Have searched in vain over years for U.K. equivalent of AHA jobs tracker… but haven’t been able to find all the aggregated jobs.ac.uk postings over the years. A breakdown of vacancies by type and field could be something the RHS could do I guess
Submissions sought for the Robert Silver Prize 2026, for an essay from a student or early-career writer on the impact of Jewry on 20th century Britain. Deadline 1 May 2026.
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/robert-...
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔
Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'
A two-day workshop organised by
@andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below!
Can't wait to read and teach this - Alma Igra's forthcoming book The Lion's Share on how science of nutrition emerged out of turn-of-the-century British imperial management. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Great to see the new combined book prize for a first book in women's history, from @womenshistnet.bsky.social and @whaireland.bsky.social.
Entries can be made for research-based books published in 2025, until 31 July 2026. Spread the word!
womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
We are pleased to be supporting the "Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'" worshop at Lincoln College, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) on 16 - 17 September 2026
See call for papers (closes 15 May 2026) below:
pastandpresent.org.uk/call-for-pap...
I'm looking for scholars/ students working on infancy / motherhood in c.19th Prussia/ Germany. Any suggestions, lmk! Thank you!
🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates!
For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...
📢We are delighted to announce that Jonah Miller (@wminhumanities.bsky.social) has been jointly awarded The Historical Journal ECR Prize for his article 'Suffrage and the Secret Ballot in Eighteenth-Century London Parishes'
✨Hear Jonah explain more in his HJ Highlight!
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...
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
I *think there’s nothing written about it’s subject: ‘working holidaymaker’ policy under the provisions of 1962 Immigrants Act- so v happy for references if anyone know one!
And ofc if you can’t come and would like to know more: email me! I love emails
Presenting tomorrow on secret policies for 'Old Commonwealth' mobility during 1960s, when UK govt declared its migration policy was 'colour blind'. Developing a paper I presented at @qmcbs.bsky.social last year. Pls do come along if in Oxford and free at 2pm
I mean I’m open to the idea that there’s an esoteric reading of republic where thrasymachus ‘wins’ but on the face of it he’s the level 1 fighter who gets dispatched pretty quickly before the story moves on
Ok I have to admit I’m no expect but in my amateurish reading once T has expressed his One Big Idea about Justice Socrates has him on the ropes within about 20 lines and from then on T is just being petulant and then gives up
Hmmm not sure about that! He’s practically snivelling by the timr Socrates has done with him. It’s easy on rereading to imaginine him as a sweaty chud guy who starts off all confident and then insists he’s not pwned imo
Agree. He’s Thrasymachus reincarnate- has only one mode of thinking about politics and no conception that physical force alone might not always work to cement rule
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
Surely MAD?
Academics are having their IP harvested and students are having their cognitive capacities siphoned into training data. And we’re all *paying the companies for the privilege of making *them money
Rant over…
At least in the case of my family member, that relationship is remunerated. But the university-wide AI policies are completely topsy Turvy.
The current model seems to be for universities to *pay the AI companies to *use their services on subscription… whereas the economic value being harvested is completely the other way round! The students using gen AI are *training the models and providing a service the companies should pay for
… large amounts to do highly skilled labelling (a family member who is an undergrad is doing this for lots of money rn after being recruited on campus - the high pay is dependent on a very difficult series of entry tests which select for ‘quality’ of labeller’s written English and reasoning skills)
Re both original thread and quote thread it seems amazing to me that the big tech companies aren’t being asked to *pay universities* for access to their students and academics. Some of the large models are now known to be running out of high quality training data and are paying undergrads
This is a brilliant article in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by Charles Troup on cost-benefit analysis and social democracy. Cosmopolitan in its reference points, rigorous in its empirical grounding, and corrosive to existing views of governmentality and 'neoliberalism'.
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
