📣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.

A rather special venue for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference - Black Country Living History museum. A unique vibe and a great event

And a huge thank you to everyone who organised @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 2025 conference, strand leaders, speakers, chairs, our fab keynote @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and the staff at the venue Black Country living history museum. Next time I’m dressing in appropriate period costume.

Not much chance to post much over the last few days at #SHSConf2025, but seeing everybody's happy memories and excitement at being at @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social has almost brought a tear to my eye. On behalf of the museum, thanks so much @socialhistsoc.bsky.social and all delegates for coming!

Seeing how much joy has been brought to the historical academic community at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 2025 conference these past few days, I’m imploring the criminology community to consider the Black Country museum for conferences. The justification? Some of Peaky Blinders was filmed there….🤞😆

I was only there for the day, chairing the wonderful panel on scrapbooking, but completely agree with this! Thank you so much @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for organising such a great conference. There was such a lovely intellectual and friendly buzz! #shsconf2025

Back from a wonderful few days #SHSconf2025 - maybe the friendliest conference I've been to and a real beacon of light (apart from, of course, underground in the VERY DARK mine) - cheers @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present, BCLM for being a fab venue, and to new friendships 🎠

Now #SHSConf2025 is done my term as PGR rep on the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social committee is over. It’s been great working with such talented people especially @louisebell.bsky.social. Good luck Louise and my successor for the future!

After a fabulous few days at the Black Country Living Museum, I left the #SHSConf2025 feeling inspired and relentlessly cheerful - but a mixture of exceptional panels, fish and chips and a fairground will do that for you. Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for a truly amazing conference. 📚🖋️🎓

@socialhistsoc.bsky.social thank you so so much for such a brilliant three days. What an amazing venue to present for the first time. thanks to everyone for being so kind and encouraging. And thanks to my other amazing panel members. #shsconf2025

Really didn't take many photos at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #shsconf2025 because I was too busy having a delightful time! Thanks to the organisers, to new friends, to all the presenters, and everyone who listened to my talk. A wonderful welcoming event (plus, some new reading to take home)

there was a great discussion led by @brodiewaddell.bsky.social at the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference this week about publishing and peer review one i think more people could know (!): in my editing experience, reviewers and authors often guess identities. often wrong.

Loved @socialhistsoc.bsky.social #SHSConf2025? Or - worse - missed out on being part of it this year? Our CfP for next year's 50th Anniversary Conference, which will be at Lancaster University in July 2026, goes live in the Autumn 🍂 so you have time to decide what might be a nice paper to submit.. 🤔

A fantastic second day at #SHSConf2025 - presented my paper so I can relax and enjoy everyone else’s research tomorrow 😀 Luckily this bus gets me close to home 😂 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social

Huge congrats to the winners of the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social PGR prize this year! 👏👏 @amyloulongmuir.bsky.social #SHSConf2025

Also huge congrats to @tortietabby.bsky.social for being runner up for the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Book Prize, and Michael Roper for winning! #SHSConf2025

It's been a great couple days at the #SHS2025 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference. I enjoyed presenting my research on the bureaucratic graffiti of the 1921 Census. Always wonderful to meet new people and hear about the breadth of work currently being worked on. #1920s #blackcountrylivingmuseum

@socialhistsoc.bsky.social #SHSConf2025 panel in action with superb researchers @jamesepeate.bsky.social & Lucy Cann! Thanks @louisebell.bsky.social for the pic!

@sambrady.bsky.social congrats on your @socialhistsoc.bsky.social prize. It’s wonderful to see your Paralympic exhibition recognised. I hope you sensed the loud round of applause from the auditorium!

Beyond delighted to be runner up for the PGR prize! Thank you so much to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social 💖