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Rebecca Goldsmith

@beccagold.bsky.social

Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her

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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 3w ago

#SkyStorians do let colleagues who were recently made redundant or who recently finished their PhD and faced this mad vacuum of a job market know!

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027 The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians. The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline. This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public. The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship. In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so. The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors. Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

IHR-RHS DC Thomson Applied History Fellowships launch today. Scheme for UK-based recent post-1500 British or Irish History PhDs, providing a 6-month bursary of £12,250 to expand their career opportunities while applying their historical skills in a workplace. #Skystorians

Applied History Fellowships - Royal Historical Society

In November 2025, the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson launched a new Applied History Fellowship partnership to support recent post-doctorate h...

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David Klemperer@dmk1793.bsky.social · 3w ago

Extremely proud to have put together this issue of Renewal, which (in addition to containing the text of @yuanfenyang.bsky.social's brilliant Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture), explores the question of what and how social democrats should promote as our version of the good life

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.3 Ft. @beccagold.bsky.social, @alexkelbert.bsky.social, @joshwesterling.bsky.social, @annacmcshane.bsky.social, @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, @philipchristman.bsky.social, @mauricejcasey.com, and the text of @yuanfenyang.bsky.social's Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture

Rebecca Goldsmith@beccagold.bsky.social · 3w ago

Delighted to have contributed to the latest issue of Renewal. I’m in it discussing how children talk today, how that’s changed since the postwar period, and what that means for progressive politics.

Renewal@renewaljournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

FREE TO READ: @beccagold.bsky.social on the tendency of young people today to identify as ‘types’, and the need for social democracy to revive an alternative model of selfhood renewal.org.uk/articles/chi...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

Emily Robinson wins The Conversation Prize for writers 2026 for her entry on the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd

Emily Robinson from the University of Sussex and Alison Garden from Queen’s University Belfast are winner and runner up in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

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Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To mark Progressive Review's relaunch, we've put together a collection of the greatest hits from @ippr.org's various journals since 1994 - all free to read. Including Jürgen Habermas, Thomas Piketty, Helen Thompson, David Runciman, Will Davies & Jean Seaton. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Reinventing the Left Since 1994: The Best of New Economy, Public Policy Research, Juncture and Progressive Review: IPPR Progressive Review

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Saima Nasar@saimanasar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please join us in celebrating the Centre for Black Humanities’ tenth anniversary. CBH is holding a two-day symposium titled ‘Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. Our keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe. Cfp below. Please spread the word!

CALL FOR PAPERS Centre For Black Humanities 10th Anniversary Symposium: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’ Keynote Speaker: Professor Christina Sharpe 8-9 th April 2027 University of Bristol The Centre for Black Humanities is an interdisciplinary research collective dedicated to advancing scholarship on the artistic and intellectual contributions of people of African descent. It is inspired by and expands legacies of scholarship, art, and activism relating to Black lives across time and space. Building on our international and multilingual networks, and our home in the port city of Bristol, our research often engages with communities beyond traditional academic settings and addresses inequality and social justice through innovative collaborations. By centring an ethics of care and generosity, despite the chronic conditions of life in and beyond the academy, we support earlycareer scholars and visiting scholars/practitioners. In turn, we seek to interrogate and repurpose institutions of knowledge production such as universities, museums and publishing houses, within entangled contexts of reparative justice, decolonization, and the climate crisis. We imagine collectivity, community and collaboration as methods for Black Humanities research going forwards.To celebrate the Centre’s 10-year anniversary, we will be holding a two-day symposium entitled: ‘Black Humanities: Collectivity, Community, Collaboration’. The keynote will be Professor Christina Sharpe, Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University (Canada), and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) and Ordinary Notes (2024). We invite scholars and practitioners (at all levels, independent and affiliated) to submit abstracts for presentations of 15 minutes. The event will be held in person at the University of Bristol. We invite presentations that speak to Black Humanities in its multi/anti/undisciplinary forms. We are particularly interested in work that speaks to the following themes: - Collectivity, Collaboration and/or Community in Black Humanities - Black Humanities/Studies in times of polycrisis - Black Health - Environmental Justice - Radical Imaginaries (how creative works make sense of Black pasts/present and help to shape Black futures) - Methods for solidarity and/or incompleteness - Folklore and storytelling as method - Translation and multilingual solidarities - Beyond critique Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio of no more than 100 words, to cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk. Abstracts should be submitted no later than Friday 30th October 2026. A publication and podcast series are planned to follow on after this event. You may reach us at cbh-publicity@bristol.ac.uk in case of any questions or observations.
Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today on the substack, we have @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on anti-corruption politics. Many people discuss politics almost exclusively in terms of 'corruption'. Why do these feelings work in the radical right's favour, and how can progressives respond? progressivereview.substack.com/p/the-politi...

The politics of care and corruption

Keir Starmer paid lip service to the importance of cleaning up politics, but failed to understand the depth and meaning of the anti-politics sentiments. His successor has an opportunity to do better.

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Mass Observation Archive@massobsarchive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive! We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK. #Skystorians massobs.org.uk/write-for-th...

Write for the archive - Mass Observation Archive

Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees. They are not allowed to take their breaks there, or even sit in that area.' 1/2

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

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Modern British Studies Association@modbritstud.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're delighted to announce that Somak Biswas has won the MBSA Early Career Prize for best presentation at #MBS2026, for a paper entitled ‘AIDS & the Racialisation of Mobility: Britain, 1985-1995’. The judges also highly commended Rebecca Orr & Naomi Samake-Bäckert modbritstud.org.uk/events-awards/

Events & Prizes - The Modern British Studies Association

Explore our annual conference, prizes & early career awards. Join scholars sharing research on modern Britain.

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Nick Garland@npjgarland.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧵 Progressives need to think much more ambitiously about citizenship: it can't only be a debate about the "who" - the boundaries of citizenship. Our new @ippr.org report today makes the case for a new politics of "democratic citizenship": www.ippr.org/articles/the...

The democratic citizen: Renewing citizenship and the public domain | IPPR

Often, this descends into little more than an argument about eligibility for welfare benefits. This is a disaster for progressives, who find themselves fig

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