If you were interested in a short, fun, engagement with research and collections across our museum group, what format would you prefer that to take?
- A blog?
- A short video (2-3 mins?)
- A c5mins bitesize podcast?
- Something else?
It would be really useful to hear from you!
Final plug for this bad boy, tomorrow evening. New research on scribbles in baronetages and Austen’s composition of PERSUASION.
It’s a big year for Creative Writing @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, with new UG curriculum, our first cohort of CW PhDs finishing, a new creative research school, and our CW MA launching in Sept. I look forward to celebrating that history & future later today.
Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
My new Substack post discusses Elizabeth Boleyn's apartments at palaces, castles, and manors across the country during Anne's queenship!
You can read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/sophieba...
And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians
It is National Infertility Awareness week - a week to acknowledge the impact of infertility on millions of people around the world. An appropriate time to share the programme for the Locating Loss conference, which will take place @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May
#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.
Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm
"It is unclear what Reform politicians think this kind of change would achieve, but for a party which claims to favour minimal state interference it is baffling that they think politicians should dictate the content and presentation of an exhibition."
Come join us in person or online in York next week for @emmawhipday.bsky.social and what will no doubt be a brilliant talk on the 'curious cultural absence' of wicked stepfathers in #earlymodern England, through a reading of Claudius in Hamlet. I can't wait! Sign up below👇 🗃️
Sorry Aidan - how frustrating.
We are a very small minority in terms of government funding, which makes the slashing of provision even more gutting. A drop in the overall budget could be life saving to families in more perilous financial conditions than me!
You can sign the petition here - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
I’m happy to share that my article “A Collection of Loyal Songs: Songs as Spaces of Memory” has been published in Études Écossaises 25!
#JacobiteStudies #JacobiteSongCulture #LoyalSongs
You can now catch the first of the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social new podcast hosted by @drolibetts.bsky.social on the museum's youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUp...
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...
Have an idea for a special issue? Don't miss the opportunity!
BJHS Themes (BSHS + Cambridge University Press) invites Guest Editor proposals.
🗓 Deadline: 1 July 2026
🔗 bshs.org.uk/bjhs-themes-...
Mamdani delivers a master class every time in how to communicate politically.
You can now catch the first of the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social new podcast hosted by @drolibetts.bsky.social on the museum's youtube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUp...
Very excited to be co-organizing this event with Adam Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social & Sarah Griffin @uoylibrary.bsky.social
“At a time when disability is misunderstood and vilified, Ryan offers a vision of how much disabled women already contribute to society and how much more might be possible.”
With WHO WANTS NORMAL? paperback out tomorrow, here’s a v kind review from The Observer: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Welcome to the Royal Studies Journal
We’re an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to global royal studies across all periods, places, and disciplines.
Explore our latest research, special issues, and book reviews, Join the conversation:
rsj.winchester.ac.uk
@royalstudies.bsky.social
Jane Seymour queen of England for only 17 months. In her lifetime, however, she was a significant political figure, while her legacy and memorialization extended beyond her early death following childbirth
Out in July 😊 @routledgebooks.bsky.social #livesofroyalwomen #janeseymour #queenjaneseymour
CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.
We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs.
Deadline: 7th April
Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.
Applications due 21 April
More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Pour les modernistes, un bel appel à communications pour un colloque autour de la reine de France Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche ! Elle a été très peu étudiée donc de multiples pistes de recherches sont ouvertes...à la fois sur son rôle diplomatique, sur ses réseaux etc.
Date limite : 15 mai 2026
Collage showing my article title, "Precarious Stooping Among the roses in Paradise Lost and Mansfield Park," with keywords and opening passage. Also the full list of contributors and their article titles. Please click the link above to screen read them.
New Milton Studies Special Issue (68.1) highlighting the impact of precarity on the field & Milton himself.
To cope 🫣 I ended up combining 3 of my favourite things: John Milton, Jane Austen, & roses 🌹 scholarlypublishingcollective-org.uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org/psup/milton-...
Conference Poster: https://www.ticketsource.com/null/t-yzzmpzr
@newcastleuni.bsky.social will be hosting the British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research conference on 7-8 May. Tickets (no charge) for the event go live today at 9am. We have an excellent programme of speakers.
Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
@sslh.bsky.social
@ialhi.bsky.social
This is fun! We did an episode of You’re Dead To Me about Alexandre Dumas, who made D’Artagnan famous with his epic historical novels
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archaeological Illustrator (Supervisor)
AOC Archaeology
Salary: £28,030– £29,244 (depending on experience; 26/27 pay review pending)
Date: April 17, 2026
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...
Here is the registration link: conferences.historicalfictionsresearch.org/roundtable26...
Please note that emails with the meeting link will go out on the day before the event.