Reposting - registration details for the return to Birmingham of big Modern British Studies conversations.

Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham Conference information

Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Brilliant - and really timely for some teaching I have planned!

Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham Conference information

Registration details for this summer's Modern British Studies Conference. Looking forward to seeing people on Birmingham's green and pleasant campus! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/moder...

Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium .

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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John - so sorry to hear about this. What an horrendous way to treat one of the City's most civic men! Take it easy.

A good day for people to (re)read my brilliant colleague @momoulton.bsky.social's HWJ article: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...

On the latter point... it does sort of implicitly suggest we do need to understand and teach the limits of this stuff. But also, I wonder where the more inappropriate use of the tech is in the sector, and suspect it's not in student essays/coursework.

Reviewed Tehila Sasson's book and solipsistically my own hopeless approach to personal financing in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

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...

Lovely evening spent at @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary in great company with @gillianmurphy.bsky.social to celebrate 💯 years of this fantastic archival resource + a great exhibition curated by fantastic historians of women. @womenshistnet.bsky.social

And look at iTunes now?

Just me that thinks the permission structure test allowing the non-consensual imposition of AI on all our lives was U2 installing Songs of Innocence on everyone's ITunes in 2014? Team, I've found a way to blame it all Bono. @spinal-bap.bsky.social - grounds for your Bononaissance critique?

A colleague I spoke with in engineering who works on data models that literally keep trains on the tracks was horrified at the idea that this is how LLMs might be used.

I also refuse to use Royal Mail. Bring back Consignia.

Are you though?

Don't hate me - I know all the good work being done. But... hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...

Wonder if anyone is having a little think about the need for historians to credentialize themselves via the crown today?

The book is out! Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth Century Britain is on the shelves. Get yourself a 20% discount and use code GRANDY26 at www.cambridge.org/9781009650939

How charity helped shape Britain after empire

Today is the publication date for Matthew Hilton's Charity After Empire: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Keeping Hold | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

My brilliant friend and colleague @kateesthersmith.bsky.social s book is out on Thursday. Read and become wiser! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Book Launch: Charity After Empire British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation and Development

Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion?
Join us for the launch of 'Charity After Empire' by Matthew Hilton
24/3/26, QMUL, London E1
Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-charity-after-empire-tickets-1981162909594
@qmul.bsky.social

Sun Ra springs to mind. Lot to analyze there.

Uni VLE's increasingly in partnership with businesses like OpenAI. It's easy to see what is provided (AI chat features, design assistants, etc.. ) but does anyone know what is extracted? I am thinking stuff like class exercises, readings, Uni IP, the academic labour etc.. that goes into these?

Very excited to announce this workshop on environmental approaches to modern British History taking place this September at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Please share!

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians

Events — The Changing Character of War Centre Upcoming CCW events

Today! If you are in or near Oxford, please come along

www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...