If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.
Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority.
Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...
I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.
Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
We're a new network of and for people interested in Global South literatures.
Follow us and stay tuned for future events and opportunities starting this summer!
People seem outraged by this but it happens all the time. I worked in a major publisher’s international dept. and all sorts of books were routinely censored for different global markets. The argument was, better a doctored version gets out there than nothing.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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FIVE MILLION!
Together we've now generated £5,000,000 for indie bookshops across the UK. Thank you for choosing to buy your books differently, keeping real booksellers thriving. Indie bookshops FOREVER! Bookshop.org
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! 🗃️
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BALH are recruiting!
Are you passionate about Local History? Join our team as a freelance Projects Manager!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/projects-man...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. Deadline: 3 June 2026 Independent Scholars Deadline: 27 May 2026
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl
🔔⏰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!
Three women stand on the left with lots of men in the right. The text below says, “SO LADIES, THANKS FOR BEING THE FIRST TO WITNESS AND REPORT THE RESURRECTION AND WE'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE?”
It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.
Nice to see ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’ is on @manchesterup.bsky.social’s reading list for the PSA conference. If you can’t attend, use the code ‘EVENT30’ to get our book for 30% off!
@d-j-frost.bsky.social
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Last week we launched a new programme to help historians, resident outside the UK and Ireland, to undertake research in the UK.
Closing date: Friday 8 May #Skystorians
Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...
jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
The German Peasants' War (1524-26) was the largest uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution.
Lyndal Roper recalls how a cycle ride around Germany helped her to appreciate the sheer scale of its history.
Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.
This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...
A bit of a long shot, but I’m looking to pay someone to photograph some archival documents for me in Amsterdam in the next 6 months. If you know any PhD students based there etc who might be interested pls do send me a message. #historians #paidresearcher
Lovely piece about Book Bunk, an organisation restoring colonial-era libraries in Nairobi and making them free, accessible spaces for children
I’m in a newly published collection on political writing in modern Britain published by CUP. I met and got the opportunity to work with some lovely people in the preparation of this collection. I hope it’s as much fun to read as it was to put together.
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.
Emma Sandon (Birkbeck), 'Spaces of Empire: Histories and Afterlives of Film Collections in British Colonial Archives', 10 February 5:30 pm GMT, at the IHR, London and on Zoom. Free, friendly and open to the public. Please register by the link below. #Skystorians.
For all of those left-wing bibliophiles amongst you, here is a wonderful second-hand resource
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Call for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history.
Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP
Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
Review: Could this be the definitive biography of Nkrumah and analysis of his impact on the world? Howard W. French’s brilliant and thoroughgoing treatment of the life of Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah very well might.
Are you studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Stack of the book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
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