We are delighted to invite you to the #EnglishCreates: Futures Online Symposium, Thursday 2 July 2026.
What futures are possible for English Studies – in universities, schools, public culture, industry, and beyond? This event is open to all - please join us!
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Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion panels, a series of interactive stalls (where you will be able to try your hand at historical zine-making and find out about some fascinating projects run by our members), tours of Senate House, an extended lunch for discussion and interaction, a drinks reception, and an evening keynote lecture. We warmly welcome history enthusiasts of whatever stripe. Booking details are at the bottom of this page.
Next month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️
Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
#ICYMI, the History of Parliament is excited to be hosting an 8-week internship for postgraduate-level researchers this summer, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section.
Applications are open now!
Follow the link below for more details on the role and how to apply:
At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
Event listing details. See https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-22/a-history-of-england-in-25-poems
Paving inlaid with metal. A mathematician will have to explain the meaning of the pattern... (I want to say 'fractals'???)
I couldn't resist a photo of the paving outside the new Mathematical Institute building in #Oxford this week. I'll be back on Sunday 22 March for an #event at the Oxford Literary #Festival, in conversation about #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems with Lucy Thynne. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
All of the information in the image is available via the web link.
Free online research training course 5 May 2026. Engaging Histories: Working with/in the Media as an Historian.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Engaged in community heritage work and looking to develop your skills? These £1,000 training grants from the National Archives are well worth a look...
Reminder - this salty maritime MA scholarship is open for applications: www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Doing this talk at the University of Bath next Monday on my upcoming book Cancelled Futures, based on my @leverhulme.ac.uk project exploring working-class transitions to work in London, Morecambe & Rochdale. It's also online for anyone interested...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...
📣 We’re hiring!
The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social
We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team.
🔗 Details below:
#AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs
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Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
Are you an early career researcher looking for research training in history and related disciplines? You might be eligible for an IHR bursary of up to £500 to help cover the cost of one of our fantastic short courses! Deadline for applications is 31 Jan 2026. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
We're very pleased to welcome @themakingofmaidstone.org, a Victoria County History project working on the development of Maidstone in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Led by @jack-newman.com, this three-year project restarts our work in the county. For more:
#Skystorians #LocalHistory
🎉 Congratulations to John Bulaitis joint winner of this year's British Agricultural History Society Thirsk Prize for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History with his book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936! @braghs.bsky.social buff.ly/s4AUf6P
Job! Fixed-term, 1 year lecturer in Med/Ren Lit at UEA (covering the fellowship of @satyrane.bsky.social) ... it's a lovely, friendly School ...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/16...
Call for Applications: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing - Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers’ Programme
The call is now open! Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) invites applications for its 2025-26 programme.
Deadline: 16th June
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You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
The call poster. Follow the link for details.
Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
Our CFP has been extended - there are just a handful of places left, so please get in touch if you'd like to be part of our seminar programme. We provide an especially good space for PhD students and early career researchers!
Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Our new annual conference in support of the humanities and social sciences is on Wednesday 2 April. Book your place at the conversation with leading voices in the education and research sector, in person at The British Academy, London: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Join us online or face 2 face this Wednesday (5.30-7pm GMT) for a three-cornered exploration of disorientation in time and of the role that history education might play in addressing it. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/hie-sig/2025... #historyeducation @1972shp.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar this Tuesday (17:30 UK time in person and online) for our Postgraduate Panel, with papers on Named Entity Recognition for historical documents and on Hans Sloanes' plant collections ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist
picture of the Dutch church in London.It's a rather straight building with a tiny bell tower, and a bunch of skyscrapers around it.
THIS FRIDAY! Excited to welcome @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social to the #LowCountries seminar with a talk on "The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries"
28 March, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar... #EarlyModern
If anyone is attending this international Aphra Behn conference this week, and would like to write a review for the WSG website, please get in touch!
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This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink!
To join, get in touch!
This blog casts some light on the mysterious (to most people, including all the authors of this particular work), process of writing a book of readable, attractive - and, whisper it, peer reviewed - history.
The resulting book is a wonderful insight into the Victorian seaside - do take a look. 🗃️
A month on: DID YOU SEE OUR PROGRAMME YET?? It's ✨fabulous✨.
Come and join us in Bristol in July! (early bird rate until the end of the month)
Still time to send us an application for a new IHR seminar series.