📣Out now on #firstview! Jake William Bransgrove @jakebransgrove.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social on 'Patronage Networks and the Afterlives of James Cook, c. 1770–1820' #Patronage #Social #Friendship #Family #Kinship 18thc 19thc 🗃️🧑🤝🧑 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ella Sbaraini
@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
Absolutely awful news; a full-scale, profoundly myopic and existentially destructive attack on the humanities in the UK.
📣Statement from the Social History Society about the proposed cuts at the University of Hertfordshire 👉Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/05/15/h...
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📣Out now on #firstview Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England' #Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣New SHS PGR Work-in-Progress sessions launched by our PGR reps @louisebell.bsky.social & @aayushigupta.bsky.social! Informal, supportive space to share research & test ideas. Open to all history PGRs & ECRs working in and around social history. More info here! socialhistory.org.uk/2026/04/09/s...
Social History Society Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Sessions
Our wonderful PGR Reps, Aayushi Gupta and Louise Bell, are launching a new series of Work-in-Progress sessions – informal, supportive online spaces for postgraduates to share their research and rec…
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📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December Issue: Ella Sbaraini @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @kingshistory.bsky.social
Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760–1850
Abstract. This article proposes that gifts of everyday foodstuffs were a crucial way in which labouring communities attempted to provide care, and express
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My latest article, 'Everyday Giving: Food, Emotions and Community in England, 1760-1850', has been published in @enghistrev.bsky.social! It uses coroners' inquests to reconstruct everyday food-giving practices in 18th- and 19th-century labouring communities 🍞🍗🥕 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Deadline extended until 23 Jan! Do put in an application for this conference - it's one of the warmest, loveliest and social (fittingly!) conferences there is in History, and it's especially welcoming to ECRs and PGRs!
📣DEADLINE EXTENDED! We are delighted to announce that we're extending the deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference! At this busy time, we want as many people as possible to have the chance to apply. Now accepting applications until 23 Jan! socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury
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UN warns of man-made famine in Gaza as starvation deaths rise, Israel steps up plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza.
Israel intensifies Gaza City attacks, forcing starving Palestinians to flee
UN warns of man-made famine in Gaza as starvation deaths rise, Israel steps up plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza.
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This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
📘New issue out now! Special Issue on 'The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s', edited by Milinda Banerjee (@standrewshist.bsky.social) & Kerstin von Lingen (@univie.ac.at) 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️ 20thc
📣Exciting opportunity to contribute to the SHS and be part of the team! Keen to answer any questions that people might have, and support your nomination✨
📢Would you like to help shape the Social History Society? We're looking for one Ordinary Member to join the team! ⭐️Gain committee experience ⭐️Build your academic network ⭐️Advocate for social history ⭐️Contribute to annual conference 👉Read more: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/02/26/c...
Fantastic, rather heart-breaking piece. 'It can be a radical position simply to repair what is broken and to preserve what is valuable from crude financialisaton or elite indifference, rather than to reimagine it wholesale.'
UK universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system. www.historyworkshop....
Would be so grateful if anyone was able to help me transcribe this letter from 1849... I think it begins 'Dearest Mama', and there's 'I could not account for it' in the middle, but I'm struggling with the rest - any thoughts massively appreciated 🗃️
Super interesting historiographical review!
📣Out now on #firstview! Linda A. Pollock (@tulaneu.bsky.social) on 'Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture' #Morality #Affect #Government #EarlyModern 16thc 17thc 18thc👑💕🏛️🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📣Out now on #firstview! Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social) (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) on 'Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet' #Art #Body #Merchant #Display #Artisan 16thc 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities
📢Panel CfP for 'Everyday Environments'! The convenors of the Heritage, Environment, Spaces & Places strand are looking for papers on the theme of 'Everyday Environments'. ⏰Outline proposal due by 9 December; abstract 10 Jan. More info here: socialhistory.org.uk/2024/11/28/p... 🗃️
Panel CfP: Everyday Environments
Where does the ‘environment’ fit in social history? It is now nearly two decades since Stephen Mosely’s article ‘Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History’ appeared in the Journal…
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If you work on any aspect of social and cultural history, I majorly encourage you to submit a proposal! This is also the first SHS conference taking place in a museum/heritage institution - expect ye olde fish & chips and serious historical vibes😎
📢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...
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Last year's Olivette Otele Prize winner Tionne encourages eligible students to submit for our prize based on her own experience 🏆 Tionne submitted a fantastic paper which she presented at our annual conference & discusses below the advantages of submitting for the prize #skystorians #cfp
I’m giving a lunchtime talk on Britain’s community architecture movement for the Bartlett’s Situating Architecture Lecture Series at UCL - talking about self-build, squatting + student protest 🧱🔧 Come! 📍 1pm, Monday 2 December www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
'a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is intended to support research in any aspect of women’s studies in the period 1558-1837 for new or continuing interdisciplinary or single-discipline projects.'
Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/