Yesterday the Society visited historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield in the first RHS visit of 2026 bit.ly/4aAw9HH. Many thanks to our hosts and to Prof David Stack (Reading) for his excellent guest lecture: ‘History and Well-being: a Historian’s Perspective’.

Society visits historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield - RHS

On 18 February, members of the Society’s Council visited historians at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield in the first in the 2026 programme of visits to universities across t...

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Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A

This talk is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.

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Video now available of the Manchester book launch for my new book Vanished. A huge thanks to @mcrhistories.bsky.social for hosting the event, and @davidolusoga.bsky.social for being such a generous interlocutor. #skystorians #extinction #HPS #STS #HistSci www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfPF...

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. Sadiah Qureshi in Conversation with David Olusoga.

YouTube video by Manchester Histories

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So I guess today's the day to remind anyone interested in the history of Kew's Palm House to take a look at my book, Palace of Palms! bsky.app/profile/rbgk... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kew Garden: Palm House set for major renovation

The 175-year-old glass house will begin a £50m renovation in 2027.

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My first few author copies have arrived 📚 ✨ 📖 feeling completely overwhelmed. You can pre-order your copy here: www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Join us next Wednesday 28 May, in person at the IHR and online (17:30-19:30) to hear Annabelle Gilmore’s (Birmingham) paper “‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park” @ihr.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/events/i-sha...

‘I shall describe no more’: Reconnecting Black Histories to the Beckford Collection at Charlecote Park

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That the placards held by these presumably cis-women protesters seeking to deny trans women rights read ‘adult human female’, ‘large gametes’, and ‘biological fact’ encapsulates the biological essentialism, reductionism, and determinism at the heart of their definition of who counts as a woman.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

UK supreme court to rule on legal definition of a woman

This thread, and this point in particular, is important. I refused to travel to the USA when the ‘Muslim ban’ was in place and missed out on doing lots of events. Only one person acknowledged that’s they would make a note of saying I was unable to contribute for this reason when publishing.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last yr.

It's notable that these topics always become shocking for academia when it's white academics from the Global North who are impacted. But if you work in the UK, there are people at your university who cannot travel to archives or conferences because of their immigration status! For sure!

My paperback out 1 May. Heartfelt & compassionate walks through rural Britain and its hidden history of empire.

Come do a fully-funded PhD with me! The 4-year scholarship is open to all UK, EU and international students. Very happy to answer any questions, do share with your students and colleagues.

Edinburgh College of Art@edincollegeofart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Applications are now open for a new fully-funded AHRC collaborative PhD with ECA Lecturer in History of Art Dr @carolinemccaff.bsky.social on Dr J. W. L. Glaisher’s ceramics collection at @fitzmuseum.bsky.social. Deadline: 9 May 2025 - find out more: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/...

Wonderful images of the letters to accompany the article! Thanks @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social ⬇️

Salvation Army International Heritage Centre@salvarmyarchive.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brilliant to see this article by @ellencssmith.bsky.social in print. Ellen used some of the letters we hold from Wilhelmina Murray written during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. One of our lesser-known collections!

Oxford! an event on colonial statues and contested heritage, April 9 - couldn't have picked a more suitable town for it - www.stx.ox.ac.uk/event/contes...

Contested Heritage: A Discussion

This discussion brings together experts from a variety of heritage-related sectors, to discuss how these developments have shaped their own work and vision.

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This is a brilliant book. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the relationships between colonial history and the history of science.

Sadiah Qureshi 🦈@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 2y ago

T-80 days, but roaring and ready to land! A huge thanks to some truly roarsome peeps for reading and sharing their kind words: @davidolusoga.bsky.social @hjm.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social Please do share. Info & preorder links @ www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254...

I am so bad at social media these days unless it’s being extremely mad at our government on a certain image based platform, but for some reason I’ve had loads of new followers here. I’ve been really occupied working towards our show, Design and Disability, tickets were released earlier this month.

Design and Disability - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Showcasing the radical contributors of disabled, Deaf, and neurodiverse people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now

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These data essays were an output of the AHRC @ukri.org funded project 'Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950'. We did archival research. We did public engagement. We made linked data. We wrote things. See beyondnotability.org for more info.

James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Aren't they pretty 🤩 But more seriously, deciding to write interactive data essays (rather than a standard paper) made the last few months of @beyondnotables.bsky.social a blast. And even better I got to work on them with @sharonhoward.bsky.social.

No better time than International Women’s Day to announce my new book THE PAINTER’S FIRE, a transatlantic revolutionary history written for a popular audience (July release)! It features some amazing historical women, like poet Phillis Wheatley (who inspired the title).

Our collections aren't just about Derbyshire. Take a look at our new guide to records of #BritishEmpire and #Colonialism - it took us a long time to compile because we hold so much material: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/a... #ExploreYourArchive #History

A guide to records of British Empire and colonialism at Derbyshire Record Office

This guide explores the records in our collections that tell the story of the British Empire and its colonies. The beginning of the British Empire is often dated to 1583, when the first attempt was…

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Big business are becoming smaller business in Sheffield as visa restrictions and hostile environments bite, and international student numbers drop (25% over 3 years at University of Sheffield and 36% at Sheffield Hallam). 1/2

Sheffield international students fall a 'worrying trend', say firms

Sheffield Hallam sees a 36% drop in international student numbers over three years.

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Finally topped 150,000 downloads from open access East India Company at Home volume, 7 years after publication. Esp. pleased to see Indian downloads at the top of the table. A collaborative co-edited, co-produced book: a dialogue of academic & non-academic researchers. 1/2@uclpress.bsky.social

I’m hosting a day of lectures, discussion & support for people in the educational, heritage or cultural sectors involved in educating about slavery, colonialism & Empire, or anyone else who wants hear about the scholarship. Sat 21 June, Sussex. Book here: onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

I’m delighted to share that the Art Institute of Chicago has today returned a sacred sculpture - Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda - to the Government of Nepal: chicago.suntimes.com/art/2025/03/...

4 days to go! 📢 If you have something to say about imperial collecting, frontier warfare, statesmanship or any of the other themes listed on our CFP, we want to hear from you! We're looking for 20-30 minute research papers and 10 minute context talks. Send us an abstract by Friday to be considered!

📣 Final call for abstracts for this exciting workshop! 📣 We want to hear from people with a wide range of expertise so please share widely. See the CFP for further details - closing this Friday. Feel free to contact me or @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social or send us an email if you have any questions!

Curzon, Contacts & Contexts@curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social · 2y ago

4 days to go! 📢 If you have something to say about imperial collecting, frontier warfare, statesmanship or any of the other themes listed on our CFP, we want to hear from you! We're looking for 20-30 minute research papers and 10 minute context talks. Send us an abstract by Friday to be considered!

If you are a PhD Student at an LAHP university, Kings College London, LSE, Queen Mary, SOAS, UCL, RCM, RCA, RCSd.. you can apply to come and work with me! www.lahp.ac.uk/collaboratio...

#provenance job at Nottingham in support of the project "Mapping the Indigenous North American Collection of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries."

Museum Ethnographers Group@musethnogroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

They will work closely with project researchers and on-site with the museum curator to support the identification and provenance of collection materials and create an updated digital archive of the Indigenous North American collection.

Really nice intro to thinking through accessing museum data and images- looking forward to digging into the whole volume

Open Library of Humanities@openlibhums.org · 2y ago

Published today! Read the introduction to the #OLHJournal special collection "Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery" guest-edited by Angela Dressen: doi.org/10.16995/olh...

It's a real honour to be series co-editor for Manchester University Press' longstanding Studies in Imperialism. Here's the book published last year.