Congratulations to my colleague @tomcutterham.bsky.social. Just look at the reviews! The American Revolution from below. Very excited to read this.

Tom Cutterham@tomcutterham.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's official publication day for *Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class*! 🔥 You can find it right on the front page of the @versobooks.bsky.social website, and yes, it is part of the summer sale. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Thrilled to be keynote @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social 20th anniversary conference on ‘Embodied Histories’ this Friday 17th July. I’m excited to learn from all those speaking. @ihr.bsky.social

HistoryLab 20th Anniversary Annual Conference

Embodied Histories: Body, Mind, and Experience |17th July 2026 | University of Birmingham, Staff House

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Book your place: ‘The Crisis in UK HE: The Future for History! 4 August 2pm online @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social

The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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Qu 9 in the Survey asks: 'How well has your course developed your knowledge and skills that you think you will need for your future?' History again scores well here. It's within +/- 2% of responses for degrees in subjects often considered more vocational. See Chart 4: bit.ly/4eOf2FO #Skystorians

NEW from me... On 25 Sept I'll be giving a @royalhistsoc.org public lecture at the Institute of Historical Research in London. It'll be about rights of way and access to the countryside since the 1940s - all welcome, do come and have a listen! Booking below. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Action Alert: The federal government has proposed changes to research grant rules that could weaken independent peer review, make awarded grants less secure, and discourage international scholarly collaboration. Submit a public comment by July 13. 🧵

Action Alert: Protect Independent Historical Research - AHA

The federal government is proposing sweeping changes to the way research grants are awarded and managed. If adopted, these changes would mandate greater political involvement in funding decisions, wea...

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The case of Mary Toft’s monstrous births have attracted artistic, scientific and political reinventions since they began almost 300 years ago. This is a fascinating new account of a 20th doctor trying to make sense of the case!

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 4w ago

Why was a twentieth-century doctor deeply involved in the radical birth control movement so interested in an eighteenth-century reproductive scandal? @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social explores an unlikely connection between doctor Edward Griffith and the Mary Toft affair.

North American scholars come and work at Birmingham for a month. Deadline 15 November! #nacbs www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...

I'm very proud of this work and hope that through the pamphlet and an upcoming CPD session in February, we will continue to support teachers to try this place-based approach in their classrooms: literacytrust.org.uk/communities/... (3/3)

Place-themed literacy: a free CPD series and pamphlet | National Literacy Trust

Join us for a series of monthly, free teacher CPD workshops exploring how tailoring and theming literacy activities around your local area can increase engagement amongst your secondary school student...

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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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OTD in 1714, Queen Anne, the last Stuart ruler of England, died at age 49. In an article from our archive, Karen Harvey ‪(@kharveyhistory.bsky.social) considers the role of women's bodies in Queen Anne's court, drawing from the historical film, The Favourite (2018). www.historyworkshop....

The Favourite, Mary Toft the Rabbit Breeder, and Women's Bodies

Historian Karen Harvey on the hidden symbolism of rabbits and women's bodies in The Favourite, and the real-life case of eighteenth-century mother Mary Toft.

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Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for a brilliant #SHSConf2025. Outstanding papers, ran like a well-oiled machine in a terrific venue. And I got to give the keynote in a swimming pool!

Keynote written. On my way to the #SHSConf2025. Excited to hear so many great-looking papers. (And to eat Black Country fish n chips)

Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

We can't wait to welcome all our attendees at #SHSConf2025 (this is our official hashtag for the event, please feel free to use it when posting!) ⏰Registration starts from 12pm on Monday 7 July 🕐AGM is at 4.15pm on Tuesday 8 July ⏲️Conference ends 5pm Wednesday 9 July

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Modern History post @ Lancaster! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG822/l...

Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship) at Lancaster University

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in Modern History (Teaching and Scholarship) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Looking forward to being back at CECS York with this new work!

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social · last yr.

Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’. 📍 KG/07 More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). ‪ doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181

This week we also opened booking for our 2025 Prothero Lecture, on 2 July, with Professor Peter Gatrell. Peter will speak on 'Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective' and reflect on a career dedicated to refugee and migration history bit.ly/44Q4MYT All are very welcome #skystorians

Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective

Professor Peter Gatrell delivers the 2025 Royal Historical Society Prothero Lecture, followed by the Society's annual summer party.

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Our 20th anniversary of c18th studies at Birmingham. Do join us!

Tom Cutterham@tomcutterham.bsky.social · last yr.

The Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre is holding a small conference to mark our twentieth anniversary. It's on the 26 and 27 June, and Linda Colley will be there (as will brilliant Birmingham colleagues like Karen Harvey, Kate Smith, and Hiroki Shin). Join us! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!

Holly Fletcher@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · last yr.

After a brief hiatus, 'New Directions in the History of the Body' is back! For this interview, I spoke to Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social about embodiment and the material turn, collaborative working practices, social bodies and much more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Our transcribathon generated 122 submissions. Thank you! Your transcriptions will be used by researchers and school children, adults learners, older people and archive users who we work with in our engagement projects. Special thanks to @earlymodernemma.bsky.social for such a superb day!

Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social · last yr.

This is tomorrow! We can't wait to see you and read your transcriptions. There's still time to sign up if you're interested - see below 👇 If you've already registered, you should have received an email with information about the day. If not, just give us a shout here! ✍️📝🔍

We've reached over 100 submissions so far today! I'm stunned by this response. Thanks to our brilliant letter transcribers in Canada, Romania, Dubai, as well as closer to the @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Warwick, Sutton Coldfield and Edgbaston

Professor Karen Harvey@kharveyhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!

Very excited for our day-long transcribathon event today!

Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social · last yr.

This is tomorrow! We can't wait to see you and read your transcriptions. There's still time to sign up if you're interested - see below 👇 If you've already registered, you should have received an email with information about the day. If not, just give us a shout here! ✍️📝🔍

For World Health Day this year, WHO are launching a campaign on maternal and newborn health. #HealthforAll From the archive, here are just some of our radical archives on histories of maternal healthcare, parenthood and family planning (we have a whole category on health too!): ✊🗃

'Material masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England' is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social today! A book on the materiality of men's lives 1660-1832 covering the significant changes in what it meant to be a man & what it meant to own 'things' during the time. Thanks to follow below:

📢 Exciting news to end the week - we are hosting an online transcribathon on Friday 25th April! All are welcome to transcribe fascinating C18th letters. Zoom rooms will also be open for sharing tips, questions and interesting finds. Please share and join us! 📝 transcribathon.eventbrite.com

A reminder that tomorrow, Friday 6 Dec, is the closing date for two of our open calls for Research Funding: - Postgraduate Research Support Grants - Early Career Research Support Grants Both offering £500 or £1000 for research. Further details of these and other RHS funding calls bit.ly/3ZnsQhv

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise quality historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or article: bit.ly/4i9180F Closing date 31 January.

Honoured to be the keynote for the SHS Annual Conference in July 2025!

Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...