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Manchester, 1965, photo by Shirley Baker.
#OtD 21 Apr 1834 30,000 marched for the freedom of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, agricultural workers from the Dorset town of Tolpuddle who were transported to Australia as punishment for their trade unionism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9336...
Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe
Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians
Today in the Scottish public history column: Recording the voices of the last generation of lighthouse keepers and their families with Dr Erin Farley and the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust’s oral history project. www.thenational.scot/culture/2603...
This event brings together scholars in the fields of gender and social policy, the #medhumanities, and early modern history to discuss their research concerning body size and embodiment.
In person @ucl.ac.uk, London and possible to attend online
📆28 Apr 2026
🕰️16:30 – 18:30
To register 👇
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
The deadline is coming up in a few weeks. Essays should be submitted on or before 1 May.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
For my urban history colleagues, some great titles and a chance to write a review: #historiography 🗃 #history
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson
Published today: 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain' by Rowan Thompson bit.ly/4syLgIz
Rowan's new book is the 26th title in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series for early career historians, published. Available Open Access and p/back print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians
Apply now for ICS Public engagement grants
Deadline 1 May
Small grants (up to £500) are available to support Classics-themed public engagement activities. Full details: ics.sas.ac.uk/public-engag...
CALL FOR EDITORS 📣
British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH) is seeking new co-editors of its journal, to take up posts in January 2027.
CV + Letter of Intent should be shared by 1st June 2026.
Call for proposals: @ihsa2026.bsky.social Irish History Students’ Association Podcast, deadline Friday 22 May 2026
London-based #skystorians (and other interested parties!). My London book launch for WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN is at Waterstones Gower St on Weds 13th May at 6.30pm, and I'd love to see you there! Book tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/we-ha... #histchild
New Absolute Units is out now! We're joined by the fantastic author and campaigner @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to explore the question: who owns England? We travel as far back as the Norman conquest, through to the Tudors, Brexit, and right up to the present day.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
New, open access publication out now. Co-authored with Dr Alice Brumby journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
What does it mean to speak of #sovereignty from outside the Global North?
Join us for our next event:
'Ceding Sovereignty to the More-Than-Human: A #Maori Perspective' with Prof Carl Mika
In person, 23 Apr, 2-3.30pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
@uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Who wouldn't want to come to Vienna in June?
Are you a historian of the 1926 General Strike? If so, we need your help updating the strike's bibliography to mark its centenary. sslh.org.uk/2026/04/02/h...
Title and abstract for Vadas, András. “Plague in Time of War: The Example of the Seventeenth-Century Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier,” The Seventeenth Century 40, no. 2 (2025), 357-382.
I don't ordinarily include post-1500 studies on my 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography, but I'm making an exception for this study of 17thC outbreaks in the Carpathian Basin b/c it's so innovative in its methodologies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #histmed #EpiSky #EarlyModern #OttomanEmpire
#OtD 15 Apr 1989 the Hillsborough disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest resulting in 97 dead and over 700 injured. Though caused by police negligence, police and the press blamed Liverpool fans stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8641...
Post doc opportunity to work at the excellence centre on history of everyday nationalism in Tampere, Finland tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
It has arrived! The 200th volume in the Manchester University Press Studies in Imperialism series. A landmark study of the afterlives of Caribbean slavery in Australia. Come and help us celebrate while discussing imperialism, past, present & future?
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
New from @thesccjr.bsky.social, this podcast series is aimed at PhD students, and invites any questions that you might have about doctoral research and all that it involves.
Salons at Manchester Histories are relaxed, early-evening gatherings where stories and conversations come to life.
Join us next week as we explore the story of the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, a lesser-known chapter of Manchester’s creative past.
🎟️Reserve your free place here: bit.ly/4tFn1JX
2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
Text: Join the Royal Historical Society. Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 11 May and 27 July 2026 The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.
The Society is an international organisation of 7000 historians with representatives in more than 60 countries worldwide: bit.ly/4dHQI8g
Applications to join the Society are welcome at anytime from researchers of any subject area / any country 2/2
Some nice (and completely unexpected) news. Thank you to whoever nominated the book 🙏
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
And they're back! Readers can oncemore access our range of collection guides which give overviews to our collections as well as introductions to themes which run through them.
Follow the link to start browsing: www.history.ac.uk/library/coll...
Even more will be added in the coming weeks.