Most of this year's journal is open-access, and it's full of new research on one of the biggest industrial disputes of the 19th century, the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-54 -- inspiration for Dickens's Hard Times & Gaskell's North and South.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/transact...
A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.
'A new landmark book celebrating Māori art has clocked up a couple of impressive firsts: not only is it the most comprehensive account of creative work by Indigenous New Zealanders ever published, it is also the first wide-ranging art history written entirely by Māori scholars.'
Oil painting of Marie-Adélaïde on a sofa.
■ Marie-Adélaïde, Daughter of King Louis XV of France, in Ottoman Turkish Costume (France), 1753 #history #frenchhistory #1750s #18thcentury #portrait
Call for submissions now open for the EAJS conference grant programme
Apply for up to £ 9,500 for your conference/workshop/summerschool on a topic from the whole range of Jewish Studies
Deadline 20 March 2025
www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...
A comic-strip's-eye-view of Operation Barbarossa - such a good theme (and much more important than it might seem at first glance)
My review of Ivan G. Marcus, How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500. in H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. December, 2024. www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Watch Rashid Khalidi speaking at our student-led conference on Palestine & the Palestinians ABT six weeks before 7 Oct 2023. youtu.be/6df_WGG1I64?...
'Racism is being ignored by historians-Orwell on the BBC'
Prof James Renton, Director of our International Centre on Racism
youtu.be/KBivE7NL0jA?...
PhD funding! Check out our new GTA/PhD job advert. Fields include: relational racism studies; the medieval Irish Sea, with Cardiff University; British politics & policymaking; History & cultural heritage. Deadline in Jan.
www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/...
Another late 19th-century ballet costume design. This time: a sweet chestnut (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)
'The show, which opens on 3 December and is called Picturing Excess, places the work in a historical context of rapid European expansion around the world, when the wealthy would flaunt their riches via the ostentatious displays painted by De Heem.'
Medieval England was a diverse place - multilingual, in fact. Check out Dr Lindy Brady's important book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Great to see such a positive review of History Education and Historical Inquiry (2024) in the Teachers College Record. The book was a labour of love by many hand. Great to see the results so positively appreciated in a leading journal in the international educational community, therefore. 1/2
Newcomer! The International Society for Intellectual History is now here - welcome @isih-blueskye.bsky.social!
At University College London, which is one of the partners in our new consortium on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia as a connected issue in the context of Palestine/Israel.
My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣New HJ blog!✨
Harry Spillane (@camhistory.bsky.social) asks: how did Elizabethans deal with the co-existence of multiple translations of the Bible?
#Bible #Protestant #Christianity #Language 16thc 📜📘🗃️
👉Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
📣Out now on #firstview!
Andrej Kotliartchouk (Uppsala University) on 'Understanding Stalin’s Terror against Western Minorities: The National Operations of the NKVD in Contemporary Academic Research'
#Review #Russia #Europe #Archives 📜🗃️ 20thc
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣Out now on #firstview!
Eve Pennington (The University of Manchester) on 'Gender, Paid Employment, and Deindustrialization in New Towns in North-West England, c. 1970–1990s'
#Economic #OralHistory #Urban #Work 👩🏭🏭🗃️ 20thc
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣New HJ blog!✨
Rosalind Moran explores Francesca Fuoli's (University of Bern) recent article on the role of banditry in pre-modern societies
#Sovereignty #History #Society #Money 💰🗃️ 19thc 18thc 17thc 16thc 15thc
👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
#skystorians 🗃️
Edge Hill - winter wonderland
So what is the best way to 'bookmark' posts here?
Apart from liking them, has anyone got a good mechanism to store good posts and links?
Any help fellow #academics?
Black and white photograph from the end of the c19th. A group of 7 women stand and sit in front of Georgian house. A women holds a dog up in the left hand window.
Hello 👋 new followers! Just to introduce myself
I’m a #skyhistorian researching the British Settlement movement. My book centres their houses & homemaking practices in urban w/c neighbourhoods. Currently writing chapter in rooms. I’ve also written on cross-class friendship in letters &photos. 1/
Painting of a town featuring a central church next to smoking factory chimneys
Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
Cover of the book Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies featuring an abstract piece of art by Kasimir Malevich
"Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and Its Legacies" is now available electronically from OUP and the hardback should be out on December 19! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Here is a thread on what we have put together:
Reaching a global readership beyond the ivory tower. What's not to like? #OpenAccess
Interesting suggestions for #AcademicSky #PhDSky
