🎓 OU PhD Student Lecture Series | 30 Apr–21 May 2026
Join a series of online talks from Open University PhD students.
Everyone is welcome—come learn something new and support our postgraduate researchers!
🖇️ fass.open.ac.uk/events/next-...
@shaftowheed.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social
📣New SHS PGR Work-in-Progress sessions launched by our PGR reps @louisebell.bsky.social & @aayushigupta.bsky.social!
Informal, supportive space to share research & test ideas. Open to all history PGRs & ECRs working in and around social history. More info here!
socialhistory.org.uk/2026/04/09/s...
Coming this August!
Military Welfare History since the Eighteenth Century: War and Welfare.
This is the second publication, and the first edited volume, from the Military Welfare History Network.
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
#milwelfhist #military #welfare
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social It is with great pleasure that we present a selection of recorded papers from our recent funded conference series. Listen to them here #milwelfhist #histmed
#military #welfare #benefits
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Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.
New 1926 General Strike map online!
Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.
Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
📣Public history prize now open!
👉Read here for more information: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/03/13/p...
📣 Save the date!
The next conference of the Society for the History of War will take place at the University of Limerick, Ireland 🇮🇪
🗓 26–27 November 2026
Historians of war, conflict, and violence - mark your calendars!!
📄 Call for Papers coming soon!
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.
Coming soon: the next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq
Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2
Now that only the final proofs/indexing remains, it is probably a good time to mention that my first book, Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain, is coming out in April (open access) with @uolpress.bsky.social as part of the @ihr.bsky.social / @royalhistsoc.org New Historical Perspectives series.
New call for book proposals 📚
The Boydell Studies in War and Military History series (Boydell & Brewer) is inviting proposals for monographs and edited volumes exploring warfare, armed forces, and military institutions across all periods and regions.
Details below. ⬇️
Ridings of yorkshire society call for papers. For a plaintext version please email ridingsofyorkshire@gmail.com
Don't forget that the Call for Papers for #ROYS26 is open!
Working on Yorkshire's past, any time period, any discipline? If so, please do send an abstract to ridingsofyorkshire@gmail.com.
Find out more: ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk/call-for-papers-2026/
#Skystorians #History #Culture #York
2026 MWHN Conference - call for papers!
Join us in Romania this June to discuss all things military welfare and civil society. Deadline: 14 March 2026.
CfP attached and full details at militarywelfarehistory.com/2026-confere... #milwelfhist #civilsociety #charity #philanthropy
This two-day workshop will explore several questions. How can environmental history complement or offer alternatives to existing historiographical narratives and periodisations in British history? What new actors, events, or phenomena might come to the fore? How should it foster engagements with places beyond its national borders or with other disciplines? Is environmental history different from longstanding traditions of ‘landscape’ or ‘urban’ histories of Britain? What contributions can historians make to environmental advocacy and policymaking? And how might a focus on the environment reshape teaching in British history? To take part, participants should submit a 300 word proposal for a short ‘position paper’ (approx. 2500 words) that will be pre-circulated at the workshop. These position papers will address the place of environmental approaches and themes within modern British history (1800 to the present) from the perspective of the participant’s own research. Participants will orally summarise their papers at the workshop. The event is free to attend and includes lunch and refreshments. Submissions are welcomed across a range of perspectives and topics, including but not limited to: energy, extraction, non-human actors, pollution, toxicity, rural and urban landscapes, everyday environmental histories (including how they are shaped by class, gender, and race), imperialism and decolonisation, ‘green’ policy, activism, and the political economy of the natural world. Please send proposals and a one-paragraph biography in a single PDF to andrew.seaton@manchester.ac.uk by 15 May 2026. Please also direct enquiries to this address. This event is organised by Dr. Max Long (Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (Manchester).
CALL FOR PAPERS - Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'.
A two-day workshop organised by @maxlong.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May.
Details in poster below, please share.
Come work with us!
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
genderinsight.eu
Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social
#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com
#histmed
Have you read one of our latest articles by Aleixa Moncrieff and Bart Ziino on 'Chronologies of Coping: Veterans, Experience and Resilience in Australia After the Great War'?
You can read it in full here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria
#histmed
📣3 days to go until the deadline - we can't wait to see you for our 50th anniversary in Lancaster!
Deadline 15 January 2026!
Special edition journal
Submit now!
The MWHN, in partnership with the JMVHR, will produce its second special issue. With the theme of 'Medical welfare and care of military communities: a collection of historical studies'. #histmed #histnursing #milwelfhist
As we welcome in the New Year 🎉 and things to look forward to in 2026……
A reminder of the deadline for proposals for #SSHM2026 (University of Leeds, 30 June- 3 July 2026)
Deadline for abstracts: 11 January
Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series. Join online (or on campus, at KU Leuven)
This series explores entangled relations between nature and health with perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability & colonial studies, & environmental humanities.
#histmed
CFP | Empires and War
Royal Military College of Canada & University College Dublin
📍 Newman House, UCD | 🗓️ 17–18 September 2026
Papers invited on imperial war from Antiquity onwards. Panel proposals welcome.
📝 Deadline: 15 March 2026
📩 Submissions to: Doug.Delaney@rmc.ca
Details below ⬇️
New bibliography entry: ‘All I have are fragments’: ephemera and cultural memory in contemporary historical fiction about the First World War ift.tt/rDyjwWn #FWWstudies
BTW some of you may know this but others won't. If you're in a place that's free WiFi is _TheCloud then it will give you unlimited credits to the BNA.
Key places are Wetherspoons (which is cheap and quiet during the day) and Cafe Nero (who don't do booze and whose coffee is good)
If you’re a #Humanities #ECR & in/willing to travel to York on 17 December, join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social team for our 2025 ‘Christmas Connections’ event, a FREE & informal opportunity to support each other, build professional connections, & sample the city’s heritage & eatables. 👇&🧵
This week we launched a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social and @chalkefestival.bsky.social
'Pitch my Project' is for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited. #Skystorians
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Friends! #Skystorians! Mancunians!
A small reminder that this FREE @historylabplus.bsky.social open mic event is just days away...
#AcademicSky
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
@drmichaelreeve.bsky.social
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Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for SHoW 2025! 🇩🇪
Great conversations and even better company. Our members are at the heart of SHoW, and it really showed this year.
Thank you to the ZMSBw and the University of Potsdam for their hospitality!
If you have photos, please DM them our way!📸