Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social

I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html

Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.

The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December. We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2

Join us next Wednesday 19 Nov from 5:30pm either online or in Room 828 of the Institute of Education to hear @helenesfandiary.bsky.social present her paper on ‘The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England’ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided... I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority. @ihr.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @ihrwomen.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social

📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/ #funding #ECR #PhD

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Please ignore my X account! I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme! 🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🔹 Full time, open ended contract 🔹 London 🔹 £54,931 Closes 8 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very funny cartoon from @stephencollins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

I have updated my website! Now with section on consultancy. If you are looking for some consultancy/workshops/facilitation on communication anxiety within your workplace, group, students, please get in contact. Also available for media on the topic too. rachelabynoth.wixsite.com/misshistorian

Places still available to attend the BSECS PGR/ECR conference online 30-31st July 2025. The programme has been finalised and you can see the amazing papers in store across the two days - all for just £10! Details to register here: forms.gle/VMZgsW6JRAdc...

@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...

SHAPE job #culturalSector Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director. £70k p.a. jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...

Last year in the lead up to the 2024 general election, we turned our attention to 18th c. elections and electioneering in our Georgian Elections Project! You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...

Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea share.google/VZHDnXwwXgHz...

Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’ @ihr.bsky.social shorturl.at/hMRGz

The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Here's a link to my blog piece on finding Black voters in the 18th-century archive: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla... With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)

Is it just me? (BBC East of England weekly quiz)

My piece on the ECPPEC Project for the Modern History Review is finally here! The MHR is a magazine aimed at promoting history and resources for UK schools, bringing new perspectives on key A-level topics from leading historians, and putting history in a real-world context... ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature James Burns, ‘The Bandit, the Holy Man, and the Slave in the Early Medieval West’, Journal of Late Antiquity bit.ly/4k7oMKR 1/2

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #WomensWork

We are advertising for a one-year lectureship in Early American History my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Interesting role for a Historian or Arts/Humanities scholar to join at a senior level in the research team; overlapping specialities required: Early Modern, history of enslavement, country house history, plant humanities.

Very much looking forward to John Coffey speaking about the diaries of William Wilberforce this Wed. at the earlier time of 3pm - in Northampton. Do join us online or in person (some travel funds are available). www.history.ac.uk/events/diari... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

We recorded 14.6mm of rain in #reigate yesterday, making it the wettest day since 24th February. We are slightly below the average #rainfall for 2025 with a total of 297mm compared to the average of 299.6mm. #summer #WeatherUpdate #weather

New post from the Georgian Lords on the history of Bloomsbury Square, focusing on the events of #June 1780. Warning: the post deals with issues relating to executions. #HistParl historyofparliament.com/2025/06/05/b...

OMG I can never manage to wait until the evening!

#OTD 1780, several days of looting and rioting began in London, known as the Gordon Riots. On our website Dr Robin Eagles explored how protesters prompted by anti-Catholic sentiment managed to press their way into the heart of the palace of Westminster: historyofparliament.com/2024/10/01/p...

Living in lodgings: what has changed over the centuries and what has changed? Less than you might think! blog.spareroom.co.uk/how-lodgers-...

My new article on pauper apprenticeship is online and open access! Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750 doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

I will be talking all about my work in London for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series next month. How are histories of enslavement part of the history of some east Asian luxury objects? Come and find out www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

#18thCentury #18thC #motherhood

My article on the earliest known Black British voter - in a special issue edited by Karen Lipsedge: ‘John London, the Community Experience of a Black Man in Georgian London: Householder, Businessman, Voter’: Family & Community History: Vol 28 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Four fully-funded collaborative PhD studentships available with the cultural partners of the REACH Consortium (Historic Royal Palaces, British Film Institute, Royal Museums Greenwich,/National Maritime Museum). Deadlines 26 May-30 June. And lots more at other institutions too: full list below.

Always a great evening

I have throughly enjoyed helping to put this event together as the current PGR Seminar Co-Convenor. We have a bumper lineup of early stage PhDs presenting their research.

Join us next Wednesday (14 May) in room 243 of Senate House or online for our annual Lightning Talks event. This is our seminar’s flagship event where we hear rapid-fire three minute presentations from early-stage PhDs about their dissertation research. www.history.ac.uk/events/light...

Join us! The Society welcomes applications for Fellowship from professional historians working in higher education and other sectors. Our Fellows make an original contribution to historical scholarship, through publications, public history, archives or heritage. For more see bit.ly/4iOu51g, 1/2

Why did successful and famous Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) choose to live as a lodger in a rooms in other people's houses for forty years? Read my new article: read.dukeupress.edu/eighteenth-c...

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...