Congrats to Lydia and Megan, who have a cool new collection out on teaching American Studies in Britain with @edinburghup.bsky.social. I have an chapter on spatial literacy and disciplinary identity, lots of other great contributions too! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-teachin...

Teaching American Studies in Britain

Teaching American Studies in Britain

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Had a blast talking with @thisistheheff.bsky.social about the Beatles in America for his fab America: The Story of the USA podcast, produced with support from @officialbaas.bsky.social. Have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

How Did the Beatles Conquer America?

Podcast Episode · America: The Story of the USA · 28 July · 53min

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The story everyone needs ahead of Norway vs England…blood, football, and Scandinavian Studies… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘We know fans bleed for the jersey’: how Norway used fierce football rivalries to get more blood donors

When the Norwegian Red Cross desperately needed to find more donors, it decided to harness the competitive nature of football fans

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BOB STANLEY - THE SHADOWS: THE DEFINITIVE STORY The definitive biography of how a group of working-class boys from Newcastle and London became the biggest band in the UK "The chronology should read Shadows, Beatles, Sex Pistols - they were that important" @rockingbob.bsky.social tr.ee/rSilFTJwfO

Only a week until @heatonstan.bsky.social defend their Northumberland Senior Cup title at St James’ Park. A good time to read Katie Lauren Ward’s article on The Stan (with fab photos by the legendary @stansnaps.bsky.social) in the latest issue of The Final Whistle. Free at: issuu.com/sjc_preview/...

Who said history wasn’t relevant to today? ‘How to historicise the contemporary US’ with @aipsmith.bsky.social & ‘Executive in action - US Presidents and the Civil Rights movement’ with @brian222ward.bsky.social Both at HA conf in 5 weeks- booking is open to all. www.history.org.uk/aboutus/cate...

At the @officialbaas.bsky.social Conference in Glasgow, you can sign up to a one-on-one chat with top academic editors to discuss your ideas for articles and monographs! We've got editors from @edinburghup.bsky.social, @manchesterup.bsky.social and the Journal of American Studies!

We're spotlighting our #AmericanStudies titles this week. Check out our new Reading List, and find out how to get 30% off book orders, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03... Attending #BAAS2026 this week? Look out for @mlhouston.bsky.social on the MUP stand! @officialbaas.bsky.social

PLEASE SHARE! @ucu.org.uk As it says @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are always happy to talk - our door is open to management @northumbriauni.bsky.social . But members will never, ever accept pay and pension injustice! www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Northumbria University staff announce 10 more days of strikes in pensions row

UCU members at Northumbria University have confirmed that they will take another 10 days of strike action, as a dispute over an alleged 'pension grab' continues

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✊✊👉@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social are back on strike next week, all week. No-one wants to be, and no-one is asking for more than keeping what we have. For our communities, colleagues, and students, we will never accept the pay and pension injustice planned by management at @northumbriauni.bsky.social

What do Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the 19th-century Divorce Court have in common? Murder, of course. I chatted with @cacrampton.bsky.social on the Shedunnit podcast about how divorce law shaped golden age detective fiction 🔍 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #LegalHistory #DivorceHistory

Shedunnit - The Decree Absolute - BBC Sounds

The fascinating history of divorce in detective fiction.

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We're really trying to avoid more industrial action here, folks...! @tucneyh.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social

Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social have made further counter-proposals to resolve the dispute and ensure pay and pension justice @northumbriauni.bsky.social, based on management's latest figures. See what you think @andylong6.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social?: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/324-add...

This is what it is all about. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

University lecturers begin strike action amid bitter row over 'raid' on pensions

UCU members at Northumbria University are planning 10 days of strike action after bosses told staff to switch to a different pension scheme in an effort to save £11 million per year

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@ucu.org.uk @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @theguardian.com @danhollandnews.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @andylong6.bsky.social

Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THIS IS WHAT A UNION LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT LOOKS LIKE. IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL!

From "Manifest Destiny" to fantasies of annexing Greenland... The next session of America Now! examines the American Empire in a discussion between Dr Will Norman, Dr Adam Burns, & Dr Hilary Emmett, chaired by Dr Mike Collins. Thursday 29th January at 6:30pm at the British Library

America Now! American Empire - Past, Present and Future Eliot Room, Knowledge Centre, British Library, London (Thursday 29th Jan 18.30) - British Association for American Studies

The event is part of 'America Now!', a series of live events exploring the current state of the USA and its place in the world. In a world of hot takes these discussions offer some much-needed deep…

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#academicsky drop everything and read this

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

When Martin Luther King Came To Toon open.substack.com/pub/perryeye...

When Martin Luther King Came to Toon

North East stories of civil rights, abolitionism, remaining silent, singing & supping tea.

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The former Guardian journalist Richard Gott died over the weekend. One of our past PhD students, Dr Sophie Roberts, is the author an article on his anti-Vietnam War independent candidacy in the 1966 Hull North by-election in Contemporary British History. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/1361...

The campaign of the ‘red-bearded radical’: Richard Gott and the Hull North by-election, 1966

This article explores Richard Gott’s candidacy in the 1966 by-election at Hull North. Gott stood on a platform emphasising anti-nuclear and anti-militarist concerns, and crucially, vehement opposit...

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The new episode of Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast is live! In this episode we take a look at the unusual but enormous success two 19th century Irish emigrants had in creating and building, of all things, a billiards empire: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...

Phelan & Collender: The Irishmen Who Built an American Billiards Empire | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast

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Delighted to see my open access article on Modjeska Simkins and Black Female Leadership appear in a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice honouring Richard H. King - a fine historian and wonderful man. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Modjeska Monteith Simkins and black female leadership: propriety, politics, place and periodization in the African American freedom struggle

Modjeska Monteith Simkins was one of the most significant voices in the struggle for African American rights in South Carolina during the twentieth century. For a decade, starting in the mid-1960s,...

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One week until I get to speak with @ianleslie.bsky.social about his fabulous book, John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs, as part of the Durham Book Festival. 6.30pm on Friday October 10 at the Gala. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. More details: galadurham.co.uk/galapost/ian...

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social! uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

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The Northumbria History Society is recruiting new members for the year ahead! Find their stall in the city campus Students' Union (in Escape).

This was a lot of fun. Thanks to @newwritingnorth.bsky.social, the Tyneside Cinema, an engaged audience, and the inimitable @stuartmaconie.bsky.social for a terrific event on July 15, discussing Stuart’s latest @harpercollins.bsky.social book: With A Little Help From Their Friends.

WE ARE HIRING @edgehist.bsky.social!!! For a PERMANENT American historian (broadly defined). Quite a tight turnaround (institutional processes) but no internal candidate/nefarious intent. GORGEOUS campus, lovely team, amazing students. APPLY! #skystorians 🗃️ jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in American History, you will be required to make a significant contributio...

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We’re advertising for a 12 month teaching post in 20th Century US History. Deadline 28/7 (a short turn around because we need to interview in mid-August). We’re a great, collegial and fun US history community. Happy to answer any and all questions about the role, and the RAI Bake Off.

Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!

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women's franchise in the UK. My work examines the largest suffrage organisation, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who are rarely mentioned or represented in these contexts. There is so much more to do to shift wider understanding from this one dimensional militant-only perspective.

Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)

Welsh group makes 264 sashes for female MPs to mark women's vote

Each MP received a sash to mark 97 years of women being given the right to vote.

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10 days to go before I’ll be at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle discussing this fab new book on the Beatles with author-broadcaster #StuartMaconie. The event includes a book signing and a screening of the biopic Nowhere Boy. Tickets: tynesidecinema.co.uk/book-online/...

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...