How to Reach a Broader Audience: An Introduction to Non-Fiction Trade Publishing in 2026. The IHR-Curtis Brown initiative aims to de-mystify the process of writing for broader audiences and navigating the publishing process. FREE online 26 March 2-4pm
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Artists: Come and help turn the museum's exhibition gallery into a whimsical, magical garden for kids!
Details here: thackraymuseum.co.uk/about-us/wor...
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...
With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Miners’ Association and the Pitmen’s Parliament. 🗃️📜🐄
Call for papers for event on children in early modern institutions. Contact Paula Plastic.
Call for papers - growing up in the early modern world!
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
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Fellowship Opportunity!
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
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'We're Hiring! Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer' over an image of leatherbound Records of Buckinghamshire on a shelf.
Want to help preserve the county's history? We're recruiting an Archives and Local Studies Senior Officer to our team!
Head to the link below for more information.
jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/job_detail/3...
Prof @petermandler.bsky.social will give the James Ford Lectures 2026 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
Peter Mandler will chart the spread & use of the language of social science into everyday life in 20th-century Britain.
Thursdays, 5pm
Weeks 1-6 Hilary Term
🔗 www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l...
My PhD student Mike Power has written a great blog for the @echistsoc.bsky.social... Which very kindly helped to fund this research. The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72 was a key moment in so many ways: take a look!
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Its out!
Full schedule for this term's 40+ seminars (free and open to the public) here. If you're studying, researching or just interested in History, have a look, and do book. Most seminars can be attended virtually; many are hybrid and you are welcome to join the Institute's London audience in person. 2/2
Huge congratulations to IRPH's Dr Dan Breeze (@danielbreeze.com), who this week passed his PhD viva with no corrections. His thesis, Creeds of Kinship: An Animal-Human History of the Lives and Ideas of Anna Kingsford and Henry Salt, was examined by @janehamlett.bsky.social and @msadams.bsky.social.
A pile of hardback copies of my book Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918. The cover shows the second office of the UK Temperance & General Provident Institution at the City end of London Bridge, with the Thames behind it.
...and now my author copies have turned up, which is very exciting. Preorder with 35% off the hardback price with the discount code GLR AT8 here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc...
I'll stop going on about this after the launch(es), which should be in February...
@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
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New on Substack: John Scurr House, Stepney: ‘Stepney Council’s New Luxury Flats’
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Delighted to have our book reviewed on the @whaireland.bsky.social book review page #history #speirgorm
Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.
Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃
Addison Act semi-detached council housing
Wheatley Act terraced housing
🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/interwar-c...
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)
Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉
socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...
Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:
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and if you're interested in finding more about @katrinanavickas.bsky.social's work, check out her brilliant upcoming book 'Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England' (with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social)!
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
We are very pleased to announce the election of 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate members to the Royal Historical Society following the latest meeting of the RHS Council bit.ly/4o0xhJV
We warmly welcome all those joining @royalhistsoc.org from today #Skystorians 1/2
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
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A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!
