This looks great! Excited to read it

Image of Georgian house with text: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' RHS Lecture with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester) Royal Historical Society Lecture Friday 1 May 2026

Our next Royal Historical Society Lecture takes place at the University of Warwick on Friday 1 May:

'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Prof Sasha Handley (Manchester).

Booking for in-person attendance is now available bit.ly/47rn2Z6 1/2

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

"It had always rained in western Oregon, but now it rained ceaselessly, steadily, tepidly. It was like living in a downpour of warm soup, forever." from The Lathe of Heaven, 1971

A seasonally relevant quote for today (posted during a break from the rain—which is not quite like warm soup, at least).

Charles West gives the Society's annual medieval lecture on European queenship - RHS On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd

The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly.
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social #Skystorians

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

Many thanks to all participants for a very stimulating discussion on @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900. And special thanks to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz for coming to comment all the way from Paris.
#econhist #histstm

If you are a graduate student in history of political thought, I would really recommend submitting something to this- always a very friendly, interesting and generative conference!

I really enjoyed reviewing @kitkowol.bsky.social's "Blue Jerusalem" - an excellent new study of WW2-era British Conservatism, highlighting both its intellectual vitality and its practical political impact

Poverty is deepening.

🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.

People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.

This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

This means that almost half of everyone in poverty in the UK has less than 40% of the median income adjusted for their household type - the highest since records began.

📢 We found that Britain's poorest people are getting poorer. And poverty is hardening, not easing.

A great event with revelatory papers on British anarchism and communism! @kingshistory.bsky.social

Thank you! That's really kind. Looking forward to seeing you at the next one!

Really looking forward to the upcoming seminars in this series! It was so nice to present some of my research at KCL and I'm very grateful for the thoughtful questions from the audience

Congratulations Francisca! 🎉

Thanks Becca!

If you are a graduate student in history of political thought, I would really recommend submitting something to this- always a very friendly, interesting and generative conference!

Anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism 03 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Warner03 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Warner.pdf95 KBdownload-circle Progressive responses to the rise of the far right have often been confused due to a tendency to overemphasise its dis...

FREE TO READ: Neil Warner (@neilwarner.bsky.social) argues social democrats must connect the far-right threat to authoritarianism already present within neoliberalism, and calls for a cross-scale anti-authoritarian agenda to counter concentrations of both political economic power

Looking forward to reading this!

Adam Smith, public debt, and the decline of nations

Join us this Wednesday at the @ihr.bsky.social for @zackrauwald.bsky.social on Adam Smith, public debt, and the decline of nations www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Congratulations! This looks great!

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...

The Society invites applications for the following three funding programmes, with deadlines 23 to 31 January 2026 bit.ly/3LbxDQb

> RHS Workshop Grants
> Applied History Fellowships, in association with @ihr.bsky.social
> Fellowships, for completion of a History PhD, also with the IHR

#Skystorians

CFP: OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY!

Welcoming submissions in any area of political theory—including critical theory, analytic political philosophy, and the history of political thought.

Submit by 31 January: forms.gle/v6Zv1cH7a6Da...

Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

So kind of you, David! Hopefully see you soon - excited to hear more about what you've been up to post-PhD!

Thank you - that's very kind!

Thank you, Lucy! 😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you 🎉