New year, new postdoctoral fellowship! Be our next Visiting Research Fellow in Sustainability & Environment (£10k bursary, P/T, flexible, Apr-Oct 26). Applications invited from arts and humanities researchers within 10yr of PhD. Deadline 9 Feb noon. For more information: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Had a blast talking about the history of imperialism, socialism, and fascism with these brilliant historians! Can’t wait for Disha’s amazing book to come out so you can all read it.

My last Nation interview for this year is with Alyssa Battistoni and concerns her important new book, “Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature”: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk 2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

CfP for a conference on "New Histories of the North-South Conflict" (July 7-9, 2026, deadline January 15, 2026) from my colleague Eva-Maria Muschik at @univie.ac.at. Looks like a great event examining histories of decolonization, the 1970s and 1980s, and IPE! www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

There’s still time to apply!

Here's a link to the junior applications. Open to any postdoctoral, early career (tenure track) or tenured academic within 10 years of being awarded their PhD at the time of application. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Job: Full Professor "International History and Politics" (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva) https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-159326 Geneva, , The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland, Bewerbungsschluss: …

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

While today’s waged care worker might be doubly burdened—caring within the home and beyond it—this means that unlike her housewife foremother she is not isolated. Within a workplace, there is the possibility of organizing and collective bargaining. @emilybaughan.bsky.social on Wages for Housework:

#CfP Call for Papers Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026 Submit to [email protected]

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

We did wind up recording this event, and you can watch it here: youtu.be/9QnHoi3GwLA

Now in #paperback, The Life and Death of States by Natasha Wheatley is an intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order. Order yours and enjoy 30% off with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #ReadUP #History

On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social

We're now open for pitches for Issue #3 of @the-breakdown.bsky.social, AIRBORNE, on the importance of air in the climate crises, its role in environmental history and activism, and its future on a transformed planet. If you have ideas for a piece, send them our way www.break-down.org/pitching/

I am very pleased to announce the publication of a book that I had the privilege of editing with Daniel Laqua on the history of intellectual cooperation at the League of Nations! 🖥️ More about the book: www.martingrandjean.ch/intellectual... 📙 Read online: doi.org/10.18356/978...

Please come! Glasgow became an important thread in my book, almost a character in its own right. I can’t wait to give this talk!

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

It's pretty damning that the Adelphi was well-known as a place for people to sleep rough from at least a century ago.

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I sat down with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to talk about Seven Dials, Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, and the making of modern London. You can listen to the podcast at newbooksnetwork.com/songs-of-sev... #history #london #sevendials #newbooks

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

Four postdoc fellowships at the Turin Humanities Programme on legacies and interpretations of the Enlightenment; applications welcome by 16 Feb 2026.

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus. Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #history #envhistory #earlymodern

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

Fantastic talk by Helen McCarthy on generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s as this year’s annual Pimlott Memorial Lecture @mbhjournal.bsky.social

Listening to the brilliant Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social giving her Inaugural Lecture on “Why a History of Care?” (Starting with a quote by Audre Lorde)

🚨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 papers #CFP Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present 18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib... Deadline: 25 Jan 2026

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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

It’s not too late to sign up for this year’s Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture, delivered by the wonderful Professor Helen McCarthy (Cambridge). @mbhjournal.bsky.social @historianhelen.bsky.social 25 Nov 2025, 6–9 PM King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today. www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27! The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025. For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

JOB College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge [This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations] www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...

David Engerman (Yale) will be giving a talk on his new book “Apostles of Development” on Monday 17th, 5pm at Queen Elizabeth House on Mansfield Street (Oxford Department for International Development). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

junior position in economic history @ Wadham College Oxford

It’s not too late to sign up for this year’s Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture, delivered by the wonderful Professor Helen McCarthy (Cambridge). @mbhjournal.bsky.social @historianhelen.bsky.social 25 Nov 2025, 6–9 PM King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-bri...

I entered and didn’t win well over a decade ago, but the feedback was so useful that I worked on the article and published in tcbh a couple of years after! Great prize/process