🚨WHN Annual Conference: See the full programme! Join us for a very special conference year celebrating the centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 years of women's history. Thu 3 Sep - Fri 4 Sep 2026. For more details and to book womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... @lselibrary.bsky.social

WHN Annual Conference: Registrations now open!

The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Fr…

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My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

This week from me: news of my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and access to the land in England and Wales. It's at the Institute of Historical Research in London on 25 September... Come along! It's free and it'll likely be cooler then! 😂👇 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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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History Open, online meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline in a time of crisis. 2-4pm BST, Tuesday 4 August 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

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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Fenian Summer continues!☀️ Mo mhíle buíochas le Jim Carroll and the folks at @RTEBrainstorm for the opportunity to write a bit about the roots of Irish-Cuban solidarity

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A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution. When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island, explains @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...

1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

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Why Manchesterism is a politics of land: new blog by me Andy Burnham's 'place first' philosophy opens up questions of land ownership & access - from his support for public ownership & land value tax, to Manchester's history of pioneering the right to roam: righttoroam.substack.com/p/why-manche...

Why Manchesterism is a politics of land

Andy Burnham's 'place first' philosophy opens up questions of land ownership & access

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So this recording makes for an extremely sobering start to the Friday morning...

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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Absolute Units has returned! This time, we chat with Professor Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel (both @uniofreading.bsky.social) about how we can rethink and rebuild humanity's relationship with the natural world. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life

Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

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Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study - Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Members of @royalhistsoc.org currently writing a second or third monograph may be interested in our call for the 2026 Funded Book Workshops bit.ly/4uwep8C. Grants enable authors to hold a day workshop with specialist readers to discuss a manuscript in detail before submission. #Skystorians

Applications now invited for the Society's 2026 'Funded Book Workshops' for mid-career historians - RHS

The Society’s Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enab...

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Such a delight to read about two of my favourites topics (council housing and Norwich)

Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/ In Norwich, City Architect David Percival aimed 'not only to reflect the regional architectural tradition in housing schemes but to give individual character to each site' - a fine tradition upheld in the award-winning Goldsmith Street Scheme in 2019. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/norwich-co...

If you fancy a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of History at Warwick, do let me know!! 🗃️ Click on the link below to get all relevant details. 👇 👇 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW736/b...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 at University of Warwick

Searching for an academic job? Explore this British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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'Land Explorer' is a great, free tool for looking up maps of corporate-owned land in England & Wales. I use it a lot for research and investigations. The team behind it are crowdfunding to make it even better in future - if you can chip in, please do so here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/land-explo...

One step closer to an episode on the Diggers...

Cambridge University History Faculty@camhistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Clare Jackson, Hon Professor of Early Modern History @cam.ac.uk on BBCRadio4 InOurTime with @tmbejan.bsky.social & @tedvallance.bsky.social. They discuss the Levellers, political radicals who pioneered petitions and pamphlets to reimagine the English constitution. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Join us on Weds 1 July for the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture, given by Prof Rebecca Earle (Warwick) bit.ly/4eF0DMp, and followed by our summer party. Rebecca's lecture, ‘The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’, is open for booking. All welcome #Skystorians

Rebecca Earle to give the the Society's 2026 RHS Prothero Lecture - RHS

The Society’s 2026 Prothero Lecture will be given by Rebecca Earle FBA, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Warwick. Rebecca's lecture, which takes place at 6.00pm on Wednesday 1 Ju...

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The overall conclusion I am drawing from the replies is that we need Lifelong Learning and funding for adult education. Learning shouldn't stop at 16 or 18. All of which opportunities have diminished over the last 30 years.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The problem is – that isn’t the only thing people have demanded be added to the national curriculum. This happens all the time. What follows is the result of the most cursory Google News search..."

Terry Winters, Untitled, 1989 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1120646

Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules

Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules

Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London The bathing ponds at Hampstead Heath in north-west London will remain trans-inclusive after a public consultation overwhelmingly favoured its existing rules. There are gender-segregated ponds for men and women, with trans people able to swim in whichever they feel most appropriate, or use the heath’s mixed-gender pond instead. Continue reading...

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"Segregation of classes or income groups is a social evil which should be discouraged[...]We have much to learn from one another" Really enjoyed this on Norwich's social democratic vision for council housing (and bonus points for it being about the Finest city)

Municipal Dreams@municipaldreams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My latest Substack post looks at the over 7600 council homes built by Norwich City Council between the wars and the ideals of its early postwar planning. Part II on Thursday will describe the city's Golden Age of council housing ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/council-ho...

Day 2 of @modbritstud.bsky.social with @royalhistsoc.org (And we have more badges!)

If you’re at MBS in Birmingham this week, come stop by the @royalhistsoc.org booth and say hello to myself and @charlottecull.bsky.social 👋

Send us your abstracts before 26 June!

John-Erik Hansson@johnerik-h.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Together with Sarah Albientz, Claire Aniel-Buchheit, Thomas Beugniet, Thomas Caubet, Léo Grillet and Léo Laglenne, I'm putting together a conference on Anarchist Spaces from c. 1870 to today. The CFP is here: echelles.u-pariscite.fr/events/event... Abstracts expected by 26 June!

“Westminster needs to wake up…” An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

The programme for our 2026 conference is now live! 21 excellent papers on 'Vice, Corruption, and Decay'. See it here, including our keynote address and roundtable of academics: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... You can register via the link at the bottom of the page.

Join us at 1pm on Friday 12 June for 'Historical Context: Labour in Crisis': bit.ly/4ns6yGZ Specialist historians set our changing political landscape in historical context. With expert insight from @emilyrobinson.bsky.social, @lisebutler.bsky.social, @gsoh31.bsky.social and Rohan McWilliam 1/2

Sharing again my article on why 24 Hour Party People is the best film about history. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

History and the Notion of Authenticity in Control and 24 Hour Party People

In the last decade, two films about Joy Division and the Manchester music scene in the 1970s have been released, 24 Hour Party People and Control, but these films are dramatically different in thei...

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Come join us tomorrow to hear Charlotte's talk! It promises to be a wonderful evening.

Charlotte Cull@charlottecull.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm going to be talking about the 'revolutionary rural' and anarchist environmental ideas at the @ihr.bsky.social on Wednesday. Please come along if you're in London!

I'm going to be talking about the 'revolutionary rural' and anarchist environmental ideas at the @ihr.bsky.social on Wednesday. Please come along if you're in London!

History of Political Thought Graduate Conference@history-thought.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our summer programme begins next week! You can view the full list of seminars & sign up via the link below. We start with a talk on 'The Genesis of Toqueville's Historical Thought'. Hope to see you there!