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Our Partners at the Thames Festival Trust are advertising for a Heritage Project Manager. Could this be you? thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

Do read @lucycmunro.bsky.social’s wonderful article and thread. Also fwiw some quick superficial comments -

The London Journal Volume 51, Issue 1 of The London Journal

Our first new issue of 2026 has been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

Looking forward to this event in Birkbeck Arts Week, 6 May, in which Sarah Dickenson and I will be discussing our collaboration on her new play about a remarkable medieval woman, Thomasine Bonaventure. Featuring a performance from Birkbeck MFA students. Please repost! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Finally getting round to a draft of a conference paper on guilds and regulation, and came across these lovely Coopers' marks from 1420 in Letter Book I. @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

The first of two @lrb.co.uk podcasts exploring the history of medieval London, in conversation with Rosemary Hill. This one takes the story of London and Westminster from the 5th century up to the end of the 13th! Ep 2 being recorded this week …

Next episode, on the late medieval city, being recorded this week!

Congratulations - brilliant news!

Another bump for this; expressions of interest due in by 24 March.

"In Place"--- An Archive of Displaced Headstones in London Parks & Gardens "In Place"  is an archival and research-led visual project documenting displaced headstones embedded within London’s contemporary public landscape. Before the mid-nineteenth century, many of London’s ...

Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

On Friday, 6 March 2026, the MLA, ACLS, and AHA filed a motion for summary judgment in our case seeking to reverse the elimination of grants, grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Please repost - opportunity to work on a great project with a great team here at Birkbeck!

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.

0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Great to see the new website for ‘LIMINALWATER: Liminal Waterway Countercultures’, led by my colleague @bengidley.bsky.social and working with the fab @humap.bsky.social liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/

Sound on, hats off.

This is such sad news….

In memoriam: Prof Stephen Baxter (1969-2026) It is with deep sadness that the Master and Fellows of St Peter’s College share news of the death of Professor Stephen Baxter.

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 5, No. 1, 1979)

It’s time for a new 🧵 about one of our editorial board’s choice of an article from the journal’s back catalogue that was influential on them. This time it’s our Board Chair Bob Shoemaker’s choice of Valerie Pearl’s 1979 article, ‘Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London’.

Opportunities Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project!

🔍 Open roles:
• 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities)
• 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities)

🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026

shorturl.at/OCpLP

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open

Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years

The deadline is 11 March

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Quizstorians ftw! 🎉🍾

Today!

Monthly student visa applications

Uh oh for the university business model as student visa applications hit four year low since Oct.

Only 29,300 applications last month, down from 35,200 in Dec 2024. Back in December 2022 more than 46,000 would-be international students applied…
www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

Calling all fifteenth-century scholars: if you have not yet submitted your proposal for this year's conference hosted by @memsunikent.bsky.social, now is the time to do so. CfP open until 31st January.

Eligibility To be eligible for this bursary, you must meet all of the conditions for application set out below and at least one of the eligibility criteria. Identifying in more than one category may be used as a factor to prioritise applicants to receive this award. Conditions for application You have been accepted onto a master’s degree programme at Birkbeck beginning in the 2026-27 academic year. If you have made an application but not yet received a decision, you may still apply but your application will only be considered if you have been accepted onto your course by the scholarship application deadline (31 July 2026). You have made provision to fund the remainder of your studies should you be successful in your application for this bursary. You do not already hold a master's degree or other level 7 qualification. You have Home fee status. Your household income is less than £42,875. Eligibility criteria We welcome applications from students who meet one or more of the following criteria (in addition to the above): Have a declared disability. Identify as a care leaver (a care leaver is a young person, under the age of 25 who is currently or has been in public care for a minimum of three months. This would include foster care, semi-independent living, residential care homes). Are single parents. Are carers (a carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a friend, neighbour or relative who could not manage otherwise because of frailty, illness or disability). Hold refugee status. Have Black or Black mixed heritage. Are the first generation in their family to participate in Higher Education.

Masters in History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck MA Historical Research MA Contemporary History and Politics MA Public History and Heritage MA European History MA Global History MA Classical Civilisation MA Archaeology and Heritage

If you want to do an MA in London but have 'barriers accessing education or may face greater challenges while undertaking their degree' (specific criteria below), you can apply for a £3,000 tuition grant at Birkbeck. Lots of choices at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social:
www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

Coming up!

We're now advertising for open-ended Lectureships in Medieval Studies and in Art History, based in @bbkhistorical.bsky.social in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. See cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html Please repost!

Screenshot of search for 'petition' on the BL's Archives and Manuscript catalogue

Hooray! The British Library has just released a beta version of its rebuilt Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk

2,619 hits for 'petition' in Western Manuscripts, texts in English, in case you're curious. 🗃️

I am very excited for this workshop: please do submit an EOI or get in touch if you have any queries.

Publishing a journal article doesn’t have to be a daunting experience, and we are very proud of our support for ECRs.

The London Journal Volume 50, Issue 3 of The London Journal

Our third and final issue of 2025 has now been published! A 🧵 on its contents...