On Thursday 30 October our Trades Union & Employment forum is hosting a special conference @ihr.bsky.social to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it now via the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public. Starting this week:

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This is the first book in our new History & Policy Shorts series published in association with @ihr.bsky.social and History & Policy. 'This book represents a fascinating contribution to the study of British political history.' —Richard Toye, Director of Global Excellence (History), @exeter.ac.uk

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

A fascinating piece of detective work with Senate House Library to confirm the owners of a looted manuscript that found its way into the library collection.

In addition to a new episode of the @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social being available, we’re also excited to let people know that we’ve got a record crowd for a @bssh.bsky.social event at @ihr.bsky.social and we’re looking to get a even bigger crowd still! Sign up via the link below to join us ⬇️

On Thursday 30 October our Trades Union & Employment forum is hosting a special conference @ihr.bsky.social to mark the 60th anniversary of the introduction of industrial tribunals in the UK. You can register for it now via the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Welcome IHR @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social! You can find them and our other projects, seminars and people in our starter pack go.bsky.app/2AUxmcA Let me know if we've missed anyone.

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT! Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'. Online and in-person, 5.30pm Book here:

Today I will be reading over this year's @ihr.bsky.social Pollard Prize entries, of which I am a judge. This is an award for the best paper delivered by a postgraduate student at any IHR seminar in the previous year. Can't wait to see what clever students have been researching!

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has published new tutorial videos focusing on searching BBIH and using BBIH to research the histories of race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, emotions, social class, and health.

If you’re a PGR student anywhere near London, it would be a mistake not to take advantage of the IHR offerings.

The first seminar in our autumn series, on 25 September, will be Joy Sleeman's paper, 'Land Art (whatever that might be): a history reconsidered'. Our seminars are free and open to all. Registration details below: @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The @ihr.bsky.social Late Medieval Seminar series for autumn 2025 is now published. Themes from ladies in waiting to the custom house, and a roundtable on editing sources. All seminars are hybrid (or fully online), also, I'm now one of the convenors! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Are you starting a research degree in history and/or history-related fields in 2025? If so, please join us on 8 October to learn about the wide range of resources we have on offer to support postgraduate students. Meet our staff and fellow PhD students too. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The IHR will be closed tomorrow, Thursday 18th September, for our staff away day. Apologies for the inconveniene. We will be open as usual on Friday.

Last chance to book for this evening’s special online seminar @ihr.bsky.social at 5.30pm BST. It will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Please register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interested in the latest research around the potential of planetary histories? Join the @ihr.bsky.social seminar series organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello with Andrew Fitzmaurice @qmul.bsky.social and Thomas Simpson @warwickuni.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/I0kI0cg 📅 Starting 9 October!

Delighted to be on the @ihr.bsky.social / @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social seminar programme for this autumn! Come and hear me talk about my work on Britain and the NI Civil Rights Movement on 20th November. Or join online via Teams. More details here 👇 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We’re only TWO WEEKS away from this wonderful event at @ihr.bsky.social celebrating Richard Holt’s revised edition of ‘Sport & the British’, a book once called “the bible of British Sports History”!! Sign up to be there in-person or online via the link ⬇️ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

At a time when leaders arguably aren't showing much evidence of leadership on the academic research front, it's important to recognise the staff and organisations that are championing, supporting and delivering innovative, high-quality research. Kudos to @uolpress.bsky.social .

Our British History in the Long 18th Century seminar resumes on 24 September. It's hybrid, in London at the IHR and online. Daniel Gosling (TNA) on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield's "Judgment" on the Sex of the Chevalier d'Eon'. Register to attend (below). TikTok trailer is in 2/2. 1/2

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book! Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!

Read about @cathamclarke.bsky.social fabulous new book as she reflects on the importance of the School of Advanced Study (SAS), @senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social and all the School's libraries in championing the humanties.

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies? Join us on the 8 October to find out more. @royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social bit.ly/41UPOyG

📢 Today the Academy launches a major new report urging action to tackle a growing crisis in our universities. Cuts to courses mean more regions than ever are ‘cold spots’ for access to many SHAPE subjects - with even more at risk. 🧵 📍Read the full report: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

An incredible night: the @ihr.bsky.social Creighton Lecture - me in conversation with poet Hannah Lowe on 'Doing #History with #Poetry', chaired by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social - then the launch for #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems. Bowled over by how many managed to come. A few posts coming up...

