Just a month until our conference on Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence! We have an excellent programme and can't wait to meet you all. The conference is completely free, both in person and online. Do register if you're interested and please help us spread the word! forms.gle/faYxSdQSzxQ5...

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · yesterday

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our 2026 conference, Beyond the Battlefield, taking place at the University of Exeter on 1-3 September! See below for more details, and register to attend in person or online here: forms.gle/faYxSdQSzxQ5... Please help us spread the word!

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for our 2026 conference, Beyond the Battlefield, taking place at the University of Exeter on 1-3 September! See below for more details, and register to attend in person or online here: forms.gle/faYxSdQSzxQ5... Please help us spread the word!

📣We are delighted to announce the winner of the PGR Paper Prize 2026!🏆 👉Read all about it here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/07/08/w...

Winner of 2026 PGR Paper Prize Announced

We are delighted to announce the results of our 2026 Postgraduate Paper prize. The Postgraduate Paper Prize is awarded to the best conference papers presented at the Social History Society conferen…

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Truly honoured to have had my research recognised among so many excellent papers! Thank you SHS for fostering such a welcoming and supportive space. Communities like this are an encouraging reminder of the strength of our discipline in these difficult times, and I feel privileged to be a part of it!

Social History Society@socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣We are delighted to announce the winner of the PGR Paper Prize 2026!🏆 👉Read all about it here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/07/08/w...

Thrilled that my paper was awarded the runner-up PGR Paper Prize at this year's History Society Conference! Thank you @socialhistsoc.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to share my research with so many engaged and supportive historians and a privilege to have it recognised among so many excellent papers

we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.

‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives

One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship

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⚔️The conference has got off to a cracking start with some medieval re-enactment out on the lawn! We'd love to hear about your conference (panels, papers, entertainment etc.!) - please #SHS2026 ✨

📣Less than a week to go until our 50th anniversary conference! Our full programme is out now, please find it here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

Conference

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🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️

Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...

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Deadline tomorrow! We’ve already received some fantastic proposals from scholars across disciplines, countries and career stages and look forward to putting the programme together. If you work on early modern violence or conflict, don't miss out ⬇️🗡️ #earlymodern

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

Thank you very much to all who have submitted abstracts. We have received many excellent submissions and are excited to start working on the programme soon. If you work on violence or conflict and you haven't submitted yet, remember this is the final week to send us your abstracts! 🗡️⬇️ #earlymodern

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

With only two weeks to go before our CfP closes, we are pleased to confirm this year’s conference activity: a tour of Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), led by our very own Zara Money @zara-money.bsky.social. Remember to send us your abstracts to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by 22 May!

Any #skystorians interested in the English Civil War? Come along to the Dorset History Centre on 6 June for a full day of talks on current research from Civil War scholars, including our own Tom Gayton and Eamonn Welch. See attached for more details, and please help us spread the word! #earlymodern

Delighted to be talking about my dissertation research with the lovely folks at the IHR’s British History in the 17th Century seminar this Thursday, April 30 (10:30am Calgary time/5:30pm UK time)! Wish I could be there in person, but I’ll be zooming in instead. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

'Major George Strangways versus John Fussell, Attorney at Law: A Tale of Sequestration, Litigation, and Murder in Interregnum England

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One month left to submit your abstracts for our summer conference. If you work on any aspect of early modern violence, we want to hear from you! Remember to send us your abstracts by 22 May, and please help us spread the word ⬇️

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

We have had many submissions we're hoping to run back to back panels! Get your abstracts in by Friday next week if you want to be involved!

HAPI@hapi-conference.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have made the decision to extend our call for papers until Friday next week! We have had many great submissions already and hope that we can offer back to back panels! Therefore we want to give you the extra time to submit your papers! To submit, please email us at hello.hapi@outlook.com 😊

The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 'New Researchers in Maritime History Conference', on 17-18 April. If you want to keep up with emerging maritime research, don't miss it! ⚓ www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference

A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians

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We’re delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our upcoming conference, Prof. Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) @plymprivateer.bsky.social, who will deliver a paper on how 17c sailors and their wives navigated wartime separation ⚓ Please see our full CfP below, and send your abstracts by 22 May!

CfP from historians of everyday forms of violence and conflict (broadly defined). Attendees will also enjoy the delights of Devon in the early autumn ... 👇

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

We’re delighted to announce the first keynote speaker for our upcoming conference: Prof. Andrew Hopper (Oxford), who will be speaking on his forthcoming book 'Widowhood and Bereavement in the English Civil Wars'. The conference will be held on 2-3 Sept in Exeter. Email us your abstracts by 22 May!

With four weeks to go, we are excited to announce our keynote speakers and update our Call for Papers for our upcoming “Tension & Fragmentation” Conference. We will share more about them shortly.

Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer. If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! ⬇️

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

I'm excited to share the Call for Papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World conference is here. This year's theme is 'Beyond the Battlefield' encouraging a vast array of interdisciplinary discussion about these themes from various social viewpoints. Please do share.

Please help us share the call for papers for this exciting conference I am co-organising this summer! 📜 We welcome submissions from anyone looking at any aspect of early modern violence, particularly those looking beyond military history, and those who would not call themselves historians at all 🗡️⚓

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

Very excited for our return in 2026! Please help us spread the word, and consider submitting an abstract to our #earlymodern conference below ⬇️

Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network@earlymodernwar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

@dylanneill.bsky.social and I are back at it! We are hosting another conference later this year with a fantastic committee! For anyone interested please do reach out! Abstract deadline is 20 April 2026!

What a wonderful couple of days in beautiful Potsdam for the Cultures of War and Violence conference, organised by the Society for the History of War. Thank you @sochistorywar.bsky.social for having me, and as always @swwdtp.bsky.social for making it possible! 💫🗡️

After a year of work, the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World @earlymodernwar.bsky.social could not have gone better. Thank you again to all speakers and attendees, to my fellow organisers and our sponsors @exeter.ac.uk and @swwdtp.bsky.social for making it happen! 🗡️

Once again, we thank you all for your support. And especially the organisers, Dylan Neill Andrés @dylanneill.bsky.social , Teoni Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social, Tom Gayton and Padmanabha Reddy Addula. We hope to see you all again in future editions of the conference! 🗡️⚓⚔️🏴‍☠️