🚨CFP closing soon!
Only one week left to submit session proposals to the #nacbs2026 call for papers! Get those proposals in and join us in Pasadena!
CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
📢Online book event!
Join us next week to hear more about Laura Tavolacci's new book Baptists, Bengalis, and the Construction of Agricultural and Horticultural Science in India, 1793-1840.
📅April 23
⏰12pm noon ET
Free and open to the public
Info and rsvp here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Thrilled to come back from hols to see this is out! The issue of welfare fraud is something I care deeply about and article on NI/ Nth Brit shows the application of anti-fraud policies varied regionally, impacting the most vulnerable women. Thanks to AHRC funding and to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
📢New article in JBS!
📗"False Desertion and Fancy Men: Women and Welfare Fraud, 1945–70," by Charlotte Wildman
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚨Applications due tomorrow!!
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Arguing with Catholic Women: Devotion, Polemic, and Female Agency in the Theological Crisis of the 1620s," by Kathryn Marshalek
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A colorful blue flyer says "Summer Working Groups" and "Sign up by May 8"
📢Summer Working Groups!
Registration for NACBS virtual summer working groups is now open. Sign up before May 8!
Info and sign up here: www.nacbs.org/news/summer-...
"As a guide to the context for Shakespeare’s development into the greatest writer of his age I recommend this book without qualification; it is simply a very good read." @stagetalkmag.bsky.social
stagetalkmagazine.com/p/39298
'What's in a name?' by Susan D. Amussen is out now.
#Shakespeare #booksky
A colorful flyer announces the NACBS pre-dissertation grants, noting the deadline is April 15 to apply. There is a brief description of the grants, and a black and white photograph of women working in the shipyards.
📢Upcoming deadline!
NACBS Pre-Dissertation Grants
Applications due by April 15
These grants support preliminary research on potential dissertation-length studies!
More info: www.nacbs.org/grants/pre-d...
A colorful flyer announces "Three Weeks Left!" with the dates for submission now at April 27. The background image features a graphic style 1940s image of a hotel conference room in Pasadena California.
There are just three weeks left until the deadline for our #nacbs2026 call for papers! The extended deadline will close on April 27 so get those proposals in!!
You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
This is a really fantastic piece that seriously scrutinizes and takes apart the rhetoric of the 'humanities teach skills' that we often fall back on to defend ourselves, but which evacuates humanistic thought of its potential to facilitate political transformation.
In the latest addition to our blog series on AI, Chloe Northrop examines the simultaneous public elevation and institutional marginalization of humanistic knowledge.
Read the full piece at Broadsides
www.nacbs.org/post/the-hum...
Read an amazing book on British Studies in the period from the Middle Ages to the 18th century? Consider nominating the book for the John Ben Snow prize!
📅Nominations due May 15
More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain's Homegrown Agrarian Fascism," by Kian Aspinall
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Rethinking Periodization, Priorities, and Liberalism in British Queer History," by Charles Upchurch
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢CFP Deadline Extended!
Submissions for the NACBS 2026 call for papers are now due by April 27!
You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
Happening today at noon ET! RSVP at the link below.
The NACBS is a signatory on this @apaphilosophy.bsky.social letter expressing opposition to an Executive Order and Senate Bill that would eliminate tenure at Oklahoma's public colleges and universities.
Still have room for one more panelist on this year's panel about public history in British Studies at #NACBS2026 in Pasadena, CA. @thenacbs.bsky.social @ncph.bsky.social
Just a reminder that submissions for the 2026 NACBS are due on April 6. Come join us in Pasadena!
📢Online book event!
Join us next week to hear more about Justin Ivey's recent publication Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal
📅March 26
⏰12pm noon ET
Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Nominations for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize are due May 15!
The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture.
Info and nomination instructions here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...
A colorful flyer announces there are three weeks left to submit to the NACBS 2026 call for papers. The background features a retro 40s style postcard showing a conference room at the Hotel Green in Pasadena California. The chairs are aligned in theatre style, with white backs, and a bright green cushion. There is a mural on the wall.
The CFP for #nacbs2026 in Pasadena closes on April 6! Get your submissions in soon!
Remember you can use the Pasadena group discussion on our website to build a panel and find participants! www.nacbs.org/group/2026-p...
www.nacbs.org/conference
Are you working on a dissertation on any aspect of British Studies? Consider applying for our NACBS Dissertation Fellowship!
📢NACBS Dissertation Fellowship
📅 May 15
More info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...
And that’s a wrap on our blog series on artificial intelligence!
Thanks to @amywb.bsky.social @chriscampbell1.bsky.social @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social @megsmith.bsky.social @ktl10.bsky.social and Anushmita Mohanty for their wonderful contributions!
Visit nacbs.org/broadsides to read the full series!
To close out our series on AI, @chriscampbell1.bsky.social reflects on the response to his recent article in Transactions of @royalhistsoc.org, “The Historian in the Age of AI.”
Read the full piece: www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...
Delighted to contribute to this fantastic series on AI, British Studies and the wider humanities with @thenacbs.bsky.social!
www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...
Can’t join us in Pasadena for our annual meeting?
NACBS will once again host a virtual day of programming the week before our in-person meeting. Submit proposals through the regular CFP (closes April 6)!
NACBS 2026 Virtual Day
November 4
More info: www.nacbs.org/news/nacbs-2...
www.nacbs.org/group/2026-p...
Looking for participants for NACBS conference in Pasadena, CA this year. Panel will be about public historians. All public historians or those using public history concepts in their research within the British history subfield are welcome to contact me.
#NACBS
Read an amazing book on British Studies in the post 1800 period? Consider nominating the book for the Stansky Book Prize!
📅Nominations due May 15
More info and how to nominate here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...