Our friends at VCH Herefordshire are pleased to advertise two consultant editorial and research roles which will contribute to the completion of existing work around Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. The roles combine editing & primary research. For more details, see below. #Skystorians #HistoryJob

What a wonderful evening organised by @ihr.bsky.social celebrating @cathamclarke.bsky.social’s newly published A History of England in 25 Poems, and hearing from her and poet Hannah Lowe about poetry, history, emotions and feeling 🥳

Wonderful launch this evening at @ihr.bsky.social of ‘A History of England in 25 Poems’ @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social by @cathamclarke.bsky.social. Catherine was discussing the book with the poet Hannah Lowe, and the discussion was chaired by IHR director @clairelanghamer.bsky.social.

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

I had a blast speaking with Izzy Conn for her brilliant @ihr.bsky.social podcast, Leading Labour, about former Labour party leader John Smith. I am also delighted and honoured to share the (digital) platform with several experts on his leadership. open.spotify.com/episode/2oMa...

Always nice to get an email to confirm I've been made a Fellow of the @ihr.bsky.social! Hugely grateful to have a 'home' for the coming year - which will help with my writing plans a lot - and hopefully I can look to organise some exciting public history events whilst I'm there! 🗃️

A HUGE thank you to @ihr.bsky.social for welcoming me into its fellowship community while I work on two big #publichistory projects 2025/26! So excited to get started. If you’re also a #histparl & #truecrime #history & #ethics buff, watch this space! #ECRs #skystorians #humanities

Check out this RHS blog post by our author @mctom.bsky.social on his new book, Waterscapes, published #OpenAccess in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series! @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/28/w... The book can be downloaded from our website and read for free.

A sample of the #audiobook of #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, read by me, with additional readings by my @ihr.bsky.social colleague @juanitacox.bsky.social & actor Roy McMillan. (The Spotify preview is more cringe, with me saying 'c*ck & balls' in the first 3 seconds...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKP...

The theme for 2025’s South Asian Heritage Month was ‘Roots to Routes’. In this blog, our Graduate Trainee Librarians highlight 10 books in the IHR Library’s collections that explore South Asian journeys, physical and personal. #OnHistory blog.history.ac.uk/2025/09/sout...

Congratulations to @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social for winning the 2025 St Andrews Article Prize by the ESEH! Her article ‘Making Beds in Early Modern England: Sleep Matter and Environmental Change’ was published in Historical Research in 2024 (OA)

That’s why we & @bssh.bsky.social are delighted to announce an hybrid event at @ihr.bsky.social in London & online on September 29th to celebrate the book with Richard Holt himself & various speakers including Dil Porter, Rob Colls, @rafnicholson.bsky.social and Tony Collins discussing the book.

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Will you be studying, researching or teaching a new history topic soon and not sure where to start? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

What happens if we do #history through #poetry? What new stories come into focus? Whose voices do we hear? Join us for the 2025 Creighton Lecture: historian Catherine Clarke & poet Hannah Lowe in conversation with IHR Director Claire Langhamer. All welcome. Book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Excited to share that my @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship has been renewed for 2025/26! 🥳 Entering my 2nd month of maternity leave, I'm grateful that during this career "pause" I'll still be able to connect with historians and have adult conversations (albeit over zoom with coos in the background) 😅

What happens if we do #history through #poetry? What new stories come into focus? Whose voices do we hear? Join us for the 2025 Creighton Lecture: historian Catherine Clarke & poet Hannah Lowe in conversation with IHR Director Claire Langhamer. All welcome. Book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

That should, of course be 18-25 August. Apologies for any confusion.

Access to the IHR from 18-15 August. The Malet Street and Russell Square entrances will be closed due to resurfacing works. During this period, the temporary entrance to access Senate House will be via Montague Place and from SOAS North block for the IHR.

2025 is a big year for us with a first and a big milestone. The first: Westmorland I, Lonsdale Ward is our first ever #BigRedBook on that county, and is out *soon* from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. The milestone: Westmorland I is our 250th #BigRedBook Learn more and join our celebrations! 🗃️