📢 Term 3 of @ihr.bsky.social @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social seminar begins next Weds 29 April @5.30pm & you can see what's coming up in programme curated by co-convener @benmechen.bsky.social between now & June. Come join us in-person or online to hear great papers & to 'talk history'. Full details 👇.📢
Thrilled to come back from hols to see this is out! The issue of welfare fraud is something I care deeply about and article on NI/ Nth Brit shows the application of anti-fraud policies varied regionally, impacting the most vulnerable women. Thanks to AHRC funding and to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social
This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...
Registration for MBS2026 is now open! Registration link and the conference programme can be found here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...
Nice to see that my my forthcoming book, Enemies of the Red Flag: Anti-Socialism in Britain, 1900-40 is now on the Manchester University Press website. Out in December of this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159465/
🇪🇺🇬🇧EU and UK cooperation moves forward.
Today the legal texts bringing the UK formally into Erasmus+in 2027 were signed.
The 🇬🇧 association to Erasmus in 2027 will open thousands of opportunities for students, staff and youth to learn, travel and thrive across the EU and the UK.
'The most enduring legacy of Plague, which devastated Britain between 1348 and 1665, was that it set the conditions for how we deal with outbreaks.'
Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) on new research in Local Population Studies by BA History graduate Matthew Kilner
Read 👉 brnw.ch/21x1ub2
Midlands historians have a hard time sometimes convincing people that slavery ran just as deeply through our economy as through Colston's Bristol, say. But here we are: inherited wealth from enslavement in the family history leading to urban change.
Pleased to report that my chapter (with Jon Lawrence and Jane Elliot) on Social Science, New Society and the Politics of Social Change is now open access alongside the rest of
@garylove.bsky.social and
@richardtoye.bsky.social 's Writing Politics in Modern Britain
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
How We Write Black Feminism Now featuring Tina Campt, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartman, and Jacqueline Woodson
Moderated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs - www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MPp...
How did radical women navigate Bengal's 'age of fire'?
Oyeshi Ganguly explores what oral history can tell us about the female revolutionaries who took up arms against British rule.
I co-authored this super fun article on the National Survey of Health and Development a few years ago with Daisy Payling. It's history of emotions meets history of health with loads of lovely pictures and worked with what was a brand new archive! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Bodhana is now the top-rated female chess player in the U.K. She also just broke into the Top 100 for women globally, at #72.
She's 11 years old. I wouldn't be surprised to see her at the next women's candidates tournament, and very possibly at the open before long
en.chessbase.com/post/britain...
Hurrah, many congratulations Tara!
'The head of a Nigerian academic union has spoken out against British universities opening campuses...while Nigerians are being denied visas to study in the UK. This comes after Coventry University confirmed...it is in talks to establish a presence in Lagos.'
Who could have predicted that? 1/3
Picket at St Barts Hospital, London, in 1988. Image credit: Bishopsgate Institute. Photographer: Maggie Murray.
💥 Women Strike Back! – A new exhibition by Dr @saimanasar.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) is on display at St Paul's Learning Centre until end of June
Celebrating the stories of Black & South Asian women who campaigned for & brought about change in postwar Britain
More 👉 bit.ly/412N1Tj
Thanks to BBC Gloucester and Epigram for covering the ‘Women Strike Back!’ exhibition, which has been extended at St Paul’s Learning Centre. You can view it until the end of June 2026
There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it)
(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
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On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Wooooo! I can’t believe we did this, it’s huge! It’s been such a wonderful experience, I’ve learned so much from all authors and co-editors @historyrocio.bsky.social & Amber. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. (But yes, pls ask libraries to buy this or subscribe online to handbooks, it’s £££)
Our forthcoming JHUP collection to mark the Bicentennial of the Black Press in 2027 now has a webpage! You can see the provisional ToC with all our fantastic contributors. Cover design will hopefully be getting confirmed soon, book out December '26
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
I’m running a 2 hour online workshop for teachers, heritage professionals, journalists & anyone who wants to be able to discuss the British Empire and its afterlives with nuance and concision. It’s on 1st June. Do sign up if interested?
onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...
Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion?
Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton
24/3/26, QMUL, London E1
Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594
@qmul.bsky.social
So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?) www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
The wonderful Glory Oluwaseun is hosting a Black Feminist Reading Group at the Centre for Black Humanities, Bristol. Come along for conversation, community, Collins and Lauren Hill! More details on how to join and rsvp here:
