I bet Economic History Review submissions now almost all including some form of AI analysis whether authors admit it or not. Within the history world, their approach to modelling and data is particularly susceptible to checking out ideas, running preliminary analyses, what about this, or thats etc.
Invisible Hands PhD – Informal Q&A
I’m hosting an online session Monday (12-12:40pm) for anyone interested in our UCL x V&A PhD on migration and craft in 18th c. Britain.
I’ll introduce the project, share examples of migrant craft workers, and answer qs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/invisible-...
Tuition waiver for BOTH home and international students.
Funded PhD: Migrant Labour & British Craft: Trace the invisible hands of mihgrant makers in eighteenth-century Britain.
Funded PhD Studentship – UCL x V&A Museum
Explore the overlooked contributions of migrant labour to British craft and design in the long eighteenth century (c.1688–1837). Join me at UCL and collaborate with the brilliant team at the V&A.
Deadline: 15 April 2026
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
agree
that's what "DH" was for twenty years.
I'm on the New Books Network podcast discussing Contested Commons with Miranda Melcher.
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/contested-co...
Call for Proposals!🔔 We're pleased to announce the CFP for the 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton). Theme: Sustainability digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-...
Info session 16 Dec
Abstract submission by 30 Jan
EOI for peer review by 2 Feb
Notification of acceptance 16 Mar
I think I might be more inclined to language learn if a tool could help me do some of the work. Double checking remains the historians' job.
Tim this is Bluesky. As a historian you have to be hostile at all times about AI.
Problematically east enough for my commute
There's a new campus with lots of new degrees that can explain part of the increase: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/stu....
A compilation of 18 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
Look forward to December!
Here is a list of new #nonfiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/
#Regency #Napoleon #history #JaneAusten #read #18thc
👑 The King's Dinner 🍰 will be out this June.
It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions.
I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it.
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
👑 The King's Dinner 🍰 will be out this June.
It's our attempt at a truly digital history monograph. Our goal is to tell history. Our approach was to apply digital humanities methods to our historical questions.
I think we've done a good job, and I hope you like it.
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
So excited for this book to come out in June. Had so much fun collaborating on it.
George III was a family man, a modest eater, and a thoughtful ruler who wrote about the big questions of the day, from royal sovereignty to the best methods of agriculture to feed a modern nation. His writings provide a glimpse of his version of monarchy, which placed him at the head of a national family, where he embodied the habits of self-regulation and temperance in keeping with the sensibilities of late eighteenth-century manhood. This article brings together George’s meals and his essays, considering the histories of food, masculinity, and self-fashioning, to argue that George was a monarch who embodied a new form of masculinity, as marked by his agricultural interests and insistence on a modest diet. His eating habits, along with his intellectual interests and public persona, bring us to the intersection between the private man and the public monarch. Drawing on newly digitized data, alongside contemporary caricatures and descriptions, and George’s own writing, we argue that moderation was central to George’s creation of an image that appealed to the emerging British nation of the late eighteenth century; food was central to this image, highlighting both his masculine self-control and his ability to be useful to the nation.
📣Out now on #firstview!
Rachel Rich, Lisa Wynne Smith (@historybeagle.bsky.social), Sarah Fox (@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social) & Adam Crymble (@adamcrymble.bsky.social) on 'Self-Fashioning, Food, and Masculinity in George III’s Monarchy'
#FoodHistory 18thc 🥧🥦🍞🗃️
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Are you using #maps in research?
Want to learn about their history and use as sources?
In London in late January?
Sign up for @ihr.bsky.social short course, Historic Maps: Interpreting Stories of Place!
#maphistory #skystorians 🗃️
Open Access no less! Kingship, identity, masculinity, and food. It was so great to collaborate on this wonderful piece of research. 👑
It’s invisible to most people in the UK, but any TikTok post that’s remotely political is flooded in the comments with bots saying variations of “vote reform”.
And that’s just got to be swaying young people who haven’t got party loyalties or who don’t consume mainstream media.
Good luck. Make sure you vote for younger candidates when you're able to vote in elections. It's a real oligarchy out there.
I can send you my successful application from way back if it helps. Just send me an email.
I thought I knew every episode. Is this a hidden one?
Very much looking forward to Dan Gosling (TNA) speaking on 'A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon' this Wed. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social All welcome online or in person, but please register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Managed to convince 0% of my students to use footnotes in their dissertations this year. Sad face.
If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties
Do you use TEI by Example (www.teibyexample.org)? Please fill this survey to help the TEI Consortium know what to do with it going forward. forms.office.com/e/HeB5mWpAwU #tei2025
Reading through lots of job applications today. There are so many talented people out there.
Peter, you're not supposed to start preparing that until January!
Box for Broadcasts is supposed to have everything that was on TV isn't it? Year upon year I end up having to drop clips because they disappear from what I thought was an archive.