Our national diary day is getting closer! This year we are keen to hear thoughts and feelings about nature and wellbeing, in addition to the day to day. We accept handwritten and typed diaries, but also photography and sketches, or other creative approaches!
#diary #sketch #photography #journalling
Thanks, Ben! Hope you’re keeping well!
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-...
100% this.
Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
"More alignment between university and national attitudes. This includes a legitimacy observatory to track public trust and gaps between university culture and wider public attitudes."
This reads ominously, another way of stifling academic freedom to address injustices & uncomfortable truths.
Panel proposal ESSHC, Lyon (France), 21-24 April 2027 The History of Queer Nightlife: Spaces, Feelings and Transformations ‘Queer nightlife’, as the introduction to a recent special issue of The Sociological Quarterly notes, ‘is having a moment’. In the past five years, social scientists and cultural theorists have published more than ten book-length studies of queer bars, nightscapes, dancefloors and parties. Many of them focus on the ‘closure epidemic’ facing gay bars, or highlight the recent transformations of queer nightlife. They often intersect their analyses with arguments about urban redevelopment and gentrification, changing queer identities, and the digitalization of queer life. However, a longer-term historical perspective is often missing in these studies. For example, is the ‘closure epidemic’ that sociologists observe a recent phenomenon or have spaces of queer nightlife always been precarious? What other transformations has queer nightlife gone through over the past decades and centuries? This panel will discuss queer nightlife from a ‘longue durée’ perspective, covering different periods and regions to nuance and make sense of the recent developments social scientists are describing. Throughout the different papers we will explore topics such as inclusion, exclusion, spaces, bodies, emotions and experiences as relevant points of discussion on queer nightlife’s history. We propose that nightlife has been essential for the development of queer spaces and communities, for stimulating transnational mobilities and exchanges, and for shaping identities and subjectivities. By giving nightlife its due place, we will gain a new understanding of these foundational topics in queer history. We are looking for participants who can present a paper as part of this panel: if you are interested, please contact e.l.hofman@uu.nl and t.e.vanvoorthuizen@uu.nl before 1 April 2026. More information on the conference can be found at https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/
With @tijmenelias.bsky.social I'm hoping to organize a panel on *The History of Queer Nightlife* for @esshc.bsky.social in Lyon (21-24 April 2027). If you want to be part of the fun, get in touch by 1 April! (Reposts also appreciated!) #QueerHistory
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Final lecture online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/self-v... - on all the concepts stacking up in the late 20th century, not superseded by ‘neoliberal’ or economic ones. Feedback welcome for the book now in progress. And farewell with warm thanks to all in Oxford.
New paper:
Mass Observing British Politics
On what Mass Observation might contribute to political studies (and what political studies might contribute to Mass Observation). With @jmoss88.bsky.social and Alex Hill. Also paging @massobsarchive.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below!
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Frank Prochaska (1941-2026) - always amusing, often shrewd, articulate and perceptive historian of philanthropy in modern Britain. www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
Missed this 3 days ago, but we're thrilled this is out.
@ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social & I wrote this after 6 years of collaboration + discussions about
- what "data" and "digitization" mean [in History]
- what we need to do to ensure data is findable & accessible
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...
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.
Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!
Congratulations! 🎉
Sorry I wasn’t able to catch you afterwards but I really enjoyed this! Looking forward to reading the book!
Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,
The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance
Iconic imo
A screenshot from the Traitors with Stephen in the confessional wearing a shirt with a distinctive red, white, and blue angular pattern
A photo of an Avanti West Coast Class 805 with a similar red, white, and blue angular design
#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries.
Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805
Hurrah!!! The brilliant Sumita Mukherjee has a new book out about the lives of South Asian children in Modern Britain in just a few weeks.
I love the cover photo!
A must read so now would be a great time to preorder and commission reviews.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/imperia...
Oh, man. I love this guy.
'All we want is a little sun on our face.'
