Wonderfully timely: week 1 of @uclhistory.bsky.social 's core 1st-year Approaching History lecture in c. 10 days includes an interactive group research exercise using BBIH. Individual subscriptions available & discounted for @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org & @histassoc.bsky.social members. 1/2

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🔊"For de Valera this is really a key part of being an independent country. He really believes this is essential for sovereignty." Prof Heather Jones @uclhistory.bsky.social examines Irish Taoiseach Éamon de Valera's WWII neutrality policy in 'Dev: Rise and Rule' @rte.ie. www.rte.ie/player/serie...

We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨ 🗓️ 14 Oct 2025 🕠 5:30–7:30 pm 📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN

Just ordered Michael Collins's new book on the history of Caribbean cricket in Britain, out now. global.oup.com/academic/pro... Michael's been doing fantastic work on cricket and the experience of ethnic minorities in Britain. See, for eg politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/black-c...

🏏 Windrush Cricket by Dr Michael Collins — OUT NOW from @oxunipress.bsky.social! Imperial culture, Caribbean migration & the remaking of postwar England. 📘 Get your copy: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 💸 Use code AUFLY30 for hardback at £21.00! #Cricket #Caribbean #Empire #decolonisation #Britain

🌍 Professor Pat Hudson’s lecture was a powerful reminder: modern finance has roots in slavery and colonialism. Building on Aaron Graham’s work, she showed how 18th-century profits shaped the world we live in now. 🎥Watch the full lecture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=poTk...

Our Fellow Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor at UCL History Department (@uclhistory.bsky.social), recently appeared in the BBC’s ‘You’re Dead to Me’ podcast series, in an episode entitled ‘India Between Empires: The Long 18th Century’: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Dr Jagjeet Lally, Associate Professor of the History of Early Modern and Colonial India, joins the latest episode of You’re Dead to Me - the comedy podcast that takes history seriously! 🎧Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What is the significance of Indian textiles in global economic history? Co-organising a one-day workshop with Tirthankar Roy on the topic, to mark the launch of the new book ‘Textiles from Bengal’. Limited places available, book via link👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

🖼️ Could museums be more transparent? 🕵️‍♀️ Dr Eva Miller dives into the practices of collecting, curating, and labelling at the Ashmolean Museum. 🔍 A must-read for anyone curious about what happens behind the glass.

🚨 Fellowship Opportunities at UCL History 🚨 Are you an early career researcher ready to take the next step? ⭐ Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (2025–26) Deadline: 4pm, Mon 6 Oct 2025 ⭐British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Deadline: Mon 8 Sept 2025 👉 Apply here: shorturl.at/r1f9Q

📜 New World Royalists is a new digital humanities project from CSLBS, exploring 19th-century Port Royal Parish, Jamaica.⁠ ⁠ Through three creatively reconstructed stories, it sheds light on Black lives during and after British slavery.⁠ 👉 Step into the past right here: shorturl.at/hO3dH

Fantastic colleagues across many periods, regions & specialisms @uclhistory.bsky.social who could mentor you or your students. Do get in touch if you've questions.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Yağmur Heffron on being awarded a prestigious research grant by the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund for Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Oxford! This support will further archaeological fieldwork at the remarkable site of Uşaklı Höyük in Türkiye: shorturl.at/SygYV

📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊ 🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork. 🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July 📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term 🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV

Delighted beyond measure to be a part of the UCL India Summer School @ucl.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues, delivering the pathway ‘Globalisation and Technology’ through an Indian lens for @UCLHistory.bsky.social Thrilled that so many got excited by this new perspective on India and the world!

Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.

It was a great pleasure to see Pat Hudson deliver the Aaron Graham Lecture @uclhistory.bsky.social, supported by the @echistsoc.bsky.social, on how British investments in the Caribbean helped boost financial capacity in the British economy during the 18th century.

Excited to announce our project conference "Landscapes of Sanctity in the Medieval World", which will take place on 2nd & 3rd July, kindly hosted by @ucl-ias.bsky.social For more information and to book: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... @uclhistory.bsky.social

📚 Sacred Wars? Religion, Violence & Cold War Politics 🔥✝️ Join us for a seminar on the entanglement of religion, ideology, and violence in Cold War-era Mexico and Colombia. 📍 Hybrid 📅 12 June 2025 | 5:30–7:00PM 🎙️ Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (UCC & UCL History) Free & open to all: shorturl.at/WwPCk

Congrats to Dr Michael Collins @uclhistory.bsky.social who will be the lunchtime interview guest with Alison Mitchell on Test Match Special during Sunday's England-West Indies ODI to discuss Caribbean cricket past, present & future, and his 'Windrush Cricket' book global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Absolute pleasure to be back in Delhi, for the UCL India Summer School, for @uclhistory.bsky.social. I’m delivering a pathway entitled ‘Globalisation and Technology: India and the World, 1700-present.’ Bright students, deep discussions and a chance to share new research on India, in India!

Come join us in Bloomsbury (and/or at UCL East) for a 12-month MA in a broad range of fields within History, from Ancient through Medieval to Modern times. An international mix of excellent and friendly academics and students and ace resources too.

Come and study #history @uclhistory.bsky.social with amazing historians in the best square mile for historical research anywhere!

One of the joys of working @uclhistory.bsky.social is that you have access to the extraordinary @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social with one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese historic artefacts. I spotted some textiles which will, no doubt, form part of future investigations!

🎓 London calling! Study at a top-10 QS uni in the heart of Bloomsbury. Visa students: just over a month left to apply for a Master’s at UCL History! 🌍 Culture, Economy, Empires, Environment, Modern, Medieval, Ancient & Public History! Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/13nVr #UCL #History #Masters

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus John North, a distinguished scholar and beloved colleague. His legacy lives on through his work and all those he inspired ✨ Memorial details to follow: shorturl.at/utKSb

How do historians think through the use of objects for historical research? Great time talking with @uclhistory.bsky.social offer holders today about objects in history.

