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👋 Our friendly Project Coordinator (me) will be happy to chat to you about our historians of #archaeology online support group

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Tom Toro.

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting…

The government was forced to admit the EHRC’s transphobic draft guidance got it wrong, and they’ve had to send it back to the drawing board.

But the fight is far from over. They plan to bring an updated version back to parliament in May. So we need to act – fast 👇

Could you help us spread the word about the UK’s free LGBTQIA+ Support Line?

Our new marketing materials request form is now live on our website! Please submit your requests today at switchboard.lgbt/download.

#FreeLGBTSupport #LGBTQSupport #Marketing

They're trying to silence those speaking up. Let's make sure they can't.

Tell you NHS trust to say no to Palantir NOW⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/5c4e13

RESHAPED RESHAPED is our new online training platform providing free and accessible training resources designed to support the learning and development needs of humanities researchers.

Interviews are a research method increasingly used across humanities disciplines and creative practice. Our "Interviews as a Humanities Research Method" course, from researchers @ilcs.bsky.social & @qmul.bsky.social covers different approaches, ethical considerations and more: https://bit.ly/4bu4zhx

Alice Gorman Alice Gorman — Profile on The Conversation

A small accomplishment for today! I have just passed 2.7 million reads of my articles for The Conversation.
🧪 @aunz.theconversation.com

British Academy Book Prize Calls For Submissions - All About Book Publishing The British Academy Book Prize opens for submissions as the British Academy — the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences — announces plans to align the prize more closely with it...

'The £25,000 Prize recognises outstanding books in the fields of the humanities and social sciences that combine original thinking, high-quality research and exceptional storytelling.'

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📚Call for 8 Summer 2026 #ReadingGroup & #MasterClass Leaders! Volunteer Position.
🗓 Deadline: April 20th, 2026
✨ PhD students & Early Career Scholars build your CV, engage w/ public & help us to Save Ancient Studies!
➡️saveancientstudies.org/reading-groups

'As such, his proposals amount to an inadvertent admission that the market system isn’t working, without ever quite saying so. But it also means that they risk attempting to constrain behaviour that the market actively incentivises – without changing the incentives themselves.' (Jim Dickinson) 1/2

Society launches new funding programme for International Fellows and Associate Fellows - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch a new programme, from today, to support the work of International Fellows and Associate Fellows. Recipients will be members of the Society, resident o...

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu

Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide perpetrated by Israel and its patrons, especially the United States. They were members of the global intellectual community, and we are all impoverished by the loss of their contributions that would have enriched the worlds of the humanities and sciences. The liquidation of these colleagues squandered the many years of higher education and training they embodied, often acquired with great personal and collective effort. The death of so many of our colleagues is a massive blow to higher education in Palestine: they were the teachers of the rising generation who were to take their places as the writers, theologians, social scientists, engineers, and doctors who would help to weave the social fabric and develop the world of knowledge in Palestine. We record their lives in a spirit of grief for their loss and admiration for their accomplishments and to demand that their killers face accountability for their crimes.

REMEMBERING GAZA SCHOLARS A group of academics have spent the past 18 months creating an archive that commemorates the lives of Palestinian scholars killed by Israel. 83 of our colleagues, so far, have bios; the group's work continues rememberinggazascholars.org

Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: inside the last days of El Fasher Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civillians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened

This is one of the most disturbing reports I have read in a long time.

Up to 50,000 people may have died in a genocide - and it is a genocide - backed by the United Arab Emirates, our great 'allies', in Sudan. The UK, America and the UN all knew it was about to happen and did nothing to help

Welcome to TAG 2026, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group! The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter is thrilled to be hosting the conference this year, 14-16 December. Our call for sessions is now open! tag2026.square.site

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing.

Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service:

cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Ideas | Ian Stewart on The Celts: A Modern History

The Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart

In this edition of Ideas, @stewartian.bsky.social discusses his book, The Celts: A Modern History, which reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Ireland, Britain and France.

Read more:
press.princeton.edu/ideas/ian-st...

#History #Celts #AncientHistory

Blog Submission guidelines The views expressed on this blog are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Historians of Archaeology Online Support Group (HoA Online Support …

🤓 Is there anything you'd like to bring to the group?

You can contribute to our new blog, host a group to read each other's drafts or communicate your research or CfA through our listserv or private #Discord server.

historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com/blog/

🤝 We are peer-led, keen to facilitate conversations across artificial disciplinary boundaries and with a broad range of audiences.

Members support each other through hosting co-working sessions, giving presentations at informal meetings and leading reading groups.

👋 It's great to welcome so many new members recently!

We are more than a research network, we are a support group.

🗃️🏺We connect scholars at all career stages and independent scholars and students, working on the #history of #archaeology in a variety of settings and in different formats.

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The Archaeologists

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👋 For any questions or to discuss an idea or submit a draft, get in touch here or via the website

🔊 We have 2 special CfS: The deadline for posts engaging with International #ProvenanceResearchDay, held annually on the second Wednesday of April, is 31 March 2026

Posts for #InternationalMuseumDay taking place worldwide around 18 May are due by 30 April 2026.

🤝 Our group is incredibly diverse, just like #histories of #archaeology, and we actively encourage conversations across disciplines and outside of #academia.

You can read more about the group here: historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/h...

🗃️🏺The Historians of Archaeology website is live: historiansofarchaeology.wordpress.com
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We are excited to be hosting a blog and accept submissions from authors at all career stages.

Authors don't have to be group members, so please share widely.

Submission guidelines are on the website 🧵

Moonwalking – Alice Gorman Over millennia and in diverse cultures, men have been the standard of humanity. ‘Mankind’ did not always include women, who were excluded from public life, politics and education in Christian northern...

This is one of my favourite things that I've ever written.

Call for Abstracts!

We invite submissions for its 6th Annual Free Public Virtual Conference, Opening the Ancient World 2026, that will take place on Sunday–Monday, July 19–20, 2026

Conference Theme: Fashion Forward: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Apparel
Abstract Deadline: March 31 2026

Can highly recommend @naomityrrell.bsky.social 👍

Historians of Archaeology - Online Support Group Welcome to the Historians of Archaeology (HoA) Online Support Group! Please use this form to join the group and to join our mailing list. Membership to the group is free, all meetings will be hosted ...

You can also join our Online Support Group to receive regular updates, join meetings and connect with fellow scholars at all career stages.

We welcome everyone regardless of career stage, publication record or academic status

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🏺🗃️ The #Historians of #Archaeology group website launches soon!

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We welcome submissions for the blog from everyone working on any aspect of the history of archaeology (excavations, object provenance, community, popular histories, histories of science...)
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