Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Stop calling Keir Starmer a good man

It is not decent to lie, or to indulge warmongers

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One of the (many) silver linings of Starmer being ousted is that there will be a moratorium on interviews being described as ‘surprisingly personal’ when it’s just him lying and repeating the same soundbites ad nauseam.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w ago

'I go with pride': Starmer sits down with Beth RIgby for final interview as prime minister

Actually I can’t let this drop - there must be so much self-loathing among history grads in government. Phillipson obviously feels she got nothing from her undergraduate degree - from Oxford no less - or else she’d be helping other poor kids from Gateshead have the opportunities she had.

Jon Coburn@joncoburn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Shorter Bridget Phillipson: “I studied History at university but you shouldn’t be able to”

A great day at the annual King’s History Teacher’s Network conference yesterday. Thanks to @jamescrossland.bsky.social (@ljmuimpact.bsky.social) for his keynote, and to all the other speakers! @kingshistory.bsky.social

Discussing the most influential (and arguably worst) president of the nineteenth century. Give it a listen!

James Crossland@jamescrossland.bsky.social · last mo.

A violent, narcissistic, authoritarian populist takes over the White House, and redefines the 🇺🇲 presidency? That's right, this week on History's Devils, it's the story of Andrew Jackson! #history @edwardmair.bsky.social @ljmuhistory.bsky.social 🗃 🎙 Listen here ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

I've been organising the @kingshistory.bsky.social annual History Teacher's Network conference, which will be next week! Excited to hear talks from teachers, academics and assessment specialists on how we enthuse students to continue studying history.

⭐⭐ It's publication day for 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South' published by @universitypress.cambridge.org! You can now buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... ⭐⭐

Inspiring stuff from the minister who is technically responsible for Higher Education. Universities may be crumbling but at least we'll be able to discuss it with an AI chatbot.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Labour's Baroness Smith announces an AI conversation tool to help jobseekers find jobs in a market where people are worried about losing jobs to AI So AI bot doing the job of job coaches at job centres, to help job seekers find jobs being replaced by AI 🤷‍♂️

My review for Andrew Isenberg's 'The Age of the Borderlands' is now available in Slavery & Abolition - a great contribution to scholarship on US empire! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Age of the Borderland: Indians, Slaves and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850

Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2026)

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Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

Ah, but I remember Very Sensible people saying that Mike Tapp was an important Labour voice? Can it be…?

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Stuck abroad with your baby for several months even though they are legally allowed in the UK? Too bad, says Mike Tapp, you should read gov.uk daily like the rest of us obviously do. No complaining allowed unless you're a hero voter with 'concerns'. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reading people! I'll be speaking at the University of Reading's history seminar series on the 13th of May (4-6pm), with a talk entitled “The Cradle of Manifest Destiny: US Imperialism in the Florida Borderlands, 1783-1837". Come along and hear about some sickly Floridian newspaper editors!

I have a lot of time for @kateosbornemp.bsky.social; she is a true ally. However, no explanation of the rise of discrimination and violence against LGBT+ people in the UK makes sense without acknolwedging the complicitly and encouragement of the Labour government. 1/

Editing the final chapter of my book today, which analyses the actions of Osceola in the lead-up to the Second Seminole War. Osceola marshalled the Seminole confederacy to resist removal and personally killed a duplicitous Indian agent, sparking the conflict. Yet, he would become a settler icon. 🗃️

Today, I became a REAL historian of the US (lost my sanity filing a US tax return).

Pity the haters of the 19th century. With no means of posting scathing online reviews of books they detested, they were reduced to scrawling hateful comments in the front of the book.

🗞️ Show Me two Postdoctoral Fellowships (1 in history, 1 in political science) from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri!!

My most recent piece on the @lrb.co.uk blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together

‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once...

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Good morning!

Britain Elects@britainelects.com · 5mo ago

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Thanks to @jamescrossland.bsky.social for having me on to discuss this grifter. Particularly enjoyed our discussion of the most bonkers confederate statue ever erected and what it tells us about southern memory. Give it a watch!

James Crossland@jamescrossland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

youtu.be/OwRXMdwfpFg?... New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS just dropped Nathan Bedford Forrest - Confederate general, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and precursor to today's right-wing grifters Audio links in bio ⬇️ 🎧 #history @edwardmair.bsky.social

📢 New episode of HISTORY'S DEVILS drops this Thursday - Nathan Bedford Forrest and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan. Spoiler: they were a shitshow. Links to podcast in bio 🎧 @edwardmair.bsky.social #history #america

CONFERENCE - 'Sociability & Political Life', University of York, 3rd/4th July 2026 Get your abstracts in by 14th Feb!

Laura C Forster@lauracforster.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Any UK secondary school History teachers who may follow me on here: I will be organising the annual KCL History Teachers' Network conference that will take place this Summer. Get in touch if you want to be looped in! #EduSky

This. This is what it means to close ‘regional’ universities.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

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When we already knew about Mandelson's links to Epstein, he was given: a cushy Times Radio show, influence over Starmer's Labour Party, the ambassadorship to the US - to name a few things. People who pointed out his links to Epsten were labelled as 'cranks', until it became inconvenient.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 6mo ago

Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links

Hello and welcome to the Sky News Shit-Hot Political Accountability Hour with me, literally Peter Mandelson’s best friend. Sadly there was nobody less obviously compromised who could host a current affairs show

Our department seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Early Medieval History. You will be expected to undertake teaching and research in early medieval history (600–1150 CE) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l...

Lecturer in Early Medieval History at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Medieval History on jobs.ac.uk!

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