Ralph Waldo Emerson Society - call for applications - British Association for American Studies The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is proud to announce four new awards. Information about eligibility and deadlines is available here: https://emersonsociety.org/awards/

Applications are invited for various awards from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society.

Research Award, Outreach Award, & Undergraduate Student Essay Prize close on 1st May.

Watercolour illustration of a curlew in side profile, standing next to a body of water in front of a part-grassy, part-sandy landscape. It has a down-curved bill, brown and grey plumage, and long legs. The handwritten caption above reads: 'Scolopas acquata The Curlew - Jan 18[16?]'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the curlews, for today is their special day!

This early 19th century watercolour illustration of a curlew by an unknown artist comes from our 'Bird Book'.

📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

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Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.

No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: May to June 2026 - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following five schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates between 8 May and 5 June 2026. For further information o...

Research funding for historians: the Society currently invites applications for 5 grant programmes: to support individual and project-based research by historians across a range of career stages bit.ly/4vzzNeB.

Closing dates for eligible applicants fall between 8 May and 5 June 2026 #Skystorians

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

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Our latest “Document of the Week”, chosen by our Senior Curator, Dr Mary Wills, examines an important case of female-led activism in Nigeria under colonial rule.

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Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham Conference information

Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

To this historian, these supposed new ideas look an awfully lot like old turn-of-the-century ideas of scientific racism and cultural evolutionism, with which these tech barons have proven to be deep in the weeds.

Posting this for folks who are appalled at news of another antisemitic attack and want to do something concrete to protect Britain’s Jewish community:

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Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I’m not at the #OAH2026, sadly, but it’s pretty darn cool seeing my book out and about there! 😍📚

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A Glorious Fate Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry—one of the first regiments of Black soldiers in...

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Archive Research, Photography & Digitisation I offer archive research and document photography at The National Archives and the Imperial War Museum, alongside digitisation of privately held material. As a military historian, I regularly work …

As my maternity leave comes to an end, a reminder that I’m now offering an archive photography service primarily for museums/archives in the south east England (IWM, TNA, BL etc etc) to help make ends meet. Details below:

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If Mamdani and Obama singing The Wheels On The Bus with a group of tiny kids doesn't spark some sort of joy in you, I've got nothing for you.

‘Abba Voyage’ more than lived up to expectations - what an incredible show and display. Music and magic combined! A long-waited birthday present for @timgalsworthy.bsky.social 🎶🪩

Almost any line from “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”

“We’re going to need a bigger boat”

Nothing could better capture the far right’s weaponised and superficial relationship with Christianity than using a fake bible verse to promote unjust actions

The SNL sketch writes itself…

Want to understand why the Party of Lincoln has become the defender of Confederate monuments?

May I humbly recommend my book "The Republican House Divided", which examines the relationship between Civil War memory, civil rights, and the GOP.

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White Ethnic Women Immigrants in North America Summary. When considering landmark developments of North American history—such as the War of Independence, War of 1812, Canadian Confederation, slavery, In

Almost 2yrs after I said yes to writing this, I’m very pleased that my article about "White Ethnic Women Immigrants in North America" has been published as part of the new "Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History" academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027

It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏

PhD Funding!

King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded doctoral studentship from October 2026.

We invite proposals on aspects of historical war studies 1791-1926.

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Military Archives | Easter Rising 1916 Since 1990, the Military Archives has been the official place of deposit for records of the Irish Defence Forces, the Department of Defence and Ireland's…

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Speaking to Research Professional News, Marcus Munafò, deputy vice-chancellor and provost at the University of Bath, said: “I think there’s a risk we could end up in a situation where some technologies or certain disciplines fall off a cliff—go past a certain threshold because they don’t have a critical mass of funding to support them. “That bit seems to be missing from the debate; we need to think about the research ecosystem as national capability and infrastructure that we need to keep healthy to allow us to react to unknown scenarios in the future.”

There's definitely a reshaping of UK research going on

Some of it is intentional - govt encouraging unis to specialise, UKRI directing funds for applied R&I to industrial strategy areas

Some of it isn't - unis taking individual decisions to save costs that add up to impact on national capacity

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I am forever explaining assignments which, to me, feel fairly basic. I do offer some creative options, which need a bit more context. But so many of my students seem unable to follow instructions, even when I return to them multiple times, write them down, or turn them into games or quizzes.

A great thread - while I’ve not seen it quite so bad over the past couple of semesters, there is also definitely a rise in cohort group mentality impacting their engagement too. Ie. if a couple of them show they can’t be bothered with work/looking at course material, that spreads round the class.