📣 ANCH is looking for new co-editors!

Job advert including details on how to apply and duties of the editor

@branchuk.bsky.social announces a search for new co-editors of its journal, American 19th C History @anchistjournal.bsky.social. Apps to include c.v. and a 1-2 page cover letter, sent to ANCH co-editor, and incoming BrANCH Chair, David Doddington (doddingtond@cardiff.ac.uk) by 01.05.26. Pls share!

🚨Last day to get your proposals in for BrANCH 2026 in Warwick!

All the best to our friends at @officialbaas.bsky.social up in Glasgow!

Looks like #BAAS2026 is starting off as another brilliant conference 🥳

Entering the Loophole: Surveying American Slavery in an English Village A Think Human Festival Event

April 16th in Oxford (UK), a great event with history & poetry to mark Harriet Jacobs’s 1845 residence in Steventon!!!

Among the speakers, BrANCH’s own @alysbeverton.bsky.social will be there if you needed any more incentive 🤩

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⏳A little over three weeks to get those abstracts in for BrANCH 2026!!!

RHS / Scouloudi grants for public history and conference panels, 2026-27: applications now invited - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to launch the latest round of grants supporting collaborative public history and panel conference formation. Both grants for 2026-27 are made possible thanks to...

Today we launch a call for the Society's next round of 'Public History Grants' and 'Conference Panel Grants', 2026-27: bit.ly/4lNt8ck

Public History Grants support collaborative projects by historians working in / outside HE; Panel Grants enable conference attendance on a shared theme #Skystorians

📚Call out for panellists for book talk at @officialbaas.bsky.social!📚

We are delighted to partner with @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social to gather Americanists from all areas to discuss how thinking about America's founding influences our research and teaching.

We're looking for 3-5 contributors!

Pre-Announcement: Editorial Team Roles at Journal of American Studies, recruiting Summer 2026 - British Association for American Studies The Journal of American Studies, BAAS’s flagship publication, is one of the longest-running and most respected area studies journals in the world. Its purpose is to critique and interrogate the…

‼️ BAAS and the Journal of American Studies are pleased to announce that they will be recruiting for the following roles at JAS in Summer 2026, for start dates of 2 January 2027.

Learn more about the roles here:

🗞️ Also, a Keasbey Isaac Newton Fellowship in American Studies being offered by Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge

Deadline to apply: 17:00 GMT on Thursday 19 March 2026

🗞️ Show Me two Postdoctoral Fellowships (1 in history, 1 in political science) from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri!!

Will also be a fond farewell to our outgoing Chair Emily West whose leadership has cultivated the strong roots from which our BrANCH community has flourished over the past few years🌲🇬🇧🇺🇸🌺🙏

With spring on the horizon, very excited
to celebrate @daviddoddington.bsky.social as our budding new BrANCH Chair in October 🥳🌲🤲

All the best to our friends @scotamstudies.bsky.social on their annual conference this Saturday—looks like a very exciting programme!

Still time to apply for this excellent graduate/ECR workshop on Early America at UCL

Deadline extended to March 7th!

American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) welcomes journal submissions on themes and topics relating to America during the (looooooong 19th C), including historiographical, methodological, or pedagogical articles. Please do get in touch with your ideas! www.tandfonline.com/journals/fan...

Considering the beginning of the long nineteenth century is known as the age of revolutions, a lot of ideas out there for this great workshop hosted at UCL!

American Nineteenth Century History Volume 26, Issue 3 of American Nineteenth Century History

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Speaking of opportunities for PGRs…

Looking for a BrANCH PGR Representative to help lead a wonderful community and join a fantastic committee 🤗

If interested, please get in touch with BrANCH Chair Emily West with a paragraph explaining why you would be up for the role!

Deadline: February 27th

🗞️ Two more job postings!

Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (1 March 2026) — www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/mellon-...

Addison Wheeler Fellowships, Durham University (26 March 2026)— www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

🗞️ A few American History-related job postings with deadlines coming up…

@University of Nottingham (12 February 2026) — jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

@Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (23 February 2026) — www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/opport...

Routes and Roots: Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Abolition, and their Legacies - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS PGR Workshop, University of Sheffield - Monday 23rd March Call for papers deadline - Friday 20th February This workshop, held in collaboration with the Slavery Studies Research Hub at the University o...

👀 A useful PGR Workshop happening in Sheffield this March!

Deadline to submit abstracts:
Friday, 20 February

Important to consider for BrANC-Historians as well!

2026 BrANCH Conference — British American Nineteenth Century Historians

📣 Call for Papers and Panels!

BrANCH 2026 Conference at the University of Warwick (October 9-11) 📌 🗓️❗️

We welcome proposals on all aspects of North American history through to the end of the ‘long nineteenth century’

Deadline for Proposals: Friday, April 10

See more details below ⬇️

February is Black History Month in the United States!

Take advantage of the opportunity to explore the significant contributions of African Americans, many in the Nineteenth Century, both the well-known and the under-appreciated!!!

Looks like our friends @shaw-society.bsky.social have extended the deadline for abstracts to their 2026 conference!

So you still have until Friday to get them in 😉

Latest articles from American Nineteenth Century History Browse the latest articles and research from American Nineteenth Century History

Looking for a New Year's Resolution? Look no further - how about reading an article a month from 'American Nineteenth Century History'? Simple, achievable and effective! 🇺🇸💡📚

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“Boss Lady”: Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s

Never hurts for BrANCH historians to peer over the borders of the long 19th Century…

And it looks like the IHR North American History seminar has an interesting talk this Thursday, with @emilybrady.bsky.social discussing “Black Women's Photographic Portraiture in Independent Studios, 1920s-1960s”

🚨 Deadline to apply for the next round of Peter Parish travel grants is tomorrow!

Ellen Craft Essay Prize - British Association for American Studies *Deadline extended to Friday 16 January 2026* The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions.…

Calling postgraduates - You have until 16th January to submit your entry for the Ellen Craft Essay Prize. SASA offers the prize to encourage the study of marginalised voices. First-place will receive a cash prize & invitation to the March conference.

How to submit: