If you're after some morning listening, I joined 'AntiSocial' on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the history of overseas workers in the NHS: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, Foreign workers in the NHS

Do we need more British-born doctors and nurses?

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If you're after some morning listening, I joined 'AntiSocial' on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the history of overseas workers in the NHS: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - AntiSocial, Foreign workers in the NHS

Do we need more British-born doctors and nurses?

bbc.co.uk

We are really looking forward to bringing together those working on environment and the global reformations - send in your abstracts!! 🌿✝️🍃🌍

Nicole Maceira Cumming@nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

Congratulations to all the @orwellprize.bsky.social winners last night: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f... It was a lovely (air-conditioned) evening and wonderful to be considered alongside important work in the homelessness prize.

For @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, I reviewed 'England's Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s' by David Matless: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Making the final preparations for our one day conference on coal communities, health and welfare! ⛏️ 75 delegates booked in but we could take a couple more! Contact us if you fancy joining this great line up of speakers from academia, heritage organisations, community and campaign groups on 18 June

It's an honour to be shortlisted for an Orwell Prize for my article in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social last year about my own experiences of homelessness. Thanks to @orwellprize.bsky.social and @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social You can read the piece here: www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Reminder that the deadline to submit a proposal for Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' is 15th May - details below:

Andrew Seaton@andrewseaton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.

This is exciting to see! #Envhist was only just beginning to appear at Cambridge when I was a grad student there in the late 2000s, although (as the organizers note) British historians have long thought about human-environment relations in other guises (landscape/economic history, hist. geography).

Max Long@maxlong.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

Max Long@maxlong.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

Can't wait to read and teach this - Alma Igra's forthcoming book The Lion's Share on how science of nutrition emerged out of turn-of-the-century British imperial management. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#DidYouKnow Britain recruited thousands of nurses from the Commonwealth after WWII? In the 2024 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution’, Andrew Seaton brings together an engaging account of the institution. ⬇️ bit.ly/4kU2gXz

Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution- The Wolfson History Prize

Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, Our NHS is an engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival – and the people who have kept it running.

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We are pleased to be supporting the "Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'" worshop at Lincoln College, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) on 16 - 17 September 2026 See call for papers (closes 15 May 2026) below: pastandpresent.org.uk/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers: "Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'" - Past and Present

Received from Dr. Max Long (Lincoln College, University of Oxford) and Dr. Andrew Seaton (University of Manchester) Modern British History and the ‘Environmental Turn Taking place: Lincoln College, Ox...

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@newcastleuni.bsky.social will be hosting the British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research conference on 7-8 May. Tickets (no charge) for the event go live today at 9am. We have an excellent programme of speakers. Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk @sslh.bsky.social @ialhi.bsky.social

On Thursday I will be chairing our online session on writing history aimed at a wider audience with guests Elliot Prior and Sabhbh Curran from Curtis Brown Literary Agency. All welcome - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

How to Reach a Broader Audience: An Introduction to Non-Fiction Trade Publishing in 2026

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If you're a PhD candidate or a recently graduated PhD and you work on neoliberalism, this is a great opportunity for funding and networking:

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 5mo ago

VERY happy to announce a renewal of our summer grant program for PhD students and freshly minted PhDs. Hearing about people's research is my favorite part of our @hpe-project.bsky.social so please apply! www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp?s...

A review in the new @litreview.bsky.social of Marianna Dudley's excellent book on wind power: literaryreview.co.uk/blowing-in-t...

Andrew Seaton - Blowing in the Wind

Andrew Seaton: Blowing in the Wind - Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley

literaryreview.co.uk

How did people talk about the earth's holistic ecology before the Gaia thesis? Minji Lee #Hildegard expert @archumanities.bsky.social + François Quiviger @warburginstitute.bsky.social & editor of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social's #Renaissance Lives series talk #ecology & the #Anthropocene, Weds 3pm GMT👇

UCL Anthropocene@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This Thursday (18 Mar): Dive into Holistic Ecologies Before Modernity with Minji Lee (Montclair State) & François Quiviger (Warburg Institute). Join us online! Registration is free but essential, book your spot here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holistic-e...

Paul R. Ehrlich died yesterday. He was a biologist who influenced the western environmental movement during the 60s and 70s with deeply controversial warnings about 'overpopulation' and resource scarcity. Ehrlich thought Britain wouldn't make it to the year 2000 due to population pressures

I learned to love cinema at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford as an undergrad. It's been around since 1911, and is now a fantastic community-owned venue. But it's at risk of development by Oriel College. This would be a terrible loss for independent cinema. Save the UPP! c.org/TpFdQMnhRN

Sign the Petition

Save the Ultimate Picture Palace

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A review in the new @litreview.bsky.social of Marianna Dudley's excellent book on wind power: literaryreview.co.uk/blowing-in-t...

Andrew Seaton - Blowing in the Wind

Andrew Seaton: Blowing in the Wind - Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley

literaryreview.co.uk

We'll have a great discussion Wed 4 March 1500 GMT with @mohamedamermeziane.bsky.social & Melissa Leach + James Fairhead on other worlds' & the nonhuman re their books @versobooks.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social. All @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social + @uclhistory.bsky.social #Anthropocene

UCL Anthropocene@anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited for “Apprehending Other Worlds” : a free online seminar by UCL Anthropocene on 4 Mar, 3–5 pm GMT exploring life beyond the human with leading thinkers. Register on Eventbrite! 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982671184... #Anthropocene #UCL #OnlineEvent #EnvironmentalHumanities #MoreThanHuman

I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!

LGBTQ+ History Month: 'Scottish trans pasts, useable and otherwise?' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology

Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland.

hca.ed.ac.uk

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.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum

On 12 Feb, I'll be speaking at UCL's new Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain on 'Looking at Britain through Health and Health Care: Changes and Challenges'. We'll be covering history, policy, and discrimination in medical education. Sign-up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-at...

Looking at Britain through health and healthcare: changes and challenges

A Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain round table discussion on the state of health and healthcare in Britain.

eventbrite.co.uk

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Light & Dark. We have chosen Two Miners Drilling by Graham Sutherland, sketched in a Welsh coalmine (1942) as a War Artist. Ink & red crayon heighten the miners’ monumental forms and the rock’s looming threat.

Insightful analysis of the challenges facing recent graduates told from the perspective of one my former students when I was at UCL (who was brilliant). Link free to read for first three people: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The great graduate job drought

Economic uncertainty and the arrival of AI have brought a reduction in entry-level roles, with potentially disastrous consequences for young people

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Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...

Great opportunities for fully-funded PhDs in history of science and/or technology in London, for candidates from anywhere in the world.

King's CHoSTM@kingschostm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at @kingshistory.bsky.social is inviting applications for prospective students to pursue a PhD in the History of Science and Technology. For more information, click here: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py