Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

My younger brother John died suddenly and unexpectedly last month. The sportiest person I know, John’s biggest love was cricket and @tranmererovers.bsky.social His friends are cycling to raise money for a memorial bench and Bowel CancerUK please donate if you can ❤️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £5000 to fund a memorial bench for John Wildman and donation to Bowel Cancer UK – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to fund a memorial bench for John Wildman and donation to Bowel Cancer UK. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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My younger brother John died suddenly and unexpectedly last month. The sportiest person I know, John’s biggest love was cricket and @tranmererovers.bsky.social His friends are cycling to raise money for a memorial bench and Bowel CancerUK please donate if you can ❤️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £5000 to fund a memorial bench for John Wildman and donation to Bowel Cancer UK – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to fund a memorial bench for John Wildman and donation to Bowel Cancer UK. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Megan McAuley @meganmcauley.bsky.social reviews 'Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935', by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social and Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935, by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss and Charlotte Wildman

Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss and Charlotte Wildman’s text is a significant contribution to the current historiography of child emigration initiatives from the

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Reposting this full-time permanent post in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. The deadline has been extended to 13 July (as below). The date has yet to update on jobs.ac.uk so please do share and spread the word. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester

Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Call for contributions - Decluttering: Past and Present Perspectives - please do get in touch if you would like to join us for our workshop at Royal Holloway in November …

Really pleased that my co-authored article with @ruthdav.bsky.social has just been published. We review the vast historiography of motherhood in modern Britain, and argue for the importance of motherhood (broadly defined) as a category of historical analysis: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I have a prize lecture about extinction this Thursday evening at the Royal Society. I’ll also receive a medal. Tickets are free and it will also be steamed on YouTube. Booking and watching details here: royalsociety.org/science-even...

Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar prize lecture: Hope in the shadow of unnatural extinctions | Royal Society

Join us for the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture delivered by 2025 winner Professor Sadiah Qureshi.

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What is history for? Join talks and workshops considering the ways in which Manchester’s past has been used to create stories about what Manchester is, who Mancunians are, and what a future Manchester might look like. Saturday 6 June, 10am-4pm. Booking required: https://ow.ly/TmtP50Z1wzQ

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

History and the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire – a statement from the Royal Historical Society - RHS

Even for those familiar with bleak times, this has been a particularly bad few weeks in UK higher education. Confirmed job losses at the University of Essex were followed by further bad news from Hert...

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Join Lewis Ryder for an introduction to his new book 'Connoisseurs and Conmen', with opening remarks from Dr Erica Baffelli. Meet John Hilditch, the working‑class collector and unlikely architect of the Whitworth’s 1911 Japanese art exhibition. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/conno...

New Associate Professor role in modern British History, just advertised here at Oxford. @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk @kelloggoxford.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

One more signature for the petition to save Humanities at Hertfordshire to hit 2,500! Please take a minute to sign and share. #UCU www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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I think also, which speaks to points @robfordmancs.bsky.social has made, don’t mistake volumes of Reform votes for depth of feeling or loyalty. A lot of people feel Reform as the current fuck you vehicle, but aren’t in love with it. The allegiance is shallow

Dylan Difford@dylandifford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not just is Burnham particularly popular among Labour voters, but in the North West as a whole his favourability ratings are 51% to 29%. Not just net positive, but clearly so. Very rare.

Next Friday, the Society's Council visits the University of Warwick to meet with historians from the region. The day ends with a public lecture by Prof Sasha Handley: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives' bit.ly/3Qv3n4X and followed by a reception. All are very welcome 1/2

As another Primrose Day comes to a close, I thought I'd share the promo code for a lovely 30% off The Disraeli Myth: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Thrilled to come back from hols to see this is out! The issue of welfare fraud is something I care deeply about and article on NI/ Nth Brit shows the application of anti-fraud policies varied regionally, impacting the most vulnerable women. Thanks to AHRC funding and to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social

Journal of British Studies@jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢New article in JBS! 📗"False Desertion and Fancy Men: Women and Welfare Fraud, 1945–70," by Charlotte Wildman Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

Listen! @christinegrandy.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about one of the books of the year “Race on Screen: Audience Racism in Twentieth-Century Britain” newbooksnetwork.com/race-on-screen

Next week: the latest in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2

It is good that Research England excluded open access for books from the 2029 REF, but the transition to longform open access publishing is suffering from gridlock. We have a new report out today arguing we need a national strategy before the next REF www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

Usage of higher education institutional repositories and “Green” open access for longform publications

This report provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of both qualitative and quantitative data concerning the deposit, discoverability, and use of longform open access (OA) materials in reposi...

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Last week we launched a new programme to help historians, resident outside the UK and Ireland, to undertake research in the UK. Closing date: Friday 8 May #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 4mo ago

We are pleased to launch today a new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK / Irish archives for our international historians. Deadline 8 May to enable research from summer 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Do you know of someone who might be interested in doing a #PhD on the urban, architectural and environmental history of the University of Liverpool? If so could you point them in my direction?

Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social

Take Your Research Public

Take Your Research Public is a free practical course aimed at academic researchers (from mid-PhD onwards) who want to develop writing for magazines, social media, podcasts, radio or the broad trade…

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Resharing this for any interested #skystorians and scholars in adjacent fields #EnvHums #EnvHist #CoastalHist #STS

Urban History@urbanhistory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In the latest Urban History interview, @erikahanna.bsky.social speaks to @samgrinsell.bsky.social about his recent article 'Urban History as Urgent Work'. It's an incredibly rich discussion of the intersection of urban history and environmental history, and how we do and communicate our research

As a historian of C18th northern England who recently published a social history of religion in northern towns I obviously had to see the Testament of Ann Lee, about the leader of a group popularly known as the Shakers, who originated in Manchester. It was *quite strange* THREAD

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...