#Skystorians New article drop! Irene Garcia Losquino's 'On the Size and Configuration of Viking Fleets in the Diaspora', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This is a very interesting read, and the story of horses and politics continues with our own 19th century take: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/t...

#History #Skystorians New review drop! Ross Cameron Georgios Giannakopoulos's The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe (MUP, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...
@giannako.bsky.social

Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.

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

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Business and Labour in German Colonialism. Volume 54, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Want to know more about current research on the German colonial Empire?

Check out our new Special Issue on Labour and Business in german Colonialism.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

#Skystorians #History #History&IR New article drop! Paolo Gheda and Paolo Perri's 'South Africa and Rwanda in the Commonwealth's Evolution: Democracy Promotion versus Geopolitical Interests in British Policy (1990-2009)', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#Skystorians #History #History&IR New article drop! Paolo Gheda and Paolo Perri's 'South Africa and Rwanda in the Commonwealth's Evolution: Democracy Promotion versus Geopolitical Interests in British Policy (1990-2009)', doi.org/10.1111/1468...

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2026 is now open! Join us in Pasadena!

Read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

Woooo been waiting for this!!

Not just academics - all published UK writers should sign up to @alcs.co.uk.

We're hosting a whole afternoon discussing 'whose middle ages?' at Birkbeck on Friday. Hope to see you there!

Programme and Registration for the "Speech/less in the Early Modern World" Workshop - Past and Present received from Dr. Olivia Formby (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) Dates: 23 – 24 April 2026 Location: Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge Programme Registration (closes 1...

We're pleased to be supporting the “Speech/less in the Early Modern World” Workshop

23 - 24 April 2026 @camhistory.bsky.social

Registration free but places limited (register by 12 April 2026). Venue Emmanuel College Cambridge

See programme and registration:

pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

April is #ReadIrishWomen, the perfect time to discover more about Eva Gore-Booth.

Kicking myself I didn't think to get a photo when Sonja was in (as has become apparent by the number of typos I've posted this week, my brain has been somewhat over-taxed by all the... stuff happening)

#earlymodern

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰

I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

RHS / Scouloudi grants for public history and conference panels, 2026-27: applications now invited - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch the latest round of grants supporting collaborative public history and panel conference formation. Both grants for 2026-27 are made possible thanks to...

Today we launch a call for the Society's next round of 'Public History Grants' and 'Conference Panel Grants', 2026-27: bit.ly/4lNt8ck

Public History Grants support collaborative projects by historians working in / outside HE; Panel Grants enable conference attendance on a shared theme #Skystorians

#Skystorians #History New article klaxon! UCL's Michael Collins' ' "Fine Men from Afar": Cricket and Empire on the Home Front', OA, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@uclhistory.bsky.social
@ucldiscovery.bsky.social

This looks like a great PhD topic with funding - working with Adam Crymble (UCL) and the V&A - Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

@brodiewaddell.bsky.social of interest?

Screenshot of abstract: This article examines surviving manuscript petitions to reveal the material culture of political organisation. Conceptually, the article frames the material culture of petitions and the practices associated with petitioning as a technology that enabled political activity. As studies of the USA have shown, the signatory list served as a mechanism for political recruitment and organisation. Offering a granular study of material petitions demonstrates the importance of the sequencing and spatial patterning of signatory lists to understanding the organisational qualities of petitions. Signatory lists were often headed by local notables, a strategy designed to encourage potential signers to subscribe. A more random distribution of names and addresses indicated that the organisers had left the petition to ‘lie’ at strategically selected sites, while the structuring of names by street implied the use of door-to-door canvassing, which became increasingly common. Finally, the article considers the importance of the material form of petitions to their reception and presentation to authority, particularly the materialisation of the claim to represent a given social or geographic community. Examining materiality and practice therefore provides new perspectives at a time when there is an appetite to move beyond the linguistic approaches associated with the ‘new political history’.

Ooh, I've been waiting for someone to publish an article on this!

@henryjmiller.bsky.social on 'Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation', including petitioning as a 'technology' and the physicality of gathering subscriptions. #OpenAccess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Annual Conference - Economic History Society The EHS Annual Conference 2022 will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, 1 – 3 April 2022.  We hope to hold the conference in person. Directions to Robinson College.   Thank you for your submission...

Deadline Tomorrow!
EHS Conference Registration closes Friday, 20 March!
It will celebrate the Society’s 100th anniversary and be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10–12 April.
The booking fee is £170 for Members, and £195 for Non-Members.
ehs.org.uk/conference/

My dept @ Copenhagen Business School) has an open PhD scholarship in business humanities. Do you know a potential candidate? An excellent scholar in history who would thrive in a collaborative, interdisciplinary business school setting? Please tell them to get in touch
www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

#Skystorians #History New book review klaxon! Andre Keil on Francesca Piana's Humanitarian Protection for Prisoners of War and Refugees in the Long Aftermath of the First World War (Leiden UP, 2024), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

#History #Skystorians New blog drop! Jayne Gifford, @allenpackwood.bsky.social and @richardtoye.bsky.social on their special issue on Winston Churchill www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

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...

Historical Association Conference 2026 in Newcastle

www.history.org.uk/aboutus/cate... What other conference gives you two days to listen to contemporary leading history scholarship? Join us in May to get your leading history fix @ward22.bsky.social @hisjournalha.bsky.social
@newcastleuni.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Lyndal Roper: ‘Drastic’ cuts to UK humanities risk brain drain Newly crowned winner of Holberg Prize raises alarm over job losses and shuttering of courses across UK

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country."

Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Sonja Tiernan's acclaimed biography of Irish poet, pacifist and political firebrand Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) reclaims her place as a significant figure of Anglo-Irish letters and an unsung hero of LGBT+ history.

Available now from all good bookshops & online.
#StPatricksDay #booksky

Venturing beyond the Victorian Commons, here's my short article on PMs in the 19th century Lords.