Keen to meet a new generation of historians researching British history in the (very) long 18th century? Join us for our annual Lightening Talks presentations and Q&A on 29 April at 5:30pm. All welcome. Free. In person at the Institute of Historical Research in London or online on Zoom. #Skystorians
Wonderful day at Tyntesfield completing the first Cultures of Care workshop! We’re bringing collections together with material science and history to start new conversations about sustainability. @unibirmingham.bsky.social @discovermaterials.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk
📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present
Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026.
Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026.
caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/
Midlands historians have a hard time sometimes convincing people that slavery ran just as deeply through our economy as through Colston's Bristol, say. But here we are: inherited wealth from enslavement in the family history leading to urban change.
Songs of Seven Dials 'is a triumph: a new benchmark for how academic urban historians can write for much larger audiences and evidence of the rich rewards when they do.'
Huge thanks to @tomhulme.bsky.social for this wonderfully generous review.
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It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share.
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Calling all #ECR #skystorians! Follow HistoryLab+ here & sign up to become a member there (👇) to discover job & training opportunities, resources, & a community as you find your feet #postdoc!
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Front cover for book titled 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700' by Sonia Tycko, with an image of an indenture
Excited to see Sonia Tycko's book rethinking early modern consent and contract labour is now available. This is an important intervention for histories of coerced labour.
'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700'
Less than a month to go (29 April, 5:30pm) until our annual Lightening Talks event for the British History in the Long 18th Century seminar, showcasing new PhD student work. Join us in person or online at the IHR in London. It's free and open to the public. #Skystorians
Can't make it to the US right now but want to check out @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social in conversation about Life After Cars with a brilliant international panel?
Got you covered. June 9th. Online.
Mark it in your calendar, and get registered. It's free!
Poster for public talk. Black background. Stark white outline in the shape of Humberside. 1970s red lettering. Text says: Remembering Humberside. North Lincolnshire Museum, Scunthorpe, 13 April, 2-4pm. 30 years since its abolition, what did Humberside mean to you?
Poster for public talk. White background. Cheerful hand drawn postcard featuring key landmarks from Humberside. Colourful drawing. Text says: Remembering Humberside. Hull History Centre, 14 April, 12.30pm. Public talk, free entry. 30 years since its abolition, what does Humberside mean to you?
1 April: exactly 52 years since Humberside was created. 30 years since it was abolished. Free exhibition and events this spring! Starting with talks @northlincsmuseum.bsky.social 13 Apr & @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social 14 Apr. All welcome! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @tricksterprince.bsky.social
My first blog post in a series of three sharing some of my research from @norfolkro.bsky.social. This is about friendship and intimacy between women in the 1920s - from Great Yarmouth to Paris!
Nominations are now open for the @nursingclio.bsky.social Prize for Best Journal Article, an award for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. Self-nominations are encouraged! 🗃️
A photograph of Bevis Marks synagogue in the City of London, built in 1701. The photograph shows a close up of a brown-red brick building, with a grand wooden front door with a gas lamp, large windows, and a clock and a sign with some hebrew characters above the door. The image comes from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bevis_Marks_Synagogue_P6110044.JPG
📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢
📜 March's post explores the will of David de Crasto, the hazzan of the Bevis Marks synagogue.
De Crasto left a bequest of 'all my Hebrew Books in my Desk at the Synagogue', as well as charitable bequests to the congregation 📖
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Publishing today! A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life.
'A queer scrapbook' is a rich archive of histories from across Britain & Ireland. Featuring interviews, photographs & flyers, it captures the diversity of queer & trans lives since WW2.
Out now. #booksky
A woman wearing a red dress sits in a reading room consulting an open book laid out on a cushion and writes down notes with a pencil.
We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038.
Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)
Graphic featuring the covers of Sex Isn't Real, Impossible Things, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Trans and Queer Studies in Religion, Cisgender, Climbing, Emergent Genders, and How We Make Each Other, arranged in a 2x4 grid.
On our blog today, we're celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility and highlighting DUP books and journals that amplify the voices and experiences of transgender and non-binary people. buff.ly/qr0cgRG
Publication Day! Very excited.
A resource series for 2026, Tuesdays @ 4, amazing lineup starts with @rezekjoe.bsky.social on the essential read for 1776 and 2026, T Paine’s _Common Sense._
Join us! jcblibrary.org/events/josep...
"In the future, we hope to have no immigrants in the UK. That's the end goal." (President of University of Bristol's Reform UK Society).
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
📢 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...
Register for the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures Big Annual Event here - should be a good one: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/every...
The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April
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Job Opportunity!
Lecturer in Medieval History
King's College London - History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ176/l...
'75 per cent of those employed [in creative industtres] hold a degree, significantly exceeding the UK average of 51 per cent. Furthermore, creative higher education serves as a critical engine for research and innovation, in addition to acting as essential cultural centres within their communities.'
Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Emilie Connolly and Miranda Melcher, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social host. They discuss the long history of Native land dispossession and unequal dividends of colonialism in the US.
Listen to the Ideas Podcast with Emilie Connolly and Miranda Melcher, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social host. They discuss the long history of Native land dispossession and unequal dividends of colonialism in the US.
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#history #podcast
How to Reach a Broader Audience: An Introduction to Non-Fiction Trade Publishing in 2026. The IHR-Curtis Brown initiative aims to de-mystify the process of writing for broader audiences and navigating the publishing process. FREE online 26 March 2-4pm
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We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...