Displacement & the French Revolution 29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution. www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

UCL History invites you to this year's roundtable discussion on Histories of Work in a Global Perspective 🎤 📆: 13 May 2025, 17:30-20:00 📍: LG04, 26 Bedford Way (followed by reception) 🌟All welcome🌟 👉Book your free place here: shorturl.at/XVC7O

Did you know the UK has the worst record on homelessness in the OECD? Some reflections on both the numbers and the people who lay behind them

Once upon a time on the Bird app, I regularly posted about my research trips to #Iraq for #NahreinNetwork @uclhistory.bsky.social. Let's try again here... Since 2017 I've led this Network, fostering Iraqi-led research into the country's history, heritage and the humanities www.ucl.ac.uk/nahrein/

Many new advance reviews just up @enghistrev.bsky.social, incl. this warm appreciation by Ryan Hanley of my longtime colleague @uclhistory.bsky.social Catherine Hall's 'magnificent' last book.

🌟Congratulations to Rebecca Jennings on her Professorship! 🌟 She marked this incredible achievement with an inspiring inaugural lecture: "I simply rejected femaleness": Diana Chapman’s Narratives of Gendered and Sexual Selfhood in Mid-20th Century Britain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_bJ...

📢 We're hiring! The Department of History is seeking a Lecturer in Digital History 📚✨ 📍 London | 💼 Permanent | 💰 £52,762-£62,035 🔎 Expertise: Any period/region + digital methods (e.g. data viz, computational analysis, GIS) Apply by 7 April: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...

This year’s Neale Lecture welcomed Professor Jo Van Steenbergen from Ghent University, exploring “The enslavement of Middle Eastern history: Politics, historiography, ideology, and the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo (13th–16th centuries).” 💬 📺 Watch the full lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqtO...

🎉 Congratulations to @berrypillot.bsky.social, our Public History MA student, for winning the 2024 Batman Prize with her outstanding undergraduate dissertation at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 🏆 👉 Read about Berry's award winning dissertation here: shorturl.at/kUAZr

📢 Hiring: Lecturer in Middle Eastern History! 🌟 Join our vibrant team, specializing in political, intellectual, global, & gender histories. Seeking a scholar to expand into environmental, social, economic, or cultural fields (1600 CE+). 👉Apply by 11 April 2025: shorturl.at/4CsjG

📢 Join us for UCL History’s annual Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture with Prof Pat Hudson on "Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the Eighteenth Century." 📅 10 June 2025, 5:30 pm 📍 Location: G6 Archaeology Lecture Theatre 👉 Open to all, book here: shorturl.at/BJcKo

The UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship has reopened for applications - deadline: 30 April 2025! 📣 This scholarship supports BAME postgraduate research students at UCL, covering full tuition fees and providing a maintenance stipend for up to 3 years ✨ 👉 Find out more and apply: shorturl.at/uCHqO

🌟 Join us on 11 March 2025 at 6:30pm to celebrate the professorship of Rebecca Jennings, Professor of Modern Gender History at UCL! 🌟 🎤‘‘I simply rejected femaleness’: Diana Chapman’s Narratives of Gendered and Sexual Selfhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain.’ 🎟️Book here: shorturl.at/VDtDn

A 3-year medieval history teaching post @uclhistory.bsky.social to replace me during maternity and research leave. A wonderful place to work. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested in applying. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Join us for a special screening of rare silent films on classical antiquity at the quirky Cinema Museum in Kennington and 19 March, 7:30pm ✨🎬 Step back in time with early cinema's fascinating take on ancient Greece and Rome! 🎟️£8: pay at the door or via shorturl.at/eXDyr

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Passionate about events, comms & making an impact? Join us as Communications & Events Manager at UCL History & History of Art! 🎭📜 📍 London (Hybrid) | 💼 Full-time, Permanent 💰 £43,124–£51,610 | 📅 Apply by 9 March 2025 👉Find out more and apply here: shorturl.at/IvV78 👈

Join us for an evening with Professor Dame Sonia Boyce, award-winning artist & academic, as she presents “Crop Over: A Talk” - exploring Caribbean carnival traditions, resistance, and legacies of British slavery 💬 🌟Open to all🌟 👉Register here: shorturl.at/0p4cZ%F0%9F%...

We’re accepting applications for a Collaborative Doctoral Award on Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England & France – starting Oct 2025! 📖👹 💰 £21,237 stipend (+£600 top-up) 📅 Deadline: 5pm, 26 Feb 2025 Find our more and apply: shorturl.at/Wp543

📢 We’re hiring! Join us as a Lecturer in Ancient History at UCL. 📍 London (Hybrid) | 💼 Full Time, Permanent 💷 £52,487 - £61,534 (Grade 8) ⏰ Apply by 24 Feb 2025 | 📅 Interviews: W/B 24 March 🔗 Find out more & apply: shorturl.at/1ArDm #AcademicJobs #History #Lecturer #RomanHistory #HigherEd

Dr Fabian Krautwald has recently published a short article for the American-German Institute on the nearing conclusion of the 'reconciliation agreement' between Namibia and Germany about the genocide of 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama 📖 americangerman.institute/2025/01/a-ze...

Exciting news! 🎉 Prof John Sabapathy joins The English Historical Review (EHR) as an editor! As the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world, EHR has shaped the field since 1886, recently celebrating its 600th issue. Congratulations @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social ! 👏📖