1950s-1960s… not least because the weather in Lancaster is looking wonderfully mild…

Looking forward to presenting a paper based on my latest Caird Fellowship research on Greenwich Hospital School at @lancasteruni.bsky.social for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th Anniversary conference next week ⚓️

One week to go until our Voices of Motherhood panel! Many thanks to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic conference and we hope to see lots of you there 😊

Looking forward to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 50th anniversary conference next week @lancasteruni.bsky.social where I will present a paper on eighteenth century female London cheesemongers. This will be the a first public outing for research from my latest chapter. How exciting (for me)!

📣Less than a week to go until our 50th anniversary conference! Our full programme is out now, please find it here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

We're very excited to be sharing our research at this conference next week! Our panel is on Friday afternoon, chaired by @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social and we'll be presenting on three different strands of our project. First up is Anna Muggeridge whose paper is titled…

📣Are you ready to get your disco on? After our conference's anniversary gala dinner (2 July), we will be having a 70s-themed disco to celebrate our 50th anniversary! Flares, long-collars and tie-dye encouraged!!🪩

Our final session before the conference is the 26th June (at 4pm)! It would be lovely to see as many people as possible there - so if you’re having any last minute panics about your conference paper, this is the place to come and discuss them!

My new blog for the Social History Society on the loss of adult education centres in universities, with particular focus on history and the closure of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York. 🗃️

It is no exaggeration to say York's Centre for Lifelong Learning changed my life. A creative writing course led by @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social has resulted in novels published, new friends, and later this year, I very much hope, a PhD. It's such a loss.

📣 Book launch & exhibition! 📖 Information at War: A Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939–1946, ed by Simon Eliot & Henry Irving 🕰️ 17:45, 22 June 📍 Senate House As the indexer, happily I was one of this essay collection's first readers, & I couldn't recommend it more highly!

Symptomatic of a long, slow slide into cultural decline over decades since university extramural courses began to be run down. #LifelongLearning

📣New Social History Society blog Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social on 'Losing Lifelong Learning' 👉Read online here: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

📣Statement from the Social History Society about the proposed cuts at the University of Hertfordshire 👉Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/05/15/h...

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Celebrating 40 years of Continuity and Change. 🎉 Explore a curated selection of free‑to‑read articles spanning four decades of research on past societies. Read more 👇️ @echistsoc.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @hcarvalhal.bsky.social #HistoricalSociology

Thank you to everyone who contributed to 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' research workshop at Emmanuel College last week! My brain is still absolutely buzzing with inspiration from all the incredible papers! ☀️

The deadline for this has been extended to this Friday (1 May) - we would love to have you join the team!

Last week we participated in the 'Festival of Social History' - an event organised by @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @ihr.bsky.social In the morning, co-investigator @lsangha.bsky.social spoke about the project's use of AI transcription and working with volunteers 🧵1/3 bsky.app/profile/dave...

Our display on the material culture and history of retirement gifts is ready for visitors at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Festival of History, happening today @ihr.bsky.social

Excited to be in London today for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Festival of Social History!

Here in sunny London at the Social History Festival organised by @socialhistsoc.bsky.social, listening to Laura King identify a crucial and massively overlooked methodology for social history and family history: "the magic happened over tea and biscuits".

We are delighted to be taking part in today's Festival of Social History, organised by @socialhistsoc.bsky.social in its 50th year, at Senate House, University of London. If you're attending, please do come and say hello and pick up a badge or three #Skystorians

We’re at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social’s Festival of Social History today! If you’re here, please do come say hi!

So proud to represent History Workshop Journal @historyworkshop.org.uk at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Festival of Social History with @lauracforster.bsky.social! Issue 100, our amazing digital magazine, and Jonathan Saha's wonderful HWJ prints all on display!

How do you bring a MakerSpace to a Festival of Social History? Here's our try 🙂 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...