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...

Hanging in there! Maybe see you at MBS in June if you’ll be there?

Congrats Hannah! Look forward to reading.

Here is Emma Carson’s full review of our book in Histoire Sociale/Social History!

Gareth & Marta's fundraiser for Sands Help Marta Zboralska raise money to support Sands

My wife and I are fundraising for @sandscharity.bsky.social following the stillbirth of our son Henio in January. Needless to say we are devastated but the charity funds much needed research.

Any contributions, no matter how small, will be greatly appreciated.

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Gareth & Marta's fundraiser for Sands Help Marta Zboralska raise money to support Sands

Hello Bluesky. I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a difficult few months. My husband and I are fundraising for Sands, the baby loss charity. Any donations will be very gratefully received:
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It's funny, you see a lot of political scientists, economists, political history academics rattling neoliberalism around their brains, but from a social history perspective, in terms of people's experiences and ideas at the time it never feels that complicated?

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Here is Emma Carson’s full review of our book in Histoire Sociale/Social History!

With the release of Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere documentary last month, Emma Carson’s review in Social History couldn’t be more timely.

Buy now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174697/

Had so much fun working on this book with @justinbengry.bsky.social , Matt Cook and E-J Scott, all our amazing contributors and the fantastic team at MUP. Really excited to see it out and on the bookshelves!

Sent over 🙂

very interesting. did you know it had been flattened?

Would agree with other responses. The postbox is still on that corner.

Very interested to read the piece @andrewseaton.bsky.social Will it be out soon? Revisiting contraceptives and family planning services in 1970s for book manuscript but could also share with you my (old) thesis and this Durex chapter if you are still working on this?

“Closer Together”: Durex Condoms and Contraceptive Consumerism in 1970s Britain Durex’s “Closer Encounters” campaign, displayed on billboards across Britain in 1979, marked a significant moment of transition for the Durex brand. Not only was it one of the compan...

Interesting and largely forgotten (?) figure I researched a bit during PhD! He and other overpopulationists had a big influence on contraceptive marketing in the 70s e.g. by Durex, and in overlapping publicity drives by HEA etc around family planning services: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Eva Pascoe - Archives of IT Eva Pascoe was co-founder of Cyberia, the first Internet café in London, in1994. During her career, Eva pioneered women’s participation in online business, online secure payments, e-commerce fashion s...

Interesting (and hard to believe?) on Cyberia and mid 90s culture: “The café also became known for its post-rave Sunday breakfast club as ravers would head there to check their emails before going home.”

Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe..

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Come and hear me talk about nineties trans internet chat rooms (and my personal obsession with the wayback machine!)

'The Future is Bright. The Future is Beaumont': Transvestite Lives in a Digital Age

Next Weds 25th at IHR @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social we welcome Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social for a paper on the Beaumont Society and online trans communities in the 90s-00s.

Register here! Hybrid option available too (if the tech works).

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This is happening tomorrow at the IHR. All welcome!

Beth Bhargava will be talking about the history of History Months

Reconstructing the History of History Months

On Wednesday, join the IHR Contemporary British History seminar to hear from Beth Bhargava (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social) on the history of History Months!

5.30pm in N304 – signup here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social

Here at UCL, you can be a secondary supervisor at G7 and a principal supervisor at G8. However principal supervision at G8+ requires you to have successfully seen a student through to at least the upgrade as a secondary supervisor

Think Idris Robinson nailed it when he called out “the morbid libidinal core” of white supremacy

“This was never meant to be a fair fight. We are punching when they are down”

"Iranian leaders, looking up + seeing only U.S. + Israeli air power every minute of every day, until we decide it's over”

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

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Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran As new nations were formed from the declining British Empire, a murky world of diplomats, oil executives and spies were determined to maintain London's grip on…

By a PhD pal of mine www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oil-natio...

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

🚨Job klaxon 🚨
Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️
More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

I'm afraid I don't have an answer to hand, and the best labour history of the docks (Lovell's Stevedores and Dockers) ends in 1914. This digital collection of sources on the strike is very good cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

I would try searching for terms like food, grain, flour etc

Drugs, Civil Rights and the Alternative Society: A History of Release Principal Supervisor: Professor Toby Seddon (UCL) Co-Supervisor: Professor Alex Mold (LSHTM) Project Description Background Described as the oldest independent drugs charity in the world, Release w…

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

“All of London Started With Her”: Vivienne Westwood’s Punk and Britishness

Tomorrow at the IHR, we welcome Margot Rashba for a paper on Viviennne Westwood.

Booking link below.

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